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“March 6, 2000 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Interesting things are afoot at Esoterix, Inc., the Austin, Texas-based parent company for six specialty laboratories. President and CEO Charles L Dufesche, M.D. recently left. The new CEO is James McClintic. Esoterix has plans to become a public company and has been shopping its IPO…
New Blood Entering the Lab Industry
SURPRISE! THERE’S A QUIET MANAGEMENT REVOLUTION UNDER WAY in both the clinical laboratory industry and pathology profession. During the past few years, a steady flow of new-thinking Presidents and CEOs have taken control of laboratories, pathology group practices, and vendor companies. From CEO Ke…
Movers & Shakers For ’99 Demonstrate Leadership
EACH YEAR IT BECOMES more difficult to make final selections for our annual Movers & Shakers awards. The reason is simple. Today there are more examples of leadership in the laboratory than when we first started these selections three years ago. This is a good omen. It means that the crucible of…
Bayer Acquires Chiron In Consolidation Move
CEO SUMMARY: As expected, consolidation within the diagnostics industry continues. This time it is Bayer, spending $1.1 billion to acquire Chiron’s diagnostics business. Once completed, Bayer will be the fourth-largest diagnostics company in the world. Laboratory customers of both firms…
“August 17, 1998 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
THE DARK REPORT wants to thank those companies at the American Association of Clinical Chemistry convention in Chicago who invited us to special business briefings and other functions. It was an opportunity to meet both executives and the innovative customers of these companies who a…
AACC Convention Exhibits Point To New Lab Trends
CEO SUMMARY: This year the interesting trend at the AACC’s exhibit hall was modular laboratory automation. That’s a big change from the total laboratory automation solutions touted in past years. But watch out! The economics of this equipment have yet to be validated. It was also clea…
“August 25, 1997 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Meris Laboratories continues to be a turnaround challenge. The company announced on August 4 that CEO and President Denis Simon had resigned. Appointed by the board on March 25, Simon stayed less than 18 weeks in the position. Like several other California labs, the San Jose-based co…
“August 4, 1997 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Impressions from the AACC’s annual convention in Atlanta in July: With more than 16,000 attendees, it is much larger than CLMA. International attendees comprised at least 25% of that number. The exhibit hall is heavy on technical products and instruments. Conspicuously absent as exhibitors were the…
Laboratory Trade Group Launches New Activities
CEO SUMMARY: Long overlooked by most of the laboratory industry, ACLA may be in the process of revolutionary change. Since David Sundwall, M.D., became President, ACLA has taken a more assertive stance on a wide variety of issues which affect all laboratories, not just ACLA members….
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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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