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COVID-19 testing labs around the country are again seeing delays in test result reporting, according to reports from California and Ohio. 

Leonel Palatnik, 42, co-owner of Dallas-based Panda Conservation Group, a medical lab company, pleaded guilty Aug. 31 for his role in a $73 million Medicare kickback conspiracy, according to a Justice Department news release. Mr. Palatnik paid kickbacks to a…

Franklin Lakes, N.J.-based Becton, Dickinson and Co., a medical technology company, launched a fully automated infectious disease testing system, the company announced Aug. 25.

Dallas-based Kai Medical Laboratory will offer free COVID-19 testing in 500 Texas schools, Steven McAuley, CEO of the lab's parent company Empower Clinics, told Proactive. The lab can guarantee free testing thanks to its recent registration with the federal Coronavirus…

With a new school year underway, Indianapolis-based testing lab Aria Diagnostics is seeing four times as many COVID-19 test requests as before schools reopened, Fox 59 reported. Most of the requests are coming from pediatricians.

Nashville, Tenn.-based lab services company PathGroup acquired Birmingham, Ala.-based DermLab, an independent dermatopathology laboratory, the company said Aug. 30. The move is the company's latest in a series of acquisitions in the southeastern U.S.

Nine laboratory companies appeared on Inc. 5000's 2021 list of fastest-growing private companies.

Mayo Clinic researchers have found that monoclonal antibody treatments using casirivimab and imdevimab kept high-risk COVID-19 patients out of the hospital, Mayo Clinic said Aug. 30.

Explora BioLabs, a preclinical biotechnology research company, opened a new vivarium — a plant and animal research lab — on Aug. 23.

Spectra Laboratories, a subsidiary of kidney care company Fresenius Medical Care, has opened a 200,000-square-foot renal lab in Southaven, Miss., the DeSoto Times-Tribune reported Aug. 20.