The size of an alleged healthcare fraud scheme involving diagnostic labs has risen to $67 million, after 10 Florida residents were charged in connection with the scheme, Palm Beach Post reported March 1.

Medical diagnostics firm Quidel Corporation plans to acquire Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, American Association for Clinical Chemistry reported March 1.

Chicago-based COVID-19 testing lab LabElite is under investigation, Block Club Chicago reported March 2. The company's headquarters were raided by the FBI Feb. 23.

Massachusetts has the highest number of lab technologists and technicians per capita, according to an analysis by Becker's. California has the highest number of active licenses, but it has the sixth-fewest number of licenses per 10,000 residents.

Healthcare holding company Diversified Medical Healthcare is expanding its operations in Greenville, S.C.

Labcorp acquired cancer genomics company Personal Genome Diagnostics.

Menlo Park, Calif.-based diagnostic company SummerBio is opening a new lab in Menlo Park to expand its COVID-19 testing capabilities.

The new COVID-19 variant of concern, a subvariant of omicron, has been called "stealth omicron" because it doesn't seem to show up on PCR tests in the same way, CNN reported Feb. 17. That means labs have to take an extra step and sequence the virus to find the new variant. 

The founders of three medical labs in Texas were among 10 people indicted in a $300 million healthcare fraud scheme Feb. 10, according to the Justice Department.

Wilmington, N.C.-based Cape Fear Community College is launching a medical lab technology training program, NBC affiliate WECT reported Feb. 9.

Labcorp is partnering with St. Louis-based health system Ascension.

Lab software firm Scitara raised $15 million in a recent funding round, Bio-IT World reported Feb. 8.

The National Institutes of Health Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare is investigating the Seattle-based University of Washington's Primate Research Center, Lynnwood Times reported Feb. 4.

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson is suing the Chicago-based Center for COVID Control, accusing the company of knowingly providing invalid COVID-19 test results to patients, NPR affiliate KUOW reported Jan. 31.

The market for at-home lab tests has exploded in recent years, and established players and new entrants alike are seeing huge growth. It could pass a valuation of $2 billion by 2025, according to Quest Diagnostics.

The University of Iowa State Hygienic Laboratory is expanding with the help of a time-sensitive CDC grant after the state Board of Regents approved the plans, The Daily Iowan reported Jan. 30.

The Defense Department said Jan. 26 that it ordered more than 104 million additional COVID-19 home test kits from Mountain View, Calif.-based iHealth Labs.

Federal officials worried that more than 174,000 COVID-19 test results from Timpanogos Regional Hospital in Orem, Utah, were wrong, but those patients were never notified, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Jan. 30.

Quest Diagnostics is offering consumer-initiated lab testing through a partnership with Walmart. 

Abbott Laboratories posted its largest-ever quarter for rapid diagnostics, according to a news release from data analytics and consulting firm GlobalData.