BASINGSTOKE, UK, August 19, 2009– Oxoid, a world leading microbiology brand, drew crowds of clinical microbiologists to its booth at the 2009 European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) Congress, where delegates could find out about all the latest Oxoid products and take part in several competitions.

Roche in the UK is pleased to announce that it is providing a Point of Care (POC) Managed Laboratory Service (MLS) to the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Trust and the Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust.

Roche reinforces market leader status by extending the range of tests available on MODULAR Analytics and cobas platforms for the assessment of glomerular filtration rate (GFR)

12 August 2009: Maidenhead UK: With the launch of its ARCHITECT ci4100 low-volume integrated analyser in July, Abbott Diagnostics (Maidenhead, UK) has completed the all-encompassing ARCHITECT family.

Omega Diagnostics Limited (Omega), the Scottish based diagnostics company, are pleased to announce the launch of the Pathozyme ElisaSure kit. A new universal kit targeted for all ELISA kit users and for manual and automated systems.

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics has introduced the RAPIDPoint® 340 and 350 Blood Gas Analysers for low to mid-volume

As medical science advances and technologies converge it is essential that a Notified Body can provide a full service to its clients. To this end BSI plans to broaden its medical device notified body offering to include In Vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVD) and has appointed Sue Spencer to lead this effort.

UK lab managers join together at inaugural Siemens Academy to increase knowledge and prepare for commercial change

Novel Sensor Platform for healthcare applications School of Applied Science‐Microsystems and Nanotechnology & Cranfield Health