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Today's Highlights Include: Reports Russian skater took banned drug trimetazidine puzzle experts, many Minneapolis employers rebooting return-to-office plans, and CDC expected to update mask guidance as early as next week.

By Chantell Canfield • February 18, 2022

Topic's Include: Mayo Clinic in Rochester eases visitor restrictions for pediatric hospital patients, and ask the Mayo Mom: More than 2 years of COVID-19 takes its toll on children, families.

By Chantell Canfield • February 14, 2022

Today's Highlights Include: Biden officials trying to recalculate U.S. Covid-19 hospitalizations, CVS, Walgreens remove limits on at-home COVID-19 tests, and is it time to phase out masks in schools? Why more states and doctors are saying yes.

By Chantell Canfield • February 11, 2022

February 8, 2022 Learn about the latest in laboratory compliance billing, including topics such as PAMA and COVID-19. This free webinar will review seven fundamental[...]

By Mayo Clinic Laboratories Outreach Team • February 8, 2022

Topic's Include: Study confirms effectiveness of COVID-19 booster vaccinations, history of infectious disease outbreaks and vaccines timeline, and Mayo Clinic minute: helping kids struggling with the ever-changing COVID-19 pandemic.

By Chantell Canfield • February 7, 2022

Today's Highlights Include: This household item may help you "retrain" your sense of smell and taste after COVID-19, Biden aims to reduce cancer deaths by 50% over next 25 years, and vaccinated, boosted, recovered from COVID: How protected am I?

By Chantell Canfield • February 4, 2022

In January 2022, Mayo Clinic Laboratories announced twenty five new tests along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.

By Chantell Canfield • February 3, 2022

Due to severe winter weather impacting most of the country, there may be shipping delays of specimens to Rochester, Minnesota. We are monitoring the situation and are working to mitigate any delays with our logistics carriers.

By Mayo Clinic Laboratories • February 2, 2022

Today's Topic Features: Androgen deprivation therapy use and duration with definitive radiotherapy for localised prostate cancer: an individual patient data meta-analysis.

By Chantell Canfield • February 1, 2022

Of five articles listed among the Journal of Clinical Microbiology’s “Top Cited” collection from the last two years, three included Mayo Clinic authors with papers focused on SARS-CoV-2.

By Tracy Will • January 31, 2022

Topic's Include: Mayo Clinic expert discourages throat swab COVID-19 test ‘hack’, and midwest COVID-19 situation update/predictive modeling and what’s next?

By Chantell Canfield • January 31, 2022

Today's Highlights Include: Minnesota's COVID-19 breakthrough cases point to vaccine effectiveness, Biden administration withdraws its vaccine-or-test mandate for businesses, and tips to help making a COVID-19 vaccine shot less scary for young children.

By Chantell Canfield • January 28, 2022

This week on "Answers From the Lab," William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update with Bobbi Pritt, M.D. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Dr. Pritt look beyond the borders of the United States and discuss the impact COVID-19 is having around the world.

By Suzanne Ferguson • January 27, 2022