[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Yak_52__G-CBSS_FLAT_SPIN.jpg” thumb_width=”150″ /]The absolutely funniest take that this Editor has seen is a funny paper–literally a (scroll down) cartoon strip that serializes the Theranos story. ‘The Rise and Fall of a Health Care Tech Unicorn’ lampoons CEO Holmes’ dropping out of Stanford, the Rube Goldberg-esque (=UK Heath Robinson) Edison Machine to the Wall Street Journal Exposé. $9 billion to $9. Depicted by Fiore for KQED San Francisco’s Future of You blog.
Unfortunately, for one now-plaintiff, Theranos isn’t funny at all. According to a lawsuit filed Monday in the US District Court in Arizona against both Theranos and Walgreens Boots Alliance, the patient’s doctor-ordered blood lipid and sugar levels came back normal. Based on these results, the doctor recommended remaining with ‘R.C.’s medication regimen. Less than one month later, R.C. suffered a heart attack, requiring surgery to implant two stents in his arteries. The additional blood testing led his doctor to believe that the Theranos results were dangerously inaccurate. These were the same results which were voided in May [TTA 19 May]. This is the ninth lawsuit over Theranos’ testing.
The sanctions which will close Theranos’ labs and prohibit Ms Holmes from the lab testing business will take effect 5 September, according to Ars Technica. (Article includes PDF of the court filing)
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