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Autoimmune Myelopathy Evaluation [Test in Focus] - Insights
Patients with autoimmune myelopathy present with subacute onset and rapid progression of spinal cord symptoms (weakness, gait difficulties, loss of sensation, neuropathic pain, and bowel and bladder dysfunction). Autoimmune myelopathy...
Phlebotomy COVID-19 Process - Insights
This “Phlebotomy Webinar” will focus on the role of the phlebotomist and the changes adapted to provide service safely to COVID positive patients in different service areas (ED, ICU vs General floors).
This “phlebotomy webinar” will walk learners through the quality improvement methodology and describe PDSA cycle interventions that were implemented in this unit which successfully reduced the amount of canceled labs due to specimen...
Molecular Mitochondrial Testing [Test in Focus] - Insights
The diagnosis of mitochondrial disease can be particularly challenging as the presentation can occur at any age, involve virtually any organ system, and be associated with widely varying severities. Due to the considerable overlap in the...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: February 6 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Powassan virus (POWV) is an emerging arthropod-borne flavivirus, transmitted by Ixodes spp. ticks, which has been associated with neuroinvasive disease and poor outcomes.
PDL1 Testing for Lung Cancer [A Test in Focus] - Insights
Audio Interview Testing When to Order Specimen Performance Immunotherapies have recently emerged as a therapeutic option for patients with non-small-cell
Specimen Collection and Preparation Guide
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Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: October 24 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Renal fibrosis is now recognized as a main determinant of renal pathology to include chronic kidney disease. Deposition of pathological matrix in the walls of glomerular capillaries, the interstitial...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: July 25 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: The clinical and molecular spectrum of ETV6 mutated myeloid neoplasms.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: September 5 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: 16S rRNA gene PCR/Sequencing of heart valves for diagnosis of infective endocarditis in routine clinical practice.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: August 22 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Association of plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease with cognition and medical comorbidities in a biracial cohort.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: August 15 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Gain-of-function mutant p53 together with ERG proto-oncogene drive prostate cancer by beta-catenin activation and pyrimidine synthesis.
Autoimmune Encephalitis Diagnosis and Misdiagnosis - Insights
PACEIn this month’s “Virtual Lecture” Eoin Flanagan, M.D., B.Ch., reviews how to diagnose autoimmune encephalitis, what to watch that may suggest a different diagnosis, discuss neural autoantibodies interpretation and putting test results...
Autoimmune GI Dysmotility - Mayo Clinic Laboratories
Identifying GI dysmotility as autoimmune-mediated is extremely important because patients treated with immunotherapy can see a dramatic improvement, going from persistent nausea, vomiting, and weight loss to feeling normal within a few...
Featured new tests in quarter two of 2025 - Insights
In the second quarter of 2025, Mayo Clinic Laboratories expanded its test catalog with several innovative new tests.
Introduction to Cost of Quality in the Laboratory - Insights
This "Phlebotomy" webinar will provide an introduction to cost of quality. The main components of the presentation will include discussions on the cost of attaining quality and the cost of poor quality.
They Did "WHAT?!" Capturing Patient Experience to Increase Patient Satisfaction - Insights
This “Phlebotomy” webinar will discuss how a patient’s “experience” is the entirety of all the interactions that person has had within the health care system. Each member of a health care team plays a role in enhancing patient satisfaction,...
Pediatric Phlebotomy with Pain Management: Creating an Optimal Experience - Insights
This “Phlebotomy” webinar reviews: Having a medical procedure or a lab draw can be fearful for children. Even if it is their first time or they have had a bad past experience, there are ways to make these procedures easier for children.
Necrotizing Autoimmune Myopathy [Test in Focus] - Insights
Necrotizing autoimmune myopathy (NAM) is a serious but rare muscle disease strongly associated with autoantibodies to either the protein signal recognition particle (SRP) or the enzyme 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase...
Tips & Tricks for Difficult Sticks - Insights
This "Phlebotomy webinar" focuses on the origins of difficult collections and the situations that result in them.
Capillary Puncture vs. Venipuncture: Advantages and Limitations to Using Capillary Blood - Insights
This “Phlebotomy Webinar” will review the physiologic differences between capillary and venous blood, and discuss advantages and limitations to each specimen type.
Beyond Q-tips: The swabbing guide for SARS-CoV-2 - Insights
This "Phlebotomy Webinar" will discuss the various types of swabs that can be used to collect specimens for SARS-CoV-2 molecular testing.
