The Theranos Deception — How Elizabeth Holmes Built a $9 Billion Medical Empire on a Lie

Author Stefan Leitner

For more than a decade, Elizabeth Holmes was celebrated as the future of healthcare.

Investors called her a genius.

Politicians praised her vision.

Media outlets compared her to Steve Jobs.

She appeared on magazine covers, spoke at prestigious conferences, and promised to revolutionize medicine with a technology that would transform blood testing forever.

Her company, Theranos, claimed it could perform hundreds of laboratory tests using only a few drops of blood from a finger prick.

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