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Topic highlights include: Health care officials prepare as RSV, influenza cases increase in Minnesota, Health and science are on the ballot this election. Here’s what we’re watching, Proposition 209: Arizona voters back lowering maximum interest rates on medical debt

As Tropical Storm Nicole approaches Florida, the Mayo Clinic Laboratories Florida location will close tonight, Nov. 9, at 7:30 p.m. ET, as a safety precaution. The location will remain closed through 7:30 p.m. ET tomorrow, Nov. 10.

Topic highlights include: Mayo Clinic emergency medicine clinicians practice procedures with experts at "Skills Day," Flu season arrives early with highest severity in over a decade, FDA reports shortages of amoxicillin

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday (recognized on Thursday, November 24th), Mayo Clinic Laboratories' specimen pickup and delivery schedules will be altered. To ensure that your specimen vitality and turnaround times are not affected, plan ahead.

William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and CEO and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joined the “Medical Alley” podcast to discuss innovation in diagnostics.

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

Topic highlights include: Minnesota Department of Health sees jump in RSV hospitalizations, Vaccine booster, COVID-19 levels remain low in Minnesota, CDC discussing using oral polio vaccine to combat New York outbreak: report

Jason Hipp, M.D., Ph.D., chair of Computational Pathology and AI at Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and director of Digital Innovation for Mayo Clinic Laboratories, spoke with the Dark Report about how Mayo Clinic is modernizing clinical pathology workflows and how other labs can apply those lessons in their organizations.

Topic highlights include: Florida sees surge in deadly bacterial infections post-Hurricane Ian, Mayo Clinic Health System doctors bring awareness to depression, USDA awards $100M toward improving rural healthcare

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.