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Reforms in China Affect IVD Companies’ Q3 2025 Earnings
Most of the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) manufacturers that serve clinical laboratories worldwide reported facing financial “headwinds” in the China IVD market that affected their third-quarter performance. This was due to policy changes in the country…
July 14, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Clinical laboratories across the country that have not prepared for the potential of increased measles testing may want to consider doing so. On July 7, The Washington Post reported that US measles cases had reached a 33-year high, based on data collected by the Johns Hopkins Center for…
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…
Global IVD Companies Issue Third Quarter 2024 Earnings
HERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE THIRD QUARTER FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE of t…
November 25, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Disruption is happening in the consumer genetic testing marketplace. In recent weeks, news outlets in the United Kingdom reported that Atlas Biomed, a consumer genetic testing company founded in 2016, had simply “disappeared.” Malwarebytes said Atlas Biomed’s “London offices …
Global IVD Companies Report Second Quarter 2024 Earnings
IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2024, in vitro diagnostics (IVD) companies reported solid revenues as well as new tests, analyzers, and automation. Most of the IVD companies boosted diagnostic sales in low single digit amounts. During the earnings calls, financial analysts asked company leade…
September 23, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
One sign of the financial turmoil associated with the market for genetic tests is the news that all seven independent directors of 23andMe’s board resigned at the same time on Sept. 18. The reason given was that these directors opposed the plan of CEO and co-founder Anne Wojcicki t…
Pioneering DP Companies Ended Up Being Acquired
CEO SUMMARY: One reason why the adoption of a full digital pathology solution has lagged behind expectations may be attributed to the fact that four of the pioneering companies did not survive as independent businesses. They were sold and not all the new owners continued investing and dev…
Uncertainty in Market for Digital Path Products
CEO SUMMARY: These are uncertain times for many companies offering a range of digital pathology (DP) products to the nation’s pathologists. Sales lag behind projections that caused investors to pour money into numerous DP start-ups. One reason DP companies are not meeting sales goals is…
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Volume XXXII, No. 18 – December 29, 2025
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