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A significant nor'easter named Hernando is impacting the Northeastern United States. The storm is producing blizzard conditions and heavy snowfall along coastal areas from Delaware through Maine and into eastern Canada. Mayo Clinic Laboratories' Global Logistics team is monitoring the situation and will advise as conditions improve.
Today's Highlights Include: Biden officials trying to recalculate U.S. Covid-19 hospitalizations, CVS, Walgreens remove limits on at-home COVID-19 tests, and is it time to phase out masks in schools? Why more states and doctors are saying yes.
February 8, 2022 Learn about the latest in laboratory compliance billing, including topics such as PAMA and COVID-19. This free webinar will review seven fundamental[...]
Topic's Include: Study confirms effectiveness of COVID-19 booster vaccinations, history of infectious disease outbreaks and vaccines timeline, and Mayo Clinic minute: helping kids struggling with the ever-changing COVID-19 pandemic.
Today's Highlights Include: This household item may help you "retrain" your sense of smell and taste after COVID-19, Biden aims to reduce cancer deaths by 50% over next 25 years, and vaccinated, boosted, recovered from COVID: How protected am I?
In January 2022, Mayo Clinic Laboratories announced twenty five new tests along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.
Due to severe winter weather impacting most of the country, there may be shipping delays of specimens to Rochester, Minnesota. We are monitoring the situation and are working to mitigate any delays with our logistics carriers.
Today's Topic Features: Androgen deprivation therapy use and duration with definitive radiotherapy for localised prostate cancer: an individual patient data meta-analysis.
Of five articles listed among the Journal of Clinical Microbiology’s “Top Cited” collection from the last two years, three included Mayo Clinic authors with papers focused on SARS-CoV-2.
Topic's Include: Mayo Clinic expert discourages throat swab COVID-19 test ‘hack’, and midwest COVID-19 situation update/predictive modeling and what’s next?
Today's Highlights Include: Minnesota's COVID-19 breakthrough cases point to vaccine effectiveness, Biden administration withdraws its vaccine-or-test mandate for businesses, and tips to help making a COVID-19 vaccine shot less scary for young children.
This week on "Answers From the Lab," William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update with Bobbi Pritt, M.D. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Dr. Pritt look beyond the borders of the United States and discuss the impact COVID-19 is having around the world.
Topic's Include: Mayo Clinic Minute: Looking ahead after 2 years of COVID-19 pandemic, cancer treatment may inhibit immune response to COVID-19 vaccination, and Mayo Clinic Q&A- why getting infected with COVID-19 is still a bad idea.