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Posted on Thu, 26 Jan 2012
Rapid H. pylori detection with PYLORITOP® Ag+
Pro-Lab Diagnostics has released a rapid visual assay for the detection of H. pylori in faecal samples. PYLORITOP® Ag+ is an immunochromatogenic test designed to provide clinical laboratories with a cost-effective assay to help meet current guidelines for the detection and treatment of H. pylori 1.
Infection with H. pylori is estimated to affect 40 – 50 % of the population, and can have a significant impact on the treatment of patients with gastroduodenal diseases, gastric cancers and unexplained iron deficiency anaemia. PYLORITOP® Ag+ provides a quick and convenient noninvasive test for H. pylori infection, offering rapid qualitative results in just five minutes to help guide clinical pathways and avoid unnecessary treatments. Based on robust lateral flow technology, individually wrapped PYLORITOP® Ag+ test cassettes are supplied with a sample collection tube for maximum convenience, and can be safely stored at room temperature for up to 12 months, providing a practical solution for H. pylori testing.
Mark Reed, General Manager of Pro-Lab Diagnostics, commented: “PYLORITOP® Ag+ is the latest addition to Pro-Lab Diagnostics’ portfolio of immunodiagnostic products, and is supported by our knowledgeable and friendly team of experts. This simple test offers clear, qualitative results in just a few minutes, helping to streamline laboratory workflows for better patient care.”
1 EHSG Maastricht III 2005 Consensus Report
About Pro-Lab Diagnostics
The Pro-Lab Group of companies is dedicated to the provision of high quality, cost effective immunodiagnostic products and biological reagents to hospitals, private medical laboratories, veterinary laboratories, and other biological investigative laboratories. Pro-Lab Diagnostics is a privately held corporation founded in 1974 with its head office in Toronto, Canada and subsidiaries in the U.K. and U.S.A.
Posted on Thu, 26 Jan 2012
Syrris custom reactors – built for you
Syrris is a world leader in modular laboratory scale chemistry systems – including the flexible Atlas and Globe ranges – and also offers a bespoke reactor design service to meet the most specialized requirements. Syrris Custom Reactor Systems are ideally suited to processes requiring large reactor vessels, elevated pressures or high temperatures, automated operation and the option of full data logging.
Using many years of expertise in reactor design, Syrris chemists and engineers will work with you to design an adaptable, high quality solution to meet your needs. Recent examples include a 20 liter automated synthesis system for the defense industry – incorporating high torque stirring, volumetric liquid addition and temperature logging – and a polymerization reactor capable of operating at pressures up to 60 bar and temperatures of 350 oC, as well as a 100 liter single jacketed reactor system, built for Zirkon Industria e Comercio Ltda in Brazil. Valter Russo, director of Zirkon’s R&D department, explained: “The results obtained from our pilot-scale reactor are fundamental to performing the technological transfer of the procedures to the production plant, and the 100 liter reactor allows these studies to be rapidly and easily performed. The system is well designed – with functional, efficient and easy to use software – and we are now considering purchasing an Asia flow system to complement our existing Syrris equipment.”
For more information, visit www.syrris.com
Syrris Limited
Syrris is world renowned for excellence in chemical reactor systems and is a world leader in flow chemistry systems. Established in 2001, Syrris employs over 30 scientists and engineers at its facility in Royston (near Cambridge, UK) and has offices in the US, Japan, India and Brazil plus over 30 distributors worldwide.
Syrris develops laboratory automation products for research and development chemists in industries such as pharma, petrochem, agrochem, fine chemical synthesis etc. as well as academia. Syrris products are used in a wide variety of applications and laboratories including process, discovery, crystallization, process safety, scale-up and many more.
Syrris products include the innovative range of fully automated batch reactor products (Atlas), a manually operated jacketed reactor platform (Globe) and flow chemistry systems (Asia and Africa). In recognition of its technological achievements, Syrris has been awarded the “Eastern Region’s UKTI Best Established Exporter” and the “Most Outstanding Export Achievement” at the Global Opportunity Conference on International Trade.
Posted on Thu, 26 Jan 2012
Good Hope Hospital chooses SonoSite’s M-Turbo®
Clinicians at the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust are benefitting from using SonoSite’s M-Turbo® and MicroMaxx® hand-carried ultrasound systems for vascular diagnostics and treatment guidance. Corinna Gomm, Clinical Vascular Scientist at the Trust, explained: “The Vascular Centre is at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, which has numerous SonoSite instruments, mainly MicroMaxx systems. These are used in both outpatient clinics – where their main uses are for scanning aortas, surveillance of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) and for assessing veins prior to treatment – and in theatre, for ultrasound-guided treatment such as radiofrequency ablation of varicose veins (EVLA). Outpatient clinics and treatments also take place at Good Hope Hospital, where we have recently purchased an M-Turbo, and at Solihull, and the SonoSite systems have proved very capable of supporting satellite outpatient work when needed.”
