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
How one minute could prevent unnecessary hospitalization, tests for patients with low-risk chest pains
ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Using a shared decision-making aid to involve patients more in their own care decisions can prevent unnecessary hospitalization or advanced cardiac tests for patients reporting low-risk chest pain ? for the cost of about 1 minute of time. So says a study from Mayo Clinic researchers, published online today?in The?BMJ. According to [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - December 4, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic innovation drives CT practice forward
ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Innovation has been an integral part of the Mayo Clinic Department of Radiology?s CT program since 1973, when it installed the first CT scanner in North America. Mayo physicians and researchers continue to drive forward progress in the field, particularly through the work of the CT Clinical Innovation Center, which was founded [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - December 1, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news
Emergency video telemedicine positively impacts newborn resuscitation
ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Approximately 10 percent of newborns require help breathing after birth, and 1 in 1,000 newborns require more intensive resuscitation measures. These infrequent, high-risk deliveries may present challenges to community hospitals less familiar with advanced newborn resuscitation interventions. Telemedicine consultations are a good option to help meet these challenges and positively impact patient [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - November 21, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news
Research connects first-time kidney stone formers and chronic kidney disease
ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Mayo Clinic nephrologists have uncovered a connection between first-time kidney stone formers and chronic kidney disease. In a paper published today in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researchers announce a persistent decline in kidney functioning following an individual?s first case of kidney stones. A Mayo Clinic team led by William Haley, M.D., and Andrew [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - November 1, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news
Study: Lack of brain shrinkage may help predict who develops dementia with Lewy bodies
ROCHESTER, Minn. ? Dementia with Lewy bodies is a progressive disease that causes hallucinations, decline in mental abilities, rigid muscles, slow movement and tremors. With symptoms similar to Alzheimer?s disease and Parkinson?s disease, a correct diagnosis can be difficult. A new study published today in the online issue of Neurology, a medical journal of the [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - November 1, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news
Discovery's Edge: Rochester Epidemiology Project is a boon for research
Only one resource in North America offers complete disease information about a real population spanning half a century. Only one repository can be used to study almost any condition, pointing the way to new discoveries. It?s a treasure trove of data, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and used by researchers nationally, including [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - October 31, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic study shows that choice of medical center impacts life expectancy of multiple myeloma patients
ROCHESTER, Minn. ? People diagnosed with multiple myeloma are more likely to live longer if they are treated at a medical center that sees many patients with this blood cancer. Mayo Clinic researchers published these findings today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Multiple myeloma is a rare form of blood cancer that attacks plasma [...] (Source: Mayo Clinic Research News)
Source: Mayo Clinic Research News - October 25, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news
