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A potentially powerful new approach to treating two lethal metastatic cancers — triple negative breast cancer and clear cell renal cell carcinoma, the most common form of kidney cancer — has been discovered by researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida. In the online issue of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, they report that two drugs, romidepsin and decitabine, work cooperatively to activate a potent tumor suppressor gene that is silenced in these cancers. Once the gene, secreted frizzled...

CLEVELAND, July 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Best Hospitals Honor Roll released by U.S. News consists of eight hospitals using OnBase as their enterprise content management (ECM) solution. The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio were ranked at the top of the list, earning the second, third and fourth spots respectively. US News & World Report surveyed nearly 5,000 hospitals that rank...

NEW ORLEANS, July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ochsner Medical Center and Ochsner Medical Center - West Bank Campus are among only 25 hospitals in the country to rank in the top 50 in 11 or more medical specialties, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2012-13 Best Hospitals rankings. This puts Ochsner in such esteemed company as Johns Hopkins Hospital, Massachusetts General, Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic. This is the 12th time since 1996 Ochsner has been recognized as one of...

WASHINGTON, July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. News & World Report has released its 23rd annual Best Hospitals rankings and a new hospital has seized the No. 1 spot. The rankings are freely available at www.usnews.com/besthospitals and will be featured in the upcoming Best Hospitals 2013 guidebook. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100603/PH13717LOGO) Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston is #1 on the U.S. News Honor Roll this year, displacing Baltimore's Johns...

Cellular change thought to happen only in late-stage cancers to help tumors spread also occurs in early-stage lung cancer as a way to bypass growth controls, say researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida. The finding, reported in the July 11 issue of Science Translational Medicine, represents a new understanding of the extent of transformation that lung cancer — and likely many other tumor types — undergo early in disease development, the scientists say. They add that the discovery also...

Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com There is a mantra in medicine that the best form of treatment is prevention. Prevention can be helpful, but it can be harmful as well. Interestingly enough, the U.S. Preventive Task Force advised against routine mammograms for women in their 40s. A recent study completed a follow up on the effects of the recommendation by the Task Force; the group of researchers found that the number of preventive mammograms for women in that age group has declined by about...

CHARLESTON, S.C., June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Benefitfocus and Mayo Clinic, a worldwide leader in medical care, research and education, today announced the availability of Mayo Clinic products and services through BENEFITFOCUS® HR InTouch, a benefit management and employee communication portal. Through this alliance, Mayo Clinic and Benefitfocus will help employers create a more informed, healthy workforce by providing access to over 3,500 content pieces and articles, newsletters...

A molecule widely believed to fight many forms of cancer actually helps deadly thyroid tumors grow, and cancer therapies now being tested in humans might boost the activity of this newly revealed bad guy, researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida say. Their findings are published online this month in the Journal of Cell Science. The study found that in anaplastic thyroid cancer, the Forkhead transcription factor, FOXO3a, is not the helpful tumor suppressor everyone thought it was, but,...

MINNEAPOLIS, June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A day at the beach or a walk in the woods can spell trouble if you have skin allergies, or contact dermatitis. According to a National Ambulatory Medical Care survey, approximately 8.4 million people visit their doctor each year because of skin allergies. And for many, allergic reactions increase during the summer months. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120417/CG89172LOGO) "Warmer weather drives people to wear clothing that...

Project Is to Spread Collaborative Care Model for Managing Depression and other Chronic Conditions Locally and Nationally BLOOMINGTON, Minn., June 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded almost $18 million to a local and national collaboration of partner organizations with the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) as lead organization. The three-year cooperative agreement, part of a $1 billion CMS Health...