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Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, was featured in an NBC News article about how hospitals are expecting a busy winter with an increased spread of COVID-19, influenza, and other respiratory illnesses.

Topic highlights include: FDA clears updated COVID boosters for kids as young as 5, Mayo Clinic to support Hurricane Ian disaster relief, Early jump in RSV hospitalizations concerns Minnesota experts

Topic highlights include: New Mayo Clinic scanner is first of its kind in North America, Mayo Clinic Health System allergist shares advice for finding relief this allergy season, Vaccine appears to protect against monkeypox, CDC says

New research led by the Lunenfeld-Tannenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto; Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center; and Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine has identified the biologic mechanism of a germline alteration that may be critical for developing new therapies to treat and prevent a type of brain tumor.

In September 2022, Mayo Clinic Laboratories announced ten new tests along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.

Topic highlights include: Mayo Clinic Health System turns 30, Doctors say now is time to get flu shot, White House releases strategy for ending hunger in US by 2030

Due to hurricane Ian, Mayo Clinic Laboratories' specimen pickup and delivery schedules will be altered.

In an effort to eliminate interpretation mistakes and in turn improve diagnosis and treatment options for patients who have kidney stones, a team of researchers from Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology recently conducted a 12-month study to determine whether the use of artificial intelligence-trained algorithms can find errors in manually reviewed and reported kidney stone composition results.

Topic highlights include: White House launches monkeypox research agenda, Mayo Clinic: collaborations, startups to drive innovation, Why the latest screening tests and treatments offer hope for ovarian cancer

Topic highlights include: Mayo Clinic health system experts say mental health issues on the rise, New York declares a state of emergency over polio, U.S. reaches medical milestone with millionth organ transplant

Topic highlights include: Five ways you’ll exercise smarter in the future, Scientists discovered an antibody that can take out all COVID-19 variants, Mayo launches accelerator dedicated to gene and cell therapies

Darci Block, Ph.D., co-director of the Central Clinical Lab in Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology in Rochester, Minnesota, discusses how and when autoverification is used and not used to help verify the approximately 8,000 specimens that are sent to the department’s Central Clinical Lab every day.

Two leaders have been announced to lead Mayo Clinic Laboratories and other diagnostic services in the biopharma and cardiovascular spaces. William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., has been named CEO and president and Mary Jo Williamson has been named chief administrative officer.