CEO SUMMARY: As the closing year of the first decade of the new century and the new millennium, 2009 brought neither disruption nor upheaval to the majority of laboratories in the United States. Rather, it was marked by at least two themes. One was how public disclosure of problems with lab testing services generated media […]
2009’s Top Ten Lab Stories Reflect Some Good, Bad
Year unfolds with a mixed bag of developments even as economic recession dampens activity
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XVI No. 17 - December 14, 2009 Issue
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