Items Tagged ‘Florida’
July 20, 2016
Unique Form of Genetic Testing Uncovers the Reason for Years of Mysterious Symptoms
When she was a teenager, Sharon Mills started having excruciating pain after eating. Medical tests found abnormalities with her liver but no reason for the irregularities or pain. She continued to experience the troubling symptoms for decades. As an adult, Sharon moved to different parts of the country several times. With each move, she visited […]
Tags: Consultative and Diagnostic Medicine, Dr. Floyd Willis, Dr. Paldeep Atwal, Family Medicine, Florida, Metabolomics
May 9, 2016
Simulation and Reality Meet to Find Ideal Surgical Approach for Florida Patient
For six months, Chad Thompson slept sitting up to ease debilitating headaches caused by a tumor growing on a nerve in his head. Now, after a successful surgery at Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus in March, the 40-year-old Jacksonville resident is having conversations with friends and co-workers that he never expected. “People keep asking, ‘When are […]
Tags: anatomage, Chad Thompson, Dr. John Casler, Florida, MayoClinicFL, Otorhinolaryngoloyg, Schwannoma, Simulation Center
May 23, 2014
Healthy Lifestyle Doesn’t Always Eliminate Risk of Heart Disease
By Paul Scotti 
Sometimes even doing everything right to live a healthy lifestyle isn’t enough to ward off a serious illness. Such was the case of 67-year-old Donald Glynn of Jacksonville, Fla., an avid runner who has participated in countless marathons, half marathons and 5K races over the last 30 years. He also watched his diet, weight and blood pressure, […]
Tags: Donald Glynn, Dr. Daniel Yip, Florida, Heart Disease, LVAD, MayoClinicFL, Patient Stories, Transplant
May 6, 2014
Immunotherapy Puts the Brakes on Cancer for Melanoma Patient
By Paul Scotti
Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. And for those patients whose disease has spread beyond its origination site, most treatment options have offered only modest success in controlling the disease. So when James Donaghy of Huntersville, North Carolina, entered a clinical trial at Mayo Clinic in Florida testing the effectiveness of an experimental […]
Tags: Florida, James Donaghy, MayoClinicFL, melanoma, MK3475, Richard Joseph
March 26, 2014
Patient Honors Her Liver Donor and Faith in New Book
By Paul Scotti
Hildred “Peggy” Lyons’ first signs of liver problems occurred back in 1968, around the time of her son’s birth, when her physician noticed she had elevated liver enzymes. An otherwise healthy woman who worked and also volunteered as a fitness instructor at her church teaching several classes a day to both adults and children, Lyons […]
Tags: Florida, Liver Transplant, MayoClinicFL, Transplant, transplantation
March 18, 2014
A New Chapter: Life After My Liver and Kidney Transplant
By jasonpratt 
Written by Elaine Ginn, transplant patient at Mayo Clinic in Florida As I sit here at the Mayo Clinic lab on the Florida campus waiting to be called for a lab draw of a dozen or so tubes of my blood, my mind returns four years to the time before my liver and kidney transplant surgery. […]
Tags: Florida, kidney transplant, Liver Transplant, MayoClinicFL, Transplant, Transplatation
February 24, 2014
Trust Your ‘Gut’ When Experiencing Possible Signs of Colorectal Cancer
By SMHNadmin 
Most people think that colorectal cancer is just an old man’s disease, perhaps because current medical guidelines recommend regular screening begin at the age of 50. Truth is, this disease doesn’t discriminate in age, gender or race. Grace De La Rosa was 38 when she was diagnosed with Stage 3 Colon Cancer in 2005. She […]
Tags: Cancer, colorectal cancer, Florida, MayoClinicFL
February 21, 2014
Her Relay: Overcoming a Childhood Tumor to Being An Advocate for Life
By SMHNadmin
Written by Erin Mobley, Adult BMT Data Specialist at Mayo Clinic in Florida I wanted to go skiing for my seventh birthday, but instead I celebrated in the hospital with family and friends, and a pediatric oncologist. Two months earlier, in September 1993, on my first day of first grade, I had gotten sick and had a […]
Tags: Cancer, CANCER RESEARCH, Employee Stories, Erin Mobley, Florida, KatieRide, MayoClinicFL, runDonna
September 1, 2013
Eluding the ‘Widow Maker’: The Checkup that Saved His Life
“You have to go to know.” George Roberts will tell you he’s a busy man — too busy to worry about a physical. As vice president of a Florida-based road construction and contracting company and chair of two industry groups, he’s got a lot to oversee. Taking time for a doctor’s visit wasn’t on his […]
Tags: 2267, 3994, 5252, 5255, 5268, 5334, 5335, Dr. Rodriguez, Executive Health, executive physical, Florida, george roberts
August 14, 2013
The Woman Patient: Is Her Voice Heard?
[Editor’s Note: Following is an article by Mary I. O’Connor, M.D., chair of the Department of Orthopedics at Mayo Clinic in Florida, sharing her perspective on how gender affects the care of women today.] Should a woman have a female doctor? As a woman and an orthopedic surgeon, I am sometimes asked that question. While some women […]
Tags: Florida, Mary O'Connor, MayoClinicFL, opinion, Orthopedic