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Doctors and patients alike need to look at the numbers associated with their hormone levels. The different lab companies that run the blood tests intended to check your hormone levels, such as LabCorp or Quest Diagnostics, have differing ranges for normal, and those may be lowered every few years.

Quest Diagnostics CEO Steve Rusckowski on where the opportunities for growth are for the laboratory-services company, the growth of the health-care sector and efforts to reduce health-care spending in America.

Before you take a vitamin D supplement, you need to get your vitamin D levels checked. This can be done by your doctor, or you can even have it done very inexpensively through a lab such as LabCorp or Quest Labs.

Tom Romeo, general manager of healthcare IT and Quanum Solutions at Quest Diagnostics, recommended hiring the right staff and utilizing their strengths appropriately.

With more and more states legalizing marijuana, you'll often see headlines about how many workers in America are using cannabis. But when you dig into the numbers, it really isn't worth talking about. It should also be noted that all these statistics come from one drug testing lab called Quest Diagnostics. And while Quest Diagnostics is the largest testing lab in the United States, it's not the only one.

As more states legalize medicinal and recreational marijuana, more people are using the substance. In fact, a new report from Quest Diagnostics found that more people are testing positive for marijuana in workplace drug tests, with 2017 being the fifth year in a row for increased marijuana detection in urine drug tests. In 2017, 2.6% of the general workforce tested positive for marijuana use.

Quest Diagnostics, Secaucus, a provider of diagnostic information services, announced that it has completed the sale of its India medical diagnostic service business to Strand Life Sciences, a Bangalore-based specialized diagnostics company. Terms of this transaction were not disclosed. Alvarez & Marsal Corporate Finance & Restructuring, India acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Quest Diagnostics.

One of the largest U.S. drug-testing laboratories has analyzed its millions of urine drug test results by industry for the first time, and found the two industries with the highest rate of positive test results for marijuana were also two that have to deal with consumers. Some 5.3 percent of tests given to retail trade workers, and 4.7 percent of those given to health care and social assistance workers came back positive, according to an analysis by Quest Diagnostics.

Apple's health records project onboarded 100-plus hospitals and clinics. Apple has also been collaborating with national clinical testing labs — such as LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics — to bring patients' diagnostic results directly into the iPhone Health app as part of the health records feature.

Drug use by the U.S. workforce increased each year -- and by double-digits over two years -- between 2015 and 2017, in five of 16 major U.S. industry sectors analyzed, according to a first-ever analysis of industry-specific data from more than ten million urine drug test results performed by Quest Diagnostics, the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services.