Lab Rat or Button Monkey?

This is a story that I didn’t notice when it happened.  Beckman Coulter has bought Olympus Diagnostics.  Further coverage can be found here, here, here and from Beckman Coulter here.  Seems the story broke in Feburary.  Shows that my finger isn’t on the pulse!!!

This story appeared in www.medicalnewstoday.com It is always good to see companies promoting health before their bottom line. Africa and other developing countries can’t afford Western prices for vital drugs to combat HIV and other illnesses. For more information about Roche and HIV you can try this link or type in this address: http://www.roche-hiv.com

A while ago, I attended an Abbott Learn and Earn day on Cardiac Markers. The day was very well organized and contained some very useful information. The highlight of day was a talk from a cardiologist about the use of cardiac markers etc from a medical point of view. It was a surprise to learn [...]

I have tried to have a look around the Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics site for training content. I have found this training section. This contains material for the American market but is still broadly applicable to Europe. The material is well presented but there isn’t much of it. The Vitros 950 is summed up in five pages [...]

I realised the other day that I have forgotten to include the Vitros and Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics in my Industry round up. So I have taken a look around. First impressions are not good. The main site is http://www.orthoclinical.com/ which then asks for your location. Fair enough. So I then go the UK link, noticing that [...]

I have been looking at various Roche sites. I wanted to have a look at their chemistry information, as the hospital I work in is about to start a rather large tender process. Knowing Roche is a rather large company with numerous divisions, I headed straight for the diagnostics division which can be found here. [...]

This site was suggested as a good guide by a colleague. Having had a quick look, I have to agree. There are other guides available on their site e.g. tandem MS http://www.waters.com/

I suppose these two webites are about as close as out profession gets to a trade magazine: http://www.pathologyinpractice.com/ http://www.mlwmagazine.com/

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 the [...]

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 [...]