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What's New in Health Care Reform: Feb. 20 - Insights
Top highlights include: Flu shot kept about 50% from going to doctor, racial disparities in cancer incidence and survival rates are narrowing, having anesthesia once as a baby does not cause learning disabilities, personalized diet predicts...
Pathways Case Studies: March 2020 - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides Anatomic and Clinical Pathology cases that include a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. Cases for March include the following sub-specialties: Bone and Soft Tissue, Clinical...
Inborn errors of metabolism - Insights
Learn more about how Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ comprehensive menu of biochemical and molecular testing can diagnose inborn errors of metabolism.
A new comprehensive genetic panel redefines Parkinson's disease diagnosis - Insights
Mayo Clinic Laboratories introduces the Inherited Parkinson’s Disease Gene Panel (Mayo ID: PARDP), a collaborative breakthrough poised to transform Parkinson’s disease diagnosis and treatment. Led by Rodolfo Savica, M.D., Ph.D., and Zhiyv...
Antibody Prevalence in Epilepsy and Encephalopathy (APE2) Score - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Divyanshu Dubey, M.B.B.S., discusses how patients with encephalopathy and/or epilepsy of unknown etiology may have an autoimmune or paraneoplastic cause.
Antibody Prevalence in Epilepsy and Encephalopathy (APE2) Score - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Divyanshu Dubey, M.B.B.S., discusses how patients with encephalopathy and/or epilepsy of unknown etiology may have an autoimmune or paraneoplastic cause.
Christmas and New Year's specimen shipment alert - Insights
Due to the Christmas and New Year's holiday's (recognized on Sunday, December 25th, and Sunday, January 1st ), Mayo Clinic Laboratories' specimen pickup and delivery schedules will be altered. To ensure that your specimen vitality and...
Newborn Screening at Mayo Clinic Laboratories
Newborn screening is intended to detect serious health conditions in babies for which early intervention can greatly improve healthy development and positive outcomes.
Monogenic IBD Testing - Mayo Clinic Laboratories
Monogenic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) refers to a diverse spectrum of rare genetic disorders that present with intestinal inflammation. The majority of patients with monogenic IBD, unlike those with polygenic IBD, show symptoms before...
New tests launched in July - Insights
In July 2022, Mayo Clinic Laboratories announced fifteen new tests along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.
Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Connie Ohnstad - Insights
Connie Ohnstad is the supervisor for Mayo Clinic Laboratories Inventory, which includes Mayo Clinic Laboratories Packaging and Specimen Kit Orders (SKO). Connie wears many hats as a supervisor at MCL, and she has a long history with Mayo...
Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Grant Elmquist - Insights
Working with Mayo Clinic BioPharma Diagnostics clients, Grant Elmquist is engaged in a wide range of activities that span research and science technology, as well as a host of disease states, all with the end goal of enhancing patient care.
Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Meredith Clark - Insights
As a bid coordinator, Meredith Clark’s work helps expand testing capabilities for Mayo Clinic Laboratories clients, so they can offer the right test at the right time for the right patient.
Staffing to Workload: Indirect Effort - Insights
Mike Baisch, Systems Engineer at Mayo Clinic, discusses the mechanics of performing a staffing-to-workload analysis in the testing laboratories. There are three primary areas of focus with staffing needs: direct effort, indirect effort, and...
Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Joel Cayou - Insights
Joel Cayou’s goal as a supervisor in Specimen Handling is to support his staff wherever he can in the vital work they do to keep Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ operations running efficiently.
10th Annual Forensic Science Symposium - Insights
Mayo Clinic's 10th Annual Forensic Science Symposium will cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from forensic odontology to traffic accident injuries. There will also be a focus on fatal accident prevention, all-terrain vehicle (ATV) use...
10th Annual Forensic Science Symposium - Insights
Mayo Clinic's 10th Annual Forensic Science Symposium will cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from forensic odontology to traffic accident injuries. There will also be a focus on fatal accident prevention, all-terrain vehicle (ATV) use...
Neurofilament light chain test helps in diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of ALS and MS - Insights
By using a test that measures neurofilament light chain (Nfl) proteins in blood, clinicians can better diagnose devastating diseases like ALS and MS, help predict disease progression, and better assess efficacy of existing drugs and trial...
Comprehensive testing helps diagnose and manage rare genetic disorder: Lauri Sieben - Insights
Multiple doctors and multiple examinations could not figure out why Lauri Sieben had spent much of her life “never feeling quite right” physically. Fortunately for Lauri, that changed after her daughter Christy began working as a genetic...
IGHV and TP53 Sequencing: Clinical Utility in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Curtis Hanson, M.D., will discuss the use of laboratory-based prognostic markers in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). He will also highlight the importance of molecular analyses for IGHV and TP53...
Mayo Clinic Laboratories is one of the few laboratories in the country to offer two special sequencing-based tests for bacteria in its catalog. The first test is designed to help protect patients by investigating potential outbreaks of a...
Applying the Staffing-to-Workload Methodology: Basic Staffing Model - Insights
Mike Baisch, Systems Engineer at Mayo Clinic, discusses how to apply the staffing-to-workload methodology to a series of case studies. This post highlights a “basic” staffing model.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: February 20 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) may have Alzheimers disease (AD) pathology that can be detected by plasma biomarkers. Our objective was to evaluate plasma biomarkers of AD and their...
