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Craving Growth, Walgreens Dismissed Its Doubts About Theranos

Drugstore chain made blood-testing deal without fully validating the startup’s technology, worrying that Elizabeth Holmes might balk; ‘a very strange situation’

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Walgreens was considering a partnership with Theranos Inc. when founder Elizabeth Holmes arrived at Johns Hopkins University in the spring of 2011. She brought with her a machine she said could test tiny samples of blood for dozens of conditions and thick binders of data to show its accuracy.

A Hopkins scientist told her that his researchers needed to put the device in their Baltimore laboratory to verify the technology on Walgreens’...

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