COVID-19 vaccination clinics at Mayo Clinic Health System, Boys & Girls Clubs open to walk-in visitors
The clinic at the Mathy Club will be held twice.
April 28, 2021 6:14 PM Greg White
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LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) – The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater La Crosse will host a COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Mathy Club on the Viterbo University campus.
The free clinics, which started earlier this month at the Erickson Club location, are run through a partnership with Mayo Clinic Health System.
The clinic starts at 2 p.m. Thursday and May 6th.
The clinic will be open to walk-ins.
“Our supply is greater now than it has been over the past couple of months and rather than not give doses. We’d rather give those doses on a walk-in basis,” said Mayo Clinic Health System nurse administrator Ben Anderson.
New medical technique may stave off shoulder surgery
There is another procedure that uses ultrasound technology
April 25, 2021 5:48 PM Marsalis McGhee
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LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) – A new, non-evasive medical procedure could allow people to fix a common problem, without surgery. Your shoulder is one of the most mobile joints in the body.
The older you get, you may begin to feel some pain. Calcific tendonitis occurs when calcium builds up in the tendons of your arm.
Rest, physical therapy and certain medicines can often fix the problem. The final treatment option is usually surgery.
There is another procedure that uses ultrasound technology. This new procedure adds a new short recovering option to surgery.
Medical laboratory professionals work behind the scenes to fight Covid
This is Medical Laboratory Professionals Week
April 23, 2021 5:41 PM Martha Koloski
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This is Medical Laboratory Professionals Week.
These are the people processing all those Covid-19 tests, along with all the other normal testing that hospitals and clinics do.
“We just felt like we had work to do, we had to do it as quickly as possible because it was very important for people to get results within hours versus days because it totally affected your life. Whether you could go to work, whether you could take your children to child care, if you could see anybody, like go shopping. We knew there was a very time sensitive need to get test results out to people,” says Rebecca Elder a medical technologist at Mayo Clinic Health System.
Seed grants to help UWL, Mayo Clinic Health system research collaboration
Two grants were awarded Greg White
The grants, which are in their first year, will help with a pair of research projects.
One of the projects will help to create a body fat percent prediction equations in high school wrestlers.
Researchers hope what they learn helps kids across the U.S.
“A lot of other states and athletic organizations will likely take some of our results. And hopefully implement them into their kind of current state policies,” said Mayo Clinic Health System director of sports medicine Andrew Jagim.
The use of artificial intelligence as a diagnostic aid to help improve breast cancer detection will be the focus of a second grant.
People have reported gaining 29 pounds on average during the pandemic.
This is according to the American Psychological Association.
About 42% of adults in the United States have reported undesired weight gain.
The gains come from increased stress and bad eating habits caused by the pandemic.
Figuring out and fixing a weight problem may not be fun, but it can be helpful for your future health.
“It’s really helpful, not very exciting, but helpful, to track what you’re eating for about a week. And really put down everything that you’re doing, whether it’s like four ounces of juice or a handful of crackers. And you can kind of see where those extra calories are coming from,” said Sarah Gossett, a Nurse Practitioner with Mayo Clinic Health System.