Its first three months had been spent mostly on diagnostics: the robotic equivalent of hopping in place and shaking your arms before a marathon.
Dr Angus Nicholl, director of the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, told BBC News Online there were some concerns that NHS laboratories had previously focussed on diagnostics rather than surveillance.
Community health workers in villages would have computers that prompt them through color-coded questions on disease diagnostics, prevention and treatment for each individual patient.
It takes advantage of the generic sixteen pin On Board Diagnostics (OBD II) data port which has been mandated by the U.S. government since 1996.
Brands that start out with high degrees of loyalty and emotional engagement have something better than high degrees of name awareness, or even high degrees of brand awareness with on-board diagnostics to fall back on.
Dr. Pai said he and the Clinton group canvassed the Indian laboratory industry, convincing 27 of the 400 laboratories in the country to agree to a price ceiling on the diagnostics they purchased at the steep discount.
That conference (its full title is Capillary Based Microfluidics for Bioanalysis), which focuses on low cost diagnostics and medical devices is in Boston, US. The annual Boring event was originally set up as a joke in 2010.
The researchers examined the prevailing inspection system called On-Board Diagnostics II (OBD-II), which tests for excessive carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitrogen oxides, and also checks the power-train systems for problems that might eventually lead to elevated emissions levels.
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It aims to bring together advances in artificial intelligence, wireless sensing, imaging diagnostics, lab-on-a-chip, and molecular biology.
Thus far, much of the molecular diagnostics field has concentrated on infectious diseases, detecting HIV, hepatitis C and sexually transmitted diseases like chlamydia.
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Novartis operates on four fronts: pharmaceuticals, vaccines and diagnostics, generics and consumer health.
Among the delegates on Friday was Dr Mary Jo Kurth, from clinical diagnostics company Randox.
"We have a policy where if you carry our diagnostics, we ask you to focus exclusively on our line, " he explains, adding that he will release a better system next year that won't require a separate centrifuge.
Dr. Topol focuses much of his attention on the development of "theranostics, " or the integrated use of treatments and diagnostics (especially genomic and protein information) to better guide therapy.
Up until May 2013, twelve 5-day workshops will be held to train professionals on several themes such as organizational development, change processes, learning, sustainability, institutional diagnostics, strategic planning, and elaboration of projects.
Biosite (nasdaq: BSTE - news - people ), a San Diego medical test maker that has appeared repeatedly on the Forbes 200 Best Small Companies list, has been swallowed up by another medical diagnostics outfit.
In his first year on the job, Fisher and his all-new top financial team sold Sterling Winthrop, Clinical Diagnostics and other nonimaging businesses.
The Indian government last year banned one of the inaccurate diagnostics, although many are still performed by small laboratories because few other cheap alternatives are on the market.
Future product releases will build on current software and tools, Klein says, and will probably add applications like software distribution, remote diagnostics, patches and systems management.
Signal Diagnostics ( www.signaldiagnostics.com): The founder of this company really shone on his own because he had the perfect combination of confidence without being arrogant.
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