As 23andMe Faces Bankruptcy, Home Testing Shows Warts

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 7 – May 12, 2025 Issue

HIGH-STAKES DRAMA SURROUNDING 23ANDME’S BANKRUPTCY—including CEO Anne Wojcicki resigning to try to bid for the company she cofounded and state prosecutors urging caution about the data privacy of the company’s customers—brings up a fundamental question regarding d…

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Quest, Labcorp CEOs Discuss Tariff Strategies with Investors

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 7 – May 12, 2025 Issue

Leaders at Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics indicated that they are prepared to weather at least the early months of the unfolding tariff war that is upending the global economy. “There will be some impact from …

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May 12, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 7 – May 12, 2025 Issue

Yet another clinical laboratory has sold off part of its services to a national commercial lab. Labcorp announced on April 21 that it had finalized its acquisition of North Mississippi Health Services’ (NMHS) ambulatory outreach laboratory business. A…

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In the Past, Labs Used Courts to Thwart Feds

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: A federal judge’s recent decision to vacate the FDA’s final rule on laboratory developed tests harkens back to a 2008 case where clinical labs stopped a CMS competitive bidding project. In the earlier case, legal risks led the government to back down. The …

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Quest Acquires ‘Select Assets’ of Fresenius Medical Care

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 4 – March 10, 2025 Issue

FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AND QUEST DIAGNOSTICS AGREED TO A DEAL in which Quest will provide laboratory testing services for the latter’s dialysis clinics in the United States. Separately, Quest Diagnostics will acquire “select assets” of Spectra Labora…

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Quest Diagnostics, Labcorp Issue Q4 and Full Year 2024 Earnings

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 3 – February 17, 2025 Issue

LAB ACQUISITIONS IN 2024 WERE A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR TO REVENUE GROWTH at the nation’s two biggest clinical laboratory companies. This was reflected in the fourth quarter and full year 2024 earnings reports issued by Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics. Here are recently …

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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…

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Review of Genetic Testing Companies During 2024

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 1 – January 6, 2025 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Investors in genetic testing companies are taking it on the chin these days. During 2024, a number of the nation’s largest firms providing genetic test services reported significant losses. Other genetic testing companies are dealing with class action lawsuits claiming that…

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January 6, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 1 – January 6, 2025 Issue

In response to the 2021 federal law requiring all medical test results to be released to a patient’s electronic medical record upon availability, a team of researchers at Michigan Medicine recently conducted a study to learn whether patients could understand the standard pathology …

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November 25, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 16 – November 25, 2024 Issue

Disruption is happening in the consumer genetic testing marketplace. In recent weeks, news outlets in the United Kingdom reported that Atlas Biomed, a consumer genetic testing company founded in 2016, had simply “disappeared.” Malwarebytes said Atlas Biomed’s “London offices …

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