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August 18, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 11 – August 18, 2008 Issue
There’s a new lab company in New York City. Manhattan Physicians Laboratory, Inc. (MPL) was recently launched by two former executives from Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. Thomas Golubic is MPL’s President and William Nouri is Vice President and Lab Operations Di…
FDA Approves New Test For Respiratory Viruses
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 1 – January 21, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Respiratory viruses are responsible for 75% of all visits to physicians and yet physicians struggle to identify whether an infection is viral or bacterial. Now there is a new molecular assay with FDA clearance that allows physicians to test for 12 common vira…
Newspaper Reports Miss on Molecular Technology
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 5 – April 2, 2007 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In reporting on a suspected outbreak of whooping cough (Bordetella pertussis), a national newspaper suggested administrators at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center had placed too much faith in molecular testing. In this exclusive interview, Dartmouth’s Director of Molecular …
Supremes Rule Against LabCorp On Test Patent
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIII No. 11 – August 14, 2006 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It’s a bad news/good news outcome for pathologists and lab administrators hoping for clearer guidance on patents granted for DNA and other diagnostic technology. The bad news is that LabCorp gets no relief from lower court rulings that it infringed patents on homocysteine t…
PCR Celebrates Its Twentieth Anniversary in 2005
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XII No. 12 – August 22, 2005 Issue
IT’S BEEN A BUSY YEAR AND I HOPE NO ONE THINKS we’ve been remiss by not mentioning a milestone anniversary until now. On the other hand, I personally can’t recall reading about this anniversary elsewhere in the lab industry press during 2005. So maybe I am among the few to call attention to the…
Court Rules Against Roche In PCR/Taq Patent Dispute
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 17 – December 13, 1999 Issue
DECEMBER 7, 1999 WAS NOT an auspicious day for Hoffmann-LaRoche. One of its patents related to the PCR testing process was ruled invalid by a Federal District Court. The ruling involved Roche’s ’818 Taq patent, an enzyme used in the PCR process. The Court found that the patent h…
LabCorp Hosts DARK REPORT For Burlington Site Visit
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 13 – September 15, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: During the years of sustained bad financial news that dogged the major laboratories, there was a reluctance to speak publicly about any aspect of the laboratory business. That era seems to be ending, as LabCorp and the other national laboratories become friendlier and more ac…
Lab Industry Briefs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 12 – August 25, 1997 Issue
MONOLAYER PAP SMEAR TEST In travels to laboratories around the United States, THE DARK REPORT is getting interesting, but anecdotal, feedback about Cytyc Corp.’s ThinPrep® monolayer Pap smear test. Pathologists and laboratory directors are noticing two perceived benefits …
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