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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

In a recent interview with NEO.LIFE, 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, explains how the self-testing market has evolved and how it could impact the diagnostics industry. While COVID-19 has propelled at-home tests, Dr. Morice says drug companies have a challenging bet to make in uncertain markets.

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