2022 Ranking of the World’s Top 12 IVD Corporations

By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 11 – July 31, 2023 Issue

WHILE THE TOP FOUR IN VITRO DIAGNOSTICS (IVD) MANUFACTURERS kept their collective hold on the market compared to 2021, the big surprise was that Thermo Fisher Scientific’s…

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Elizabeth Holmes’ Appeal Questions Competence of CLIA Lab Director

By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX No. 4 – March 6, 2023 Issue

TANTALIZING DETAILS ABOUT FORMER THERANOS CEO ELIZABETH HOLMES’ purchase of a one-way plane ticket to Mexico prior to her conviction grabbed headlines following the filing of a motion to appeal her conviction.  However, for clinical labo…

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QuidelOrtho Earns $3.3 Billion in First Year as Combined Firm

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX No. 4 – March 6, 2023 Issue

IN OUR FEBRUARY 13, 2023, ISSUE OF THE DARK REPORT, we analyzed the 2022 full-year and Q4 earnings of major IVD companies. At the time our prior issue went to press, QuidelOrtho had not yet reported its year-end results.  …

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Top Public IVD Companies Report Q3/Q4 2022 Earnings

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 17 – December 12, 2022 Issue

IT WAS A MIXED BAG OF THIRD QUARTER FINANCIAL RESULTS for the nation’s largest in vitro diagnostics (IVD) manufacturers, with COVID-19 testing volume a contributing factor.  Fluctuating demand for SARS-CoV-2 testing proved perplexing, as some IV…

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2021 Rankings of the World’s Top 12 IVD Companies

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 12 – August 29, 2022 Issue

WHILE THERE WAS SOME JOCKEYING FOR NEW positions, in vitro diagnostics (IVD) manufacturers remain entrenched in their market based on The Dark Report’s 2021 ranking of the Top 12 IVD Companies.  COVID-1…

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Amazon to Close Employee COVID-19 Testing Lab in Ky.

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 8 – June 6, 2022 Issue

IN A MOVE THAT MAY SURPRISE SOME OBSERVERS, Amazon announced it will close its COVID-19 employee testing laboratory in Hebron, Ky., which is just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.  This is the second large COVID-19 clinical laboratory to publ…

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California Cancels COVID-19 Test Contract with PerkinElmer

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 7 – May 16, 2022 Issue

CALIFORNIA HAS SHED MORE LIGHT ON THE DECISION to terminate PerkinElmer’s valuable contract to run the Valencia Branch Laboratory (VBL). The lab has been embroiled in controversy for much of its existence.  The state noted that SARS-CoV-2…

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Decline in COVID-19 Test Orders Signals a Shift

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 5 – April 4, 2022 Issue

MIGHT THE FEDERAL HEALTHCARE ESTABLISHMENT BE CLOSE TO DECLARING AN END TO THE SARS-COV2 PANDEMIC and—given the ongoing decline in the daily number of new cases and deaths—that COVID-19 is expected to become an endemic disease?  The SARS-CoV-2 statis…

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California Agency Problems Deepened Valencia Branch Laboratory Saga

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 5 – April 4, 2022 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Adding a new twist in the ongoing saga of the CLIA compliance failures at the Valencia Branch Laboratory in California are insights from a former clinical laboratory director familiar with the industry in California. He observed that problems at California’s Laborator…

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PerkinElmer Says California Terminated COVID-19 Contract

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 5 – April 4, 2022 Issue

ACCORDING TO A NEW SECURITIES FILING FROM PERKINELMER, the State of California served notice of termination of the company’s contract to run the beleaguered Valencia Branch Laboratory (VBL). PerkinElmer, a diagnostics firm based in Waltham, Mass., made the surprising announcement a…

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