Theranos Has Struggled with Blood Tests
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#2Obligatory click-through-Google URL:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Theranos+Has+Struggled+With+...
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I had known about Theranos mostly for being a highly valued startup by a young college dropout involving something in the medical field...I assumed it was more related to the scientific research side...but in the article it says it's been offering tests to the public since 2013 (and that that appears to be the main potential source of revenue)...has anyone's doctor suggested the tests to them? It looks like they have a couple testing centers in Palo Alto but my general physician has never mentioned the option to me.
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#3Side note: Did anyone else find the writing for this article absolutely horrendous?
“They were never able to produce them,” she says.
Ms. King says the company did show detailed
testing-accuracy data to the nurse.
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#4A critical opinion piece on Theranos from the journal Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine:
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cclm.2015.53.issue-7/cclm-20...
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#5Side note: Did anyone else find the writing for this article absolutely horrendous? “They were never able to produce them,” she says. Ms. King says the company did show detailed testing-accuracy data to the nurse. I would have flunked freshman-english if I wrote papers like this. There was zero effort to link thoughts together all-throughout the piece. I thought the point of a pay-wall was to promote and support good…
It was so snarky. Every paragraph was more damning than the last.
Re: Theranos Has Struggled with Blood Tests
#6A critical opinion piece on Theranos from the journal Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine : http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cclm.2015.53.issue-7/cclm-20...
Thanks for the article, this quote hit me
>> Details of the Theranos technology have not been disclosed to scientific journals and for this reason it is not possible to comment. <<
So they have handful of tests that are FDA approved and then their protocols or technology never went through scientific scrutiny, but the whole company is valued $9billion? This is disconcerting.
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#7>>Theranos claims that the usual delay of testing in centralized laboratories is approximately 3 days and that they will generate and deliver their data much faster (e.g., within 4 h). The 3-day delay claim is not accurate. The bulk of laboratory testing in centralized laboratories is completed within an hour or two (calculated from time of sample collection to time of results posting for physician review). For example, in our laboratory, more than 90% of creatinine and troponin requests from all wards are completed in http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cclm.2015.53.issue-7/cclm-20...
This is the same kind of bullshit I see in academia, where a new technology is promised to replace an old technology that works fine, but now they have a 9 billion dollar valuation!
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#8In startup-world, this is known as "faking it until you make it." Well done Theranos, keep at it!
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#9Too bad if they are undergoing troubles as I'm really hopeful they become more widely available in California. I'm using WellnessFX [0] and InsideTracker [1], but they are expensive and draw too much blood (which could be a good thing, actually).
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#10Side note: Did anyone else find the writing for this article absolutely horrendous? “They were never able to produce them,” she says. Ms. King says the company did show detailed testing-accuracy data to the nurse. I would have flunked freshman-english if I wrote papers like this. There was zero effort to link thoughts together all-throughout the piece. I thought the point of a pay-wall was to promote and support good…
I'm missing something. What's hard to follow here? I mean, it's not Hemingway, but the previous paragraphs describe the difficulty of the situation, in which Theranos -- according to the WSJ -- asked its employees to recant their statements to the WSJ (pre-publication).
In the part that you excerpt, the WSJ reports the nurse saying that the company failed to produce data that would prove the accuracy of the test. The company (Ms. King) says that it did produce the data.
...How would you word that and the surrounding paragraphs?