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Mayo Clinic employees in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology showed their support for heart disease awareness on National Wear Red Day, Feb. 2.

Beth Pitel, CG(ASCP), Development Technologist I in the Genomics Laboratory, presented at the 2017 Cancer Genomics Consortium (CGC) Annual Meeting, and it was met with high praise.

A recent BuzzFeed article reported on 22-year-old Katie Stephens and her boyfriend, Eddie Zytner, a Canadian couple who recently went on a beach vacation in the Dominican Republic. During their vacation, they both developed cutaneous larva migrans, a skin infection caused by hookworms. Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Director of the Clinical Parasitology Lab and Co-Director of Vector-Borne Diseases Lab Services in Mayo Clinic’s Department of Lab Medicine and Pathology, weighs in on the infection.

Six employees from the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic are participating in Super Bowl LII festivities this week in Minneapolis.

2017 marked the fifth anniversary of the Mayo Clinic app—hailed by tech specialists and consumers alike as “what every patient app should be.” But Mayo’s leadership in telephone communications dates back much further.

Bobbi Pritt, M.D., Director of the Clinical Parasitology Lab and Co-Director of Vector-Borne Diseases Lab Services in Mayo Clinic’s Department of Lab Medicine and Pathology, discusses a unique story with Outbreak News about a man, who claimed he ate sushi daily, who presented to his doctor a 5½ foot-long tapeworm. Listen to the podcast.

The successful launch of Epic at the Mayo Clinic Health System sites in Wisconsin in 2017 recalls another milestone 110 years ago. On July 19, 1907, patient No. 1 registered in the new system designed by Henry Plummer, M.D., in collaboration with Mabel Root and other colleagues.

The Southern Minnesota Regional Medical Examiner’s Office, within Mayo Clinic's Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology’s Division of Anatomic Pathology, plays an integral part in the tissue-donation process.

Joseph Blommel, Clinical Genome Sequencing Laboratory Development Technologist, received the 2017 Technologist Poster Award at the Association for Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting.

This year's Heritage Film, "Dinner at Mayowood: Enduring Values in Changing Times," is set in 1940, which administrator Harry Harwick called "the year of greatest crisis" for Mayo Clinic.

Life with an inherited disease sometimes brings unexpected twists and turns. Learn how five-year-old Gus Erickson has navigated the gyrations with the help of Mayo Clinic’s Neurofibromatosis Clinic.

High-sensitivity cardiac troponin levels are strongly associated with the risk for incident heart failure. Allan Jaffe, M.D., Consultant and Chair of Mayo Clinic’s Division of Clinical Core Laboratory Services, with a joint appointment in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, weighs in on the topic.

Robin Patel, M.D., has been elected President of the American Society for Microbiology. Dr. Patel will serve as President Elect beginning in June 2018, followed by her presidency role from July 2019 to July 2020.