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When a military veteran nearing the end of his life requested an American flag be placed over him for comfort, staff went to work to fulfill his last wish.

Matt Binnicker, Ph.D., Director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory in the Division of Clinical Microbiology at Mayo Clinic, recently spoke with GenomeWeb/360Dx about using upfront flu immunoassays in conjunction with syndromic panel testing.

Sampson was an outcast in his village. Thanks to a series of miracles, he will get the medical care he needs.

Allan Jaffe, M.D., received the 2018 Gifted Teacher Award from the American College of Cardiology, which recognizes someone who has demonstrated innovative, outstanding teaching characteristics and compassionate qualities, and because of these attributes, the individual has made major contributions to the field of cardiovascular medicine at the local and/or regional level.

The College of American Pathologists recently published its Clinical Informatics Resource Guide. In the section about radio-frequency identification (or RFID) technology and specimen tracking, R. Ross Reichard, M.D., is featured in an interview.

More than 30 years ago, Andy Romaniuk took his doctor's advice and started walking. He hasn't stopped since, logging thousands of miles, and recently added polka music to the mix.

Mayo Clinic exercise researcher Michael Joyner, M.D., and his colleagues are tackling questions about oxygen saturation at high altitudes to understand key aspects of physiology.

Four-year-old Knox Olafson was given the opportunity to run the bases at Target Field, thanks to Brighter Tomorrows. His trek around the bases stole the hearts of those who got to witness it.

Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Director of Mayo Clinic’s Clinical Parasitology Laboratory and Co-Director of the Vector-Borne Diseases Laboratory within the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, is the editor of a new infectious disease guide, entitled, Atlas of Fundamental Infectious Diseases Histopathology: A Guide for Daily Practice.

At the annual meeting of the Association for Molecular Pathology this past November, Joseph Maleszewski, M.D., a cardiovascular pathologist and Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, presented about phenotypes and genotypes in the understanding and diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. He spoke with CAP Today further about gene testing in cardiomyopathy analysis.

On Thursday, March 15, Mayo Clinic put out a call to all of its Rochester area staff members for blood donations. Justin Kreuter, M.D., Medical Director of Mayo’s Blood Donor Program, commented on the urgent call.

The right medicine isn't always a pill or an injection. Sometimes, it's a song. Just ask LaSonya Fleming.

In a recent article in Medical Lab Management, Darci Block, Ph.D., Director of Laboratory Services and Co-Director of the Central Clinical Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, discusses how to establish and maintain a compliant body fluid testing program.