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Siblings Form Superhero Group To Help Brother, 8, Fight Rare, Fatal Disease

Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Fearsome Four, Minnesota, Superheroes, Alexandria, Brandy Roseth, Slideexpand, Real Life Superhero Movement, Rare Childhood Diseases, Video, Activism, Power Boy, Ben Roseth, Autism, Ald, Adrenoleukodystrophy, Mayo Clinic, Impact News

A rare, fatal disorder often zaps 8-year-old Ben Roseth’s strength, but it hasn’t taken away his power. According to HLN, Ben suffers from Adre...

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Team Of Scientists Go To Great Heights For Research

AP | BINAJ GURUBACHARYA | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Everest, Katmandu, Mountain Climbing, Nepal, Physiology, New Research, Heart Disease, Mount Everest, Mountains, Mayo Clinic, Video, Science News

KATMANDU, Nepal -- A team of American scientists and researchers flew to the Mount Everest region on Friday to set up a laboratory at the base of the ...

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Everest A Surprising Lab For Studying Effects Of Aging

The Mayo Clinic | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: The North Face, Everest, Video, Mayo Clinic Aging, Aging and Health, National Geographic, Mayo Clinic Bruce Johnson, Health Post50, Mayo Clinic Everest Study, Montana State University, Mayo Clinic, Fifty News

A team from The Mayo Clinic set out this week to conduct research from the world's highest peak, since as it turns out the effects of altitude on the ...

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Unsaturated Fat Tuesday (aka Mardi Gras): American Heart Month Day 21

Suzanne O'Malley | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Cholesterol, King Cake, Diet, The Yale Heart Study, Suzanne O'Malley, Fat Tuesday, Cardiovascular-Disease, Health, Yale University, Diet and Nutrition, Mardi Gras, Heart Attack, Mayo Clinic, Heart Disease, Personal Health, American Heart Month, Heart Month, Healthy Living News

Some fats promote good health, some don't. The Mayo Clinic recommends you enjoy good fats -- in moderation. But today you eat. Tomorrow, Ash Wednesday, you fast -- and moderation blows.

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The Shocking Economic Costs Of Underage Drinking

Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Study Teen Drinking, Mayo Clinic Study, Video, Underage Drinking, Hospitalization Costs Underage Drinking, Underage Drinking Costs, Teen Drinking, Mayo Clinic, High School News

It's no surprise that underage drinking is common in the U.S. In a 2009 study by the Centers for Disease Control And Prevention, 42 percent of high sc...

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Two Mayo Clinic Workers Die In Forida Helicopter Crash

AP | JENNIFER KAY | Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: Helicopter, Gainesville, Clay County, Organs, University of Florida, Kathy Barbour, National Transportation Safety Board, Mayo Clinic, Crash, Miami News

MIAMI — A surgeon and technician from a Mayo Clinic in Florida flying across the northern corner of the state to retrieve a heart for transplant...

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Paralyzed College Football Player Stands Up For CBS 'Courage In Sports' Award

Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Iowa, Video, Minnesota, Courage in Sports Award, Rochester, Luther College, Chris Norton, Division Three Football, Spinal Chord Injury, Mayo Clinic, Impact News

Doctors told Chris Norton that he had a 3 percent chance of regaining any movement in his lower body after breaking his neck during a football game. B...

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There Is Life After Lung Cancer

jacksonville.com | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Mayo Clinic, Lung Cancer Awareness Month, Lung Cancer, Lung Cancer Awareness, Oncology, Non-Smokers With Lung Cancer, Non Smoker, Michelle Graff-Radford, Fifty News

Michelle Graff-Radford was 47 the first time she was diagnosed with lung cancer. The diagnosis stunned her. A non-smoker who taught 10 yoga and fit...

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Girl Dies From Mysterious Illness, Community Pitches In

courier-journal | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Tabby Rhymer, Fern Creek High School, Mysterious Illness, Charity, Tabbatha Rhymer, Norton Neuroscience Institute, Northeast Christian Church, Fern Creek, Mayo Clinic, Impact News

In her short life, Tabbatha Rhymer brought joy to her family and friends and pulled people together as they supported her during a mysterious and dead...

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Upward-Tick In Tick Infections: Discovery Of New Disease Highlights Another Risk Of Environmental Change

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: West Nile Virus, Agriculture, Ecosystems, Birds, Bats, Science, The Infection Loop, Landscape Change, Infectious Diseases, Environmental Change, Lyme Disease, Disease, Health, Biodiversity, Zoonoses, Climate Change, Global Warming, Mayo Clinic, Green News

If the rising risks of Lyme disease, Anaplasmosis or Babesiosis weren't reasons enough to take extra precautions while outdoors this summer -- and to ...

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The Final Sketch of a Life

Katherine Dunn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sketch, Life, Father, Architect, Art Lifer, Artistic Parents, Remembering Loved Ones, Mayo Clinic, Arts News

When I went to help clean out my father's belongings, my mother casually showed me a small drawing he had done just two days before his death. I felt I had stumbled on to a hidden Picasso.

