Precision Medicine in Action: Genomic Test Helps Solve Medical Mystery
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Precision medicine is getting a jump-start from a new national initiative announced in President Obama's State of the Union message. One Georgia family has already experienced its benefits: genomic testing called whole exome sequencing helped Mayo Clinic neurologist Zbigniew Wszolek, M.D., solve a medical mystery that had left a boy with painful, [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - February 3, 2015 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Receives $5.75 Million Gift for Lewy Body Dementia Research
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mayo Clinic’s campus in Jacksonville, Florida, has received a $5.75 million gift from the Harry T. Mangurian Jr. Foundation in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to advance the study of Lewy body dementia, a deadly disease that causes a progressive decline in mental and physical abilities. The new Mayo program is one of a [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - January 28, 2015 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Researchers Find Cancer Biopsies Do Not Promote Cancer Spread
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A study of more than 2,000 patients by researchers at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Jacksonville, Florida, has dispelled the myth that cancer biopsies cause cancer to spread. In the Jan. 9 online issue of Gut, they show that patients who received a biopsy had a better outcome and longer survival than patients [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - January 11, 2015 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Names John Presutti, D.O., Chief Executive Officer of Mayo Clinic Health System in Waycross
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mayo Clinic has named John Presutti, D.O., as chief executive officer of Mayo Clinic Health System in Waycross (Georgia), effective March 2, 2015. Dr. Presutti succeeds Kenneth Calamia, M.D., who will retire from Mayo Clinic at the end of 2015. “Dr. Presutti is a wonderfully gifted and proven physician leader,” says Gianrico [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - January 5, 2015 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Researchers Receive $1.2 Million from new Florida Program to Study Alzheimer’s
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Three researchers at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Jacksonville, Florida have received $1.2 million from the newly funded Florida Health Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer’s Research Program to study various aspects of Alzheimer’s disease. The program was created earlier this year to improve the health of Floridians by researching prevention and diagnosis of [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - December 23, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Physicians Say High-definition Scopes Accurately Assess Polyps, Costly Pathological Examinations May Not Be Necessary
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It may not be necessary for experienced gastroenterologists to send polyps they remove from a patient’s colon to a pathologist for examination, according to a large study conducted by physician researchers at the Jacksonville campus of Mayo Clinic. Their 522-patient study, published in the December issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, found that physicians [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - December 16, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Names Christina Zorn, J.D., as Chief Administrative Officer in Jacksonville, Florida
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mayo Clinic has appointed Christina Zorn, J.D., as chief administrative officer of its campus in Jacksonville, Fla., and vice chair of Administration, Mayo Clinic. She will serve as administrative partner to Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., incoming vice president of Mayo Clinic and chief executive officer of the Jacksonville campus, as previously announced. Zorn [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - December 12, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Immune Function Marker Does Not Predict Benefit of Trastuzumab in HER-2+ Breast Cancer Patients, Study Finds
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A marker of immune function that predicts for better outcomes in patients treated with chemotherapy for triple negative breast cancer is also linked to improved prognosis in patients treated with chemotherapy for HER2-positive breast cancer. But that marker — the quantity of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (S-TILs) in a biopsy — appears irrelevant when [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - December 8, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Trustees Welcome New Board Member
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees welcomed Mary Sue Coleman, Ph.D., as a new public member at its quarterly meeting today. Dr. Coleman is president emeritus of the University of Michigan, (U-M) an institution she led for 12 years before retiring in July 2014. Time magazine named her one of the nation’s [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - November 14, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Inspiring Scents and Compassionate Care
Kim creates luxury fragrances that tell stories about the faraway places she’s visited. So when a brain tumor was found pressing on and damaging her olfactory nerve – the nerve that controls one’s sense of smell – she came to Mayo Clinic for minimally invasive, microsurgery technique to remove the tumor and, ultimately, enhance her [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - October 30, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Receives $6 Million for ALS, FTD Research
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the U.S. Department of Defense have awarded researchers at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Jacksonville approximately $6 million in two grants to further their studies aimed at improving the diagnosis and treatment of patients suffering from either amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - October 23, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Trastuzumab (Herceptin) Continues to Show Life-Altering Benefit
Years After Treatment for HER2-Positive Early Stage Breast Cancer Trastuzumab Shows Life-Altering Benefit JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — After following breast cancer patients for an average of eight-plus years, researchers say that adding trastuzumab (Herceptin) to chemotherapy significantly improved the overall and disease-free survival of women with early stage HER2-positive breast cancer. They found that the use of [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - October 21, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Worldwide Study Demonstrates Accuracy of Genetic Analyses
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Physicians envision a future in which genomic data from patients is heavily used to manage care — but experts have questioned the accuracy and reliability of these analyses. Now, a study by 150 researchers in 12 countries finds real strength and agreement across RNA genomic sequencing techniques and laboratories — as well [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - September 12, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Physicians Find Liver Transplant Patients Can Avoid Costly Stay In ICU Post Surgery
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 12, 2014 — The liver transplant team at Mayo Clinic in Florida has found, based on 12 years of experience, that more than half of patients receiving a new liver can be “fast-tracked” to return to a surgical ward room following their transplant, bypassing a one- or two-day stay in the Intensive [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - September 12, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic, University of North Florida Host Tenth Annual Upbeat Pink: A Musical Tribute to Breast Cancer Survivorship
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 2, 2014 – Mayo Clinic and the University of North Florida are honoring National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October by hosting the tenth annual “Upbeat Pink: A Musical Tribute to Breast Cancer Survivorship” concert on Friday, Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Lazzara Performance Hall, UNF Fine Arts Building on the [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - September 2, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
