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 Post subject: blood test from 1 drop
PostPosted: June 23rd, 2014, 7:15 pm 
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A new company called Theranos finally introduced its radical blood-testing service in a Walgreens pharmacy near company head­quarters in Palo Alto, California. (The plan is to roll out testing centers nation­wide.) Instead of vials of blood—one for every test needed—Theranos requires only a pinprick and a drop of blood. With that they can perform hundreds of tests, from standard cholesterol checks to sophisticated genetic analyses. The results are faster, more accurate, and far cheaper than conventional methods.

The company plans to charge less than 50 percent of the standard Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates. And unlike the rest of the testing industry, Theranos lists its prices on its website: blood typing, $2.05; cholesterol, $2.99; iron, $4.45. If all tests in the US were performed at those kinds of prices, the company says, it could save Medicare $98 billion and Medicaid $104 billion over the next decade.


http://www.wired.com/2014/02/elizabeth-holmes-theranos/

I just thought this was cool.

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PostPosted: June 23rd, 2014, 7:15 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: blood test from 1 drop
PostPosted: June 23rd, 2014, 7:25 pm 
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Really cool, in a bio lab in college we had to get a genetic analysis done and it was about $100, the actually test was probably cheaper but after you add lab fee's it came out to around $100 so I'd be interested in seeing how much cheaper it is this way.

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 Post subject: Re: blood test from 1 drop
PostPosted: June 23rd, 2014, 10:03 pm 
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Very cool. Hopefully, it'll drop the price of testing substantially. If it's as good as they say, this will be a big step in medicine.

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