Sharing Mayo Clinic - September 2011 Archives

Mayo Clinic is nearing a big milestone in Florida. On Thursday, Oct. 13, the Florida campus turns 25. The medical center campus in Jacksonville was ...

The young are bullet-proof.  Or they seem to think they are. That’s probably why we don’t see middle-aged X-games athletes.  Rare, too, is the 65 year old motocross racer or the social security recipient who spends his free time sky diving.  The line between good choices and not-so-healthy choices is often blurry for the young.  That line is wisdom; something older folks have in spades. Even the most adventurous middle-aged individual in his or her boldest moment is often content to live on the periphery of crazy.  They have already begun to understand cause and effect, whereas the young – particularly college-aged and twenty-somethings, don’t think about risk or the possibility of broken bones or social security.  They think even less about heart health.  But then again, most people don’t. A local Jazz musician named John Thomas is one of those folks.

"Luther College football player Chris Norton has been nominated for the 2011 America’s Choice Honoree for Courage in Sports on CBS. Now in its 23rd ...

This year Mayo Clinic in Florida celebrates their 25th anniversary, first opening the doors in October of 1986. We know the campus has touched many ...

Jim Zloch is a trial lawyer from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He was diagnosed in Florida for cancer on his vocal cords. He sought a second ...

For the past five years, brothers Matt and Scott Conklin, along with many other motorcyclists, have traveled to Rochester from Glencoe, Minn., to raise money for the Mayo Eugenio Litta Children’s Hospital. The event has been a big hit year after year with young children from the hospital being able to watch the parade of motorcycles come down Saint Marys hill, followed by an opportunity to have their photograph taken while seated on the motorcycles. However, this year, part of the ride took place during a nasty storm, followed by intense heat in the afternoon. The extreme heat made it difficult for many of the young patients to be outdoors, so this year, the Conklin brothers were asked to surprise some of the children who were unable to be at the event.

Every Labor Day weekend, it’s the same: The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) hosts its annual telethon to raise awareness of and funds for neuromuscular disease. This year, the multi-hour television broadcast, which airs Sunday, Sept. 4 on CW17, includes celebrities such as Celine Dion, Jennifer Lopez, Lady Antebellum, Richie Sambora and Jordan Sparks, who will perform, answer phones and receive gigantic, novelty-sized checks.

What began as an isolated episode of shortness of breath and developed into symptoms of increasing fatigue in 2008, turned into an unexpected and serious medical condition for David Hawley, a retired hotel executive in Phoenix, Arizona. David Hawley received the diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a genetic predisposition to abnormal thickening of the heart muscle, just two years ago. HCM affects one in 500 Americans, making it more common than muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis or AIDS. It affects each person differently; there is no "typical" HCM patient and no standard treatment.