Lab Rat or Button Monkey?

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

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 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 [...]

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, [...]