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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.

By Samantha Rossi • July 22, 2022

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.

By Cory Pedersen • July 18, 2022

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.

By Samantha Rossi • July 15, 2022

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.

By Luci Gens • July 13, 2022

Mayo Clinic Laboratories has validated the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's test kit for monkeypox and will begin to ramp up testing.

By Suzanne Ferguson • July 11, 2022

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.

By Samantha Rossi • July 8, 2022

Mayo Clinic is the first and only PCD Foundation accredited center for the diagnosis of primary ciliary dyskinesia, a rare and debilitating lung disease.

By Suzanne Ferguson • July 7, 2022

Top highlights include: CMS rolls out new payment model on improving cancer treatments, Mayo Clinic Waseca breaks ground on renovation project, Wearables are collecting a flood of data - an ambitious new study of pregnancy aims to prove that's valuable for health.

By Samantha Rossi • July 1, 2022

Mayo Clinic Laboratories' rapid response to public health threats has been honed during outbreaks of viruses like 2009’s H1N1 influenza, Zika, Ebola and, most recently, COVID-19. Before COVID-19, laboratory staff were already experts in developing and implementing new tests — but never on such an aggressive timeline.

By Barbara J. Toman • June 28, 2022

Top highlights include: A gull flaps its wings and a deadly virus explodes, Doctors increasingly prescribe time in nature to promote mental and physical health, Father's Day miracle: newborn receives organ donation right on time Minnesota.

By Samantha Rossi • June 24, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services has named Mayo Clinic Laboratories as one of five commercial laboratories to expand access and capacity for monkeypox testing.

By Suzanne Ferguson • June 23, 2022

Top highlights include: Remission Seen in Every Rectal Cancer Patient in Small Study of Drug, Mayo Clinic urges men to get check-ups ahead of Father's Day, Getting closer to a vaccine for cancer.

By Samantha Rossi • June 17, 2022

Today's highlights include: Moderna says updated vaccine works better against Omicron, FDA advisors back Novavax COVID shot, and disparities remain in opioid treatment access.

By Meghann Southwick • June 10, 2022