Late Breaking Lab News
August 25, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
As we first reported in Dark Daily earlier this month, several states have taken initiative to regulate how artificial intelligence (AI) applies to clinical laboratory services. For example, a California law that went into effect earlier this year impacts providers who use gene…
August 4, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, UnitedHealth Group (UHG) has acknowledged it is under investigation by the US Department of Justice (DOJ). “[UHG] proactively reached out to the Department of Justice after reviewing media reports about investigations into ce…
July 14, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Clinical laboratories across the country that have not prepared for the potential of increased measles testing may want to consider doing so. On July 7, The Washington Post reported that US measles cases had reached a 33-year high, based on data collected by the Johns Hopkins Center for…
June 23, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Clinical labs that have business in clinical trials involving genetic samples should note that on June 18, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered a review of new trials that send samples to “hostile countries for genetic engineering.” The FDA mentioned China specifically. Th…
June 2, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Our sibling publication, G2 Intelligence, reported in May about a new Department of Justice (DOJ) memorandum that indicated prosecutors will seek to exercise fairness when deciding how to pursue fraud cases against clinical laboratories and other organizations. The DOJ emphasiz…
May 12, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Yet another clinical laboratory has sold off part of its services to a national commercial lab. Labcorp announced on April 21 that it had finalized its acquisition of North Mississippi Health Services’ (NMHS) ambulatory outreach laboratory business. A…
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…
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