COVID-19

This week’s research roundup features: High-grade glioma with pleomorphic and pseudopapillary features (HPAP): a proposed type of circumscribed glioma in adults harboring frequent TP53 mutations and recurrent monosomy 13.

Topic's Include: Study confirms effectiveness of COVID-19 booster vaccinations, history of infectious disease outbreaks and vaccines timeline, and Mayo Clinic minute: helping kids struggling with the ever-changing COVID-19 pandemic.

Today's Highlights Include: This household item may help you "retrain" your sense of smell and taste after COVID-19, Biden aims to reduce cancer deaths by 50% over next 25 years, and vaccinated, boosted, recovered from COVID: How protected am I?

This week on "Answers From the Lab," William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update with Bobbi Pritt, M.D. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Dr. Pritt set the record straight on some common misinformation about COVID-19 that’s been circulating recently.

Today's Topic Features: Androgen deprivation therapy use and duration with definitive radiotherapy for localised prostate cancer: an individual patient data meta-analysis.

Of five articles listed among the Journal of Clinical Microbiology’s “Top Cited” collection from the last two years, three included Mayo Clinic authors with papers focused on SARS-CoV-2.

Topic's Include: Mayo Clinic expert discourages throat swab COVID-19 test ‘hack’, and midwest COVID-19 situation update/predictive modeling and what’s next?

Today's Highlights Include: Minnesota's COVID-19 breakthrough cases point to vaccine effectiveness, Biden administration withdraws its vaccine-or-test mandate for businesses, and tips to help making a COVID-19 vaccine shot less scary for young children.

This week on "Answers From the Lab," William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update with Bobbi Pritt, M.D. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Dr. Pritt look beyond the borders of the United States and discuss the impact COVID-19 is having around the world.

As a regular contributor to Forbes regarding COVID-19, Dr. Matthew Binnicker offers expert health information to help people better understand the ever-changing nature of the pandemic.

Today's Topic Features: Measurable residual disease does not preclude prolonged progression-free survival in CLL treated with ibrutinib.

Topic's Include: Mayo Clinic Minute: Looking ahead after 2 years of COVID-19 pandemic, cancer treatment may inhibit immune response to COVID-19 vaccination, and Mayo Clinic Q&A- why getting infected with COVID-19 is still a bad idea.

Today's Highlights Include: Study: E-cigarette users with COVID-19 more likely to experience symptoms, Omicron may peak next week in Minnesota, says Mayo data scientist, and Fauci says FDA could authorize Pfizer's Covid vaccine for kids under 5 in the next month.