Diagnostic lab sales representative Steven Monaco was convicted on 18 counts for leading a $4.6 million fraud and kickback scheme, the Justice Department said April 19.

Genetic testing company Fulgent Genetics has agreed to acquire pathology lab Inform Diagnostics for $170 million.

A former lab technician who was fired from Covington, Ky.-based Gravity Diagnostics won $450,000 in a jury trial for a suit that alleged the lab discriminated against him over a mental health condition, The New York Times reported April 17.

Medical technology company Pathware named former Veran Medical Technologies executive TJ Meyer its new CEO and landed $7 million in series A funding.

Pathologist pay jumped nearly 6 percent from 2021 to 2022, according to Medscape's "Physician Compensation Report 2022," released April 15. 

The FDA granted emergency use authorization to InspectIR for its COVID-19 Breathalyzer, the first COVID-19 breath test, CNN reported April 15.

Premiere Medical Laboratory Services in Greenville, S.C., earned accreditation by the College of American Pathologists.

Biomarkers associated with some mental disorders can be measured in routine blood tests, according to a study published April 6 in Science Advances.

Berkeley Heights, N.J.-based Summit Health opened a 50,000-square-foot clinical testing and pathology medicine lab in Woodland Park, N.J., New Jersey Business Magazine reported April 12.

Chicago-based Center for COVID Control and its main lab, Doctors Clinical Lab, was sued by the Oregon attorney general, USAToday reported April 7. It is the latest in a string of lawsuits filed against the company.

Charles River Laboratories has acquired vivarium research services provider Explora BioLabs for $295 million, ContractPharma reported April 6.

Eurofins Viracor Laboratories is offering a new blood test that can assess organ damage from COVID-19, Kansas City Business Journal reported recently.

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have shown that a predictive model can detect early lung cancer from a blood sample.

Quest Diagnostics is partnering with Intelligent Retinal Imaging Systems to expand its offering of diabetic retinal imaging services.

Clinical lab Radeas is paying $11.6 million to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to Medicare for unnecessary drug testing, the Justice Department said March 31.

Richard Reid, co-owner of Bellevue, Wash.-based Northwest Physicians Laboratory, was convicted of five felonies in connection with a kickback scheme for medical testing, the Justice Department said March 30.

Positive drug test rates for the U.S. workforce hit a 20-year high in 2021, according to a Quest Diagnostics study.

Healthcare has grappled with a shortage of sodium citrate blood collection tubes — those with a light blue top — since June 2021. But according to an FDA update earlier this year, all blood collection tubes are now in short supply.

Denton, Texas-based PCR clinical lab HealthTrackRx opened a location in Marietta, Ga.

In February, CMS suspended Chicago-based O'Hare Clinical Lab Services' license to operate, and cut off payments to the lab because of sanctions cited against it, The Washington Post reported March 24.