Released: 12-Sep-1998 12:00 AM EDT
Mayo Clinic Establishes Transplantation Biology Research Program
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic announced the establishment of a major transplantation biology research program to be headed by one of the world's most renowned transplantation scientists. Jeffrey Platt, M.D., has joined Mayo Clinic to head the new Transplantation Biology Research Group. The program is part of Mayo Clinic's recently announced initiative in basic and clinical research into the burgeoning field of xenotransplantation.

Released: 3-Nov-1998 12:00 AM EST
New Cochlear Implant Technology
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic cochlear implant team provides advanced technology to hearing-impaired patients.

Released: 4-Feb-1997 12:00 AM EST
News Briefs from Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic

1) Mayo gastroenterologists have begun testing a drug called urso (ursodeoxycholate) in treatment of colon cancer. 2) Sometimes women with heart disease need therapy different from men. 3) In 1990 Mayo set up a special hospital unit to help wean people on ventilators, an effort which has produced excellent results.

Released: 1-May-1997 12:00 AM EDT
News Briefs from Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic

News Briefs: 1- Risk of Dementia Higher in Adult Diabetics; 2- Surgery for Severe Constipation Highly Effective; 3- The Challenges of doing Physical Exams in Space; 4- Angioplasty, Stenting are Preferred Methods to Open Clogged Arteries

Released: 10-Jun-1997 12:00 AM EDT
News Briefs from Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic

Preoperative testing is not necessary for healthy surgical patients, reports a Mayo study published in the June issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Medical care costs of people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA) are two to three times higher than those of people without arthritis. Longer needles are needed to ensure that immunizations are effective in many people, say Mayo vaccine researchers. Several studies have shown that many patients' ulcerative colitis is improved by treatment with nicotine delivered via patch.

Released: 21-Aug-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Ulcer Sufferers Gain New Diagnostic Option - Mayo Medical Labs First Test Center to Offer New Test
Mayo Clinic

An exciting medical advance is allowing ulcer sufferers to breathe a sigh of relief. Until now, biopsy of the stomach lining has been the only certain way to diagnose an active infection which is believed to be a primary cause of peptic ulcer disease. Today the Meretek UBT Breath Test for H. pylori with Pranactin diagnostic drug provides a safe, painless, accurate and cost-effective way of determining the presence of infection.

Released: 29-Aug-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Mayo Plans Follow-up Fen-Phen Study
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic is coordinating a new, multi-center study that will use advanced imaging techniques to determine whether taking appetite suppressants including fenfluramine-phentermine (fen-phen), dexfenfluramine (Redux) and/or other appetite suppressants is associated with the development of valvular heart disease. Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, which markets the appetite suppressants Pondimin (fenfluramine) and Redux, will fund this study.

Released: 30-Aug-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Mayo Clinic News Briefs
Mayo Clinic

1) A two-drug combination significantly reduced infections and disease among a group of liver transplant patients. 2) Rapamycin is a new drug that holds great promise for fight organ rejection in transplant patients and tumors in cancer patients. 3) Headaches are usually not serious. But they can be ominous signs of major problems.

Released: 11-Sep-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource Reports--September Issue
Mayo Clinic

1) How to control heartburn; 2) Many solutions are available for stress urinary incontinence; 3) Later-age pregnancy means greater risks and greater benefits.

Released: 8-Oct-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Mayo Clinic News Briefs
Mayo Clinic

1) Smoking cessation is one of the most cost-effective medical treatments, reports a Mayo study, 2) Mayo sports medicine researchers report how a training device helps keep the ankle more stable in response to a sudden inversion -- the cause of most ankle sprains, 3) Is multiple sclerosis caused by an infectious agent in the environment? 4) Mayo researchers report that testing a minute sample of fluid from just beneath the surface of the skin measures glucose levels in diabetics as accurately as the standard finger-stick method.

22-Oct-1997 12:00 AM EDT
Antidepressant Helps People Stop Smoking
Mayo Clinic

A study of more than 600 smokers found that use of an antidepressant drug called bupropion was a significant aid in helping subjects stop smoking. The study also found that the drug lessened the problem of weight gain among some study participants.

