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November 2025

How Stanford Tackles the Lab Labor Shortage

Laboratory Management /

CEO SUMMARY: Clinical labs nationwide face worsening staffing shortages across all roles. Stanford Health Care’s Jennifer Fralick outlines strategies to retain talent and improve efficiency, such as career ladders and top-of-skills staffing. By aligning tasks with skill levels and using data-driven business cases for new hires, diagnostic labs can sustain operations amid ongoing labor challenges. […]

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Reforms in China Affect IVD Companies’ Q3 2025 Earnings

In Vitro Diagnostics /

Most of the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) manufacturers that serve clinical laboratories worldwide reported facing financial “headwinds” in the China IVD market that affected their third-quarter performance. This was due to policy changes in the country that include: • Volume-based procurement (VBP): China’s VBP program purchases medical supplies in bulk to decrease costs. This is

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What Private Equity Sees in Diagnostics

In Vitro Diagnostics /

CEO SUMMARY: Hologic’s acquisition by private equity firms Blackstone and TPG marks one of the year’s largest in vitro diagnostics transactions and a clear vote of confidence in the sector’s resilience. Industry analyst Bruce Carlson unpacks what the buyout reveals about valuation trends, private equity’s growing role, and why IVD remains “a gateway industry” for

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From the Bench to Capitol Hill: Advocating for Laboratories

Clinical Laboratory /

Many of us think our work ends at the clinical lab bench, but it doesn’t. Science extends into policy, advocacy, and the communities we serve. On October 21, I joined fellow members of the American Society of Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) on Capitol Hill to discuss critical issues that affect labs across the country. I’m

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November 17, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

Late Breaking Lab News /

Dealmaking continues in the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) industry as AI-driven genomics and private equity reshape the market for a data-first future. On Nov. 4, Qiagen said it will acquire Parse Biosciences for $280 million to expand its reach into single-cell sequencing, leveraging Parse’s Evercode technology and vast datasets to power AI-enabled drug discovery. This

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NYU Langone Rolls Out Digital Pathology in One Year

TDR Insider /

During an ambitious one-year project, NYU Langone Health implemented full-scale digital pathology. Although the initiative was large, a key organizer insists that smaller diagnostic labs can use some of the same approaches. Two big lessons to convey: Document the gritty details of pathology workflows with the IT team and push technology vendors to help a

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Congress is Listening. Labs Must Step Up on PAMA

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark /

Just as The Dark Report went to press for this issue, the US federal government reopened after the longest shutdown in the country’s history. And while political pundits on both sides of the spectrum argued about who won and lost during the shutdown, it was clear that the clinical laboratory industry quietly notched a significant

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NYU Langone Rolls Out Digital Path in One Year

Digital Pathology /

CEO SUMMARY: During an ambitious one-year project, NYU Langone Health implemented full-scale digital pathology. Although the initiative was large, a key organizer insists that smaller diagnostic labs can use some of the same approaches. Two big lessons to convey: Document the gritty details of pathology workflows with the IT team and push technology vendors to

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