http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Chemical dependency and recovery in patients and physicians are closely examined in a series of articles and editorials in the July 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. The subject is especially timely. As the immense challenges, including potential tragedies, of prescription chemical addiction and abuse are being discussed, these articles offer crucial overview, direction and optimism. http://www.physorg.com/news166205984.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:20:31 EST news166205984 Patients living with migraine have strong reason for new optimism concerning a positive future. Two review articles and an accompanying editorial, "The Future of Migraine: Beyond Just Another Pill," in the current issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, are the basis for an ironic premise. http://www.physorg.com/news162571101.html Medicine & Health Tue, 26 May 2009 15:39:48 EST news162571101 (AP) -- The Mayo Clinic has combined its medical expertise with Microsoft Corp.'s technology in a free Web site launching Tuesday that will let people store personal health and medical information. http://www.physorg.com/news159520234.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:11:05 EST news159520234 Results of a Mayo Clinic study show that a simple, noninvasive finger sensor test is "highly predictive" of a major cardiac event, such as a heart attack or stroke, for people who are considered at low or moderate risk, according to researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news157294709.html Medicine & Health Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:59:08 EST news157294709 Mayo Clinic researchers have found that children who require multiple surgeries under anesthesia during their first three years of life are at higher risk of developing learning disabilities later. Several studies have suggested that anesthetic drugs may cause abnormalities in the brains of young animals. This is the first study in humans to suggest that exposure of children to anesthesia may have similar consequences. The finding is reported in the current issue of the journal Anesthesiology. http://www.physorg.com/news157107831.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:04:15 EST news157107831 When patients choose to leave the hospital before the treating physician recommends discharge, the consequences may involve risk of inadequately treated medical conditions and the need for readmission, according to a review in the March 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Additionally, the article examines the effect of costs as well as predictors and potential interventions to help manage and improve this important issue. http://www.physorg.com/news155816994.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:30:28 EST news155816994 Mayo Clinic researchers have shown that patients who were taking statins before a stroke experienced better outcomes and recovery than patients who weren't on the drug - even when their cholesterol levels were ideal. The finding is reported in the current issue of the Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. http://www.physorg.com/news154889379.html Medicine & Health Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:50:15 EST news154889379 In a study published in The American Journal of Psychiatry, a team of researchers led by Mayo Clinic psychiatrist Mark Frye, M.D., attempted to identify what factors make some people with bipolar depression more likely to experience treatment-emergent mania (TEM). http://www.physorg.com/news153594845.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:14:41 EST news153594845 Mayo Clinic researchers found that healthy, older adults who participated in a computer-based training program to improve the speed and accuracy of brain processing showed twice the improvement in certain aspects of memory, compared to a control group. http://www.physorg.com/news153501936.html Medicine & Health Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:25:59 EST news153501936 In 2005, a woman who had trouble sleeping asked Siong-Chi Lin, M.D., for help. Dr. Lin, a sleep disorders specialist at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida, diagnosed restless legs syndrome. This common neurologic disorder interrupts sleep because of unpleasant sensations in the legs at rest, especially in the evening, that are temporarily relieved by movement. http://www.physorg.com/news152898967.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:56:54 EST news152898967 Men who experience erectile dysfunction between the ages of 40 and 49 are twice as likely to develop heart disease than men without dysfunction, according to a new Mayo Clinic study. http://www.physorg.com/news152806128.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:09:10 EST news152806128 Researchers at Mayo Clinic have found that the experimental drug they are testing to treat a deadly form of thyroid cancer turns on a powerful tumor suppressor capable of halting cell growth. Few other cancer drugs have this property, they say. http://www.physorg.com/news151652715.html Medicine & Health Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:45:43 EST news151652715 Researchers at Mayo Clinic have discovered the first gender-linked susceptibility gene for late-onset Alzheimer's disease. http://www.physorg.com/news150905504.html Medicine & Health Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:11:44 EST news150905504 A Mayo Clinic-led international consortium has found a mechanism that may help explain Parkinson's and other neurological disorders. http://www.physorg.com/news150904281.html Medicine & Health Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:51:21 EST news150904281 Mayo Clinic research shows adults with asthma are at increased risk of serious pneumococcal disease caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, the most common bacteria causing middle ear infections and community acquired pneumonia. It also causes blood stream infections and brain infections. According to the Centers for Disease Control, pneumococcal infection is one of the leading causes of death from a vaccine-preventable disease. The researchers recommend including asthma as an indication for pneumococcal vaccination in adults. The results of the study were recently published in the October edition of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. http://www.physorg.com/news148917313.html Medicine & Health Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:55:13 EST