Released: 2-Dec-1997 12:00 AM EST
News Briefs from the Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic News Briefs: 1) Pacemaker-like Procedure Helps Painful Nerve Problems; 2) Outcome Study Documents the Effectiveness of Breast Reduction; 3) Artificial Sphincter Helps People with Urinary Incontinence; 4) Telemedicine Useful for Speech Disorders

Released: 24-Dec-1997 12:00 AM EST
1997--A Year of Headlines About Women's Health
Mayo Clinic

Womenís health issues frequently made headlines in 1997 ó from mammograms and pap smears to diet pills and hormone replacement therapy.

Released: 4-Feb-1998 12:00 AM EST
News Briefs from Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic

News Briefs from Mayo Clinic; 1) Endoscopic surgery for adrenal tumors is better for patients 2) Simple test predicts survival in heart failure 3) Study finds good ice hockey goalies have high heart rates and share feelings

Released: 28-Feb-1998 12:00 AM EST
Mayo Clinic Researchers Discover Genes Associated with Neurological Damage in a Model of Multiple Sclerosis
Mayo Clinic

Researchers at Mayo Clinic have discovered a family of genes linked to neurological damage in a laboratory model of multiple sclerosis (MS). The discovery of these genes represents a significant step forward in understanding the mechanisms by which immune cells cause damage in MS and potential new strategies for treatment.

Released: 3-Mar-1998 12:00 AM EST
Most Smokers Continue to Smoke after Heart Procedures
Mayo Clinic

The people who need to stop smoking the most are the least likely to stop says a new Mayo Clinic study of heart patients. Mayo researchers looked at the smoking patterns of more than 5,400 patients who had angioplasties (heart vessel clearing procedures) at Mayo Clinic over a 16-year period.

Released: 3-Mar-1998 12:00 AM EST
Mayo Clinic Offers Cholesterol Quiz on Internet
Mayo Clinic

Cholesterol can be downright confusing. While itís common knowledge that you should watch your cholesterol, people often are unsure why and what to do about it.

Released: 17-Mar-1998 12:00 AM EST
Mayo Clinic Gains International Recognition for Mayo Clinic Health O@sis Web Site
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic Health O@sis (www.mayohealth.org) has won the 1998 international Webby Award for best Internet health site and has been named a finalist in the Global Information Infrastructure (GII) Awards.

Released: 27-Mar-1998 12:00 AM EST
Four-year Study Shows Calcium Supplements Reduce Bone Loss, Help Prevent Osteoporosis
Mayo Clinic

Calcium supplements reduce bone loss in elderly women, although only modestly, and can help prevent osteoporosis in women who don't already have the condition, reports a Mayo Clinic study.

Released: 5-Jun-1998 12:00 AM EDT
Warning: Stay Out of Power Mowersí Line of Fire: Mowers can "shoot" with the force of a .357 magnum pistol
Mayo Clinic

Power lawn mowers can turn lawn debris into dangerous missiles. In the June issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Mayo Clinic surgeons report on a case of a 4-year-old Iowa boy who was "shot" through the abdomen by a piece of metal propelled by a power lawn mower.

Released: 6-Jun-1998 12:00 AM EDT
Mayo Clinic Health Oasis Gives Summer Tips on Grilling, Camping and Wheezing
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic Health Oasis (www.mayohealth.org) provides important advice about keeping healthy this summer season.

Released: 27-Jun-1998 12:00 AM EDT
Plan to Publish a New Book Series
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic today announced that it will publish a series of soft-cover books about specific medical conditions.

Released: 7-Aug-1998 12:00 AM EDT
August News Briefs from Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic

Gallstones or Undissolved Pills? Study Finds That Most Pills Will Show Up on X-rays Radiation for Brain Tumors Does Not Cause Cognitive Decline Molecular Techniques Identify Dangerous Invasive Strep Bacteria

Released: 18-Aug-1998 12:00 AM EDT
Mayo Clinic Health Oasis Adds Headline Watch Service, Allergy Assessment and Men's Health Center to Redesigned Web Site
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic Health Oasis, www.mayohealth.org, has added more free services for people who use the Internet to find answers to their questions about health and medicine. Along with this expansion, the site also has been redesigned. One new feature called "Headline Watch" will cover the weekís news-making medical stories.