“I also use the M-Turbo on the wards to perform carotid and leg arterial duplexes, and have been very pleased with its performance. It is robust, easy to use and the image is really clear, allowing me to perform intricate scans. We look at grey scale, colour and Doppler images and, as the system can penetrate down to 20 cm, it is very sensitive even in larger patients. The advanced needle visualisation feature is also popular with our consultants when performing ultrasound guided interventions. Minimal training was required as the systems are quite intuitive, and SonoSite’s technical advisors are very accessible. That is the beauty of SonoSite.”
About SonoSite
SonoSite, Inc. (www.sonosite.com) is the innovator and world leader in bedside and point-of-care ultrasound and an industry leader in ultra high-frequency micro-ultrasound technology and impedance cardiography equipment. Headquartered near Seattle, the company is represented by fourteen subsidiaries and a global distribution network in over 100 countries. SonoSite’s small, lightweight systems are expanding the use of ultrasound across the clinical spectrum by cost-effectively bringing high-performance ultrasound to the point of patient care.SonoSite, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of SonoSite, Inc. based in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, oversees a direct sales distribution network in the UK and provides sales and marketing support for SonoSite's European offices.
Posted on Thu, 26 Jan 2012
Compliance delivered and quality assured with Radiometer’s new AQURE point-of-care management system
Radiometer’s new AQURE point-of-care (POC) management system offers hospitals a customisable, highly flexible and scalable software solution with the capability to monitor and control the performance of their POC testing platform. The easy-to-use system encompasses a device centre with online analyser, parameter and QC status instantly available. AQURE supports Radiometer blood gas and immunoassay analysers, enabling their remote access and control, and its open architecture also allows monitoring and control of non-Radiometer point-of-care testing devices.
AQURE is built on Microsoft® technology, making it easy to integrate into existing hospital IT infrastructures and enabling automatic capture and storage of data and transfer of patient results to the HIS/LIS. The user-friendly system features an elegant, customisable dashboard that provides a clear overview of the POC testing environment, simplifying procedures and supporting straightforward data interpretation to offer significant time savings. Results and events from all connected devices are evaluated based on a rules engine – which looks for critical errors and issues automatic notifications in the event of a problem – eliminating the need to browse for status information. With interactive overview reports and an audit trail to provide traceability, systems are always inspection-ready. Regulatory compliance is further enhanced by allowing for remote management of operators and their ongoing competency-based training assessment.
For more information, please contact sales@radiometer.co.uk or visit www.radiometer.com/en/products/it-systems
Posted on Thu, 19 Jan 2012
A new era dawns for Jet-Vac Systems
Jet-Vac Systems, based in Port Talbot, has taken advantage of equity investment from Finance Wales to fund a management buyout of the Company, following the retirement of founder Nigel Drane. Established in 1989, Jet-Vac provides specialist industrial cleaning services to the petrochemical, power and utilities markets, and counts a number of high profile companies among its wide customer base. The new management team – Geraint Jones, Richard Wells, Paul Williams and Kevin Viant – has focused on designing a fresh corporate identity, seeking new opportunities to expand and develop the Company while building on its strong reputation for industrial vacuum services, high pressure water jetting, catalyst handling and mechanical bolting.
Damien Connolly, UK and Ireland Country Manager for Norit Activated Carbon, commented: “This is an extremely specialist field, and we are very happy to work exclusively with Jet-Vac as our service partner. Jet-Vac has the skill set, expertise and knowledge to deliver the high service standards that our clients expect. I have total confidence in them.”
“The buyout marks the start of a new era for Jet-Vac, and we are committed to expanding the Company and extending our range of services to suit both existing and future customers,” said Managing Director, Geraint Jones. “We operate in highly regulated markets where new legislation and environmental concerns are driving demand, providing exciting opportunities for us to target. Jet-Vac’s previous success has established a solid foundation from which to further develop the business, and we look forward to a very bright future.”
About Jet-Vac Systems
Jet-Vac Systems was founded in 1989 with the primary aim of providing blue-chip clients with mobile vacuum technology for material reclamation, transfer or disposal. The Company constantly strives to keep ahead of the field by monitoring market trends and developing innovative approaches to complex problems and, since its launch, has accumulated one of the largest fleets of mobile vacuum units in the UK, as well as catalyst equipment and technology currently unavailable in the rest of Europe. Jet-Vac’s professional and highly skilled team offers its clients safe, efficient and cost-effective turnkey solutions for all aspects of industrial cleaning, including vacuumation and pneumatic conveying technology, specialist vessel entry, hydro demolition and hydro blasting, catalyst handling, waste management and controlled mechanical bolting.