CPT codes and LOINC update: July 2024 - Insights
This page includes updates posted to Mayo Clinic Labs during the month of July.
Bobbi Pritt, M.D., on Asian Longhorned Tick in U.S - Insights
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Asian longhorned tick has spread across nine states since it first appeared in the U.S. Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory and...
Select Agents Module - Insights
Select Agents Module Expires: May 8, 2025 Overview This module reviews the characteristics of Select Agent organisms. Participants will read about Select
CPT codes and LOINC update: September 2024 - Insights
This page lists updates posted to Mayo Clinic Labs during the month of September.
Infectious disease test gains U.S. FDA approval - Insights
An ideal testing partner will offer extensive expertise in assay development and analytical validation services, along with access to biospecimens. In this collaboration example, learn how Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ BioPharma Diagnostics...
Oncology surveillance biomarker study enrolls patients and evaluates assay - Insights
Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ BioPharma Diagnostics team supports companies from discovery to post-market in advancing their precision medicine initiatives. In this collaboration example, learn how BioPharma Diagnostics helped a biotech company...
Gastrointestinal study collects and tests patient specimens at multiple touchpoints - Insights
Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ BioPharma Diagnostics team collaborates with biopharmaceutical, diagnostic, and other research companies to offer a wide range of laboratory testing and biopharma support for all phases of clinical trials. In this...
Neurology study validates Alzheimer's assays - Insights
Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ BioPharma Diagnostics team facilitates specimen collections and access to archived samples to support clinical trials and diagnostic validation projects that advance healthcare. In this collaboration example, learn...
Join us at the 12th Annual Alzheimer's & Parkinson's Drug Development Summit - Insights
BioPharma Diagnostics executives will attend the 12th Annual Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Drug Development Summit, set to take place in Boston, Massachusetts, from April 23 –25. They will be available to meet with attendees to discuss how our...
CPT codes and LOINC update: December 2024 - Insights
This will be the last CPT Codes and LOINC update. Read why.
Week in Review: March 24 - Insights
Today's highlights include: End of Covid emergency will usher in changes across the US health system, vaccine makers prep bird flu shot for humans ‘just in case’; rich nations lock in supplies, and a nuclear power plant leaked contaminated...
Week in Review: March 10 - Insights
Today's Highlights Include: University of Minnesota, State health department launch scholarship for public health studies, diabetes and obesity are on the rise in young adults, A study says, and U.S. to lift Covid testing requirements on...
Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Discusses an Update on Malaria Diagnostics and Test Utilization - Insights
Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory and Co-Director of Mayo’s Vector-Borne Diseases Laboratory Services, co-authored an article review in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology on an update on malaria...
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: August 29 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: The landscape of parasitic infections in the United States.
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.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: December 19 - Insights
This week's research roundup feature: R0 resection and radiation therapy have been associated with improved overall survival (OS) in patients with thymic carcinoma (TC). Here, we analyzed which subgroups of patients derive the greatest...
Nancy Wengenack, Ph.D., Elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology - Insights
Nancy Wengenack, Ph.D., Director of the Mycology and Mycobacteriology Laboratories and Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology in the Division of Clinical Microbiology at Mayo Clinic, has been elected to a Fellowship in the American...
Robin Patel, M.D., Elected to 2-Year Term on ASM Board of Directors - Insights
Robin Patel, M.D., Chair of the Division of Clinical Microbiology and a Consultant in the Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Mayo Clinic, has been elected to serve a two-year term on the American Society for...
The laboratory's role in spurring innovation: Dr. Bill Morice - Insights
William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., president and CEO of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins “Answers From the Lab” for his weekly leadership update with host Bobbi Pritt, M.D., interim chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology...
CPT codes and LOINC update: December 2020 - Insights
The following list includes updates posted to mayocliniclabs.com during the month of December.
CPT codes and LOINC update: July 2021 - Insights
The following list includes updates posted to mayocliniclabs.com during the month of July.
CPT codes and LOINC update: February 2021 - Insights
The following list includes updates posted to mayocliniclabs.com during the month of February.
Mayo Clinic Minute: What Are the "ABCs" of Avoiding Ticks? - Insights
It's time to start preparing for what could be a bumper crop of ticks across the U.S. As the last of the winter's snow melts, ticks start coming up from under the grass looking for a blood meal. In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Bobbi Pritt,...
World Blood Donor Day: June 14 - Insights
Celebrate World Blood Donor Day on Wednesday, June 14, by donating this life-saving gift and thanking blood donors who already give to the Mayo Clinic Blood Donor Center and other blood donation centers. World Blood Donor Day is a day to...
CAP Today Article Highlights Mayo Medical Laboratories' Outreach Program - Insights
A recent article in CAP Today discusses the pros and cons of hospital outreach programs, and whether or not a local laboratory should accept an offer to be purchased. Baystate Health, located in Springfield, Massachusetts, uses Mayo Medical...
