COVID-19 weekly news: March 14-20 2022 - Insights
Topic's Include: Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: COVID-19 update, and Mayo Clinic Minute: Hope for COVID-19 patients who’ve lost their sense of taste, smell....
Week in Review: March 25 - Insights
e-changing kidney swap, climate change is making allergy season even worse, and a Minnesota Milestone: A day without COVID-19 deaths....
One Test, Multiple Targets: Zeroing in on Autoimmune Movement Disorders - Insights
A movement disorder might be caused by the body’s immune system, which is meant to fight infections, suddenly attacking the brain. Fortunately, an “autoimmune movement disorder” can often be treated—once...
Vaping-Associated Lung Injury May Be Caused by Toxic Chemical Fumes, Study Finds - Insights
A Mayo Clinic study published in The New England Journal of Medicine finds that lung injuries from vaping most likely are caused by direct toxicity or tissue damage from noxious chemical fumes....
Week in Review: March 18 - Insights
Today's Highlights Include: A new strategy for staying one step ahead of the virus, Pfizer CEO says another Covid booster will be needed, and Senate votes to make daylight saving time permanent....
AHUSD - Overview: Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Complement Panel, Serum and Plasma
that can cause atypical-hemolytic uremic syndrome, dense deposit disease, and C3 glomerulonephritis A second-tier test that aids in the differential diagnosis of thrombotic microangiopathies...
Units of Measurement - Mayo Clinic Laboratories
Units of Measure A list of common units used in the reporting of our assays has been defined. Refer to the table for these units as well as the recommended report abbreviations....
Collaboration identifies previously unknown blood clotting condition - Insights
A medical mystery surrounding a clotting disease spurred a collaboration between Mayo Clinic and University of Michigan Health to develop a new test methodology and the discovery of a previously unknown...
Lung Transplant Recipient's First Breath Goes Viral #ThrowbackThursday - Insights
breath with new lungs. Cystic fibrosis had stolen Jennifer's breath, and so much more, over the years. A lung transplant gave her a chance to get some of it back....
Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Dr. Vanda Lennon - Insights
A pioneering researcher, Dr. Vanda Lennon has spent five decades delving into questions of neuroimmunology. Today, she continues that work as director of the Neuroimmunology Research Laboratory in Mayo...