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This week’s Research Roundup highlights a randomized controlled trial of postoperative belladonna and opium rectal suppositories in vaginal surgery.

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.

Justin Kreuter, M.D., Clinical Pathologist and Medical Director of the Mayo Clinic Blood Donor Center in Rochester, Minnesota, and Theresa Malin, an Education Specialist in Transfusion Medicine at Mayo Clinic, have launched "Transfusion Toons" as an innovative approach to teaching and learning transfusion medicine. View this post to see the new toon.

Our Mayo Medical Laboratory regional service representatives provide outstanding support to our clients and have the opportunity to share the Mayo Clinic mission and expertise with laboratories around the world. To gain a good understanding of the glamorous, and not-so-glamorous, tasks that this small-but-mighty team encounters each day, we surveyed the team and received some very interesting responses.

Mike Baisch, Principal Systems Engineer at Mayo Clinic, demonstrates how daily indirect effort tasks contribute to staffing plans and needs in the staffing-to-workload methodology.

This week’s Research Roundup highlights urinary extracellular vesicles of podocyte origin and renal injury in preeclampsia.

The prostate health index or phi test reduces the need for prostate cancer biopsies by 30 percent.

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 Laboratories as its primary reference laboratory and discusses its unique partnership.

In the United States, Lyme disease is caused by "Borrelia burgdorferi" and "Borrelia mayonii" bacteria, carried primarily by "black-legged" or "deer ticks." To learn more about Lyme disease, the Mayo Clinic Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and its reference laboratory Mayo Medical Laboratories have developed “The ABCs of Lyme Disease” flash cards.

This week’s Research Roundup highlights renal allograft histology at 10 years after transplantation in the tacrolimus era and evidence of pervasive chronic injury.

The Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology would like to take the opportunity to welcome the new residents and fellows to the department.

Justin Kreuter, M.D., Clinical Pathologist and Medical Director of the Mayo Clinic Blood Donor Center in Rochester, Minnesota, and Theresa Malin, an Education Specialist in Transfusion Medicine at Mayo Clinic, have launched "Transfusion Toons" as an innovative approach to teaching and learning transfusion medicine. View this post to see the new toon.

Sudden cardiac death and episodes of fainting and seizures from long QT syndrome are significantly lower than previously thought when patients are diagnosed and treated at a specialty center dedicated to the treatment of genetic heart rhythm diseases, according to Mayo Clinic research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.