The Billion Dollar Lab Scandal

If you think Theranos is a big story then I have some news for you. There’s another medical laboratory scandal  that dwarfs the Theranos story by almost any standard except for hype. The Theranos story is an important sexy Silicon Valley story. It’s more about an imagined  shimmering future than about the greasy present we actually…

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Vampire Lab Turns To Old Trick To Grow Business: Physician Owned Labs

(Updated) True Health Diagnostics, the new laboratory that bought the assets and adopted the business model of the disgraced and bankrupt laboratory company Health Diagnostic Laboratory (HDL), is turning to some old, unethical, and illegal tricks to grow its business. As I’ve reported previously, one key to the spectacular growth of HDL laboratory involved surreptitious…

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The Real Losers In The Zombie Versus Vampire Lab Company Court Battle

(Updated) Right now a dead, bankrupt and corrupt laboratory company is suing an active, morally bankrupt lab company. No matter who eventually wins the court battle all of us– patients, Medicare, insurance companies, not to mention our entire health and legal systems– will lose. Health Diagnostics Laboratory (HDL) is the zombie lab company. After raking…

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