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Re:Holmes to remain at Theranos despite federal ban and gros... by smaili on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @11:14AM (#12079685)
> Still, last week’s news raises the question of what will happen to the company’s other clinical laboratory in Scottsdale, Arizona, at which 90 percent of the company’s tests are processed. So far, that lab has passed regulatory muster, and the company said it will remain open for now.

I find it interesting that their Arizona lab passed...would this imply they do indeed have a legitimate product?

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Re:Holmes to remain at Theranos despite federal ban and gros... by apathy on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:24PM (#12081263)
No, it implies that Siemens sold them a legitimate product.
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Re:Holmes to remain at Theranos despite federal ban and gros... by FussyZeus on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @11:17AM (#12079710)
I read at numerous points that they were using the older machines they were supposed to be "disrupting" the industry away from to perform tests, perhaps the Arizona lab is where they have those kept?

Either that or the Arizona regulations are just a little looser.

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Re:Holmes to remain at Theranos despite federal ban and gros... by rgbrenner on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @01:40PM (#12080935)
Your first thought was the correct one. This from last year:

Theranos halted the use of its finger-stick draws, collected in a small tube called a nanotainer, after the FDA declared the container was a medical device that should be regulated. That decision did not affect the company's Scottsdale lab, which exclusively uses FDA-approved blood analyzers and instruments made by companies such as Siemens and Olympus.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/consumers/2015...

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Re:Holmes to remain at Theranos despite federal ban and gros... by jlarocco on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @11:42AM (#12079964)
> Either that or the Arizona regulations are just a little looser.

Arizona is still in the United States, so it has the same federal regulations ;-)

Who knows, though, maybe they were just busy with the smaller lab and haven't got to Arizona yet.

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Re:Holmes to remain at Theranos despite federal ban and gros... by FussyZeus on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @12:40PM (#12080483)
That's entirely possible. My instinct would be to say that California would have more strict regulation but we could also be dealing entirely in federal.
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Re:Holmes to remain at Theranos despite federal ban and gros... by HeyLaughingBoy on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @09:28PM (#12083403)
"We" are. FDA is the relevant regulatory body.
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