Late Breaking Lab News
April 21, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
The administration of President Donald Trump is calling for a $40 billion cut in funding to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to a report in The Washington Post on April 16. This amount would come from HHS discretionary spending,…
March 31, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
As this issue went to press, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced wide workforce reductions across several agencies that fall under the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). They include the Food and Drug Administration…
March 10, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Genetic testing is coming to a cruise ship! The New York Post reported that the MV Narrative will be launched this year by Storylines. CruiseCritic describes this vessel as “a residential ship that will create a floating ‘neighborhood’ for a community of up to 1,000 people, including f…
February 17, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
To implement a corporate restructuring, Becton Dickinson (BD) announced on Feb. 5, 2025, that it would proceed to “separate BD’s Biosciences and Diagnostic Solutions business from the rest of BD.” The company plans to complete this action by the end of 2025. Clinical laboratori…
January 27, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
On Jan. 16, 2025, Paul Mango died at the age of 65. With his passing, the profession of laboratory medicine lost an ally and a friend. In the mid-1990s, while at the Institute for Transfusion Medicine in Pittsburgh, Mango convinced the CEOs of 40 hospitals to collaborate and create t…
January 6, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
In response to the 2021 federal law requiring all medical test results to be released to a patient’s electronic medical record upon availability, a team of researchers at Michigan Medicine recently conducted a study to learn whether patients could understand the standard pathology …
November 25, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Disruption is happening in the consumer genetic testing marketplace. In recent weeks, news outlets in the United Kingdom reported that Atlas Biomed, a consumer genetic testing company founded in 2016, had simply “disappeared.” Malwarebytes said Atlas Biomed’s “London offices …
November 4, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Veterans Administration (VA). Last week, on Oct. 30, the two agencies issued an announcement that they would partner “to launch an interagency testing ground forchealth…
October 14, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Babson Diagnostics of Austin, Texas, received a “strategic investment” from Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD). The amount of the investment was not disclosed. In the past year, Babson launched an innovative lab testing service with retail pharmacies in Austin an…
September 23, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
One sign of the financial turmoil associated with the market for genetic tests is the news that all seven independent directors of 23andMe’s board resigned at the same time on Sept. 18. The reason given was that these directors opposed the plan of CEO and co-founder Anne Wojcicki t…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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