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- Mercury Management at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
- Mayo's management of mercury in the medical environment has evolved over time. Mercury batteries were first collected for referral to a California-based reprocessing center in 1978. A strong emphasis has existed since the mid-1970s on collecting and commercially disposing of mercury-containing laboratory wastes through Mayo's hazardous waste program. Efforts continue...
- Case studies
- Innovation - Putting Ideas into Action: Best Practices of Bausch & Lomb, IBM, Kennametal Inc., and the Mayo Clinic
- Innovation has risen to the top of just about every corporate agenda. In today's world, a company cannot maintain a competitive advantage simply via technological superiority. Companies need to develop ways to continually create innovative products and services, yet it has been a frustrating journey. APQC's study...
- White papers
- Time Management in the Information Age
- Time management skills are never learned as a subject. Like most of the valuable lessons a chief resident learns, these skills are not acquired from books. To learn these skills, an individual must plant them in his or her mind and nurture them until they form strong roots. Sooner or...
- White papers 2006-04-17
- Mayo Clinic and Siemens: Shaping the Future of Patient-Centric Healthcare Today
- Patients often think that medicine has forgotten about them. They feel that treatment and diagnosis, however effective, often lack humanity. This case study provides an example of how a patient-centric approach, innovative technology and successful cooperation between a vendor and a healthcare provider are bringing this element back into the...
- Case studies 2004-12-06
- Siemens Case Study: Mayo Clinic
- This document describes an integration success story of a PACS, RIS and HIS at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. Instrumental in the integration were the implementation of Integration Profiles and Transactions as defined by the Integrating the Haltcare Enterprise initiative IHE. While the system has been in clinical use...
- Case studies 2004-11-14
- We Have the Proof!: SIENET at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
- Mayo Clinic Jacksonville is a multispecialty outpatient clinic providing adult medical and surgical care. Opened in 1986, the Jacksonville facility was the first extension of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Patients who are hospitalized are admitted to nearby St. Luke's, a 289 bed hospital affiliated with Mayo. The Mayo Primary...
- Case studies 2000-05-01
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- Measle's Spread Doesn't Depend on Airways
- Measles may be one of the most common contagious diseases in the world, but new research shows that it does not spread through one's body via airways and the lungs, as long believed. Mayo Clinic researchers, whose work was published in the June 20 online edition of The Journal...
- Articles 2008-06-20
- CT Screens for Lung Cancer Not a Cure-All
- While CT screening may help reduce lung cancer deaths among current and former smokers, it won't reduce the risk of death from other smoking-related causes, a new study reports. Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., entered data from 1,520 current and former...
- Articles 2008-06-20
- Nile Therapeutics Completes License Agreement for CU-NP, a Rationally Designed Natriuretic Peptide
- SAN FRANCISCO, June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nile Therapeutics, Inc. , today announced that it has entered into a worldwide, exclusive license agreement with Mayo Clinic ("Mayo") for the rights to commercially develop CU-NP, a rationally designed natriuretic peptide that consists of amino acid chains identical to those produced by...
- Articles 2008-06-18
- Renal Solutions Adds Two New Members to Medical Advisory Board
- WARRENDALE, Pa., June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Renal Solutions, Inc RSI, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fresenius Medical Care, announced today the addition of two members to its Medical Advisory Board, Jose Diaz-Buxo, M.D., FACP and Todd Ing, M.D. Dr. Diaz-Buxo is Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President,...
- Articles 2008-06-17
- REVLIMID® Data for Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma Reported at a Satellite Symposium During the 13th European Hematology Association Congress
- COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Data from the ECOG E4A03 and SWOG 0232 studies were reported at a Satellite Symposium and showed that newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients who are eligible for a transplant, obtain better outcomes when treated with REVLIMID lenalidomide plus dexamethasone. The data were presented by Dr A. Stewart,...
- Articles 2008-06-16
- Check fine print in your doctor's report
- Usually, when I get the report after my annual physical at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, I carefully check my cholesterol and PSA and then just glance at the rest. For some reason, last week when I got the latest account from my lead Mayo physician, Dr. Francois Lette, I...
- Articles 2008-06-13
- Aviva USA Announces Extension of Relationship With Mayo Clinic Health Solutions to Support "Wellness for Life," a Unique Life Insurance Product Designed to Personally Reward People for Staying Healthy
- Aviva Also Working With Emmy Award-Winning Journalist Stephanie Riggs to Launch Innovative Life Insurance Program DES MOINES, Iowa -- With the launch of the innovative "Wellness for Life" program, Aviva is embarking on a mission to redefine how customers think of life insurance, and they're doing it in...
- Articles 2008-06-11
- New Class of Drugs May Fight Alzheimer's
- A class of drugs called gamma-secretase modulators shows potential for treating Alzheimer's disease, a new study suggests. A hallmark of Alzheimer's is so-called amyloid plaque, which develops tangles in the brain. The gamma-secretase modulators reduce the production of long pieces of amyloid beta protein that stick together and form clumps....
- Articles 2008-06-11
- Artery-Opening Method Works Well in Women
- The procedures used to open narrowed heart arteries work just as well in women as in men, and the results for both genders have improved steadily in recent years, new research finds. The study in the June 17 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology is a...
- Articles 2008-06-09
- Cholestatic liver disease
- Cholestatic liver disease. Lindor, Keith D. and Jayant A. Talwalker. Humana Press Inc. 2008 188 pages $89.50 Hardcover Clinical gastroenterology RC848 Lindor and Talwalkar, both doctors at the Mayo Clinic, edit this...
- Articles 2008-06-01
- Shoulder arthroplasty; complex issues in the primary and revision setting
- Shoulder arthroplasty; complex issues in the primary and revision setting. Ed. by Stephen Fealy et al. Thieme Medical Publishers 2008 161 pages $129.95 Hardcover RD557 Orthopedics surgeons from Cornell U. and the Mayo Clinic...
- Articles 2008-06-01
- Common Genetic Variant Tied to Lung Cancer Risk
- A common genetic variant increases the risk of lung cancer, even in nonsmokers, researchers report. that certain forms of the alpha1-antitrypsin gene double someones risk of developing lung cancer, regardless of whether he or she ever smoked -- could help explain why some nonsmokers develop the disease, said study author...
- Articles 2008-05-27
- Mayo Clinic implements Lawson S3 Human Capital Management Suite
- TELECOMWORLDWIRE-26 May 2008-Mayo Clinic implements Lawson S3 Human Capital Management SuiteC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Lawson Software (Nasdaq:LWSN), a provider of software and service solutions, announced on Friday (23 May) that healthcare provider Mayo Clinic has completed its implementation of the Lawson S3 Human Capital Management Suite, including...
- Articles 2008-05-26
- McCain fit to be president: doctors
- WASHINGTON AFP — Republican White House pick John McCain, 71, has no medical condition that would bar him from the presidency, his doctors said Friday, as his campaign released health records to defuse questions about his age. Despite bouts with skin cancer and lingering effects of Vietnam war...
- Articles 2008-05-23
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