Insights: Stories
Mayo Clinic Laboratories combines the expertise of world-renowned laboratorians and physicians to provide answers for patients’ serious and complex medical challenges.
These are the stories of the people throughout that journey — from the laboratorians conducting tests and delivering results, to the physicians guiding diagnosis and treatment, to the patients worldwide who need answers.
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Viral and pharmacogenomic testing help clinicians detect infection early, tailor immunosuppression, and improve long-term outcomes for organ transplant recipients.
COVID-19 weekly news: Mayo Clinic updates masking, in-person meeting guidance; brushing off the ‘social rust’ as COVID-19 restrictions ease and how patients are now permitted two visitors at Mayo Clinic Health system locations.
Managing an outreach laboratory requires more than just sound technical skills. It also requires an firm understanding of the various financial components that affect the way a lab operates and performs in order to demonstrate, and prove, the positive financial impact of an outreach program.
This week’s research roundup features a study on how RAS mutations drive proliferative chronic myelomonocytic leukemia via a KMT2A-PLK1 axis.
Top highlights include: Mayo Clinic updates to guidance for masking, information about the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines for children, and an expert podcast from Dr. Poland.
When most of the world was still struggling to understand how COVID-19 would affect their lives, Atria Senior Living took steps to protect their vulnerable residents and staff.
As a specialist in Mayo Clinic’s Office of Decedent Affairs, David Barta offers his knowledge and expertise to families after the death of a loved one, helping them deal with the logistics, while also answering questions and providing compassionate support.
Top highlights include: New CDC guidance for fully vaccinated adults, talking to your children about vaccines, and dancing through complex care during COVID-19.
This week’s research roundup features a study on distinct immune signatures in chronic lymphocytic leukemia and Richter syndrome.
Mayo Clinic Laboratories now offers a noninvasive approach for the molecular detection of H. pylori, with results that include prediction of clarithromycin resistance delivered within 24 hours.
This week’s research roundup features a study on myocardial histopathology in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Top highlights include: Additional insight for when the vaccine will be available for children, Mayo Clinic aims to offer more walk-in COVID-19 vaccine clinics in Rochester, and how preventive screening leads to an early diagnosis of treatable breast cancer.
As an experienced laboratory professional, Peter Wegwerth was well-suited to pivot from his work in Mayo Clinic's Biochemical Genetics Laboratory to redeployment in a COVID-19 testing lab when the pandemic hit in 2020.