Blog: What’s Happening at MCI?

Stay up to date with news and updates from MCI Diagnostic Center along with the latest from the laboratory testing community at large.

Read Articles

New COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Resources

On January 10, 2022, President Biden's testing and vaccine mandate is scheduled to take place. These mandates call for businesses with more than one-hundred employees to either have all their employees vaccinated or provide COVID-19 test results that prove negative...

MCI Diagnostic Center Awarded – City Of Dallas Department Of Aviation

MCI Diagnostic Center and The City of Dallas Department of Aviation have partnered up to make Dallas Love Field Airport a COVID-19 testing and vaccination site. The primary goal is to ensure passengers have access to acquire a COVID-19 test for...

April 2021 MCI Diagnostic Center Journal

The Truth about COVID-19 Vaccines

COVID-19 vaccines are considered the most promising path to curbing the pandemic and are being followed aggressively. More than 40 candidate vaccines are in human trials as of fall of 2020 and more than 150 are in preclinical trials. As vaccines are applying...

Four Lab Tests You Should Have Done Routinely

Lab tests are used as medical devices on urine, blood, and other substances or tissues from your patient's body to help diagnose diseases or other medical conditions. Doctors use the information from these tests to identify symptoms or changes in a patient's health....

Diabetes Awareness and Laboratory Testing

Diabetes Mellitus is a metabolic disease that induces elevated blood sugar. In order to store or use glucose, the hormone insulin transfers sugar from the blood into cells. With diabetes, the body either does not produce enough insulin or is unable to use the insulin...

MCI Diagnostic Center Awarded- City Of Dallas

MCI Diagnostic Center, 9728 Greenville Avenue, is proud to be the selected vendor to work in partnership with the City of Dallas Office of Emergency Management (“OEM”), in providing a turn-key system to support Dallas County community’s COVID-19 testing...

A Few Reasons To Get A COVID-19 Vaccine

A 2019 coronavirus disease prevention vaccine (COVID-19) is perhaps the best chance for ending the pandemic. There is currently no vaccine to prevent COVID-19 virus infection, but researchers are racing to develop one. Coronaviruses are enveloped...

MONOCLONAL AND POLYCLONAL ANTIBODIES IN COVID-19 TREATMENT

Antibodies are proteins the body produces when an infection occurs. They attach to a virus and help eliminate it. Antibodies can be monoclonal or polyclonal. A monoclonal antibody is an antibody produced by cloning a particular white blood cell. It is...

MCI Diagnostic Center, Now A Official COVID-19 Resource for Oklahoma Film and Music Organization

MCI Diagnostics Center has become an official resource on The Oklahoma Film and Music Organization's directory. As the list is dominated by Health Departments in the state, MCI provides inclusivity to this platform as the only independently owned...

COVID-19’s Affect on Holiday Celebrations

As many people in the United States are beginning to prepare for fall and winter holiday festivities such as Halloween, Día de los Muertos, Diwali, Thanksgiving, Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe, Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year's, there is a need to protect...

CONTACT TRACING FOR COVID-19

Contact tracing follows case investigation and is a tool for detecting, monitoring, and helping people who may have been exposed to an individual with a communicable disease, such as COVID-19. In order to protect public health, health departments also...