31-Aug-1998 12:00 AM EDT
Contaminant Discovered in Popular Dietary Supplement, 5-HTP
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic researchers report finding low levels of a potentially harmful contaminant in off-the-shelf samples of a popular dietary supplement, 5-Hydroxy-L-Trypotophan. The contaminant, called "peak-x", was linked to symptoms suffered by a family exposed to 5-HTP in 1991.

Released: 24-Sep-1998 12:00 AM EDT
Drug Can Help Patients With Blood Pressure Disorder
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic researchers have determined that the drug midodrine can safely raise the blood pressure of patients suffering from a disorder that causes blood pressure to plunge when a patient stands up.

Released: 16-Oct-1998 12:00 AM EDT
Helping Children with ADHD
Mayo Clinic

A recent Mayo Clinic study found that when teachers and physicians work together to provide teachers with the tools and support to deal with students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the classroom situation improves for the teachers, the students with ADHD, and the other students.

Released: 10-Dec-1998 12:00 AM EST
Treatment of Unruptured Brain Aneurysms
Mayo Clinic

An international study spearheaded at Mayo Clinic has identified new information that will assist physicians in better caring for patients who have unruptured brain aneurysms, a condition that will affect five percent of people in North America and Europe (10-15 million Americans) in their lifetime.

Released: 18-Dec-1998 12:00 AM EST
Green Tea Component Is Potent Killer of Prostate Cancer Cells
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a plant substance in green tea that is a potent killer of prostate cancer cells.

Released: 18-Dec-1998 12:00 AM EST
Hotter Hot Tub Water Poses Increased Fainting Risk
Mayo Clinic

Hotter water in hot tubs poses increased health risks from fainting, Mayo Clinic researchers report.

Released: 18-Dec-1998 12:00 AM EST
Intensive Running and Swimming Do Not Increase Bone Mass
Mayo Clinic

Exercise is important in building strong bones to combat osteoporosis. But a new Mayo Clinic study accentuates that the kind of exercise is critical and that even the right kind, if done too intensely, may not confer any benefit.

Released: 19-Dec-1998 12:00 AM EST
New Drug Therapy for Carcinoid Syndrome
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic Cancer Center is one of nine medical centers nationwide who participated in a multicenter study leading to a new drug therapy now available for patients with carcinoid syndrome. The new drug therapy, a long-acting formulation of octreotide acetate, recently received Food and Drug Administration approval.

7-Jan-1999 12:00 AM EST
Fidgeting, Moving Around Key to Why Some Don't Gain Weight
Mayo Clinic

Some people seem able to eat whatever they want and not gain weight. The reason, says a Mayo Clinic study in the January 8 issue of Science, is that they burn hundreds of extra calories in the activities of daily living when they overeat.

Released: 7-Jan-1999 12:00 AM EST
Some People Able to Eat What They Want: News Conference
Mayo Clinic

News conference with authors of study published in this week's issue of Science (news release sent out previously): Some people seem able to eat whatever they want and not gain weight. The reason, says a Mayo Clinic study in the January 8 issue of Science, is that they burn hundreds of extra calories in the activities of daily living when they overeat.

13-Jan-1999 12:00 AM EST
NEJM Study on Prophylactic Mastectomy Media Advisory
Mayo Clinic

A Mayo Clinic study to be published in the Jan. 14, New England Journal of Medicine finds that prophylactic mastectomy, surgery that removes the breasts as a preventive measure, reduces the risk of breast cancer by approximately 90 percent for women at moderate to high risk for the disease.

Released: 26-Feb-1999 12:00 AM EST
Credibility Important in Choosing Employee Wellness Materials
Mayo Clinic

Credibility of the source is the most important factor when organizations select and distribute wellness materials to their employees, a survey conducted by Mayo Clinic HealthQuest reveals.