news148917313 Having dense breasts - areas that show up light on a mammogram - is strongly associated with increased breast cancer risk, but "why" remains to be answered. Now, by examining dense and non-dense tissue taken from the breasts of healthy volunteers, researchers from Mayo Clinic have found several potential links. http://www.physorg.com/news148488226.html Medicine & Health Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:43:46 EST news148488226 Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered that a chemical known as endoxifen appears to be the primary metabolite responsible for the effectiveness of tamoxifen in treating breast cancer, and that it works against cancer in an entirely unexpected way. http://www.physorg.com/news148225168.html Medicine & Health Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:39:28 EST news148225168 Using a three-dimensional (3D) image-guided system to help place screws in the spines of patients results in safe and accurate surgery with a decrease in the number of misplaced screws, and subsequent injuries, seen in more traditional operations, say neurosurgeons at Mayo Clinic in Florida. http://www.physorg.com/news148130521.html Medicine & Health Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:22:01 EST news148130521 Statins, drugs widely prescribed to lower cholesterol, do not interfere with a commonly used medication to treat lymphomas, according to a Mayo Clinic study presented today at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (http://www.hematology.org/meetings/2008/) in San Francisco. In fact, statins may slow the progression of certain types of lymphoma. http://www.physorg.com/news148054476.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:14:36 EST news148054476 Mayo Clinic researchers have found that a new combination of medications designed to maximize immune functions improved or stabilized multiple myeloma for 76 percent of patients who had relapsed after previous treatment. http://www.physorg.com/news148049317.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:48:37 EST news148049317 A new Mayo Clinic study found that it is generally safe to withdraw anti-seizure medications in children with epilepsy who have achieved seizure-freedom while on the medication. Researchers found that these children were not at high risk of subsequently developing intractable epilepsy. The study will be presented on Sunday, Dec. 7, at the American Epilepsy Society's annual meeting in Seattle. http://www.physorg.com/news147884245.html Medicine & Health Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:57:25 EST news147884245 A new Mayo Clinic study found that patients with low-grade gliomas survived longest when they underwent aggressive surgeries to successfully remove the entire tumor. If safely removing the entire tumor was not possible, patients survived significantly longer when surgery was followed by radiation therapy. This study is available online as an advance publication in Neuro-Oncology. http://www.physorg.com/news147546162.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:02:42 EST news147546162 A new study from Mayo Clinic finds the use of the drug therapy etanercept ineffective in treating alcoholic hepatitis, an acute inflammation of the liver caused by excessive consumption of alcohol. The results of the study are published in the December issue of Gastroenterology. http://www.physorg.com/news147358269.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:51:09 EST news147358269 Children whose eyes are misaligned and point outward are at significantly increased risk of developing mental illness by early adulthood, according to findings of a Mayo Clinic study published this month in Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. http://www.physorg.com/news146930355.html Medicine & Health Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:59:15 EST news146930355 Two critical properties of cancer cells are their ability to divide without restraint and to spread away from the primary tumor to establish new tumor sites. Now, researchers from the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida have found a protein they say acts as a deadly master switch, both freeing cancer cells from a tumor while ramping up new growth. http://www.physorg.com/news146134296.html Medicine & Health Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:51:36 EST news146134296 If a good night's sleep helps the brain and body perform better, it's a good guess that sleep problems can cause more than just fatigue. Numerous studies have shown a connection between sleep disorders and medical conditions such as cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, and metabolic disorders, including the risk of obesity and diabetes mellitus. http://www.physorg.com/news145547456.html Medicine & Health Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:50:56 EST news145547456 Mayo Clinic researchers say they have moved closer to their goal of providing personalized care for a common blood cell cancer. They have found that the use of predictive biomarkers along with two targeted treatments significantly delays the need for conventional chemotherapy in patients with early-stage, but high-risk, chronic lymphoid leukemia (CLL). http://www.physorg.com/news145215211.html Medicine & Health Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:33:31 EST news145215211 People who survive a heart attack face the greatest risk of dying from sudden cardiac death (SCD) during the first month after leaving the hospital, according to a long-term community study by Mayo Clinic researchers of nearly 3,000 heart attack survivors. http://www.physorg.com/news145036651.html Medicine & Health Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:57:31 EST news145036651 A new study shows that an imaging technology developed by Mayo Clinic researchers can identify liver fibrosis with high accuracy and help eliminate the need for liver biopsies. Liver fibrosis is a common condition that can lead to incurable cirrhosis if not treated in time. http://www.physorg.com/news144769871.html Medicine & Health Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:51:11 EST news144769871 After four decades on the decline, rheumatoid arthritis is on the upswing among women in the United States. That's the finding presented by Mayo Clinic investigators at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals in San Francisco. http://www.physorg.com/news144239243.html Medicine & Health Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:27:23 EST news144239243