#MayoClinicChat on #Stroke With First Coast News WTLV/WJXX
Join @MayoClinic and First Coast News WTLV/WJXX @FCN2go for LIVE #MayoClinicChat on #Stroke THURSDAY AUGUST 28th, 11 am - 1 pm ET Mayo Clinic’s stroke center in Jacksonville is the first center in Florida to receive national Comprehensive Stroke Center certification, joining an elite group of centers throughout the United States that are focused on providing advanced [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - August 27, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
First in Florida to Receive National Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mayo Clinic’s stroke center in Jacksonville is the first center in Florida to receive national Comprehensive Stroke Center certification, joining an elite group of centers throughout the United States that are focused on providing advanced and complex stroke care. http://youtu.be/w520jIc54DM Centers that achieve this distinction — awarded by The Joint [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - August 18, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Extirpación laparoscópica de la vesícula biliar en pacientes pediátricos es segura, descubre estudio de Mayo Clinic
ROCHESTER, Minnesota: Un reciente estudio realizado por científicos de Mayo Clinic recomienda las colecistectomías laparoscópicas (extirpación quirúrgica de la vesícula biliar) para los pacientes pediátricos que sufren de cálculos biliares y otras enfermedades de la vesícula biliar. El estudio se publicó en Surgical Laparoscopy Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques (Endoscopia Laparoscópica Quirúrgica y Técnicas Percutáneas). La [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - August 15, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic in Florida Recognized for High-Quality, Cost-Effective Transplant Care
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville has been recognized as one of the first facilities in the nation to receive the Blue Distinction Centers+SM designation in the area of transplant care. Awarded through Florida Blue as part of a national program from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies, the designation recognizes hospitals shown to [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - August 4, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Bacardi's Gift to Significantly Advance Mayo Clinic’s Regenerative Medicine Research
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Imagine a future in which a new lung is grown for a patient in need, using the patient’s own cellular material, or a day when an injection of replacement cells will enable a patient to self-heal damage in the brain, nerves or other tissues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUZljTlvGCY Regenerative medicine is no longer science [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - July 29, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Researchers Reveal Treasure Trove of Genes Key to Kidney Cancer
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A genomic analysis of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), the most common form of kidney cancer, from 72 patients has uncovered 31 genes that are key to development, growth and spread of the cancer, say researchers from Mayo Clinic in Florida. Eight of these genes had not been previously linked to [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - July 1, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Endoscope with an Oxygen Sensor Detects Pancreatic Cancer, Providing Hope for Earlier Detection, Mayo Clinic Says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLz4lUkPs28 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — June 6, 2014 — An optical blood oxygen sensor attached to an endoscope is able to identify pancreatic cancer in patients via a simple endoscopic procedure, according to researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida. The study, published in GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, shows that the device, which acts like the well-known clothespin-type finger [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - June 6, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Researchers Decode How the Brain Miswires, Possibly Causing ADHD
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Neuroscientists at Mayo Clinic in Florida and at Aarhus University in Denmark have shed light on why neurons in the brain’s reward system can be miswired, potentially contributing to disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). They say findings from their study, published online today in Neuron, may increase the understanding [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - June 3, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Researchers Say Molecule Linked to Aggressive Pancreatic Cancer Offers Potential Clinical Advances
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered an enzyme they say is tightly linked to how aggressive pancreatic cancer will be in a patient. They say the study, published in Molecular Cancer Research, provides key insights into the most aggressive form of the disease, which is one of the deadliest human cancers. It also [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - May 20, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Atypical Form of Alzheimer’s Disease May be Present in a More Widespread Number of Patients, Mayo Clinic Says
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Neuroscientists at Mayo Clinic in Florida have defined a subtype of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) that they say is neither well recognized nor treated appropriately. http://youtu.be/w4xQeNQVFoc The variant, called hippocampal sparing AD, made up 11 percent of the 1,821 AD-confirmed brains examined by Mayo Clinic researchers — suggesting this subtype is relatively widespread [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - April 30, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Neurologists Lead International Study to Test Best Approach to Stroke Prevention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbNqjSGG0uI The $39.5-million grant to fund stroke study is one of largest ever awarded to investigators at Mayo Clinic in Florida JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Is medicine as safe and effective as surgery or stenting in preventing a stroke caused by the buildup of plaque in the carotid artery? Thomas G. Brott, M.D., a neurologist at [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - April 16, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Preparing for the Future of Health Care
Growing Stem Cells in Space to Treat Stroke Patients Abba Zubair, M.D., Ph.D., medical and scientific director of the Cell Therapy Laboratory, at Mayo Clinic in Florida, was recently awarded a grant to send human stem cells in space to see if they grow more rapidly in space than stem cells grown on Earth. Dr. Noseworthy on "Opening Bell [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - April 11, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
The Donna Marathon, Mayo Runners and a Medical Tent (pkg)
It's not too late to register for The 26.2 with Donna Finish Breast Cancer Marathon if you're in the Jacksonville, Fla. area this weekend! It's the only marathon in the country where all race proceeds and donated funds go to breast cancer research and care for those with the disease. Running any marathon certainly takes time and dedication ... and [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - February 21, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Researchers Find Two Oncogenes Join to Drive Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Patients with a common form of lung cancer — lung squamous cell carcinoma — have very few treatment options. That situation may soon change. A team of cancer biologists at Mayo Clinic in Florida is reporting in the Feb. 10 issue of Cancer Cell the discovery of two oncogenes that work together to sustain [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - February 10, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Uggie, four-legged star of the Oscar-winning film “The Artist,” to visit Mayo Clinic
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Feb. 3 — Uggie, the scene-stealing Jack Russell terrier in the 2012 Oscar-winning film “The Artist” will visit Mayo Clinic on Thursday, Feb. 6. Uggie will be in Jacksonville to meet Mayo’s Caring Canines, the volunteer dogs who greet patients and visitors at the clinic. The visit by Uggie and his owner/trainer, Omar [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Jacksonville News - February 3, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
