The Mayo Clinic announced Wednesday that another health system is joining the ranks of the ever-expanding Mayo Clinic Care Network, which aim to link patients and doctors in other communities to expertise at Mayo. The most recent entrant is Chicago’s NorthShore University HealthSystem. The agreement cements a relationship that Mayo has had with North Shore […]
Telemedicine, and the concept of meeting patients where they are, is gaining ground rapidly. As consumer technologies like Skype have taken off, televisits are now possible between doctors and patients who may be at far-flung locations. At the Mayo Clinic, too, doctors are meeting with patients virtually, and since 2009, doctors at its flagship Rochester […]
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Mayo Clinic announced Wednesday that it had won a lengthy legal battle against Prometheus Laboratories Inc., based in California, with the Supreme Court unanimously agreeing with its argument that natural bodily responses to medical treatment are not patent eligible. Up until 2004, the Minnesota healthcare provider bought and used a blood test from Prometheus that allowed […]
A Colorado redevelopment authority charged with developing a bioscience district near the University of Colorado campus in Aurora has appointed the head of Mayo Clinic Ventures as its new leader. Fitzsimons Redevelopment Authority announced that Steve VanNurden will become the group’s new president and CEO starting in late May. FRA was created in 1996 as a […]
Mayo Clinic announced Tuesday that the Coborn Cancer Center in St. Cloud, Minnesota, part of the CentrCare Health System, is the first member of the Mayo Clinic Cancer Care Network. The Mayo Clinic Cancer Care Network is part of the broader Mayo Clinic Care Network that works on the Affiliated Practice Network model to expand […]
Mayo Clinic announced Tuesday that it has signed an agreement with Maryland-based A&G Pharmaceuticals that will ultimately pave the way for Mayo to offer the first commercial blood test to predict progranulin mutation status in patients suspected to have frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Through the agreement, Mayo will get a […]
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation has been hailed as an exciting technology able to treat acute cardiac stenosis in patients who cannot undergo open-heart surgery. But now the Mayo Clinic has found that the procedure requires a lot of practice. And that raises the question of how widely the nascent technology will be adopted in the […]
The Mayo Clinic announced Wednesday that the National Human Genome Research Institute has awarded it more than $3 million to conduct genome-wide association studies that can more accurately determine patients’ risks of heart attacks, blood vessel diseases and adverse reactions to heart medications. Mayo researchers will integrate advances in genetic studies of heart and blood […]
Budget cuts may be a harsh reality that other Minnesota entities engaged in economic development have to face. Not the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics, a collaboration between the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota. Following the longest state shutdown in U.S. history, state lawmakers have decided to provide the group with […]
¿Te sientes mejor? Don’t understand what that means? Then the Facebook Mayo Clinic en español and @ClinicaMayo Twitter sites are not intended for you. Mayo Clinic, a stalwart in healthcare social media, announced Tuesday it launched two social media sites in Spanish to target the Hispanic social media community (That first sentence, by the way, means […]
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Mayo Medical Laboratories is adding a new tuberculosis test that will help physicians better determine the kind of TB afflicting patients. Mayo licensed the diagnostic test from Germany’s Qiagen, a provider of sample and assay technologies. The license expands on what’s currently available in terms of TB testing from Mayo. Currently, tests are done using […]
For Dr. Victor Montori, a Mayo Clinic diabetes doctor and researcher, Twitter and the avenue that this healthcare social media platform provides can sometimes be cathartic. Montori, who is from Peru, is regularly appalled by what he describes to be the “tremendous corruption in healthcare, with for-profit forces working in conflict with patients’ interests.” And […]
UPDATED BELOW: The nation’s highest court has agreed to hear a patent violation case brought by a California diagnostic firm against the Mayo Clinic. Bloomberg reported that in accepting the case, the high court will decide which diagnostic medical tests can be patented. Prometheus Labs is the owner of the patents, which it claimed were […]
Mayo Clinic announced Monday that it is licensing a genotyping test for warfarin sensitivity in clinical and research settings from Ithaca, New York-based Rheonix Inc. Warfarin is an anticoagulant and is commonly prescribed to prevent blood clot formation. One of the challenges in prescribing warfarin, however, is that patients have to be monitored through blood testing […]
UPDATE BELOW: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter to Compass International Innovations Inc., a manufacturer of stereotactic position systems and CT stereotactic adaptation systems, in late May. Compass International is based in Rochester, Minnesota and in addition to making these image-guided surgical systems, it sells biopsy needles and surgical arms among […]