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Bobbi Pritt, M.D., chair of the Division of Clinical Microbiology in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, was featured in a Health article regarding a new vaccine to prevent Lyme disease. The vaccine is in its final clinical trial phase and could be available in several years.
Bobbi Pritt, M.D., chair of the Division of Clinical Microbiology in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory, joined the Dr. Radio Internal Medicine show on Sirius XM to discuss vector-borne disease, detecting Lyme disease, and diagnosing monkeypox.
Topic highlights include: Mayo Clinic Minute: prescribing nature for mental, physical health (video), Over-the-counter hearing aids expected this fall in US, UK becomes first country to approve updated Moderna vaccine targeting omicron
Darci Block, Ph.D., of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, authored an article in the American Association for Clinical Chemistry’s (AACC) Clinical Laboratory News highlighting hurdles in body fluid testing.
Topic highlights include: Mayo Clinic doctors weigh in on all things back-to-school, Trial seeks to develop first Lyme disease vaccine in 2 decades, New York health department says hundreds of people may be infected with polio virus.
Topic highlights include: Mayo: urgent need for O- blood types, Optum, Sanofi team to make low-cost insulin available to uninsured, How the COVID-19 pandemic changed Americans’ health for the worse.
Topic highlights include: Mayo Clinic in Rochester again ranked country's top hospital: U.S. news and world report, WHO declares monkeypox a global health emergency as infections soar, Depression is likely not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, study says.
Topic highlights include: Mayo Clinic platform leader Dr. John Halamka turning 'healthcare data into wisdom', Loss of smell, taste no longer predominant COVID symptoms as virus continues to mutate, UK study: Don’t ruin your cookout by serving E. coli.
Mayo Clinic neuropathologist Caterina Giannini, M.D., Ph.D., received the American Association of Neuropathologists’ (AANP) award for Meritorious Contributions to Neuropathology during the AANP’s 98th annual meeting in June.
Topic highlights include: FDA to Authorize Novavax’s Covid-19 Vaccine, Newsom Announces California Will Produce Its Own ‘Low Cost’ Insulin, New dominant COVID-19 variant most transmissible yet, health officials say.
Diagnostic tests are a critical part of America’s health infrastructure and helping people live healthier lives. But in a recent op-ed published on RealClearPolicy, William Morice II, M.D., president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories and Matt Sause, president and CEO of Roche Diagnostics North America, explain how the well-intended Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA) puts vital diagnostic tests at risk.
Mayo Clinic Laboratories has validated the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's test kit for monkeypox and will begin to ramp up testing.
Top highlights include: Hospitals in less competitive regions have higher price transparency compliance, study finds, Many won’t rely on virtual options after COVID: AP-NORC poll, Exercise can cut all sorts of health risks for seniors. Here’s how to get going.