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July 26, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 1 – January 8, 2007 Issue
Intermountain Healthcare of Salt Lake City announced that it plans to close 25 of its 26 retail pharmacies as early as next month. It cited declining business and a new business arrangement with CVS Health, the national pharmacy chain. Daron Crowley, Intermountain’s media relations di…
July 6, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 1 – January 8, 2007 Issue
Did the SARS-CoV-2 virus infect people in the United States earlier than the first case diagnosed on Jan. 19, 2020? A newly-published study in Clinical Infectious Diseases, says there is evidence of COVID-19 infections in December 2019. The research team included scientists from the Nationa…
June 14, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 1 – January 8, 2007 Issue
Is it possible to use a genetic test to predict an individual’s risk of severe infection requiring hospitalization or death from SARS-CoV-2? That is the claim of Australian-based molecular diagnostics company Genetic Technologies Limited. It recently announced an agreement with U.S.-based …
May 24, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 1 – January 8, 2007 Issue
With little fanfare, the company that was incorporated as Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings rebranded itself. It is now officially called Labcorp (with a lower case c). This won’t be much of a change for the clinical laboratory profession, which has long seen the company use …
May 3, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 1 – January 8, 2007 Issue
Superman, the superhero of DC Comics and movies, recently gave a positive shout-out to lab professionals during the 45th Annual Lab Week. The American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) gave its Lab Week recognition a theme of “Avengers of…
April 12, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 1 – January 8, 2007 Issue
One clinical laboratory company now says it provides COVID-19 testing services to all five of the major men’s professional sports leagues in the United States. On April 1, BioReference Laboratories, Inc. (BRLI), a division of Opko Health, announced a new agreement with Major League…
March 22, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 1 – January 8, 2007 Issue
This may be the nation’s first federal case of fraud and abuse involving a clinical laboratory company specializing in microbiome testing. In San Francisco last week, federal prosecutors filed multiple criminal charges against bankrupt uBiome, formerly based in San Francisco, Jessica Richman…
March 1, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 1 – January 8, 2007 Issue
Even as the nation’s clinical laboratories work to expand the number of molecular COVID-19 tests they can perform daily, the demand for such tests is plunging. That’s one conclusion in a news story published by the Associated Press in recent days. The AP illustrated this fact with t…
February 8, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 1 – January 8, 2007 Issue
Pathologists and clinical lab managers with an entrepreneurial yen will be interested to know that Anthem, Inc., which serves 43 million beneficiaries, has launched a digital incubator. The new initiative was announced last month. Fierce Healthcare reported that the…
January 19, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 1 – January 8, 2007 Issue
Just days ago, the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued updated information about the COVID-19 tests it has authorized since early in the pandemic. As of Jan. 15, 2021, the agency had authorized a total of 317 tests for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Included in this total are 236 mo…
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