But in the widening realm of medical testing, it's almost sure that there will be another.
One of Waller's favorites is Quest Diagnostics, the nation's largest medical testing company, with a 12% market share.
But the medical testing business has produced two powerhouse roll-ups, and they appear to have lots of growth potential remaining.
LabCorp is the second- largest U.S. medical testing company and offers many of the same genetic tests that Quest does.
Some of the animals were caught in the wild to be used for medical testing, while others were purchased after being kept as pets.
The application period closes in January, but after the period closes, there is an extensive period of review, interviews, medical testing, and other things.
Marie Warlick(ph) who works in a medical testing lab joined them.
"As the public become more educated about what's going on in medical testing, most people use their common sense that this is something that should be encouraged'" Mr Garnier said.
In any case, Orchid orch (nasdaq: orch - news - people) is finally starting to make money, thanks to its purchase of GeneScreen technology, which is used for paternity, forensic and medical testing.
We all like to complain about how defensive medical testing leads to constantly rising insurance premium costs until the person seeking the peace of mind or the early diagnosis a test can produce is you and I or a member of our family.
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Generic drugmaker Able Labs (nasdaq: ABRX - news - people ) is also high on Oberweis' list of top buys, along with chemical and pharmaceutical firm Aceto (nasdaq: ACET - news - people ) as well as medical testing company Biosite (nasdaq: BSTE - news - people ).
Yes, t here are many groups and labs at medical schools testing various drugs in clinical trials in the hopes of slowing down the progress of the illness.
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Dr Ubani had won an injunction last week that stopped his medical association from investigating him and testing his medical competence.
Figure out how to make things simpler easier, ie: getting all the medical records and testing data in one, secure place.
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The gold standard for testing medical treatments is the randomized trial, in which patients are randomly assigned to a treatment or control group to spread patient differences evenly and avoid bias in results.
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Adverse event reporting has a critical role in the evaluation of the safety of a drug or medical device during its testing.
First, new credentialing rules made it difficult for International Medical Graduates by requiring testing on material the physician likely studied several years before.
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Thermocore Medical in England is testing a catheter containing tiny temperature sensors, betting that inflamed plaque is slightly hotter than the rest of the artery.
Professor Stuart Campbell, of St George's Hospital Medical School who has been testing the treatment, said it was a "most exciting" development.
UnitedHealth, the biggest insurer by revenue, is rolling out pay-for-performance contracts for hospitals, as well as testing its own medical homes and ACOs.
Resistant staph infections dropped 90% at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center after it began testing incoming ICU patients for exposure to resistant staph strains and isolating carriers.
But such optional testing of a medical food is usually far less stringent than the regulatory hurdles drug makers face when trying to bring a new treatment to the market.
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The other main route is through testing bio-medical samples.
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She says it has been a difficult decision, but it has been taken with the full support of the medical staff and after psychological testing and counselling from experts at Guy's Hospital, London.
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The medical device giant Medtronic is testing a related technique called deep-brain stimulation, in which electrodes from a device in the chest are surgically threaded several centimeters into the brain to the site of damage.
All government would have to do is provide guidelines for how doctors utilize testing in certain medical situations and ordain that any physician or hospital who follows these guidelines would have the presumption of using proper medical procedure on their side should a legal battle ensure.
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Farlow's Scientific Glassblowing makes the glass organs and vascular models used by medical-device manufacturers in preliminary testing to determine whether their products will work in real-life situations.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have designed hardware and software that turns the iPhone into a powerful biosensor that's useful for toxin and pathogen testing as well as medical diagnosis.
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