Lab

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic began construction on a $49 million lab expansion, ABC affiliate KSTP reported April 19.

Quest Diagnostics appointed five executives, with one filling a new role for the company.

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.