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		<title>Complex Migraine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Newsletter Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 28 million Americans — three times more women than men — suffer from migraine, a type of headache that&#8217;s often severe. Although any head pain can be miserable, migraines are often disabling.  With a &#8220;complex migraine&#8221; symptoms can include weakness, loss of vision, or difficulty speaking in addition to a headache – often [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcnewsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3689166&amp;post=6462&amp;subd=mcnewsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mayo, ASU collaboration to grow</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald Petrovich</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arizona State University]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University (ASU) have signed an agreement that represents a formal commitment to enhance the collaborative relationship that has been building steadily over the past eight years. This agreement will pave the way for Mayo and ASU to deepen their mutual engagement across a full spectrum of activities related to healthcare, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcnewsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3689166&amp;post=6437&amp;subd=mcnewsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study Suggests Less Invasive Treatment for Some Early Stage Breast Cancer Patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blanderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ballman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boughey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breast Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lymph Node Removal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association discussed in today&#8217;s The New York Times finds many women with early stage breast cancer tumors with involvement of one or two lymph nodes may not need removal of additional lymph nodes from the armpit. The study shows removal of these lymph nodes does not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcnewsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3689166&amp;post=6423&amp;subd=mcnewsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Survival stories from WomenHeart Champions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 06:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald Petrovich</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Heart Attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart attack survival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heart Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mayo Clinic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of a Special Briefing for News Media at The Paley Center for Media in New York , one panel discussion focused on women who shared their survival and heroic stories of battling heart disease.   The session, entitled Stories from the Heart: Survival Stories from WomenHeart Champions, featured four women panelists with heart disease who are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcnewsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3689166&amp;post=6413&amp;subd=mcnewsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Troubles the 50+ Woman’s Heart?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 06:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Oestreich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newsblog.mayoclinic.org/?p=6371</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of a Special Briefing for News Media at The Paley Center for Media in New York today, one panel discussion delved into the many unique aspects of heart disease diagnosis, treatment and prevention for those conditions that occur predominantly in older women. Panelists: • C. Noel Bairey Merz, M.D., Director,Woman’s Heart Center, Cedars-Sinai [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcnewsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3689166&amp;post=6371&amp;subd=mcnewsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Ails a Young Woman&#8217;s Heart</title>
		<link>http://mcnewsblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/what-ails-a-young-womans-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Nellis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cardiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health disparities]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pregnancy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young women and heart disease? It’s not on everyone’s radar screen, but it should be . The number one killer of women in the United States, also impacts women of child bearing age. Over 40,000 have heart problems during pregnancy, while others have pre-existing conditions – obesity, Type II diabetes, high blood pressure – that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcnewsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3689166&amp;post=6370&amp;subd=mcnewsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mayo Clinic Receives $100 Million Gift to Support Proton Beam Therapy Program</title>
		<link>http://mcnewsblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/mayo-clinic-receives-100-million-gift-to-support-proton-beam-therapy-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 02:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Oestreich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proton beam therapy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. John Noseworthy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pencil beam scanning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayo Clinic today announced long-time patient and philanthropist Richard O. Jacobson has given a $100 million gift to help establish the multi-site Mayo Clinic Proton Beam Therapy Program. This is the largest outright gift in the clinic’s history, as well as the largest gift Mr. Jacobson has made to any single institution. Mayo’s program will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcnewsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3689166&amp;post=6312&amp;subd=mcnewsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Special Journalists Media Briefing for Heart Month</title>
		<link>http://mcnewsblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/special-journalists-media-briefing-for-heart-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jstreed</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heart Disease]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lung and Blood Institute]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newsblog.mayoclinic.org/?p=6297</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mayo Clinic, in conjunction with National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, along with Women Heart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease, is hosting a special media briefing for journalists.  The session, entitled, In the Prime of Her Life, is being held on February 8, from 9am-130pm at The Paley Center for Media.  Admission [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcnewsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3689166&amp;post=6297&amp;subd=mcnewsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mayo Clinic Leading NIH-Funded Study on Uterine Fibroid Treatment</title>
		<link>http://mcnewsblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/mayo-clinic-leading-nih-funded-study-on-uterine-fibroid-treatment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Aase</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Duke University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fibroids]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Uterine Artery Embolization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Elizabeth Stewart of Mayo Clinic describes the rationale and process for a new NIH-funded study comparing two FDA-approved methods for treating uterine fibroids. Duke University also is participating in the study, and women do not need to live near either of the centers (in Minnesota or North Carolina) to participate. For more details, see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcnewsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3689166&amp;post=6291&amp;subd=mcnewsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>North Central Cancer Treatment Group Announces Junior Faculty Academic Community Partnership Award Winner</title>
		<link>http://mcnewsblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/north-central-cancer-treatment-group-announces-junior-faculty-academic-community-partnership-award-winner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Bennett Engler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿Shane Morita, M.D., an oncology surgeon at Queen’s Medical Center and the University of Hawaii, was named the second recipient of the North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG) Junior Faculty Academic Community Partnership Award. Dr. Morita will use the three-year award, which is funded through a grant from Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., to conduct research on ethnic differences [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcnewsblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3689166&amp;post=6278&amp;subd=mcnewsblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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