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Do You Critically Reflect? Maybe You Should . . . - Insights
Justin Kreuter, M.D., clinical pathologist and Medical Director of the Mayo Clinic Blood Donor Center in Rochester, Minnesota, discusses the importance of daily critical reflection.
CPT codes and LOINC update: April 2021 - Insights
The following list includes updates posted to mayocliniclabs.com during the month of April.
Mayo Clinic Sustains Reduced Blood Culture Contamination in the Laboratory - Insights
A recent article in MedicalLab Management, authored by Mayo Clinic staff, discusses how to sustain reduced blood-culture contamination in clinical laboratories.
April 2021 — Dermatopathology - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides an Anatomic Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Dermatopathology.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: May 22 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights the management of diffuse low-grade gliomas in adults.
May 2023 - Transfusion Medicine - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides a Clinical Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Transfusion Medicine.
Research Archives - Page 9 of 33 - Insights
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Earth Day, Saturday, April 22, is one day when most folks pay particularly close attention to protecting the environment. This year, we're finding inspiration in the Sisters of Saint Francis who helped raise money for the Poverello Fund by...
Research Roundup Archives - Page 9 of 29 - Insights
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Activity Metrics Dashboard - Insights
We are excited to share that the Activity Metrics Dashboard is now live on mayocliniclabs.com. We heard your feedback and created these reports to provide a more integrated, intuitive and customized experience on our website.
Shining light on one family's struggle: Barbara, Deborah, Pamela, and Rylie - Insights
Before testing at Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Barbara Domaille, Deborah Neville, Pamela Neville, and Rylie Ronnenberg thought there could be a genetic connection to the hip problems they shared. After the testing, they knew for sure.
Collagen VII Autoantibody-mediated Subepidermal Autoimmune Blistering Diseases - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Julia Lehman, M.D., professor of dermatology and laboratory medicine and pathology, discusses a subepidermal disease mediated by collagen VII autoantibodies.
Learn how Mayo Clinic Laboratories and hospitals we work with around the world balance strong financial performance and world-class patient care.
Part II of this series shows how a breakthrough discovery about how kidney stones form may open the way for new, unorthodox treatments. The discovery was made possible by joining University of Illinois’ geology and biology forces with Mayo...
Dangerous Goods Training - Insights
Self-paced online training and certification for safe collection, handling, packaging, and shipment of specimens.
Autoimmune Epilepsy Testing - Mayo Clinic Laboratories
Our phenotype specific testing for autoimmune epilepsy contains only clinically relevant antibodies providing accurate answers for treatment guidance.
Laboratory testing utilization: Coccidioides immitis/posadasii serologic testing - Insights
In this month's "Hot Topic," Elitza Theel, Ph.D., shares the recommended approach to serologic testing for assessment or infection with coccidioides.
Direct immunofluorescence for autoimmune bullous diseases - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Julia Lehman, M.D., discusses a recent change to the direct immunofluorescence assay, specifically the addition of the IgG4 conjugate.
Our Staff, Our Stories: Darin Kittleson - Insights
From friendly neighbor, to a hero. Darin Kittleson was in the middle of his ordinary day snow plowing his driveway when he decided to plow his neighbor’s driveway, as well. That was when he heard the cry for help. Darin rushed inside as 911...
Infective Endocarditis - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Robin Patel, M.D., will review the laboratory methods used to diagnose infectious endocarditis. Specifically, she’ll discuss the role of blood cultures, nucleic acid amplification tests, histopathology, and...
The Secrets of Cryoprecipitate: A Blood Banking Process - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Jessie Swanson and Michelle Soland from the Component Laboratory will discuss the process improvement that helped decrease the standard cryoprecipitate dosage and the positive impact it has on patients.
MCL @Work: Wendy Sempf - Insights
Wendy is a clinical laboratory technologist who works in the Hematopathology Morphology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic Laboratories. Although she’s worked with Mayo Clinic since 1989, her greatest passion is serving others throughout the...
People Archives - Page 35 of 35 - Insights
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Staffing to Workload in Phlebotomy Areas: Indirect Effort - Insights
Mike Baisch, Principal Systems Engineer at Mayo Clinic, discusses staffing to workload in phlebotomy areas with a focus on indirect effort, which includes tasks performed that don’t involve the patient or a patient’s sample.