Genetic Testing to Enhance Multiple Myeloma Treatment - Insights
Multiple myeloma is the second most common blood cancer, but most people haven’t heard of it until they or someone they know is diagnosed with the disease. March is Myeloma Action Month—a time to focus attention on the fight against...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: January 16 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Understanding the incidence, causes, and trends of sudden cardiac death (SCD) among young competitive athletes is critical to inform preventive policies.
Research Suggests Genetics Are Key in Treating Night Sweats - Insights
Hormone therapy is often used to prevent night sweats. But finding the right dose of estrogen can be tricky, with some women needing more estrogen than others to get relief. A new Mayo Clinic study published in Menopause: The Journal of the...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Dec. 10 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights the evaluation of monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance: A consensus report of the International Kidney and Monoclonal Gammopathy Research Group.
Ann Moyer, M.D., Ph.D., Makes a Case for Pharmacogenomics - Insights
Pharmacogenomic testing is still limited, despite ample research, the existence of guidelines, and the emerging evidence it can help patients. Ann Moyer, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Director of the Personalized Genomics Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in...
Ticks and the Art of Finding Beauty in Dreadful, Wonderful Parasites - Insights
Bobbi Pritt, M.D., spends her work hours identifying and diagnosing infectious diseases. In her free time, she celebrates their beauty by creating bug-related artwork and blogging about parasites.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Oct. 16 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights the role of deficient DNA mismatch repair status in patients with stage III colon cancer treated with FOLFOX adjuvant chemotherapy.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: April 17 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights autologous mesenchymal stem cells, applied in a bioabsorbable matrix, for treatment of perianal fistulas in patients with Crohn's disease.
Breast and Gynecological Cancer - Insights
Learn how our gynecological cancer and breast cancer treatment tests are designed to provide a detailed picture of a patient’s cancer diagnosis.
Week in Review: April 8 - Insights
Today's Highlights Include: 5 reasons to consider becoming an organ donor, why so many women in middle age are on antidepressants, and should you get a second COVID-19 vaccine booster?
CNS Demyelinating Disease Testing - Mayo Clinic Laboratories
We offer the only FACS assay for CNS Demyelinating Disease. Our testing ensures the highest senstivity and specificity, providing the most accurate results for patients.
Top 5 Mayo Clinic Laboratories advancements in 2024 - Insights
Five of the most significant advancements from Mayo Clinic Laboratories in 2024 to enhance diagnostics and patient care globally.
Preparing a customer performance update report - Insights
Depending on the types of specimens that are referred to the outreach laboratory, there may be an opportunity to share a customer performance update report with the client so that they can align with, or even develop their own laboratory...
Managing Operational Surprises in Real Time - Insights
While preparation is key to mitigating risk, inevitably, there are unforeseen circumstances that will impact operations. Here are four ways the outreach laboratory can swiftly manage operational surprises in real time.
Assay enhances and simplifies M-proteins screening: David Murray, M.D., Ph.D. - Insights
David Murray, M.D., Ph.D., explains how Mayo Clinic Laboratories' MASSFIX Quantitation assay provides next-generation screening for M-proteins, which are associated with multiple myeloma and other diseases. The assay better quantitates the...
Sarcoma Informative Cases - Insights
Case #1 Case #2 Case #3 Case #4 Case #5 Sarcomas are malignant tumors that arise in the bone and soft tissue. With numerous subtypes of sarcoma that can
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Sept. 4 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights individual patient-level meta-analysis of the performance of the Decipher genomic classifier in high-risk men after prostatectomy to predict development of metastatic disease.
Cardiovascular Events in Patients With or Without Coronary Artery Disease
A new type of blood test may help physicians identify which patients with and without evidence of coronary blockages are at risk for heart attacks and strokes. Even individuals with normal levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), known as...
Pathways Case Studies: June 2022 - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides Anatomic and Clinical Pathology cases that include a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. Cases for June include the following sub-specialties: Dermatopathology, Gastroenterology...
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© Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER). All rights reserved. 02/2022 Hepatitis C: Testing Algorithm for Screening and Diagnosis HCVQN / Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) RNA Detection and Quantification by Real-Time Reverse...
© Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER). All rights reserved. AATHR / Thrombophilia Profile, Plasma and Whole Blood Testing begins with: ■ Prothrombin Time (PT), Plasma ■ Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time (APTT),...
Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Deb Wells - Insights
Deb Wells is the director of Quality Management Services at Mayo Clinic Laboratories. A science lover from a young age, Deb has long worked in medical laboratory science and is passionate about being an advocate for lab safety and quality.
FISH probe & panel project: An overview - Insights
In this month's "Hot Topic," Jess Peterson, M.D., discusses changes to Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ hematology FISH menu to increase awareness, provide reasoning, and highlight some of the great things that are coming.
What's New in Health Care Reform: Jan. 9 - Insights
Top highlights include: new research shows sugar substitutes are not healthier than real sugar, how light therapy helps Minnesotans during winter, what you must know about Parkinson's disease, new law requires hospitals post prices online,...
Dengue Virus: A Diagnostic Testing Update - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Elitza Theel, Ph.D., talks about Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ serologic and molecular testing for the identification of infection with dengue virus. Dengue virus poses a significant public health threat worldwide....
Pathways Case Studies: March 2022 - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides Anatomic and Clinical Pathology cases that include a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. Cases for March include the following sub-specialties: Breast Pathology, Cardiovascular...
Our staff, our stories: Andrew "Roo" Yori - Insights
Andrew “Roo” Yori’s persistence and athletic gifts allowed him to achieve his dream of becoming an American Ninja Warrior in 2016.