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Quest Diagnostics launched a direct-to-consumer service that allows users to order and pay for lab tests from home. Dubbed QuestDirect, the online service offers 35 diagnostic test packages covering general health and wellness, men’s and women’s health, and the heart and digestive system, as well as panels for infections or sexually transmitted diseases.

Most of the time, finding a colon in a vacant house would be bad or even horrific news. But not in this case.[CR-LF][CR-LF]On October 20th I wrote for Forbes about someone stealing a 10-foot-long, 150-pound inflatable colon. This wasn't a colon from one of those huge floats in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, but a colon from the Colon Cancer Coalition meant to raise awareness for colon cancer screening as part of a campaign called “Get Your Rear in Gear.” Quest Diagnostics Health & Wellness and employees of Salix Pharmaceuticals also offered money to help purchase a replacement.

Quest Diagnostics, the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services, and Marin General Hospital, a not-for-profit, full-service hospital, have entered into a definitive agreement for Quest to acquire the outreach laboratory services operations of Marin General Hospital.

How drug tests measure for cocaine[CR-LF]The good news is that the window for cocaine detection in a urinalysis or saliva test is so short that you pretty much have to be coming down from a high while pissing to be detected. This is particularly true if you’re an infrequent user. “For most drug users, it takes one to two days [to be untraceable],” says Barry Sample, the director of science and technology at Quest Diagnostics.

The University of Kansas Cancer Center says there’s now $1,000 available for anyone who comes forward with information that leads to the return of a giant inflatable colon. KU said lab testing giant Quest Diagnostics is donating funds for a new colon.

We're number one! In people failing drugs test for weed! According to a report from the Drug Testing Index, Oregon has a higher percentage of workplace drug tests that are positive for marijuana than any other state in the country. Feeling proud? You're about to feel prouder because this is the third year in a row that Oregon has achieved this honor. According to the Quest index, culled from more than 10 million drug tests administered at workplaces throughout the country, a whopping 4.64 percent of Oregon's workplace drug tests in 2017 were positive for pot. That's up from 2016's 4.5 percent and 2015's 3.43 percent.

Secaucus-based Quest Diagnostics has acquired the outreach laboratory services operations of Marin General Hospital, it announced Thursday. The deal, Quest said, will enhance its delivery of diagnostic information services, like an enhanced test menu, to communities in Marin County, California.

Marshall County Prosecutor, Chipman is sworn to uphold the law, even the federal ban on marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug and Indiana's reluctance in legislating medical marijuana for Hoosiers. In 2017, 1.9 percent of Indiana workers tested positive for marijuana, although some northeast and southwest pockets are as high as 3.1 percent, according to the annual Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index. The national rate is 2 percent, with Michigan at 2.8 percent, Illinois and Kentucky at 2.1 percent and Ohio at 1.9 percent.

Quest Diagnostics this week announced it is acquiring the outreach laboratory services of Marin General Hospital located in Greenbrae, California. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter. No other details were disclosed.