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OPKO Health Reports 2020 First Quarter Business Highlights and Financial Results
Conference call begins at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time today MIAMI, May 06, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OPKO Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPK) reports business highlights and
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[{"type":"text","content":"Conference call begins at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time today\nMIAMI, May 06, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OPKO Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPK) reports business highlights and financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2020.\n Business Highlights BioReference Laboratories launched COVID-19 testing nationwide: On March 13, 2020, BioReference Laboratories launched a Real-Time Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction assay with an approximate 24-72 hour turnaround time to promote earlier diagnosis of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to aid in limiting the spread of infection. In addition to its nationwide COVID-19 test offering, BioReference announced testing partnerships with the New York State Department of Health, New York City Health and Hospital Corporation, the State of New Jersey, the State of Florida and the cities of Detroit and Miami, among others. Additionally, Rite Aid Corporation selected BioReference to provide COVID-19 laboratory testing to its drive-up locations with the goal of flattening the curve through widely accessible diagnostic testing. To date, BioReference has run approximately 700,000 COVID-19 tests and currently has a COVID-19 testing capacity of 35,000 tests per day. As of April 27, 2020, BioReference Laboratories started offering COVID-19 antibody testing, a semi-quantitative immunoassay that measures SARS-CoV-2 specific IgG antibody levels, correlating with the patient’s immune response after COVID-19 infection. Within the next two weeks, BioReference expects to expand its capacity to be able to process up to 400,000 tests per day. Somatrogon abstract to be presented at Endocrine Society’s ENDO Online 2020: On April 22, 2020, OPKO announced the data from its two abstracts regarding the global Phase 3 pediatric trial evaluating somatrogon dosed once weekly in pre-pubertal children with growth hormone deficiency will be combined into a single presentation at ENDO Online 2020, a virtual event being held June 8 through 22 featuring on-demand and live programming. The results of the pivotal Phase 3 study will be delivered on June 8, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time by Dr. Cheri Deal, the Principal Investigator of the pediatric study. The two abstracts entitled “Somatrogon Growth Hormone in the Treatment of Pediatric Growth Hormone Deficiency: Results of the Pivotal Phase 3” and “Interpretation of Insulin-like Growth...