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Responding to customer requirements to handle increased volumes in decentralized clinical testing, MedTest Dx today announced the introduction of its BA-800M Clinical Analyzer for general chemistry with a full line of reagents and the launch of its BC-5390 5-Part Differential Hematology Analyzer at the 2018 American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Annual Scientific Meeting.

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Fujirebio Diagnostics, Inc., a consolidated subsidiary of Miraca Holdings Inc., has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of the company’s Lumipulse® G B•R•A•H•M•S PCT Assay for testing on its LUMIPULSE® G1200 immunoassay platform.

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Fujirebio Inc., a consolidated subsidiary of Miraca Holdings Inc., (Head office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, President and CEO: Yoshihiro Ashihara, hereinafter “Fujirebio” or “the Company”) announced today that it has entered into an agreement with US-based Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (hereinafter “Janssen”) to develop and commercialize an AMYLOID β 42/40 RATIO assay.

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MedTest Holdings, the solution provider of choice offering integrated products and services for decentralized clinical diagnostic testing, today announced the debut of its new corporate name—MedTest Dx—at the upcoming 2018 American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Annual Scientific Meeting.

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Brandwidth Solutions, LLC, a full-service marketing agency addressing science-based businesses, has been recognized as Best Specialist Life Science Marketing Agency 2018-Pennsylvania by AI Global Media.

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Debra Harrsch, founder and chief executive of Brandwidth Solutions, a full-service marketing agency addressing science-based businesses, received a Management Consulting Award from CEO Today magazine. The international publication “identifies the most hard-working and outstanding consultancy experts across the globe.”

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The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, a 4-year, $9 million grant aimed at determining the long-term impact of cannabis exposure on the adolescent brain.

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Hahn-Schickard enables complex clinical pictures to be diagnosed quickly and reliably directly at the point of care. The latest device generation allows the amplification of RNA and DNA by means of fast PCR in 20 - 25 minutes. This makes it possible, for example, to analyze a real patient sample fully automatically in 30 minutes. The device can also be used in the field of food analysis or environmental analysis.

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PixCell is a cell based diagnostics company that has developed the HemoScreen: the first true Point of Care (POC) Hematology analyzer that uses a self-contained disposable cartridge, preventing the need for any maintenance or calibrations. The HemoScreen is a portable and user-friendly test device that provides lab accurate results for the standard 20 Complete Blood Count (CBC) parameters, including a 5-part differential.

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NAMSA®, the world’s only Medical Research Organization (MRO) that accelerates medical device development through integrated laboratory testing, clinical research and regulatory consulting services, announced today the launch of its in vitro diagnostic (IVD) development business to provide global manufacturers a proven resource for expedited commercialization outcomes delivered via NAMSA’s “Uniquely IVD” regulatory, quality and clinical research services.

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Equitech Enterprises Inc. is leading supplier of quality human blood, human blood components, and biological fluids to the research industry.

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Techcyte Europe has been awarded the 2018 Healthcare Startup of the Year at the annual Healthcare Summit in Luxembourg.

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Magnefy offer an additional performance-driven solid phase for magnetic particle-based assays and isolations, including SPRI-based* total DNA isolation. (*Solid phase reversible immobilization, which features the isolation of high-purity nucleic acid in the presence of NaCl and PEG.)

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Festo AACC 2018 News -- Festo introduces its next generation liquid handling/modular dossing system. Booth #462

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Equitech-Bio, Inc will attend and participate in AACC 2018 at Booth #3971.

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Dynex Technologies announced today it has finalized a supply agreement with ZEUS Scientific (Branchburg, NJ) enabling ZEUS to sell Dynex instruments to the global clinical market.

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The American Thoracic Society led 10 medical professional organizations in filing an amicus brief last week regarding the FDA’s failure to apply pre-market review to new tobacco products. The brief was submitted in support of the American Academy of Pediatrics and its co-plaintiffs and outlines the compelling data indicating that the FDA’s failure to act harms children.

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Enzo is pleased to announce the launch of a new primary antibody validated for IHC, our p16INK4a monoclonal antibody. Our antibody is specific to the p16INK4A protein, a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor that plays an important regulatory role in the cell cycle.

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IDEX Health & Science Announces Acquisition of Finger Lakes Instrumentation

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GenPrime Inc., a leading provider of digital technology platforms and lateral flow readers, has announced the development of a new handheld version of its FDA-cleared diagnostic test reader...

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GenPrime Inc., a leading provider of digital technology platforms and lateral flow readers, has announced the development of a new high-throughput version of its FDA-cleared diagnostic test reader...

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Web Industries Inc., a leading medical contract manufacturing organization (CMO), will highlight its commitment to building lasting relationships with medical device makers as well as enhanced manufacturing capabilities for lateral flow immunoassay (LFI) devices.

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Artel, is featuring a new demonstration at the 70th AACC Annual Scientific Meeting (Jul. 29 – Aug. 2). They will demonstrate how combining volume verification technology with a precise automated liquid handler can provide an optimized NGS workflow – speeding the process and eliminating doubt.

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epMotion 5075 NGS solution comes with a new set of software features that was specifically developed for NGS customer needs, like intelligent selection of single and 8-channel dispensing tools, flexible number of samples, reduced dead-volume, more worktable capacity, email notification and more.

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Two new centrifuges from Eppendorf: the smaller benchtop centrifuges with up to 24 spaces herald a new era, while Eppendorf is simultaneously expanding the product range of its large refrigerated benchtop centrifuges with a particularly versatile, high-capacity variant.

