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MIAMI, March 07, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OPKO Health, Inc. (NASDAQ:OPK) announces that GenPath Women’s Health, a business unit of OPKO Health subsidiary BioReference Laboratories, will offer ClariTest™, a non-invasive prenatal test (NIPT) initially to be performed at Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) on the Verifi™ platform. This platform utilizes massively parallel sequencing technology to screen for trisomies 13, 18, 21 and sex chromosome abnormalities, with […]
MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)– OPKO Health, Inc. (NYSE: OPK) announces the appointment of Gregory Henderson, M.D., Ph.D., as President of BioReference Laboratories (BRL), effective immediately. Dr. Henderson succeeds Marc Grodman, M.D., who is resigning, having served as Chairman, President and CEO of BRL since founding the company in 1981. OPKO acquired BRL in August 2015. Dr. Grodman […]
MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)– OPKO Health, Inc. (NYSE:OPK) today announced the decision of the European Association of Urology (EAU) Prostate Cancer Guidelines Panel to include the 4Kscore® Test in the 2016 EAU Guidelines for Prostate Cancer. The panel concluded that the 4Kscore, as a blood test with greater specificity over the PSA test, is indicated for use prior to a first prostate biopsy […]
4Kscore Test Results Significantly Influenced Physician-Patient Shared Decision-Making in Clinical Practice and Led to a 64.6% Reduction in Prostate Biopsies MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)– OPKO Health, Inc. (NYSE: OPK) announced today the results of a study for the 4Kscore® Test’s clinical utility in reducing the number of prostate biopsies performed, while increasing the probability of detecting aggressive prostate cancer […]
MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)– OPKO Health, Inc. (NYSE:OPK) announced today that the American Medical Association (AMA) Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) Editorial Panel has granted a Category I CPT code for its 4Kscore® Test, the only blood test that accurately identifies an individual patient’s risk for aggressive prostate cancer. This important event upgrades the 4Kscore Test from a Category III Administrative code to a […]
