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February 17, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 3 – February 17, 2025 Issue
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
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 16 – November 25, 2024 Issue
HERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE THIRD QUARTER FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE of t…
Global IVD Companies Report First Quarter 2024 Earnings
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 9 – July 1, 2024 Issue
IN THEIR INITIAL FINANCIAL REPORTING F…
Labcorp, Quest Issue Q1 Earnings, Offer Comments on FDA’s LDT Rule
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 7 – May 20, 2024 Issue
BOTH LABCORP, BURLINGTON, N.C., AND QUEST DIAGNOSTICS, SECAUCU…
Wisc. Diagnostic Lab’s Alternative Staff Solutions
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 6 – April 29, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Even as clinical laboratories and pathology groups around the nation cope with a sustained shortage of qualified staff, the team at Wisconsin Medical Laboratories has successfully kept staffing at 96% of authorized levels. One effective strategy they use is to go into the com…
Lab Market Fragmenting, Creating New Opportunities
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Even as consolidation continues in the ownership of hospitals, health systems, office-based physicians, and clinical laboratories, there is a powerful trend of fragmentation quietly transforming the way providers—including clinical labs and pathology groups—serve patient…
October 2, 2023, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 14 – October 2, 2023 Issue
Forming new relationships with non-traditional care providers is one way clinical laboratories can earn additional revenue. With that in mind, here’s another sign of the changing landscape of primary care. Warehou…
Don’t Automate Bad Work Processes in Microbiology
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 13 – September 11, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Automation is not always right for every lab’s microbiology department, according to consultants from bioMérieux. When evaluating automated instruments, it is necessary to review wo…
Eight Macro Trends for Clinical Labs in 2023
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 1 – January 3, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory administrators and pathologists will want to carefully study eight important trends that will guide their business strategies in 2023. Many of these macro trends center on financial and operational difficulties and ways to steer around these obstacles. Anothe…
Record 600 Pathologist Jobs Open Nationwide
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 11 – August 16, 2021 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Demand for top-level pathologists is surging. A strong rise in the number of job openings for pathologists results from a combination of factors, some related to COVID-19. Now that physicians are seeing patients again, the number of specimens has risen after falling las…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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