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Published in Addiction, a new paper lays out some of the factors that lead policymakers to look for easy answers to complex problems related to opioid addiction.

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Patients who sought care for a sprained ankle in states that were found to be "high prescribers" of opioids were approximately three times more likely to receive a prescription for the drugs than those treated in "low-prescribing" states, according to new research. Additional results of the study show that patients who received prescriptions for long courses of the drugs (e.g. more than 30 tablets of oxycodone 5 mg) were five times more likely to fill additional opioid prescriptions over the next 6 months than those who received just a few days' supply (e.g. 10 tablets of less).

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ALPCO, a leading producer of research and clinical immunoassays, has announced the upcoming launch of its FDA Class I Exempt STELLUX® Chemi Glucagon ELISA.

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Visiun, the leader in laboratory analytics, will be showcasing the latest advancements in laboratory analytics at the 2018 AACC Clinical Lab Expo. Visit Visiun at booth 4367 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, from July 31 – August 2 to discover why hundreds of laboratories across the United States and Canada select Visiun’s Performance Insight® as their tool of choice for laboratory analytics.

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Biotin supplementation, in the common dosage of 10 mg per day, can interfere with immunoassays leading to incorrect laboratory results and the potential for clinical misinterpretation.

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This year at the 70th AACC Annual Scientific Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo, we look forward to showing our latest u-CupTM product line of Point-of-Care Drug testing cups.

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Advanced Data Systems Corporation (ADS) is pleased to announce that its MedicsPremier system, a leading, innovative billing and reporting software solution for laboratories has been enhanced with a built-in utility for managing and reporting on laboratory sales activities and commissions.

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Japan’s lawmakers on Friday approved the nation’s first integrated resorts; IGI reports offered analysis for officials, business leaders on gaming regulation and ways to balance growing tourism market while minimizing social costs.

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Artel, as the industry’s strongest proponent of the critical role of liquid handling in achieving optimized assay results and improved laboratory productivity, is featuring a new demonstration at the 70th AACC Annual Scientific Meeting in Chicago (July29th – August 2nd).

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While many people consider drinking to be a pleasurable activity at home or in social venues with friends, it can result in harm to the user and to others who are affected by the user’s drinking. These harms can include inter-personal violence, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), emotional neglect, and social embarrassment, which can adversely affect close relationships, such as with family, and extended relationships, such as with friends, co-workers, and more distant relatives. This study analyzed the impact of having close- and extended-proximity relationships with a harmful drinker among men and women in 10 countries.

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Biomat has added to its line of coated 96 well microplates a line of PCR supports

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Mental health has recently been in the news for all the wrong reasons: unexpected celebrity suicides, an increase in depression diagnoses, the CDC’s report that the suicide rate has increased by 30 percent since 1999, etc. Penn Medicine’s Collaborative Care Behavioral Health initiative aims to catch untreated mental health issues through a preexisting relationship: the primary care physician.

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AutoSorter™ 1200 is Yaskawa Motoman’s high-speed sorting instrument for pre- and post-analytic specimen processing.

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AutoSorter™ 2000BB is Yaskawa Motoman’s high-speed bulk sorter for high-volume commercial laboratories, providing maximum specimen throughput at up to 2,000 tubes/hr. It minimizes manual handling of specimens through bulk loading/unloading, and it reduces sequential sorting by fine sorting in one step.

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Yaskawa Motoman offers track-based specimen processing solutions that improve speed, capacity and accuracy for labor-intensive, high throughput areas of the clinical diagnostic lab. These fully integrated pre- and post-analytic automation solutions can enable high-volume throughput with minimal staffing to meet the needs for moderate volume labs up to the largest commercial laboratory operations.

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Diener Precision Pumps plans to launch their new Silencer LD gear pump at the AACC exhibition in Chicago, July 31st - August 2nd. Booth 4409.

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Using a mouse model to simulate binge drinking, researchers at Columbia University showed that heavy alcohol use during adolescence damages neurons in the part of the brain involved in working memory.

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ALPCO, a leading producer of research and clinical immunoassays, recently launched its new STELLUX® Chemi Active GLP-1 (7-36) amide ELISA .

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Rutgers researchers, with the aid of a new $3 million National Cancer Institute grant, will be studying the effectiveness of Tobacco 21 laws in the hopes of helping determine how tobacco control policies aimed at young people can be strengthened to improve their health and avoid untimely deaths due to tobacco-related illness.

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A clinical trial is currently underway to evaluate the predictive values of the STELLUX® Chemiluminescence Calprotectin ELISA for the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), specifically Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). The clinical trial will evaluate the use of the assay to aid in the differentiation of IBD from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) when used in conjunction with other diagnostic testing.

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Federal data shows a 65 percent increase in liver deaths over a seven-year period, according to a study by Michigan Medicine. Alcohol was a major cause but obesity plays a major role in troubling trends in liver mortality.

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Patients who take prescription opioids for more than 60 days before total knee or hip replacement surgery are at significantly higher risk of being readmitted to the hospital and of undergoing repeat joint-replacement surgery, compared to patients with no preoperative opioid use, reports a study in the July 18 issue of The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio in partnership with Wolters Kluwer.

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Nova Biomedical is pleased to announce that the StatStrip Glucose Hospital Meter System has been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for fingerstick capillary testing with critically ill patients (K181043).

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Micronit, Axxicon and Helvoet are proud to announce the launch of Flow Alliance, House of Microfluidics. The companies have been working together for two years. With this next step they emphasise their commitment towards providing a very strong package of development and manufacturing competences to support the growing global demand for high-quality high volume polymer microfluidic products.