American Clinical Laboratory Association This Laboratory Professionals Week, we’re taking a moment to thank laboratory researchers, technicians, administrative staff and medical officers who are going above and beyond the call of duty to serve patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, ACLA is featuring BioReference’s Chief Medical Officer and laboratory director who has played a critical […]

Dr. Oz Jon Cohen, the executive chairman of Bioreference Laboratories, joins via Zoom, and shares an update on the progress of COVID-19 testing in New York. Plus, he details the specific requirements of drive-thru testing. Click here for original post on Dr. Oz

The Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state opened its first drive-through coronavirus testing center Friday in hard-hit New Rochelle, aiming to break a testing bottleneck that Gov. Andrew Cuomo called a crisis. The six-lane testing center will soon handle 500 people a day, with priority given to residents of the New York […]

South Florida Business Journal BioReference Laboratories, a subsidiary of Miami-based Opko Health (Nasdaq: OPK), has begun accepting specimen from health care providers throughout the U.S. to test whether or not their patients have COVID-19. The lab launched testing Friday, expecting to start with about 1,000 to 2,000 tests a day. BioReference expects to eventually ramp […]