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As a diagnostics platform company that provides serious or complex laboratory testing, Mayo Clinic Laboratories is constantly working to advance patient care and broaden access to specialized testing. Learn about the latest news from Mayo Clinic Laboratories here, including new test launches, collaborations, operational updates, and more.
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Christopher Garcia, M.D., shares how secure digital tools, wearable data, and AI can enable more personalized diagnostic pathways, while still keeping clinicians in the driver’s seat.
Today's Highlights Include: US FDA seeks to allow salt substitutes in everyday foods, radioactive water leaks at Minn. nuclear plant for 2nd time, and pushback grows over mental health impacts of social media.
Mayo Clinic Laboratories is thrilled to participate in the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting 2023.
Today's highlights include: End of Covid emergency will usher in changes across the US health system, vaccine makers prep bird flu shot for humans ‘just in case’; rich nations lock in supplies, and a nuclear power plant leaked contaminated water in Minnesota.
Mayo Clinic Laboratories has developed a new direct ethanol biomarker test for alcohol consumption that has a much longer detection window than existing urine tests for alcohol use.
Today's Highlights Include: Rochester public schools receives grant to support youth mental health, and FDA releases new regs intended to help detect breast cancer sooner.
In a post on Mayo Clinic’s News Network, Mayo Clinic’s director of Clinical Virology, Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., explains the concern over a potential human-to-human outbreak of avian influenza and what’s being done at Mayo Clinic and elsewhere to mitigate that risk.
Mayo Clinic researchers are now using artificial intelligence (AI) systems to help increase polyp detection during colonoscopies and identify colorectal cancer at an early stage. Like facial recognition software that recognizes faces, this AI tool is being trained to recognize polyps. It works alongside the physician during a colonoscopy, scanning the video feed and drawing boxes around polyps that may otherwise have been overlooked due to their subtleness.
In February 2023, Mayo Clinic Laboratories announced fifteen new tests along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.
Today's Highlights Include: Ozempic running low for diabetes patients as weight-loss use surges, and Rochester public schools gets $1.9M for mental health scholarships.
This week's Research Roundup features: Predicting amyloid PET and tau PET stages with plasma biomarkers.
A major winter storm will move across the West Coast and Upper Midwest through Thursday, Feb. 23. We are monitoring and tracking the situation with our logistics partners to minimize challenges.
Today's Highlights Include: CDC adds COVID vaccine to routine immunization schedule for kids and adults, Governments target medical debt with COVID relief funds and Minnesota being the 1st state to screen all newborns for serious viral infection.