Mayo Clinic beat Cleveland Clinic in the much-hyped and highly questionable U.S. News and World Report‘s list of America’s best hospitals.But at least Cleveland Clinic can take solace in the fact that it’s the clear victor in a comparison of the two heavyweight hospital systems’ websites, according to a recent edition of Website Smackdown at [...]

“Merecido, Dr. Arguelles. Mi gratitud eterna.”It happened again Wednesday. The 15th comment, this one by “Caridad,” was posted cheering on Mayo Clinic Dr. Guillermo Ruiz-Arguelles for his place as the 42nd greatest Mayo Clinic doctor of all time. Nearly half of the comments are in Spanish. The first appeared a day after the story appeared, [...]

Mayo Clinic is possibly writing the primer on healthcare social media with its foray into Connect – Mayo’s twist on Facebook.Roughly six months into operating it, Mayo Clinic Connect continues to be more popular than anyone conceived boasting 13,000 plus users. But Mayo is learning that running its own healthcare-focused social network requires dedicated resources [...]

A New York-based store focused on mobile health apps for healthcare professionals and patients is developing a certification program.Happtique‘s program would evaluate and certify healthcare apps. The program would articulate quality and performance standards for an app’s clinical relevance and technical functionality, developed by members of a blue ribbon panel in the next six months.The [...]

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 U.S. [...]

Mayo Clinic‘s decision to build two costly proton beam cancer treatment centers is contributing to America’s medical arms race and is “exhibit A” of “what is wrong with American healthcare today,” according to a New York Times editorial by two prominent healthcare thought leaders.The problem with proton therapy is simple, according to the editorial: It’s [...]

Important life science current events from this week include Mayo Clinic helicopter crash, ten movies that portray pharmaceutical companies negatively, and an influential UW chairman takes heat for royalties and conflicts-of-interest with Medtronic.

Mayo Clinic procurement technician David Hines and cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Louis Bonilla were doing what they do every day — procuring an organ to save a patient’s life — when they lost their own lives in an early morning helicopter crash on Monday, says one colleague in tribute videos posted on the hospital’s blog.Because the [...]

Condolences have flooded Mayo Clinic’s Facebook page since it was reported that three people, including two Mayo employees, were killed in a plane crash to retrieve a donated organ for a patient on Monday.Mayo Clinic identified the two employees killed as Dr. Luis Bonilla, 49, a thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon (at left), and David Hines, [...]

Three people including two Mayo Clinic workers were killed in a Mayo Clinic helicopter crash in Florida on Monday. The cause of the crash and names of the victims are still unknown. But the accident will likely increase the already growing scrutiny on using helicopters for the transport of medical personnel.The aircraft used in this [...]