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Mayo Medical Laboratories introduces “Mayo Clinic Values in Focus.” Each month, this series will focus on two of Mayo Clinic’s values, and it will feature quotes and stories from our founders who exemplify those values. This month's featured values are Compassion and Healing.

On the June 2 broadcast of Mayo Clinic Radio, co-hosts Tracy McCray and Tom Shives, M.D., spoke with Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Director of the Mayo Clinic Clinical Parasitology Lab, about common tick-borne diseases and how to prevent them.

A Mayo Clinic care team recently performed a simulated surgery on a young patient's stuffed dog to help ease the patient's fears about his own post-operative care.

In this Mayo Clinic Radio "Health Minute," Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Director of the Clinical Parasitology Lab and Co-Director of Vector-Borne Diseases Lab Services at Mayo Clinic, explains how the lone star tick's bite can cause an allergic reaction to meat.

The American Association for Clinical Chemistry has recently launched an online continuing education program, “Practical Approaches to Quality Control in the Clinical Laboratory.” Nikola Baumann, Ph.D., Director of the Central Clinical Laboratory and Central Processing Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, presents one of the courses, “Responses to Out-of-Control Situations."

Graduation for the Histology Technician Program, part of the Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences, was held on Friday, May 18, in Leighton Auditorium on the Rochester, Minnesota, campus.

On Friday, May 18, the Mayo Clinic Division of Anatomic Pathology hosted its eighth annual Art in Pathology event. This year, there were 41 masterpieces submitted. This is certainly a case of “a picture is worth a thousand words.”

Sometimes a patient's story is so moving that it's impossible not to be affected. Jonathan Morris, M.D., explains why a moment he witnessed at a fundraising event is one he'll never forget.

James Hernandez, M.D., Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and Medical Director and Chair of the Division of Laboratory Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale and Phoenix, Thomas Grys, Ph.D., Consultant in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and Kenneth Poole, Jr. M.D., Consultant in Community Internal Medicine, co-authored an article on mentoring millennials for future leadership.

It is with great sadness that we announce that W. Edward (Ed) Highsmith, Jr., Ph.D., passed away suddenly in his home on Tuesday, May 22, 2018.

The Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences Medical Laboratory Science Program celebrated the 2018 graduating class during a ceremony on May 24. This year, there are 24 graduates.

Mayo Clinic's own Andrew Yori has an impressive side hustle as a competitor on "American Ninja Warrior." This year marks the third time he's earned a shot at running the show's intimidating obstacle course.

After more than 10 years of serving up much more than just coffee, one of Mayo Clinic's most beloved baristas called it a career.