Bad Blood

typically spun down in a centrifuge before it’s tested to separate its plasma from the patient’s blood cells. The phlebotomists ...

dismissal was that she had called attention to the fact that one of the lab’s main vendors had put its purchase orders on hold b ...

David Doyle, the Theranos senior counsel, demanding that she sign a declaration pledging to return to Theranos or “permanently d ...

spent $100 million more than that just to build the centers. While they sat idle, the wellness centers occupied valuable real es ...

innovation of this magnitude. His arrogance was infuriating. And yet Safeway was still hesitant to walk away from the partnershi ...

L | TEN | “Who Is LTC Shoemaker?” ieutenant Colonel David Shoemaker had been politely listening to the confident young woman sea ...

war in Afghanistan. After meeting Elizabeth, he’d asked subordinates at CENTCOM to set up a live field test of the Theranos devi ...

writing from the FDA supporting her position if she wanted him to greenlight the use of her machines on army personnel. Her face ...

adamant and he was also getting second-guessed by CENTCOM, he decided to bring in Jeremiah Kelly, an army lawyer who’d previousl ...

impasse. What was strange was that no one from Zuckerman Spaeder was there with her in the room. Shoemaker had expected her to s ...

portion of his twenty-year career at the agency pondering the question of laboratory-developed tests. The FDA had long considere ...

After some back-and-forth, Gutierrez, Yost, and Keller all reached the same conclusion: the Theranos model didn’t comply with fe ...

people in white lab coats and a smattering of commercial diagnostic instruments that were sitting idle. It looked like any other ...

was up to” and provided the agency with incorrect information that makes us appear to be in violation of the law. Since this mis ...

polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.” This was not a guy you wanted to get on the wrong side of ...

— AT 3:00 P.M. SHARP on August 23, 2012, Colonel Edgar escorted the two men into Mattis’s office on MacDill Air Force Base in Ta ...

but reasonable and a workable compromise had been reached. The limited experiment agreed upon fell short of the more ambitious l ...

T | ELEVEN | Lighting a Fuisz he doorbell at 1238 Coldwater Canyon Drive in Beverly Hills rang at 10:15 a.m. on Saturday, Octobe ...

The lawsuit had been filed by Theranos in federal court in San Francisco. It alleged that he had conspired with Joe and John Fui ...

father was an overbearing megalomaniac and tried to keep their interactions to a bare minimum. In 2004, he’d even dropped him as ...