October 30, 2009 – 12:28 pm
Many men diagnosed with prostate cancer win the battle and are cured. Unfortunately some do not. The little girl you’re about to meet lost her dad to prostate cancer. And she turned an event that was extremely tragic into something hopeful. At age 10 she participates in triathlons to raise money for prostate cancer research.
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September 4, 2009 – 6:20 pm
Dr. S. Vincent Rajkumar, Mayo Clinic hematologist, discusses the first systematic study to determine association of Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance (MGUS) with all diseases in 17,398 patients, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
Here is a link to the article: http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/…
Click on the following link to hear Dr. Rajkumar talk about this study.
Dr. Rajkumar MGUS Study
September 4, 2009 – 5:56 pm
Dr. Barbara Yawn, Director of Research at Olmsted Medical Center, provides an overview of her study on Health Care Utilization and the Cost Burden of Herpes Zoster, published in the September 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. The full text of the article is available at http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com/content/84/9/787.full
Click on the link below to listen to Dr. [...]
August 24, 2009 – 7:21 pm
Memory loss, personality changes, a shrinking ability to do daily tasks. It’s not easy to watch a loved one suffer from dementia. It’s also not easy at times for doctors to know exactly what kind of dementia a person may have. That’s because there’s not been a test that can differentiate between, say, Alzheimer’s disease [...]
August 4, 2009 – 12:53 pm
Stomach pain, nausea, heartburn, trouble swallowing : Common symptoms that prompt many people to head to the doctor’s office. But it’s not always easy for doctors to find out what’s causing them. That’s especially true if the culprit is a certain type of food allergy which can contribute to particular medical conditions. There just hasn’t [...]
