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Ravgen Gets $272.5 Million Verdict against Labcorp

CEO SUMMARY: In September, a jury returned a $272.5 million verdict against Labcorp, representing royalties owed to biotech company Ravgen for infringement of its diagnostic genetic test patent. Soon after, Quest Diagnostics settled a similar lawsuit with Ravgen before its tri…

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Go to a Football Game, Get a Free Genetic Test!

GENETIC TESTS REPLACED BOBBLEHEAD DOLLS AS THE GIVEAWAY at yesterdayā€™s Baltimore Ravens home game against the Cleveland Browns. Thatā€™s a first in the world of professional sports! Tens of thousands of football fans received a fee DNA test kit as they entered the stadium on Sunday. The event was …

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February 29, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

Sandy, Utah-based SureĀ Genomics is the latest genetic testing company to get a letter from the Food and Drug Administration asking why the company is marketing its SureDNA genetic testing kit to consumers without first obtaining clearance from the federal agency. Th…

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Pathology Labs Want Method To Correct Specimen ID Errors

CEO SUMMARY: When pathology labs discover instances of a misidentified or contaminated tissue specimen, there is a new service that allows them to retrospectively use DNA to properly match that specimen to the correct patient. In part two of our series, we look at how some pathology labs …

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New Business Helps Reduce Pathology Specimen ID Errors

CEO SUMMARY: Prevention of diagnostic testing errors is getting more attention by both physicians and pathology labs because patients are less tolerant of potentially life-changing errors. Strand Diagnosticsā€™ Know Error system is designed to reduce or eliminate errors involving tissue s…

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Med Tech Finds ā€œGraceā€ Aboard Lab of Mercy Ship

CEO SUMMARY: One intrepid medical technologist has spent almost two decades in volunteer service working in the clinical laboratories of hospital ships operated by Mercy Ships International. As the worldā€™s largest hospital ship, the Africa Mercy contains six operating rooms, a 78-bed IC…

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December 19, 2011 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Expanded genetic testing for cancer patients in the United Kingdom is one goal of a new effort by the Stratified Medicine Programme at Cancer Research UK. Officials want to ensure that the right genetic tests are available to support use of new therapeutic drugs for …

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In-Practice Histology Lab Splits Biopsies; IDā€™s Patient with DNA

In response to continuing requests by clients and readers of THE DARK REPORT, this issue institutes a new feature titled ā€œLab Fraud Watch.ā€ It will provide information about activities in the medical laboratory testing marketplace which could be interpreted as violatin…

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TriPath Imaging and Ventana Sign Major Development Pact

IF THE NEW BUSINESS AGREEMENT between Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. and TriPath Imaging, Inc. is successful, then the anatomic pathology laboratory may have a very different look in future years. Last week, Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. announced a …

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Digene, Kaiser Northern California, ARUP Labs, Bio-Reference Labs, Specialty Labs

DIGENE ENJOYS GROWTH OF 39% IN RECENT MONTHS FUELED BY RECOGNITION that HPV plays a key role in causing cervical cancer, demand for Digene Corporationā€™s hc2 High-Risk HPV DNA test is increasing at impressive rates. For fiscal third quarter 2004, Digene reported revenue gr…

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