News Releases — Minnesota

2008

May 2008

• Mayo Clinic Trustee James L. Barksdale to Speak at Mayo Clinic Commencement
• Medical Research Should Include More Women Participants and Examine the Role of Gender in Disease Incidence and Treatment
• Mayo Clinic Trustees Welcome New Member, Honor New Named Professors
• Mayo Clinic Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Division to Host Special Mother's Day Event for Patients
• Mayo Clinic Trustees Launch Public Phase of $1.25 Billion Philanthropy Campaign
• Stroke Rapid-Response Protocol Speeds Up Care, Saves Lives

April 2008

• Clifford Jack Jr., M.D., Awarded AAN Potamkin Prize for Alzheimer's Research
• Mayo Clinic to Host Comprehensive Symposium for Patients with Blood Cancers
• Mayo Clinic Announces Three Rosemary and Meredith Willson Harmony for Mayo Program Concerts in May
• May Community Calendar Advisory
• Panel Discussion With His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, Available Online
• Minnesota Partnership Advances Potential MS Therapy
• Mayo Clinic Researchers to Focus on G.I. War Injuries
• Mayo Clinic Finds Exercise Can Reduce the Risk of Mild Cognitive Impairment
• Statement on His Holiness, the Dalai Lama
• Mayo Clinic Study Identifies Potential Causes of Young-Onset Dementia
• Mayo Clinic Studies Find REM Sleep Behavior Disorder is Associated with Other Features of Neurodegenerative Disorders
• Mayo-Led Study Finds Smoking Related to Subset of Colorectal Cancers with Absent DNA Repair Proteins
• Mayo Clinic Identifies Treatment Target for Liver Cancer Recurrence and Survival
• Microwave Treatments for Enlarged Prostate Cause Blood Pressure Surges
• Mayo Clinic Identifies Infection Risks for Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Mayo Clinic Proceedings Examines a Possible Link Between Bacteria Found in the Human Digestive System and Obesity

March 2008

• Mayo Clinic Finds Retired National Football League Players at Increased Risk for Heart Problems; Screening Should Start in High School Players
• Normal Weight Obesity: An Emerging Risk Factor for Heart and Metabolic Problems
• President of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to Visit Mayo Clinic
• Mayo Clinic Announces Four Rosemary and Meredith Willson Harmony for Mayo Program Concerts during April
• Mayo Clinic announces 13th annual conference on quality
• Sieck Named President of the American Physiological Society
• Mayo Clinic President and CEO to Speak at National Press Club on Health Care Reform
• 2007 Mayo Clinic Financial Highlights
• Strong 2007 Financial Performance Helps Mayo Contribute to the Future of Medicine
• Mayo Researchers Say ECG Standards Should Be Revised for Elderly
• 2007 Highlights
• Mayo Medical School Students to Participate in "Match Day" on March 20
• Mayo Clinic Study Shows Parkinson's Disease Drug Might Work in Cancer Patients
• Mayo Clinic Research Trials Lead to New National Colon Cancer Screening Guidelines
• Saint Marys Hospital Auxiliary Celebrating 50 Years
• Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center: Participants Advocate Insurance for All, Interoperable Electronic Medical Records and Payment Reform as Priorities for Change in American Health Care
• COX-2 Expression is Marker for Cancer Development in Some Benign Breast Biopsies, Mayo Clinic Researchers Say
• Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center Announces Symposium Results
• Health Care Reform Survey: Costs Are Top Worry
• Mayo Clinic Proceedings Contributors Highlight Research Findings About Cardiovascular Benefits Associated With Omega-3 Fatty Acids
• Minnesota Partnership Attracts New Scientists to State
• Minnesota Partnership Announces New Project Awards
• Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center Hosts Second National Symposium on Health Care Reform

February 2008

• Mayo Clinic Responding to Several Motor Vehicle Accidents Statement
• Mayo Researchers Look for Explanation Behind High Incidence of Diabetes Among Asian Indians
• Mayo Clinic Finds Capsule Endoscopy Can Detect Intestinal Damage Caused By Celiac Disease
• Minnesota's Future Doctors Program Receives $1 Million Gift
• Mayo Clinic Research Identifies Genetic Predisposition in Patients with Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
• March Community Calendar Advisory
• Mayo Clinic Announces Five Rosemary and Meredith Willson Harmony for Mayo Program Concerts in March
• Mayo Clinic Studies New Treatment for Patients with Otherwise Fatal Gastrointestinal Bleeding
• Gene Expression Profiling Advance for Lung Cancer Prognosis
• Mayo Clinic Trustees Welcome Brokaw, Elect Officers, Honor Named Professors
• Buses Go 'Green' in Rochester
• Offer a Valentine's Gift from the Heart: Help a Loved One Quit Smoking
• Mayo Clinic Population Research Shows Heart Disease May Be Rising
• Discovery's Edge Winter Issue
• Mayo Clinic Proceedings Contributors Discuss Impact of Donor Organ Allocation System

January 2008

• Mayo Clinic Announces Four February Rosemary and Meredith Willson Harmony for Mayo Concerts
• Mayo Clinic to Celebrate National Wear Red Day
• Mayo Express Care Open For Media Tours
• Minnesota Partnership Team Finds Cocaine Antidote
• Patient Back Home More Quickly After Noninvasive Brain Surgery Treatment
• Menard Gift to Fund Mayo Clinic Learning System, Luther Midelfort Emergency Center
• Mayo Clinic Study Finds Further Association between Diabetes and Pancreatic Cancer
• FORTUNE Names Mayo Clinic to its List For Fifth Consecutive Year
• Featured Articles from the January Issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings
• Mayo Clinic Study Unveils Unprecedented Method to Predict ALS, Parkinson's Disease
• Mayo Clinic Presents Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Concert
• Mayo Clinic's Medical Helicopters Flying with a Vision of Safety
• How Less Can Be More When Treating Some Kidney Cancers
• Mayo Clinic, IBM Establish Medical Imaging
  Research Center
• Mayo Health System Practice-Based Research Network Grant Recipients Selected
• Harmony for Mayo, in its 10th Year, Renamed in Memory of Broadway Musical Composer Meredith Willson
• Mayo Clinic Proceedings Provides Forum for Continued Debate About Physician Involvement in Capital Punishment