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Top Stories in 2025 Played Out in Courts, Capitol Hill
CEO SUMMARY: The biggest story of the year for clinical laboratories came in a huge court victory, as a federal judge vacated the FDA’s final rule on laboratory developed tests. Labs breathed a sigh of relief after the court decision, as the FDA rule had promised to incr…
October 27, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
In yet another shuffling of the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) space, Hologic announced on Oct. 21 that it was being acquired by private equity firms Blackstone and TPG for $18.3 billion. The deal will take Hologic off the Nasdaq, likely in early 2026. TPG and Blackstone lauded Hol…
2025 Ranking of the World’s Top 13 IVD Corporations
BASED ON PUBLICLY-REPORTED 2024 DIAGNOSTICS-RELATED REVENUE, four in vitro diagnostics (IVD) companies continue to dominate the global market, as they have for the last two years: Thermo Fisher Scientific, Roche, Danaher, and Abbott Laboratories. The top 13 companies …
Fast, $17.5B Deal Lands Waters Corp. in IVD Market
WHEN BECTON DICKINSONÂ (BD) ANNOUNCED ITS INTENT to spin off its in vitro diagnostics (IVD) and life sciences units in February, few observers expected a deal to close just five months later. But now that such an agreement has occurred as of July 14, the buy…
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…
Global IVD Companies Issue Fourth Quarter 2024 Earnings
OVERALL, IN VITRO DIAGNOSTICS (IVD) COMPANIES REPORTED A MIXED BAG of financial results for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 2024, with Becton, Dickinson and Company, Abbott Laboratories, and Siemens Healthineers showing the most momentum based on r…
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…
2023 Ranking of the World’s Top 13 IVD Corporations
BASED ON 2023 DIAGNOSTICS-RELATED REVENUE, four in vitro diagnostics (IVD) manufacturers continued to lead the global IVD market just as they did in 2022. They are: Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., Roche Holdings, Abbott Laboratories, and Danaher Corporation. Th…
October 2, 2023, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Forming new relationships with non-traditional care providers is one way clinical laboratories can earn additional revenue. With that in mind, here’s another sign of the changing landscape of primary care. Warehou…
IVD Firms Prepare for OTC, Home Test Market Expansion
CEO SUMMARY: With public interest in home testing growing, some IVD manufacturers are preparing to serve a fast-expanding market for over-the-counter and at-home tests. IVD firms are banking on the…
CURRENT ISSUE
Volume XXXII, No. 18 – December 29, 2025
The Dark Report reviews its top 10 stories from 2025, from the vacating of the FDA’s LDT rule to the merger of Waters and Becton Dickinson’s biosciences and diagnostics units. Also, a lab outlines its solution to a shortage of histotechnologists, and another story shows how pathologists can become patients’ partners.
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