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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…