News Releases — Arizona

2011

December 2011

• Mayo Clinic Surgeons Advance Esophagectomy Treatment
• Mayo Clinic Study May Help Physicians Determine How Patients Will Respond to Multiple Myeloma Therapy
• Mayo Clinic Breaks Ground for Proton Beam Facility
• Scientists Develop Vaccine That Successfully Attacks Breast Cancer in Mice
• Mayo Clinic Symposium to Help Patients Overcome Cancer Challenges
• Ruxolitinib Better at Reducing Myelofibrosis Symptoms, Study Shows
• Research Focuses on Fight Against Multiple Myeloma
• Mayo Clinic Breaking Ground for $182 Million Proton Beam Therapy Facility
• Mayo Clinic Implements Data-driven Model for Sustaining Service Performance
• Mayo Clinic Honored With Picker Award for Excellence in Patient-Centered Care

November 2011

• PBS Program Featuring the Mayo Clinic Diet Premieres Beginning Dec. 3
• Mayo Clinic Hospital Among Top Cardiovascular Hospitals in U.S.

October 2011

• Cancer Patient Bikes 197 Miles for a Cure
• Mobile Phone App Helps Patients with Dermatitis Choose Safe Products

September 2011

• Mayo Clinic Medical School Will Expand to Arizona
• Mayo Clinic and ASU to Hold Press Conference on Health Care Innovation in the Valley
• Good News for Rural Stroke Patients: Telestroke Care is Cost-effective
• Telemedicine Technology Links Rural Arizona to Concussion Care at Mayo Clinic

August 2011

• A Decade Later: Mayo Celebrates Benefits of 'Pill Camera'
• Mayo Clinic Baseline Concussion Testing Broadened to Include Middle School Students
• ASU Biomedical Informatics Department Opens its Doors at Mayo Clinic
• ASU's Biomedical Informatics Department Officially Opens its Doors at Mayo Clinic
• Arizona Concussion Summit
• Mayo Clinic/Arizona State University Concussion Summit Focuses on High School Athletes
• Mayo Clinic Extends Baseline Concussion Testing Initiative to Arizona's Youth Hockey Players

July 2011

• Mayo Concussion Program is the First to Benefit from the J. Theodore Curtis Karalis Fund
• Mayo Clinic in Arizona Named to U.S. News Best Hospitals List
• Heart Failure Patients Benefit from Mayo Clinic VAD Program
• Mayo Clinic-led study on Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation (PCI) in Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) to be presented at the World Conference on Lung Cancer
• Radiation to the Brain Improves Survival Rates for Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients

June 2011

• Mayo Clinic and Phoenix Children's Hospital Collaborate on Surgery
• Mayo Clinic Research Continues to Unravel the Mysteries of Yips
• New Casita for Transplant Patients Opens at Mayo Clinic
• Mayo Clinic Telestroke Network Expands to 10 Remote Locations
• Maricopa Integrated Health System and Mayo Team Up for Stroke
• Mayo Clinic Offers Baseline Concussion Testing to Arizona High School Athletes Statewide at No Cost
• Mayo Clinic, NCCTG Find No Tie Between PTEN and Response to Breast Cancer Drug
• Mayo Clinic's Raoul Tibes, M.D., Ph.D., to Receive $200,000 Career Development Award for Leukemia Research
• Mayo Clinic Named to Top 10 Health System List

May 2011

• Milestone for Mayo Clinic: 100th Heart Transplant Performed
• Wyatt Decker, M.D., Named Mayo Clinic Vice President and Chief Executive of Mayo Clinic's Campus in Arizona

April 2011

• Earlier Memory Loss Tied to Cardiovascular Risks & Alzheimer's Gene

March 2011

• As Valley Temps Climb, So Do Risk Factors for Patients With Diabetes
• New Device Holds Promise of Making Blood Glucose Testing Easier for Patients with Diabetes
• Patients are Willing to Undergo Multiple Tests for New Cancer Treatments

February 2011

• New Imaging Technology Improves Diagnosis of Small Bowel Disease
• Mayo Clinic Trustees Name New Members, Elect Officers and Honor New Professors
• Whole Genome Sequencing Used to Help Inform Cancer Therapy
• Mayo Clinic, ASU Announce Enhanced Formal Collaboration, Move of Biomedical Informatics Department
• Mayo Patient on Artificial Heart Receives Heart Transplant
• Mayo Clinic Neurologists Advance Safe Play in Youth Sports

January 2011

• Solid Organ Transplants Reach Record at Mayo Clinic in 2010