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After two decades of successful collaboration to provide optimal testing solutions for laboratory professionals, Beckman Coulter and Werfen Group (owner of Instrumentation Laboratory) have decided to end their alliance. The partnership remains in effect until June 22, 2012, when the current contract expires.

An estimated 50,000 people are infected with HIV every year in the United States, despite successful efforts to prevent HIV infections and a marked drop in deaths since the epidemic began 30 years ago.

Cinven, a private equity firm based in London, UK, will sell Swedish diagnostics maker Phadia to Thermo Fisher Scientific  for US$3.52 billion in cash. Phadia will become part of Thermo Fisher's specialty diagnostics business within its analytical technologies segment

Hospitals providing evidence-based treatment at higher rates