Bad Blood

As his new lawyer saw it, Alan didn’t have much of a choice. Theranos could make a case that his actions did breach his confiden ...

The decade-old episode had left Phyllis skeptical that Elizabeth, who had no medical or scientific training to speak of and a cl ...

quotes from a senior scientist at Quest who said he didn’t think finger- stick blood tests could be reliable, and it noted Thera ...

and he included his cell-phone number. Fuisz drove his black Mercedes E-Class sedan back to Beverly Hills and, when he was just ...

he’d been asking for, he told him. Clapper agreed that this changed everything. The story now had legs. But he decided he couldn ...

I | NINETEEN | The Tip t was the second Monday in February and I was sitting at my messy desk in the Wall Street Journal’s Midto ...

back up the company’s scientific claims was one of them. I’d reported about health-care issues for the better part of a decade a ...

be the first time the two sides of the paper had contradicted each other. Two weeks after our initial conversation, Adam put me ...

With the ground rules for our conversation established, Alan let down his guard and we talked for more than an hour. One of the ...

Holmes and Balwani were romantically involved. I knew from reading the New Yorker and Fortune articles and from browsing the The ...

a big reporting breakthrough and had to remind myself that this was just the first step in a long process. There was still a lot ...

confirming what Andrew Perlman, Phyllis Gardner’s husband, had heard from a Siemens sales representative during a flight. He rev ...

One former high-ranking lab employee did agree to talk to me but only off the record. This was an important journalistic distinc ...

questionable. He also explained the pitfalls of using blood pricked from a finger. Unlike venous blood drawn from the arm, capil ...

worried about patients getting inaccurate test results. He was also concerned for his grandfather’s reputation. Although he felt ...

patients to the emergency room because of a frightening lab report from the company only to find out it was a false alarm. I fle ...

hotel the next morning, making sure to fast to ensure the most accurate readings. The Theranos wellness center inside the Walgre ...

TSH value. The patient was already on thyroid medication and the result suggested that her dose needed to be raised. Before she ...

story subject of every single piece of information we had gathered in our reporting and giving them ample time and opportunity t ...

who was willing to talk to me if I granted her confidentiality. The new source met me at a little brewery called Trappist Provis ...