Biosite is one of a few diagnostic companies that has had to grapple with a literal run on its product--a point-of-care proprietary cardiovascular test that took off in the marketplace almost immediately after it was introduced in 2000. Now, it faces two challenges: the advent of competition from large in-vitro diagnostic companies and following up with a seond act as its explosive growth slows to more normal levels.
We should all have such problems.
Biosite Inc. is one of a few diagnostics companies that had to grapple with a literal run on its...
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