Roche Strengthens African Manufacturing

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

Tags: africa, HIV, Roche

Roche web sites

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. I did like the approach of the site asking whether you are a patient etc to direct you to the appropriate site/subsection. I find this a far better navigation tool for a site for general public access as it leaves little room for misunderstaning. Read more…

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.

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