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...
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...
May 2023 - Hematopathology - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides a Clinical Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Hematopathology.
July 2023 - Clinical Microbiology - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides a Clinical Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Clinical Microbiology.
The exchange of medical knowledge is a founding principle of Mayo Clinic. William J. Mayo, M.D., said it best: “It is a great thing to make scientific discoveries of rare value, but it is even greater to be willing to share these...
April 2023 - Cellular Therapy and Transfusion Medicine - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides a Clinical Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case’s sub-specialties are Cellular Therapy and Transfusion Medicine.
December 2022 - Pulmonary - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides an Anatomic Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Pulmonary Pathology.
Improving diagnosis of rare congenital disorders - Insights
Experts at Mayo Clinic have developed a unique method of testing that combines new technology with novel bioinformatics to promptly detect a group of uncommon genetic conditions that are often difficult to identify.
August 2023 - Biochemical Genetics - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides a Clinical Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Biochemical Genetics.
Reversing a dire disorder: Lorinda McKinley - Insights
Advanced testing at Mayo Clinic Laboratories that confirmed a diagnosis of myasthenia gravis put Lorinda McKinley on the road to renewed health after she nearly lost it all to the rare autoimmune disease.
How the COVID-19 pandemic has increased public knowledge of lab testing - Insights
While the accelerated innovation and increased access to testing that’s occurred because of the COVID-19 pandemic has been critically important to worldwide health care, so too has the crash course in laboratory testing and pathology the...
Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease (MOGAD) - Insights
In this month's "Hot Topic," Eoin Flanagan, M.B., B.Ch., reviews the recent diagnostic criteria for Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Antibody-associated Disease (MOGAD).
Osmotic fragility testing - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” James Hoyer, M.D., discusses the importance of using a control tube during osmotic fragility testing.
December 2023 - Neuropathology - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides an Anatomic Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Neuropathology.
September 2023 - Cytopathology - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides an Anatomic Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Cytopathology.
Enhanced technology safeguards patient specimens - Insights
Mayo Clinic's use of enhanced radio-frequency identification technology to track specimens from the clinical setting to the lab reduces the risk of errors and protects valuable — sometime irreplaceable — patient samples.
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...
An inside look at the state-of-the-art supports enabling invention - Insights
A web of innovation within Mayo Clinic Laboratories links research and test development with clinical practice, enabling for some of the world’s most pioneering methodologies. Underpinning this innovation network are unique supports that...
Key performance indicators for laboratory outreach programs - Insights
Key performance indicators (KPIs) should be a part of every laboratory’s quality improvement plan, and that includes outreach-specific KPI metrics. Financial, internal-facing, and client-facing KPIs for outreach programs help to create a...
Answers From the Lab - Insights
A Mayo Clinic podcast sharing knowledge and advances in testing, laboratory science, and the people who make it all happen behind the scenes. Note: Podcasts will not play back on Internet Explorer. Please use an alternative web browser, or...
What's New in Health Care Reform: Dec. 19 - Insights
Top highlights include: NIH to spend up to $20 million on search for alternatives to fetal tissue for research, hospital beds get digital upgrade, cocaine deaths increase amid ongoing national opioid crisis, health insurers look to digital...
What's New in Health Care Reform: Dec. 5 - Insights
Top highlights include: Minnesota OKs medical marijuana to treat Alzheimer's, U.S. life expectancy declines again, polio-like disease in U.S. kids appears to have peaked for 2018, methamphetamine use by pregnant women, and the effects of...
Industry Archives - Page 4 of 6 - Insights
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Post-Bulletin Features Dr. Bobbi Pritt's "Creepy, Dreadful, Wonderful Parasites" Blog - Insights
The Rochester Post-Bulletin recently highlighted Bobbi Pritt, M.D.'s, “Creepy, Dreadful, Wonderful Parasites” blog, which celebrated its 10-year anniversary in October with a parasite-themed art contest and giveaways.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: March 20 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights how AKT-phosphorylated FOXO1 suppresses ERK activation and chemoresistance by disrupting IQGAP1-MAPK interaction.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: May 1 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights the association of postoperative high-sensitivity troponin levels with myocardial injury and 30-day mortality among patients undergoing noncardiac surgery.
Pat Hlavka, CSP, Safety Coordinator at Mayo Clinic, discusses the most commonly cited Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspection findings for medical and diagnostic laboratories.
Feb. 1986: Mayo Clinic's Year-Old Liver Transplant Program - Insights
In 1986, Mayo Clinic's year-old liver transplant program was growing to be one of the largest in the world. Take a step back to 1986 by reading this article from the February issue of Mayovox.
Mayo Clinic Laboratory and Pathology Research Roundup: Jan. 8 - Insights
This week’s Research Roundup highlights how cardiac troponin is released from injured myocardium.
1939: Lou Gehrig Comes to Mayo Clinic #ThrowbackThursday - Insights
They called him the "Iron Horse" and the "Pride of the Yankees." But when baseball great Lou Gehrig came to Mayo Clinic in June 1939, his name became associated with an illness called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Today, ALS is known...
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1964: Postage Stamp Honors the Mayo Brothers #ThrowbackThursday - Insights
Whether you shop online, hit flea markets and garage sales, or peruse high-end antique stores, one Mayo Clinic-themed collectible item that frequently appears is the postage stamp that depicts William J. Mayo, M.D., and Charles H. Mayo,...
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What Does Deliberate Practice Look Like for Me? - Insights
Justin Kreuter, M.D., discusses how he applies deliberate practice to guitar playing, pathology, knowledge, and his continuous medical education.
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Leading pathology's technology transformation - Insights
As chair of Mayo Clinic’s new Division of Computational Pathology and AI in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Jason Hipp, M.D., Ph.D., is eager to employ the most innovative tools available to benefit patients around the...
Malabsorption panel: Filling a gap in pediatric care - Insights
Mayo Clinic Laboratories is committed to innovation that provides the right test at the right time for the right patients. That effort always starts with identifying gaps in patient care. Filling those gaps sometimes involves not developing...
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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...
New tests launched in October - Insights
In October 2022, Mayo Clinic Laboratories announced thirty new tests along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.
New tests launched in March - Insights
In March 2022, Mayo Clinic Laboratories announced eighteen new tests along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.
Communiqué Archives - Page 2 of 4 - Insights
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West Nile virus [Test in Focus] - Insights
Bobbi Pritt, M.D., discusses how Mayo Clinic Labs’ updated PCR assay for West Nile virus provides increased sensitivity to detect virus RNA in multiple sources, identifies two virus lineages, and confirms diagnosis.