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Curt Hanson, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Mayo Medical Laboratories, recently spoke with Modern Healthcare about Mayo Clinic's electronic health record and how fewer lab tests can produce better patient results.

Allison Stellmaker-Knott, Education Associate for Mayo Medical Laboratories, has been a dedicated blood donor since her new employee orientation more than 10 years ago. Allison's parents were active blood donors, but it wasn’t until she began her career at Mayo Clinic that she realized the importance of giving blood.

Along with Dr. William Worrall Mayo, another key figure in the early history of Mayo Clinic is Mother Alfred Moes (1828–1899). She was born Maria Moes on Oct. 28, 1828. Maria took the name Sister Alfred when she entered religious life and became Mother Alfred as the head of the two congregations she founded. Mother Alfred Moes established Saint Marys Hospital.

William Worrall Mayo was baptized in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Eccles Parish, in the village of Salford, England, on October 24, 1819, nearly five months after his birth.

Justin Kreuter, M.D., Medical Director of Mayo’s Blood Donor Program, recently commented on a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that suggests transfusing critically ill patients with the freshest available red cells, rather than with standard-issue red cells, provides no clinically meaningful benefits.

William Worrall Mayo was born in Salford, near Manchester, England, on May 31. Little is known about his family background, although there are accounts of physicians and scientists among his ancestors.

Karter Malcomson delayed in growth and cognitive abilities at age 2. He also has a surgically made hole in the front of his neck into his windpipe to aid in breathing. To help uncover Karter's genetic disorder, the Malcomsom family met with the Mayo Clinic Department of Clinical Genomics. Read Karter's story.

As someone famous famously wrote, the course of true love never did run smooth. The same can be said of history, says Chris Boes, M.D., a neurologist at Mayo Clinic's Rochester campus. That complicated journey is just one of the reasons Dr. Boes finds history so fascinating.

Nagarajan Kannan, Ph.D., Senior Associate Consultant in the Division of Experimental Pathology, has been awarded two awards for his breast cancer research efforts.

Allan Dietz, Ph.D.; Eric Dozois, M.D.; and William Faubion, M.D., were presented with the 2017 Team Science Award from the Mayo Clinic Research Committee for their research, “Phase I Study of Autologous Mesenchymal Stromal Cell-Coated Fistula Plug in Patients with Fistulizing Crohn’s Disease.”

One of the most distinctive aspects of Mayo Clinic is the close collaboration between physician leaders and administrative colleagues—each bringing unique skills to serve patients and advance medical science. This tradition dates to the earliest years of Mayo Clinic and continues today. Watch this video to see Mayo's 150-year history of physician leaders and their administrative colleagues.

Last year, BMJ published an article challenging what has been considered an indisputable truth for 40 years: When it comes to heart health, vegetable fats beat animal fats. But new analysis of old data points to a different (and delicious) truth. Robert Frantz, M.D., a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic, is one of the authors of the BMJ article. He's also the link between the original research and the new analysis. His father, Ivan Frantz, M.D., spearheaded a major arm of the study that supported the earlier belief. For the younger Dr. Frantz, the paper was both a professional and personal exercise.

On the Sept. 2 broadcast of Mayo Clinic Radio, co-hosts Tracy McCray and Tom Shives, M.D., spoke with Justin Kreuter, M.D., Medical Director of Mayo’s Blood Donor Program, about new eligibility guidelines for blood donors with previous cancer diagnoses.