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Topics include: Why women's risk of heart disease increased during the pandemic and information about the most commonly asked questions for when to get your second COVID-19 booster.

Today's highlights include: Facing 'alarming' health care worker shortage, unusual cases of hepatitis in young children, and why women's risk of heart disease increased during the pandemic.

Topic's Include: Testing wastewater for COVID-19: The clearest path to understanding community infection, and the latest advice about COVID-19 boosters.

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified clear differences in brain and spinal cord scarring in patients with demyelinating diseases.

Today's Highlights Include: 5 reasons to consider becoming an organ donor, why so many women in middle age are on antidepressants, and should you get a second COVID-19 vaccine booster?

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

Saliva testing has emerged as a viable option for obtaining rapid, reliable test results during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Darci Block considers how this type of testing may expand beyond the pandemic, and the obstacles in its way.

Topic's Include: Transplant, new model of care give hope to Salvadoran mom after cancer diagnosis, what you need to know about the COVID-19 BA.2 subvariant, and why calling the highly contagious COVID-19 omicron BA.2 a ‘stealth variant’ is a misnomer.

Today's Highlights Include: Walz signs ALS bill by senator with the disease, Health Fusion: A farm family's journey from tragedy to gratefulness through organ donation, and google Search will soon let you book checkups and other medical appointments.

Today's Highlights Include: e-changing kidney swap, climate change is making allergy season even worse, and a Minnesota Milestone: A day without COVID-19 deaths.

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed and validated a new antibody test to diagnose multiple sclerosis (MS). The new test is an automated and cost-effective method compared to other tests used to diagnose MS, according to the research published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. The test is now available through Mayo Clinic Laboratories.

Topic's Include: Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: COVID-19 update, and Mayo Clinic Minute: Hope for COVID-19 patients who’ve lost their sense of taste, smell.

Today's Highlights Include: A new strategy for staying one step ahead of the virus, Pfizer CEO says another Covid booster will be needed, and Senate votes to make daylight saving time permanent.