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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 Corporation’s hc2 High-Risk HPV DNA test is increasing at impressive rates. For fiscal third quarter 2004, Digene reported revenue gr…
HPV Test Volume Grows With Payer Acceptance
CEO SUMMARY: Because cervical cancer screening involves more than 55 million Pap tests per year in the United States, it is a high-profile segment of the lab testing industry. HPV testing is making steady inroads into the cervical cancer screening process. Digene Corporation is the direct…
Cytyc Acquires Digene To Expand Product Line
CEO SUMMARY: Cytyc Corporation will pay more than one half billion dollars to purchase Digene, Inc., and its DNA Capture HPV test. For Cytyc, this may prove to be a strategic masterstroke. In the short term, it alters the competitive balance in the market for liquid preparation Pap testin…
Washington G-2, AACC, Cerner, IBM, Visible Genetics, Bio-Reference Labs
LAB MEETINGS CONTINUE WITH STRONG ATTENDANCE DESPITE THE HASSLES that now come with cross-country travel, laboratorians throughout the United States continue to support industry meetings. Traditionally the largest lab meeting of the fall season, “Lab Institute 2001” expects good attenda…
LabCorp to Help Collect Family DNA Specimens
CEO SUMMARY: DNA testing will be a primary tool in identifying victims of this major disaster. Officials in New York City are formulating a plan whereby private labs will do DNA testing in conjunction with New York State Police laboratories. Laboratory Corporation of America has been desi…
Digene, Ivax Diagnostics, Myriad Genetics, Bioscientia, LabOne, Aetna
ROTARY CLUBS LAUNCH MEXICO-BASED CERVICAL SCREENING EFFORT IN MEXICO, Rotary International will attack the problem of cervical cancer among Mexican women by supporting a screening program that utilizes human papillomavirus (HPV) testing. Called “Test for Life,” the prog…
DIANON Systems, UroCor, Cytyc, Digene, McKesson HBOC, Abaton.com, Abbott
FEDERAL ATTORNEY SERVES SUBPOENA ON DIANON SYSTEMS NEWS BROKE LAST WEEK that DIANON Systems, Inc. had received a subpoena from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Connecticut for documents relating to laboratory billing. Apparently “LabScam” is still alive …
“November 13, 2000 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Last Thursday was the day Dynacare, Inc. hoped to place its initial public offering. Dynacare seeks to raise as much as $89 million…
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