Intermountain Health's central lab in Murray, Utah, has expanded and nearly doubled in size to help lower testing costs and improve lab services for patients and the system's hospitals in the region.
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The FDA finalized a rule April 29 to treat laboratory-developed tests as medical devices, putting them in the purview of federal oversight.
Utica, N.Y.-based Masonic Medical Research Institute is proposing to build a 32,000-square-foot laboratory in East Utica, the Utica Observer-Dispatch reported Jan. 11.
Rhode Island Primary Care Physicians Corp., the biggest physician-led healthcare organization in the state of Rhode Island, recently announced a joint venture with Akido Labs, a leader in AI, safety-net and population management programs.
University of Basel (Switzerland) and University Hospital Basel researchers discovered 35 unknown bacterial pathogens in blood or tissue samples, including seven that caused clinical infections.
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A new automation system from Abbott, designed to improve workflows in clinical lab settings, has been granted FDA approval.
The American Hospital Association is urging the FDA not to move forward with a proposed rule to treat laboratory-developed tests as medical devices, saying the move would disrupt innovation and potentially increase hospital costs.
Standard hospital urine drug analyses do not test for current popular drugs that lead to fatal overdoses, leading to missing diagnoses, according to an opinion piece published Nov. 15 in Scientific American.
New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has unveiled a three-in-one swab to test for COVID-19, flu and respiratory syncytial virus.
Hackensack Meridian Health is spinning off its first company based on science from its research institute, the Edison, N.J.-based system said Oct. 4.