Increased Number of Corporations Now Offer Employee Wellness Programs, Creating Opportunity to Clinical Laboratories to Provide Needed Lab Tests

Aug 23, 2013 | Laboratory Management and Operations, Laboratory News, Laboratory Operations, Management & Operations

Elements of Obamacare specifically support employer programs designed to improve the health of employees Who would have believed that, after passage of the Affordable Care Act back in 2010, a fast-growing trend would be that of employers spending more money to develop employee wellness programs and offer medical clinics within corporate facilities? At a minimum, this development creates new opportunities for clinical laboratories to be direct providers of medical laboratory testing services to...

Expanding Knowledge about the Human Microbiome Will Lead to New Clinical Pathology Laboratory Tests

Jul 7, 2010 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology

With $175 Million in Funding, Human Microbiome Project is Making Rapid Progress Research into the human microbiome is expected to trigger development of new diagnostic tests that will be offered by clinical pathology laboratories. That’s because the organisms that live on us and in us are as unique to individuals as their DNA, and scientists believe these microbes may be just as important to health. Which microbes and how much they matter to the host’s health are the questions a consortium of...
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