Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings · Burlington, NC United States ·(NYSE: LH)

This company pricks and prods for profit. Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) is one of the top providers of clinical laboratory services in the world. LabCorp performs tests on more than 440,000 patient specimens each day on behalf of managed care organizations, hospitals, doctors, government agencies, drug companies, and employers. Its services range from routine urinalyses, HIV tests, and Pap smears to specialty testing for diagnostic genetics, oncology diagnosis and monitoring, infectious diseases, clinical drug trials, and allergies. LabCorp operates some 1,600 service sites across the US that collect patient specimens and ship them to its 35 primary laboratories where tests are performed. To read the full description, subscribe now.