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Theranos Lays Off More Staff, Voids More Lab Test Results
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 1 – January 9, 2017 Issue
ONCE AGAIN, the controversial lab testing company, Theranos, Inc., found itself the subject of negative news stories. In recent weeks, The Wall Street Journal reported that the beleaguered lab testing company in Palo Alto, Calif., laid off 155 staffers, voided more laboratory test results, a…
HDL Founders, BlueWave, Shareholders Sued for $600 Million by Bankruptcy Trustee
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 13 – September 26, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Unlike federal prosecutors, who to date have shown little interest in seeking to recover money from either the physicians who accepted inducements from Health Diagnostic Laboratory or many of the shareholders, executives, and sales consultants of HDL, the trustee of the HDL b…
Health Diagnostics Laboratory lawsuit seeks $600M; will it establish a new precedent?
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXIII No. 13 – September 26, 2016 Issue
This is an excerpt from a 1,350-word article in the September 26 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete article is available for a limited time to all readers, and available at all times to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: It’…
July 5, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 9 – July 5, 2016 Issue
More developments have happened at Theranos, Inc., the beleaguered clinical lab company based in Palo Alto, California. On June 24, Brook Buchanan, Vice President of Communications at Theranos, resigned, giving personal reasons for the decision. Buchanan was hired in November 2015, …
Phlebotomy Contributes To Drop in Sepsis Mortality
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII, No. 2 – February 8, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: When Intermountain Healthcare began a quality improvement program to address sepsis, its sepsis mortality rate was 20.2%, among the lowest in the nation. By 2007, all 15 of its hospitals had deployed this program. A breakthrough came in recent years, when a phlebotomist was a…
Washington Post: Theranos Approached Military in 2012
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII, Number 17 – December 7, 2015 Issue
SINCE THE WALL STREET JOURNAL published its exposé of Theranos Inc. in October, other media outlets have published the findings of their own investigations into various aspects of the lab company’s practices. One example is the disclosure by The Wall Street …
Might Lawsuits Come Next in Theranos Story?
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII, Number 16 – November 16, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Recent disclosures in the news indicate that an agreement between Theranos and Safeway has gone sour— after Safeway spent a third of a billion dollars to fulfill its part of the collaboration! Reporting by The Wall Street Journal c…
WSJ ‘Sticks’ Theranos, Raises Serious Questions
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 15 – October 26, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Following months of investigation, reporter John Carreyrou of The Wall Street Journal published back-to-back reports about aspects of Theranos that the…
Feds Show How Labs Took $500 Million from Medicare
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXII NO. 13 – September 14, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In this second phase of the whistleblower case against three cardiology testing labs and a sales consulting company, federal prosecutors are requesting a jury trial against the individuals named in the court documents filed August 7. Federal investigators alleged t…
Winning Bidder for HDL Connected to BlueWave
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII NO. 13 – September 14, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Events within the bankruptcy proceedings of Health Diagnostic Laboratory could be interpreted as setting the stage for the emergence of a laboratory company operated by executives-and marketed by a sales consultant-known to have had leadership roles in other lab companies accus…
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