Lab Rat or Button Monkey?

Newborn screening is to include MCADD in 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6339147.stm
Extra information about MCADD can be found here , here and here.
Information about newborn screening can be found here.

This looks like I might need to read it: http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/14/30/10/04143010.pdf.

Now I know that Abbot Diagnostics have been bought be GE (Report here) but I think it’s going to be a while before the name changes, if ever.
A colleague recently went on a training course sponsored by Abbot. It was for trainees and grade 1’s and covered a wide variety of information. In [...]

Thjis is the new name for anything provided by either DPC or Bayer, as Siemens have bought both companies.  I think in the case of Bayer, they only bought the diagnostic division. The following is the link to the diagnostic section of their site.
http://diagnostics.siemens.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StoreCatalogDisplay~q_catalogId~e_-111~a_langId~e_-111~a_storeId~e_10001.htm (You may need to paste this link together)
I think the site needs [...]

This is the main site for the diagnostics division of Olympus.  This site does cover all of their products so searches can come up with some interesting surprises.
http://www.olympus.co.uk/diagnostica/ 
I found this page to be very helpfull, as it lists all of thier tests and provides links to pdf documents about each test.
http://www.olympus.co.uk/diagnostica/reagents_marketinginformation.cfm 
Couldn’t find more clinical information, [...]

I haven’t managed to find some technical information from Roche, but I did find this site:
http://www.diavant.com/diavant/CMSFront.html 
It seems to be geared to a higher level than Labtestsonline so I’m guessing it is aimed at a more medical audience than Labtestsonline which is aimed at the patient.  A quick nose around seems to suggest that it’s pretty good.  [...]

I thought it might be a good idea to start to find useful stuff provided by companies within the Biomedical Science world.  At work I have started to tie together various different resources for our trainees so they can get the technical and clinical information behind each test.  This was done with the companies we [...]

Another story in the New Scientist, this one is about a blood test during pregnancy which can diagnose fetal genetic disorders.  The big advantage over the current method, amniocentesis, is that it doesn’t raise the risk of miscarriage.
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19325904.800-no-more-needles-into-the-womb.html 

I saw this article in the New Scientist magazine and thought it might be of interest.
Also, coverage in USA Today and at CBC

IS this going to have a huge impact on the current treatment of patients or is it one for th future?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6342855.stm