CPT codes and LOINC update: September 2022 - Insights
This list includes updates posted to mayocliniclabs.com during the month of September.
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.
Curtis Hanson, M.D., Discusses Prognostic Markers for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Insights
Curtis Hanson, M.D., discusses the importance of detecting immunoglobulin heavy-chain variable region gene (IGHV) when acquiring prognostic and potentially therapeutic information in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients in CAP TODAY.
Infliximab Test Now Validated for Inflectra - Insights
Mayo Clinic has completed validation of its existing Infliximab Quantitation with Reflex to Antibodies to Infliximab, Serum test for the new biosimilar
CPT codes and LOINC update: April 2023 - Insights
This page includes updates posted to Mayo Clinic Labs during the month of April.
Using Statin Choice Decision-Aid Tool and Laboratory Testing to Reduce Cardiac Risk - Insights
With more than 70,000 uses worldwide and policy endorsements for its use (JAMA Article), the Mayo Clinic Statin Choice Decision-Aid tool is helping patients and their clinicians have meaningful conversations about whether or not to use...
CPT Codes and LOINC Update: November 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 November 2019.
CPT Codes and LOINC Update: April 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 April.
CPT Codes and LOINC Update: August 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 August 2019.
Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Discusses Effect of White-Footed Mouse on Lyme Disease - Insights
Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Medical Director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory and Co-Director of Vector-Borne Diseases Laboratory Services at Mayo Clinic, discusses why the role of the white-footed mouse is so important in spreading...
Mayo Clinic Minute: 4 Ways to Avoid Ticks - Insights
Whether you’re camping, hiking, or just playing near woods this summer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says tick bites should be top of mind. Bobbi Pritt, M.D., a Mayo Clinic parasitic diseases expert, weighs in on ways to...
Leslie Donato, Ph.D., Discusses New Lab Testing Options to Evaluate IBS-D Patients - Insights
Leslie Donato, Ph.D., Consultant in Cardiovascular Laboratory Medicine and Clinical Core Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, recently authored an article in "Medical Lab Management" on new laboratory testing options to evaluate irritable bowel...
Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., discusses the need for laboratory testing for the diagnosis and management of fast-spreading viral infections.
Jane Hermansen, MT(ASCP), on What We Learned from the Promise of Theranos - Insights
Jane Hermansen, Manager, Outreach and Network Development, is featured on the cover of October’s MedicalLab Management where she takes a good look at lessons to be learned from Theranos.
The purpose of the panel was to provide insight into how some health care systems are paving the way for value-based care.
Robin Patel, M.D., Featured on Antimicrobial Resistance Panel on Capitol Hill - Insights
Leading the charge to help educate and find solutions to the antimicrobial resistance crisis is Robin Patel, M.D., as she recently served on a congressional briefing panel.
St. Mary's Magazine highlights Jeremy Zacher's work supporting staff during COVID-19 - Insights
Zacher now works to assist staff who have transitioned to working from home as they learn new technology.
Michael Henry, M.D., Receives Outstanding Physician/Scientist Educator Award - Insights
Michael Henry, M.D., Consultant in the Division of Anatomic Pathology, has received the 2017 Outstanding Physician/Scientist Educator Award from the Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences for his long-term and significant commitment to...
William Morice, II, M.D., Ph.D., Featured in "Minnesota Healthcare News" - Insights
William Morice, II, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and President of Mayo Medical Laboratories, was recently profiled in Minnesota Healthcare News.
Sharon Zehe, J.D., an attorney at Mayo Clinic and Vice President of Business Affairs for Mayo Medical Laboratories, recently presented at the HIMSS Precision Medicine Summit in Boston on "Four Issues for Providers of Precision Medicine."
Saving Lives through Blood Donation—It Runs in the Family - Insights
Lisa Zerby, a Laboratory Assistant in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, is carrying on her family’s long-standing tradition of blood donation as a third-generation donor.
"Mayo Clinic Minute": Rajiv Pruthi, M.B.B.S., Discusses Blood Test Basics - Insights
When you have a physical exam, often you'll get a routine blood test. By measuring components in your blood, the test may reveal issues that need further evaluation. Rajiv Pruthi, M.B.B.S., a Mayo Clinic hematologist, explains what health...
Message to Our Health Care Partners During Unsettling Times - Insights
As we enter a second week of protest and unrest throughout the nation sparked by the deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, we want to recognize the heartache and pain felt because of these events. Added to the uncertainty with...
Nicholas Boire, M.D., featured in his alma mater's alumni magazine - Insights
As an anatomical and clinical pathology resident, Dr Boire was part of a team of Mayo pathologists who performed some of the early autopsies on COVID-19 patients.
Patient Story Features the Importance of Neuroimmunology - Insights
Sean Pittock, M.D., and Andrew McKeon, M.B., B.Ch., M.D., were featured in a Post Bulletin series about autoimmune neurology disorders and the research and services that Mayo Clinic offers patients.