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Do you want to turn your bathroom into a medical lab?

By Scott Kirsner — Boston GlobeApril 12, 2018

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DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF Confer Health’s Nate Hixon worked on a device that will allow consumers to conduct some types of medical tests at home. David L Ryan/Boston Globe

BOSTON — A startup called Confer Health wants to put a medical test lab on your bathroom counter. And a group of venture capital firms have just supplied $9.5 million to help it do that.

The question is, do you feel like you need a medical test lab on your bathroom counter, in between the electric toothbrush and the soap dispenser?

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