Mission not impossible: Overcoming challenging pediatric draws - Insights
This “Phlebotomy Webinar” covers real-life challenging scenarios that arise in the clinical setting. Four unique case studies are presented, and suggestions are discussed on how to help and respond in these situations to support the...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: May 21 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Monoclonal immunoglobulin (MIg) crystalline nephropathies are rare lesions resulting from precipitation of MIgs in the kidney as crystalline inclusions. They can be categorized into lesions with...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: April 4 - Insights
This Feature Includes: Utility of Follow-up COVID-19 Antigen Tests After Acute SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Healthcare Personnel.
The discovery of Kelch like protein 11 (KLHL11) IgG as a specific biomarker of neurological autoimmunity associated testicular germ cell tumor.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: November 14 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Microaggressions between members of a team occur often in medicine, even despite good intentions. Such situations call for difficult conversations that restore inclusivity, diversity, and a healthy work...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: November 21 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is the most common congenital heart anomaly. Lifetime morbidity and whether long-term survival varies according to BAV patient-sub-groups are unknown. This study aimed to...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: July 4 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Emergence of inducible macrolide resistance in mycobacterium chelonae due to broad-host-range plasmid and chromosomal variants of the novel 23S rRNA methylase gene, erm(55).
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: September 12 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Activated mast cells in periprosthetic joint infection-associated tissue.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: July 11 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Comparison of two assays to diagnose herpes simplex virus in patients with central nervous system infections.
Advancing our Understanding of Immunoglobulins to Better Understand Disease - Insights
PACE / State of FLIn this month’s “Virtual Lecture,” David Murray, M.D., Ph.D., discusses how immunoglobin light chains are used to detect overexpressed immunoglobins which can be applied to distinguish patients with plasma cell disorders...
Specimen Collection and Preparation - Mayo Clinic Laboratories
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Week in Review: May 13 - Insights
Today's highlights include: Pandemic gets tougher to track as COVID testing plunges, Rochester hospitals score top grades in safety, and Mayo Clinic breaks ground on $155M Minnesota hospital expansion.
Week in Review: May 20 - Insights
Today's highlights include: US at risk of COVID-19 drug shortages this summer, Rochester startup Vyriad developing cancer-fighting viruses, and CDC expresses concern about possibility of undetected monkeypox spread in U.K.
Blood Diversion/Culture Contamination - Insights
PACE/State of FL - Blood diversion as a mechanism to lower blood culture contamination rates.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: March 19 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: The revised 4th edition of the World Health Organization (WHO4R) classification lists myelodysplastic syndromes with ring sideroblasts (MDS-RS) as a separate entity with single lineage (MDS-RS-SLD) or...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: November 7, 2023 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality among immunocompromised hosts, including transplant recipients. Antiviral prophylaxis or treatment is used to reduce the incidence...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Dec. 25 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights global pulmonary vascular remodeling in pulmonary hypertension associated with heart failure and preserved or reduced ejection fraction.
Precision mental and behavioral health therapeutics - Insights
Our Precision Mental and Behavioral Health Therapeutics initiative leverages cutting-edge diagnostic solutions to optimize medication management for psychiatric and neurologic patients.
Prostate Health Index (phi) [Test in Focus] - Insights
Useful For Assessing the patient’s probability of having detectable prostate cancer when totalprostate specific antigen (PSA) concentrations are between
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: January 30 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Incapacitated regulatory T cells (Tregs) contribute to immune-mediated diseases. Inflammatory Tregs are evident during human inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); however, mechanisms driving the development...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: January 23 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Measles virus (MV) vaccine strains have shown significant preclinical antitumor activity against glioblastoma (GBM), the most lethal glioma histology. In this first in human trial (NCT00390299), a...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: April 2 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: Follicular lymphoma (FL) is an indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma of germinal center origin, which presents with significant biologic and clinical heterogeneity. Using RNA-seq on B cells sorted from 87 FL...
Pat Hlavka, CSP, Safety Coordinator at Mayo Clinic, chatted with Shayne Brannman, Director of ASPR-TRACIE, and her team regarding clinical laboratories and how they plan for and respond to disasters. View this post for great resources that...
Beyond the Test Result: Greg Widseth - Insights
Greg Widseth was suddenly hit by a rare disease that prompted his immune system to attack his brain cells, resulting in as many as 60 seizures a day. Special blood and spinal fluid tests developed by Mayo Medical Laboratories confirmed that...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: March 26 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights the development of a microscopic colitis disease activity index.
Classification of Kidney Stone Composition Using an AI Model - Insights
PACE / State of FLThis month’s “Virtual Lecture,” discusses how artificial intelligence can be utilized to classify kidney stones while demonstrating improvement in quality and patient safety.