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Quest’s Deficiencies Trigger QA/QC Questions
CEO SUMMARY: Experts in laboratory QA/QC and proficiency testing (PT) are following the news that Quest Diagnostics admitted to an 18-month problem with lab test accuracy in its home brew Vitamin 25(OH) D assay. It is recognized as a major failure in the existing system of labora…
January 12, 2009 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 1 – January 12, 2009 Issue
Here’s an interesting quirk. It seems none of the major lab professional associations and societies have yet to alert their members to last week’s national news about inaccurate Vitamin D test results at Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. At least, that was true today, based on vis…
December 01, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 16 – December 01, 2008 Issue
Having grown to over $1 billion in revenue, Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. of Waltham, Massachusetts, is newest of the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) companies to achieve size and scale. One of its more interesting products is an in-home system that allows …
Lab “Day of Disaster” Provides Useful Lessons
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIII No. 3 – February 27, 2006 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: On Friday, May 5, laboratory administrators and pathologists who guided their labs through some of the nation’s biggest natural disasters and emergencies will gather in Miami to share their experiences in contingency planning and disaster response. It is no understatement t…
“May 9, 2005 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 7 – May 9, 2005 Issue
Tight-lipped executives at Meridian Bioscience, Inc. have yet to speak in public on any aspect of how live H2N2 influenza virus found its way into the virology proficiency test kits it shipped to thousands of labs on behalf of four lab proficiency testing organizations. Meridian, bas…
Aureon Biosciences, Bayer, Competitive Technologies, Rare Blood Infections, Kaiser Permanente
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XI No. 16 – November 22, 2004 Issue
KEVIN JOHNSON AND VIJAY AGGARWAL JOIN AUREON BIOSCIENCES TWO VETERAN LAB EXECUTIVES are back in the business. Kevin Johnson is now the Chairman at Aureon Biosciences Corporation and Vijay Aggarwal, Ph.D. is President and CEO. The fact that both men chose to join Aureon Bios…
Eritrea Uses St. Louis For Reference Testing
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 6 – May 5, 2003 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: On one level, it’s the classic story of volunteerism and help for a developing nation. But on another level, it’s a dramatic demonstration of how new technologies allow two hospital laboratories in St. Louis, Missouri to effectively provide reference laboratory tests and …
Specialty Laboratories, IMPATH, Roche, Abbott Laboratories, Celera Diagnostics
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 6 – May 5, 2003 Issue
SPECIALTY LABORATORIES RESTORING STABILITY IN SPECIMEN VOLUME IT’S NO SURPRISE THAT COMPETITORS of Specialty Laboratories, Inc. have been willing to spread a variety of rumors about the laboratory company, given its well-publicized troubles with government regulators last …
Toronto Labs Stressed in Response To SARS Outbreak
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume X No. 5 – April 14, 2003 Issue
THIS ISSUE OF THE DARK REPORT BRINGS SOME OF THE FIRST DETAILS about how the SARS outbreak in the Canadian Province of Ontario is causing widespread, sustained disruption to hospitals, laboratories, and office-based physicians, particularly in the Toronto metropolitan area. When the earl…
Toronto Hospital Labs Cope With SARS Impact
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 5 – April 14, 2003 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Canada has become one of the world’s hot spots for SARS. Concern about the unexpected number of hospital workers who contracted the disease triggered a halt to all but the most life-threatening patient care needs in many hospitals in Ontario. The manner in which this diseas…
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Volume XXXI, No. 16 – November 25, 2024
Two different federal lawsuits that challenge the authority of the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) will be combined. Plaintiffs and the government in both cases agreed to move forward on this basis.
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