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Medical Residents Should Be Considered Employees: Supreme Court

AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Social Secruity, Employees, Medical Residents, John Roberts, Mayo Foundation, Mayo Clinic, College News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that medical residents should be considered employees when it comes to collecting Social Security t...

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A Screening 3 Times Better Than Mammograms?

Dr. Nalini Chilkov | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mammography, Breast, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Breast Cancer Screening, Breast MRI, Molecular Breast Imaging, Mayo Clinic, Home News

If you are at high risk for breast cancer due to high breast density, you need to do more than have a mammogram to accomplish early breast cancer detection.

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Some Doctors Question Medicare Program in Health Law

Todd Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Israel, American Medical Association, Medicare, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Accountable Care Organizations, Mayo Clinic, New York News

The health care overhaul is being hit with a new set of arguments, this time by doctors who suggest that a lnew Medicare program creates a potential threat to their autonomy and to patient care.

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Democrats Move 2012 Convention to Metrodome

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a move that took many political observers by surprise, the Democratic National Committee decided today to move its 2012 nominating convention to the recently collapsed Minneapolis Metrodome.

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Under the Microscope: Are Innovation and Cost Control at Odds in Health Care?

Inder Sidhu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Levy, Inflation, Doing Both, Health Care Reform, Cisco, Inder Sidhu, Cancer, Proton Radiation, Health Care, Mayo Clinic, Business News

Major medical breakthroughs like the proton beam accelerator are helping to save lives. But are they better than other, less-expensive forms of technology that are more widely available?

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Exercise Has Minor Effect On Weight Loss, According To Growing Body Of Research

The Observer | Emma John | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Workout, Calories, Exercise, Nutrition, Jean Mayer, Fitness, Public Health, Weight Loss, Calorie Compensation, Obesity, Diet, Mayo Clinic, Healthy Living News

More and more research in both the UK and the US is emerging to show that exercise has a negligible impact on weight loss. That tri-weekly commitment ...

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Headstrong, Part I: My World Turned Upside Down

Marian Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Multitasking, Meningioma, Braininess, Brain Tumor, Home Base Program, Brain Surgery, The Creative Process, Bob Woodruff Foundation, Veterans, Boston Red Sox, Massachusetts General Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Health Care Plan, Home News

A little over three years ago, I was flying high. I was chief marketing officer at the ad agency JWT Worldwide. I'd been credited with popularizing th...

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Mayo Clinic AZ CEO Talks About the Impact of New Law

Francine Hardaway | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Obama Health Care Reform, Victor Trastek, Mayo Clinic, Medicare, Harvard Business School Club, Health Care, Healthy Living News

Medicare goes to everybody whether they need it or not, and that may have to change. No one wants to acknowledge that people with more money might have to pay something for Medicare in the future.

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Do You Know the Signs of a Real Life Heart Attack, Not the Hollywood Version?

Barbara Ficarra | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: American Heart Association, Patient Engagement, Barbara Ficarra, Empowered Patient, Medical Dramas, healthin30, Mayo Clinic, Hollywood Heart Attack, Cdc, Heart Disease, Engaged Patient, Community Health and Education, Heart Attack, Signs of a Heart Attack, CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Healthy Living News

When thinking about someone having a heart attack, it's easy to think about the classic Hollywood example: the person clutching their chest, gasping for a breath. But this version can be misleading.

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FDA Considers Regulating Safety of Electronic Health Systems

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food and Drug Administration, Medical Reports, Injuries, Electronic Medical Records Systems, Regulation, Fda, Patients, Electronic Health Systems, Chuck Grassley, Emergency Rooms, Operating Rooms, Health Care, Kaiser Permanente, Electronic Medical Records, Charles Grassley, Hit, Geisinger Health System, Oversight, Stimulus, Paper, Testimony, It, Senate, Deaths, Hospitals, Software, Doctors, Health Information Technology, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Mayo Clinic, Politics News

By Fred Schulte and Emma SchwartzHuffington Post Investigative Fund Concerned about potential safety risks in health information technology, the U.S....

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Healthy Cooking Tips From Mayo Clinic

Donald Hensrud, M.D., M.P.H. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Healthy Eating, Food, Diet, Nutrition, Wellness, Health, Mayo Clinic, Cooking, Vegetables, Donald Hensrud, Weight Loss, Diabetes, Obesity, Healthy Living News

Healthy cooking doesn't mean you have to become a gourmet chef or invest in special cookware. Simply use standard cooking methods to prepare foods in healthy ways.

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In The Public Interest: Senate Moderates Get it Right

Larry McNeely | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senate, In the Public Interest, Public Option, Lobbying, Larry McNeely, Health Care Reform, Public Interest, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Healthcare, Mayo Clinic, Politics News

Progressives continue to have real disputes with some of the Senate centrists. But some of those centrists' proffered amendments are serious attempts to hold down costs and they deserve support.

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Mayo Clinic's Action Guide To Weight-Loss Barriers

Donald Hensrud, M.D., M.P.H. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Stress, Food Addiction, Cooking, Nutrition, Health, Food, Weight Loss, Overeating, Wellness, Mayo Clinic, Healthy Living News

Identifying potential roadblocks and personal temptations is an important part of being successful in losing weight. It's important to have strategies ready to guide your response as problems arise.

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