blfr 225 Zgłoś post Napisano Maj 1, 2016 Na zachodzie robią często to samo, tylko kasa liczona w miliardach: Two years ago, the blood-testing startup Theranos "was one of the hottest properties in Silicon Valley," said David Crow at the Financial Times. Valued at $9 billion, it promised nothing short of a paradigm shift in medicine with its revolutionary, needle-free test method. CEO Elizabeth Holmes, a 32-year-old Stanford dropout, was gushingly profiled in the business press as the world's youngest self-made female billionaire. But today, the company is "fighting for its survival," amid claims that its tests are "at best, fundamentally flawed and, at worst, unsafe." The trouble began six months ago, when The Wall Street Journal reported that the company's breakthrough technology, which could affordably run hundreds of tests with blood from a finger prick, couldn't actually deliver. Not long after, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which regulates lab testing, said that Theranos "put patients' lives at risk" with faulty tests at its California lab. The latest blow: The Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission recently opened separate criminal investigations into whether Theranos misled investors about its technology. Nie rozumiem tego przekonania, że gdzieś na jakimś mitycznym zachodzie to idylla. 3 Udostępnij ten post Link to postu Udostępnij na innych stronach
