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Mayo Clinic Minute: Using voice to detect neurodegenerative disease - Mayo Clinic News Network

There's a lot of brain power that goes into speech. First, there's a thought or idea, which the brain must translate into words. Those words are then translated into specific movements of the lungs, tongue and mouth to shape the sounds. Those movements then must be perfectly executed and timed with breath. If there's any damage to the brain from a stroke or if there's presence of a brain disease, the time of the movements or translation can go wrong. Because of that, changes in voice and speech...

Poor sleep can be linked to stroke, Mayo Clinic says

Sleep problems can increase someone’s risk of stroke. Sleep problems can include too little sleep (less than five hours), too much sleep (more than nine hours), poor quality, difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep, prolonged napping, and snoring and breathing cessation.In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Stephen English, a Mayo Clinic vascular neurologist, explains why poor sleep can be linked to stroke.Sleep is something people spend about a third of their lives doing and for good reason.“It...

Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees approves plans to transform healthcare, improve experience for staff and patients, redesign Rochester campus - Mayo Clinic News Network

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic’s Board of Trustees has approved Bold. Forward. Unbound. in Rochester, a multiyear strategic initiative that advances Mayo Clinic’s Bold. Forward. strategy to Cure, Connect and Transform healthcare for the benefit of patients everywhere. It reimagines Mayo Clinic’s downtown Rochester campus and introduces new facilities with a combination of innovative care concepts and digital technologies that will give Mayo Clinic the ability to scale transformation in ways neve...

Mayo Clinic expert weighs in on WHO labeling aspartame sweetener as low, but possible, cancer risk - Mayo Clinic News Network

A popular artificial sweetener that's widely found in sugar-free foods and beverages is being labeled as a possible cancer risk by the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO's cancer research agency, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), determined aspartame to be a possible carcinogen after reviewing and assessing the potential carcinogenic effect of the sweetener, but says it's safe to consume in limited amounts.


Dr. Donald Hensrud, a Mayo Clinic physician specializing in nutrit...

Alzheimer's drug lecanemab granted full approval by FDA, Mayo Clinic expert weighs in - Mayo Clinic News Network

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted traditional approval of a disease-modifying treatment that could potentially give some patients with Alzheimer's disease something they haven’t had before: a medication that may slow the decline of memory and thinking.


A monoclonal antibody, lecanemab, shows promise in removing amyloid plaques from the brain, according to phase 3 trial results. Amyloid plaques are one of the defining features of Alzheimer's disease, according to Dr. Ronald Peters...

Hope beyond heart failure: Innovative treatment allows woman to change the course of her heart failure - Mayo Clinic News Network

When they thought they were out of options, Nancy O'Brien brought her adult daughter, Jessica, to Mayo Clinic to look into palliative or comfort care after Jessica went into heart failure. However, Mayo Clinic doctors were able to find an innovative solution that reset Jessica's clinical course and helped her get her life back.


Watch: Hope beyond heart failure


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Artificial intelligence massage therapy? Meet the robot being studied by Mayo Clinic - Mayo Clinic News Network

Getting a massage from a robot may seem like something out of a science fiction story, but it could be a reality in the not-too-distant future. Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is looking into the possibility of robotic massage as an answer for patients' pain relief  and alleviating some staffing burdens.


Watch: Artificial intelligence massage therapy? Meet the robot being studied by Mayo Clinic


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Mayo Clinic to begin offering early ECMO to certain cardiac arrest patients - Mayo Clinic News Network

Only about 8% of patients who have sudden cardiac arrest outside of a hospital survive. That rate is even lower for certain patients who don't respond to defibrillation. A new service being launched this month by Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is hoping to improve outcomes and save more lives by getting patients faster access to potentially life-saving equipment.


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Mayo Clinic to begin offering early ECMO to certain cardiac arrest patients - Mayo Clinic News Network

Only about 8% of patients who have sudden cardiac arrest outside of a hospital survive. That rate is even lower for certain patients who don't respond to defibrillation. A new service being launched this month by Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is hoping to improve outcomes and save more lives by getting patients faster access to potentially life-saving equipment.


Watch: Mayo Clinic to begin offering early ECMO to certain cardiac arrest patients


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Using AI in radiology clinical practice - Mayo Clinic News Network

Mayo Clinic is combining artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning with clinical practice to improve care. AI is intelligence exhibited by machines, and it's being used at Mayo Clinic to program computers to process and respond to data quickly and consistently for better treatment outcomes.


These technologies complement the knowledge of doctors. Radiology was one of the first areas that saw a lot of AI applications.


Watch: Using artificial intelligence in clinical practice.


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Mayo Clinic Platform Conference 2022 - Mayo Clinic News Network

Government, academic and industry leaders from around the world will come to Rochester, Minnesota, July 26–27 for the Mayo Clinic Platform Conference. The invitation-only event will bring together 175 industry experts, policymakers, investors, startups, and CEOs from Mayo Clinic Care Network hospitals to discuss new technologies and solutions. 


During the event, these top leaders in health technology and medicine will discuss new opportunities, new ideas and breakthrough solutions that will s...

Testing wastewater for COVID-19: The clearest path to understanding community infection - Mayo Clinic News Network

Tracking the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in wastewater samples is the latest public health tool that cities around the U.S. are using to better understand COVID-19's spread in a community. Mayo Clinic is collaborating with The City of Rochester, Minnesota; Olmsted County Public Health; and University of Minnesota Rochester on the Olmsted County COVID-19 Wastewater Project to do just that.


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Dancing through complex care during COVID-19 - Mayo Clinic News Network

Twin Cities journalist Sonya Goins, like so many, has been coping with the challenges that have come with the COVID-19 pandemic, such as working remotely and not being able to see family and friends. If all of that weren't difficult enough, for the past year, she's also been battling breast cancer and Crohn's disease at Mayo Clinic.


Watch: Dancing through complex care during COVID-19.


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Vice President Pence visits Mayo Clinic - Mayo Clinic News Network

Vice President Mike Pence visited Mayo Clinic in Rochester to see firsthand how Mayo is providing scientific leadership to aid the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic.


Dr. Gianrico Farrugia, Mayo Clinic president and CEO, guided the vice president on a tour where he was able to talk with Mayo Clinic scientists leading the country's expanded access program for convalescent plasma, which is an experimental treatment for COVID-19 that uses antibodies found in plasma from patients who have...