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As Mayo Clinic’s Anatomic Pathology moves from traditional glass slides to digital images, the advance in technology is achieving clear benefits in collaboration, learning, and patient care.

Paul Jannetto, Ph.D., and Loralie Langman, Ph.D., discuss Mayo Clinic Laboratories' unique approach to urine drug testing for addiction rehabilitation. Designed to guide and monitor therapy, the comprehensive profile tests for the most commonly used substances, including alcohol and nicotine, for a complete picture of a patient’s substance use.

In this episode of “Lab Medicine Rounds,” Justin Kreuter, M.D., sits down with Jorge Torres-Mora, M.D., assistant professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, to discuss the importance of integrating molecular information into your anatomic pathology practice.

Due to the Memorial Day holiday (recognized on Monday, May 30), Mayo Clinic Laboratories' specimen pickup and delivery schedules will be altered. To ensure that your specimen vitality and turnaround times are not affected, please plan ahead.

For a young child diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease, an unexpected turn of events led by results of a Mayo Clinic Laboratories test freed him and his family from the bonds of frequent medical visits and expensive treatment, and opened the door to a life unencumbered by illness.

In this month's "Hot Topic," Elitza Theel, Ph.D., will be discussing laboratory utilization management, specifically for diagnostic testing for tick-borne diseases.

This list includes updates posted to mayocliniclabs.com during the month of April.

Mayo Clinic Laboratories is leading an evolution in autoimmune neurology diagnosis. To better reflect this testing evolution, and to reduce confusion and improve utilization for our clients, effective April 28, we are renaming our phenotype-specific evaluations.

Justin Kreuter, M.D., sits down with Curt Hanson, M.D., professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, a hematopathology consultant at Mayo Clinic, and executive vice president and chief medical officer for Mayo Collaborative Services, to celebrate Lab Week 2022 and discuss why it’s important to look at our past when planning for the future.

Joel Cayou’s goal as a supervisor in Specimen Handling is to support his staff wherever he can in the vital work they do to keep Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ operations running efficiently.

Mayo Clinic recently announced plans to invest in an expansion project to enhance laboratory medicine. The expansion project will support Mayo Clinic Laboratories' goal to provide diagnostics to Mayo Clinic patients throughout the nation and abroad. Health care teams around the world will have access to laboratory testing through Mayo Clinic Laboratories' Test Catalog, and Mayo Clinic patients will have access to testing via their Mayo Clinic health care providers.  

In this test specific episode of the  "Answers From the Lab" podcast, Melissa Snyder, Ph.D., explains how IBDP2, when used after first-line testing has failed, can distinguish between ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.

In this episode of “Lab Medicine Rounds,” Justin Kreuter, M.D., sits down with Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ manager of Outreach and Network Support, Jane Hermansen, to celebrate laboratory successes from the past and look toward the future.