Late Breaking Lab News
“October 24, 2005 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
XIFIN, Inc. has been recognized as one of San Diego’s “Technology Fast 50” companies. XIFIN, based in San Diego, provides laboratories and hospital outreach programs with a Web-based software system for managing laboratory accounts receivables and financial operations. To make …
“October 3, 2005 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
It’s a small news item, but sometimes such tidbits presage a bigger story. On Monday, September 26, 2005, Quest Diagnostics Incorporated filed a notice with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it had received a subpoena from the New York Office of the…
“September 12, 2005 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Integration of healthcare information is attracting major investments. On August 29, 2005, Per Se Technologies, Inc. and Wolters Kluwer NV announced that they would acquire NDCHealth Corp. They will pay $700 million and assume $270 million in debt. P…
“August 22, 2005 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
In California, some physicians continue to seek illegal kickbacks from clinical laboratories. The problem is widespread enough that the FBI has conducted several “sting operations.” In a jury trial related to the long-running “Durascam” healthcare fraud investigation, a married pair of doctor…
“August 1, 2005 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Redwood City, California-based Genomic Health, Inc. is considering an initial public offering (IPO) to raise as much as $75 million. The company filed preliminary documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on July 15, 2005. In January 2004, Genomic H…
“July 11, 2005 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
There’s been strong growth at two companies featured in Fortune Magazine’s 2005 list of “America’s Fastest-Growing Small Public Companies.” Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. earned a ranking as number 28 on the list. Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. was ranked …
“June 20, 2005 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Meet Engel von der Killer Tal Schanze! She’s the newest member of THE DARK REPORT Team and came to us all the way from Germany. Engel (which means Angel in English) is just 12 weeks old and is latest in a long line of Deutsche Schaeferhunds (German Shepards) raised for serious Schutzhund duties. In…
“May 30, 2005 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
It’s been a revolving door for senior executives at Specialty Laboratories, Inc. during the past seven weeks. Gone by resignation is CFO Kevin Sayer (effective May 16). Gone by elimination of positions are Dan R. Angress, Sr. VP/Business Development (April 8) and Cynthia K. French,…
“May 9, 2005 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Tight-lipped executives at Meridian Bioscience, Inc. have yet to speak in public on any aspect of how live H2N2 influenza virus found its way into the virology proficiency test kits it shipped to thousands of labs on behalf of four lab proficiency testing organizations. Meridian, bas…
“April 18, 2005 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
This may be one of the laboratory industry’s biggest “oops” ever! As part of a laboratory proficiency testing pro- gram, 4,000 laboratories in 18 countries were sent live samples of the H2N2 flu virus. In 1957, H2N2 is believed to have caused between one and four million deaths. Last week, the …
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