Just like the rest of Wall Street, the lab industry continues to struggle this year, with the G-2 Laboratory Stock Index down 12 percent over the last five weeks for the week ended March 20, 2008, and down 14 percent for 2008. The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 continue to be down this year. Nasdaq is down 15.57 percent and the S&P 500 is down 10.08 percent so far in 2008.

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April 2008 - Table of Contents

LIR April 2008 (full PDF issue)

Quest Partners With Google to Develop Portable PHR

Debt Load and Economy's Financial Crisis Put Pressure on Bostwick Labs' $100M IPO

Top 10 Lab and Pathology Tests—Surgical Path Leads With $20 Billion in Medicare Dollars

Lab Financial Benchmarks Reveal Psychemedics Tops Productivity Measures

NY Market Shift Helps Boost Bio-Reference, but DSO Benchmarks Cause Concern

Receivables, Bad Debt Could Rise as Economic Downturn Challenges Labs

Sonic Projects 20% to 25% Growth in ’08 as Federated Model and Acquisitions Pose Challenge

Ikonisys Gets CLIA Registration for Niche Reference Lab

Lab Stocks Take a Hit in March; Index Down 12% Over 5 Weeks

Stanford’s Basic Outreach Testing Unit for Sale