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. [...]

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 vessel [...]

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 $7.49 million [...]

Te sientes mejor?Don’t understand what that means? Then the Facebook Mayo Clinic en espa ol 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 [...]

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 a [...]

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 Twitter provides [...]

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.var page_count = “off”; if (typeof OAS_rdl == “undefined”) {document.write(“”); page_count = “on”;}var MMI_ClickURL = “”; var OAS_searchterms = “”;var OAS_taxonomy =”muid=0″;var MMI_RNS [...]

Mayo Clinicannounced 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 to [...]

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 other [...]

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