Man moves paralyzed legs using device that stimulates spinal cord
ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Mayo Clinic researchers used electrical stimulation on the spinal cord and intense physical therapy to help a man intentionally move his paralyzed legs, stand and make steplike motions for the first time in three years. The case, the result of collaboration with UCLA researchers, appears today in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Researchers say [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - April 3, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: news
Researchers strive to help paralyzed man make strides
Jered Chinnock's smile widens as he recalls the first day researchers at Mayo Clinic activated an electronic stimulator implanted on his damaged spinal cord. "It was almost mind-blowing. Right away?I was able to move my toes,?something I haven't seen in a while," the Wisconsin man says.?It had?been?years, in fact, since Chinnock's back was broken in [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - April 3, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: news
New drug for MS is milestone for patients, research
Ocrevus (ocrelizumab), a new drug to treat multiple sclerosis (MS), ?has been approved by the?U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The National Multiple Sclerosis Society?says it's a "game changer" and Dr. Dean Wingerchuk, a?Mayo Clinic neurologist, says, "The approval of ocrelizumab is an important milestone ? both for people with MS and MS research." In [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - March 30, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: news
Heart failure and skilled nursing facilities: The importance of getting the facts
ROCHESTER, Minn.? For many people diagnosed with heart failure ? which almost invariably results in a hospital stay ? the next stop is a skilled nursing facility. While their physician? often will reassure them that it?s just for a short time until they can get back to their home, in reality, that stay is long [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - March 29, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic researchers identify interaction among proteins that cause cancer cells to metastasize
ROCHESTER Minn. ? Researchers at Mayo Clinic have identified an interaction among proteins that allows cancer cells to grow and metastasize. They say the discovery may play a role in developing a better understanding of how tumors grow in a variety of malignancies, including breast, prostate, pancreatic, colon, lung and skin cancers. Their work is [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - March 28, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: news
Discovery's Edge: Renaissance in medicine
Renaissance means rebirth or regeneration. Every few generations medicine takes a major turn. We?re at one of those junctures now with regenerative medicine ? where healing is triggered from within the human body. It?s bringing a whole new universe to how physicians provide care. Deer grow, shed and then regrow their antlers. Sea stars sacrifice [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - March 28, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: news
La amplia mayor?a de los ni?os deja de mojar la cama sin atenci?n m?dica
ESTIMADA MAYO CLINIC: Mi hijo tiene 8 a?os y moja la cama pocas veces por semana. Hemos intentado varias cosas para ayudar a evitarlo, tales como suspenderle las bebidas dos horas antes de acostarse y colocar protectores en el colch?n que disparan una alarma cuando moja la cama. ?Debemos llevarlo a un especialista, o suelen [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - March 27, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: news
Medicamentos para suprimir el ?cido g?strico aumentan riesgo de recurrencia de infecci?n por Clostridium difficile
ROCHESTER, Minnesota: Los investigadores de Mayo Clinic descubrieron que los pacientes que toman medicamentos para suprimir el ?cido g?strico corren m?s riesgo de recurrencia de la infecci?n por Clostridium difficile (C.?difficile). El C.?difficile es una bacteria que provoca s?ntomas que oscilan desde diarrea hasta una inflamaci?n mortal del colon. El estudio se public? en JAMA [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - March 27, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic to host public cancer education symposium in Orlando
ORLANDO, Fla. ? Mayo Clinic Cancer Center will host ?Capture the Moment,? a free public cancer education symposium at the Ritz-Carlton at Orlando Grande Lakes, Florida, on March 25 from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. EDT. This is the second consecutive year that Mayo Clinic Cancer Center has hosted this event in the Orlando area. [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - February 21, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic announces successful face transplant on Wyoming man
ROCHESTER, Minn. ? A multidisciplinary team of surgeons, physicians and other health professionals recently completed a near-total face transplant on a Wyoming man on Mayo Clinic?s Rochester campus. The extensive, life-changing surgery will improve the patient?s ability to chew, swallow, speak, breathe and smell. The recipient, Andrew Sandness, is a 32-year-old man from eastern Wyoming [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - February 16, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: news
Researchers identify new process to raise natural armies of cancer-targeting T lymphocytes outside the body
PHOENIX ? Mayo Clinic and University of Washington researchers have discovered a new culture method that unlocks the natural fighter function of immune T-cells when they are passing through the bloodstream. This allows T-cell armies to be raised directly from blood that naturally recognize and target proteins that are present on most human cancers. The [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - February 13, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: news
Assessment of comatose patients through telemedicine efforts shown to be reliable
ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Reliable assessment of comatose patients in intensive care units is critical to the patients? care. Providers must recognize clinical status changes quickly to undertake proper interventions. But does the provider need to be in the same room as the patient, or can robotic telemedicine be used successfully to complete the assessment? According [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - January 25, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: news
Women's Wellness: Cervical cancer more deadly than thought
More women in the U.S. are dying of cervical cancer?than previously thought, and the rate of Black women dying is similar to women in developing countries. This latest research was published on Monday, Jan. 23, in Cancer. Mayo Clinic obstetrician-gynecologist?Dr. Jamie Bakkum-Gamez,?who was not involved with the study, says,?"This sheds some very important light on [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - January 24, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic researchers: Vaginal microbes point toward early detection and screening for endometrial cancer
ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Endometrial cancer triggers remain elusive, despite continued research. But given the typical inflammatory profile in these cases, microbes in the uterine environment are suspected to play a role in the development of this disease. To probe the microbes directly within the uterine environment and examine how these microbes could influence cancer within [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - January 4, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: news
Discovery's Edge: At the World Stem Cell Summit
Medical research scientists, academics and clinicians mingled with entrepreneurs and patient advocates at the World Stem Cell Summit recently in West Palm Beach, Florida. In its fourth year as co-sponsor, Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine sent a delegation to discuss the promise and the peril of the advancing science with about 1,200 attendees. Topics [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - January 2, 2017 Category: Research Source Type: news
