Report: Theranos voids two years of reports from its blood testing devices

Theranos told officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that the company voided reports in 2014 and 2015 from its Edison blood testing devices, the Wall Street Journal reports. 

The newspaper also reported that Theranos told regulators that the company stopped using the devices in late June 2015. 

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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.

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