Released: 5-Mar-1999 12:00 AM EST
Numbers Alone Don't Determine Healthy Weight
Mayo Clinic

Numbers alone aren't enough to tell you whether your weight is healthy, according to a new service on Mayo Clinic Health Oasis.

Released: 6-Mar-1999 12:00 AM EST
Consortium to Validate Online Corporate Wellness Programs
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic HealthQuest has formed a multi-company consortium to study, validate and quantify the effectiveness of online corporate wellness programs.

Released: 12-Mar-1999 12:00 AM EST
Fast CT to Detect Heart Disease in ER Patients with Chest Pain
Mayo Clinic

A Mayo Clinic study published in Annals of Emergency Medicine finds electron-beam computed tomography, a type of CAT scan, quickly detects coronary artery calcification in emergency room patients with chest pain. If the scan shows no calcification, the patient is at low risk of having a heart attack.

Released: 16-Mar-1999 12:00 AM EST
Employers are Helping Employees Stay Healthy
Mayo Clinic

It's happening in all sizes of businesses -- the workplace is becoming an important venue for employees to obtain information about how to stay healthy. That trend comes in part because companies are looking for ways to control healthcare costs by teaching good health habits.

Released: 17-Mar-1999 12:00 AM EST
Online Service for Companies and Their Employees
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic HealthQuest announced today that its new online program has begun service and will provide employees at companies throughout the U.S., with a daily updated health information resource.

Released: 21-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Early Detection, Preserving Eyesight from Glaucoma
Mayo Clinic

Early diagnosis of glaucoma is important in preserving eyesight, a new Mayo Clinic study confirms. The study showed that if a person had eye damage from glaucoma at the time of their diagnosis, there was a 54 percent chance of becoming legally blind in at least one eye over a 20-year period despite treatment, and a 22 percent chance of becoming legally blind in both eyes.

Released: 4-Jun-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Risks of Body Piercing to People with Heart Conditions
Mayo Clinic

A recent Mayo Clinic study has found that nearly one out of four people at higher risk for heart valve infection who have parts of their body pierced suffer from infection as a result of the piercing.

Released: 18-Jun-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Smokeless Tobacco Users Wanted for Research
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic researchers are looking for people who use snuff or chewing tobacco to test the effectiveness of an experimental program aimed at helping smokeless tobacco users quit.

1-Jul-1999 12:00 AM EDT
New Methods to Detect Parkinson's Disease
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic neurologists are using existing technology and an investigational drug to detect pre-symptomatic Parkinson's disease in at-risk people who have family members with Parkinson's disease, they reported in the July issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Released: 2-Jul-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Specially Created Molecules Cross Blood-Brain Barrier
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic Jacksonville scientists have shown that a specially created molecule injected into the belly of a rat can cross the nearly impassable blood-brain barrier and can stop the chemical reaction in the brain that the molecule was designed to impede.

Released: 3-Jul-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Mayo Clinic Tip Sheet for 7-3-99
Mayo Clinic

1- heart patients still taking chest pain medications, 2- gamma knife surgery in brain disorders, 3- pain affects quality of life

Released: 13-Jul-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Dietary Supplement May Help Fight Heart Disease
Mayo Clinic

A recent Mayo Clinic study in the journal Circulation finds that the dietary supplement L-arginine -- touted by the supplement industry as an enhancer for everything from athletic to sexual performance -- improves chest pain symptoms in patients with early heart disease.

Released: 28-Jul-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Brain Changes in People Likely to Develop Alzheimer's Disease Identified
Mayo Clinic

A Mayo Clinic study has shown that 50 percent of a group of elderly patients with mild cognitive impairment who also have a significantly smaller hippocampus portion of the brain are likely to develop Alzheimer's disease as compared to nine percent of patients with a normal size hippocampus.

Released: 11-Aug-1999 12:00 AM EDT
New Pain Relief Treatment for Spinal Compression Fractures
Mayo Clinic

People who have prolonged and debilitating pain associated with compression fractures in their spinal vertebrae may be able to find relief with a procedure now being offered at Mayo Clinic.


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