News on Quest Diagnostics Inc.http://www.newsaboutinsurance.com/topic/Quest Diagnostics Inc.2010-03-08T14:15:43ZQuest Diagnostics to offer new ovarian cancer test2010-03-08T14:15:43ZAP Newstag:www.newsaboutinsurance.com,2010-03-08:/article/Quest%20Diagnostics%20to%20offer%20new%20ovarian%20cancer%20test&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;<a title="Quest Diagnostics Inc." href="/topic/Quest+Diagnostics+Inc." >Quest Diagnostics</a> selling presurgical ovarian cancer test, cites improved treatment potential&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Medical lab operator Quest Diagnostics Inc. said Monday it is selling the OVA1 blood test, which aims to better assess a woman's likelihood for ovarian cancer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The OVA1 test, which was approved by the <a title="Food and Drug Administration" href="/topic/Fo...Quest Diagnostics buying back senior notes2010-02-24T04:08:40ZAP Newstag:www.newsaboutinsurance.com,2010-02-24:/article/Quest%20Diagnostics%20buying%20back%20senior%20notes&amp;lt;div id="subtitle"&amp;gt;<a title="Quest Diagnostics Inc." href="/topic/Quest+Diagnostics+Inc." >Quest Diagnostics</a> prices tender offer to buy back mix of senior notes&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Medical lab operator Quest Diagnostics Inc. said Tuesday it priced its tender offer to buy back a mix of senior notes.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The company will pay $1,037.19 for each $1,000 principal amount of its 5.125 percent senior notes due. It will al...Quest Diagnostics offering cash for senior notes2010-02-24T06:25:34ZAP Newstag:www.newsaboutinsurance.com,2010-02-24:/article/Quest%20Diagnostics%20offering%20cash%20for%20senior%20notes&amp;lt;div id="subtitle"&amp;gt;<a title="Quest Diagnostics Inc." href="/topic/Quest+Diagnostics+Inc." >Quest Diagnostics</a> will sell $750M in senior notes to buy back notes due in 2010 and 2011&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Medical lab operator Quest Diagnostics Inc. said Thursday it is offering $750 million in notes and will use proceeds to buy back its senior debt.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Quest is launching a cash tender offer for its senior notes due in ...Glucose Harmonization: The Role of Accurate Calibrators2009-03-24T22:31:49ZArchives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicinetag:www.newsaboutinsurance.com,2009-03-24:/article/Glucose%20Harmonization%3A%20The%20Role%20of%20Accurate%20Calibrators&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;To the Editor.-The article by Miller et al in the May issue of the Archives of Pathology &amp;amp; Laboratory Medicine contains critical data pertaining to the trueness of calibrators for glucose assays. 1 As shown in their Figure 3, the mean concentration of glucose reported by 23 of 31 peer groups for sample C-02 was less than 1 mg/dL away from the reference target, but 9 of the remaining peer groups reported mean concentrations of glucose that were more than 2 mg/dL greate...Major lab discloses problem with vitamin D testing2009-03-24T23:09:35ZAP Newstag:www.newsaboutinsurance.com,2009-03-24:/article/Major%20lab%20discloses%20problem%20with%20vitamin%20D%20testing&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;<a title="Quest Diagnostics Inc." href="/topic/Quest+Diagnostics+Inc." >Quest Diagnostics</a>: Issues that led to inaccuracies in 'small minority' of tests now fixed&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The nation's largest medical lab company says it recently discovered and fixed a problem that led to inaccuracies in a small number of tests for vitamin D deficiency.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quest Diagnostics of <a title="Madison" href="/topic/Madison" >Madison</a>, <a title="New Jer...