October 2022 - Cardiovascular - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides an Anatomic Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Cardiovascular Pathology.
CPT Codes and LOINC Update: May 2019 - Insights
View a full list of new CPT codes, Test Classification Updates, LOINC Codes, and Z-Codes posted to mayocliniclabs.com during the month of May 2019.
CPT Codes and LOINC Update: January 2020 - Insights
View a full list of new CPT codes, Test Classification Updates, LOINC Codes, and Z-Codes posted to mayocliniclabs.com during the month of January 2020.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: June 5 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights oncologic outcomes for patients with residual cancer at cystectomy following neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
Research Archives - Page 11 of 33 - Insights
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Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Oct. 30 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights rates of hippocampal atrophy and presence of post-mortem TDP-43 in patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Dec. 18 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights different mutational rates and mechanisms in human cells at pregastrulation and neurogenesis.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: February 21 - Insights
This week's Research Roundup features: Predicting amyloid PET and tau PET stages with plasma biomarkers.
Systems Engineering Archives - Insights
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Respiratory viruses - Insights
Browse our full suite of serology and PCR testing for respiratory viruses like influenza, RSV, and more.
Testing Archives - Page 21 of 26 - Insights
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Testing Archives - Page 17 of 26 - Insights
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UofL Health – UofL Hospital physicians and laboratory scientists faced challenges in the ordering of autoimmune and paraneoplastic panels: duplicate orders that add unnecessary cost and omitted test orders that could provide the key to the...
Finding the Balance: Legal Issues Arising from Precision Medicine - Insights
By taking into account an individual’s genes, lifestyle, and environment, precision medicine offers the prospect of finding individualized therapies that might ultimately cure diseases such as cancer and diabetes. Yet, as with other...
MCL @Work: Sarah Mason - Insights
In her current role as senior manager for global logistics at Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Sarah Mason oversees the coordination of patient sample shipments by working with a network of stakeholders, couriers, carriers, and vendors. Sarah...
MCL @Work: Robin Huiras-Carlson - Insights
Robin Huiras-Carlson's connection with Mayo Clinic traces back to her early years, marked by a diagnosis of a rare genetic condition at the age of 10. Today, as a senior marketing specialist with Mayo Clinic Laboratories, she draws...
Frozen and on Time: Rapid Margin Assessment Helps Prevent Repeat Surgeries - Insights
A breakthrough in pathology, achieved more than a century ago (allegedly on a frozen window ledge in Rochester, Minnesota) has evolved into an innovative aspect of care at Mayo Clinic. Mayo is one of the only medical centers in the United...
Avoid seller's remorse: Why owning your lab makes sense - Insights
For community health care providers, owning a laboratory has been likened to shoveling money down a giant drain. Cayuga Medical Center is challenging that narrative. Instead of selling, Cayuga is investing in its lab — which it considers a...
Whole exome sequencing - Insights
Learn more about how whole exome sequencing at Mayo Clinic Laboratories can quickly end diagnostic testing odysseys for patients with suspected genetic disorders.
Glimmer of Hope: Gregor Heinrich - Insights
While Gregor Heinrich never could have imagined that testicular cancer was related to his problems with his vision and gait, learning he was positive for KLHL11 protein biomarkers meant he could receive treatment for both the cancer and the...
Seeking, and finding, answers, comfort, and hope: Joe Mondloch - Insights
Joe Mondloch and his wife Sue have existed in a grey area of uncertainty due to the unpredictable autoimmune neurological illness Joe has lived with for the last seven years. Rare, incurable, and debilitating, the newly classified disorder...
Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Kimberly Knight - Insights
As a national accounts executive for Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Kimberly Knight helps clients see and understand the importance of laboratory testing and how partnering with Mayo Clinic Laboratories on that testing can help them and their...
Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Jason Majorowicz - Insights
As an event management coordinator for the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, Jason Majorowicz acts as an investigator when something may deviate from its established process. With a background in biotechnology...
Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Doug Smith - Insights
As a clinical specialty representative for Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Doug Smith works to promote Mayo Clinic’s core values and support community-based health care and integrated delivery systems through the sale of Mayo Clinic Laboratories...
MCL @Work: Michael Goard - Insights
More than 17 years ago, Michael Goard started his career at Mayo Clinic in Specimen Operations. Today, he takes great pride in his role as a field service manager working with clients and making a difference for our patients.