Olympus

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, though this might be due to Olympus not having a drug division in the company like Bayer/Roche/Abbott

Roche

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.

Company Sites

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 currently use.  I don’t think it would be wise to post this here, as it would be slightly biased.  I will redo it to cover most of the big companies, access to resources allowing.  The information will aalow people to look at a test e.g. albumin and go to the technical information about the test from a variety of different companies.

As that is still a way off, I thought I would find you some general sites from companies.

The future?

I attended a lecture at University of Westminster dealing with micro array technology with regards to Chemical Pathology in 1999 or 2000. At the time it seemed very promising. The lecture was performed by an academic but the underlying technology implementation was from Roche. It seems that this approach was subsequently mothballed. At the time, I heard it was for commercial reasons, as Roche were pushing a different immunoanalyser.

It now seems that Roche are back in the game…

http://www.roche.com/home/media/med_div/med_dia/med_dia_2007/med_dia_2007-01-15.htm

I believe this reference will provide some background:

Ekins, R. (1998) Ligand assays: from electrophoresis to miniaturized microarrays. Clin Chem, 44:9, p. 2015-2030

Or this link.

http://www.clinchem.org/cgi/content/full/44/9/2015