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— Mayo Clinic researchers have amassed additional evidence that secondhand smoke kills and smoke-free workplace laws save lives. The study will be presented to the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions on Monday in Orlando.
Their research shows that the incidence of heart attacks and sudden cardiac deaths…
— "Median arcuate ligament syndrome is a form of mesenteric ischemia. The median arcuate ligament is a part of the diaphragm that surrounds the aorta. The diaphragm moves with respiration. This movement may cause tension on the celiac artery that is nearest to the median arcuate…
Facts about Teen depression, cutting, other self-injury and How to Get Help
— Estrogen may prevent strokes in premature or early menopausal women, Mayo Clinic researchers say. Their findings challenge the conventional wisdom that estrogen is a risk factor for stroke at all ages. The study was published in the journal Menopause.
— "The Mayo Clinic, Johnson & Johnson and others are joining forces to try to snuff out smoking in the workplace throughout the world," the Wall Street Journal's "Health Blog" writes, adding, "Their global smoke-free worksite challenge, announced at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York…
— When Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya won the New York City Marathon with an unofficial time of 2 hours, 5 minutes, 6 seconds Sunday, he smashed the previous NYC mark by almost three minutes. His performance was of little surprise, since Mutai had run the fastest marathon…
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Mayo Clinic Dr. James Yiannias helped develop a mobile phone or Web-based application that produces a "shopping list" of products for people with dermatitis.
CARD, or Contact Allergen Replacement Database, was once available only to Mayo Clinic doctors and American Contact Dermatitis Society members.
— According to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, better understanding of a patient's abdominal pain could help physicians know which patients will benefit most from surgical removal of the gallbladder. Nearly 800,000 gallbladder removal surgeries, or cholecystectomies, are performed annually in the U.S.
— Mayo Clinic’s 13-week-old version of Facebook has cracked 7,100 users, and the healthcare-social-media-heavy hospital system is promising new features next month.
More than 1,000 people joined the free online health community when it launched on July 5. Lee Aase, director for Mayo’s Center for Social Media, said…
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Laws require no smoke migration into public (very liberal definition) buildings, but no one enforces the laws. Not even the local or state Board of Health.
6 months ago