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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…

India’s Neuberg Diagnostics Expands into U.S. Market

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 11 – August 16, 2021 Issue

“Our idea is to enhance the access and affordability for next-generation techniques, meaning molecular diagnostics, genomics, pathology, digital pathology, proteomics, metabolomics, and all that. This is the spirit behind Neuberg Diagnostics. —GSK Velu, PhD, BPharm …

Health System Lab Is Genotyping To Identify Best Drugs for Patients

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 2 – January 30, 2017 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: One essential element of precision medicine will be the regular use of pharmacogenomic testing to provide additional guidance to physicians when selecting the most appropriate therapeutics and optimal dose for each individual patient. Despite the reluctance of private payers …

Palmetto GBA Issues Guidance On Billing NGS Test Panels

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 3 – February 29, 2016 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Across the lab industry, next generation sequencing is taking hold as an effective and efficient testing platform. In response, payers are developing coding and payment policies that may affect the finances of clinical labs. Last month, Palmetto GBA, a Medicare contractor, is…

Leveraging Testing Technology To Identify MRSA, C. Difficile

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 3 – March 4, 2013 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Probably the most challenging infections for hospitals to control and reduce are methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile (C. diff). The laboratory at one New York hospital introduced algorithms to screen for the presence of each i…

TriCore Lab Adds Value with Consults, Better TAT

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 8 – June 17, 2013 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Motivated by the goal of delivering more value to clinicians and client hospitals, the lab team at TriCore Reference Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is proactively introducing new services. One such initiative is to travel to hospitals to participate in rounds and co…

GHSU Graduates Med Techs Using Distance Training

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 2 – January 30, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Many clinical labs experiencing a shortage of trained medical laboratory scientists (MLS) in their city continue to overlook how the use of distance training programs could help them attract and retain top-performers. Leaders of the clinical laboratory scientist (CLS…

Roche Offers $5.7 Billion To Acquire Illumina Inc.

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 2 – January 30, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Once again, Roche is hunting for gene sequencing and gene analysis technology that can support its goal of being a world leader in gene-based therapeutics and clinical lab testing that utilizes gene tests and molecular diagnostics. Last week, Roche launched a hostile stock te…

October 17, 2011 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 14 – October 17, 2011 Issue

Have you ever heard the term “digital PCR” (Polymerase Chain Reaction)? That technology was of such interest to Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., that it just paid $162 million to acquire QuantaLife, Inc., the company that developed this digital PCR technology. The dea…

Influenza A Test Is a Help When Screening for H1N1

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 8 – June 8, 2009 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Viracor Laboratories is preparing to handle expanded volumes of influenza testing prior to the start of the next flu season. It will use added instrumentation and expanded working hours to expand capacity. Another strategy is to use influenza A testing as a way to re…

Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024

The fragmentation of consumer markets is reflected in clinical lab services, and The Dark Report examines this trend and how it will impact labs in the coming years. Also, The Dark Report notes that the FDA has issued a controversial memo to reclassify many high-risk IVD assays.

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