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Stratos Genomics Inc announced the addition of Heiner Dreismann, PhD, to its board of directors. The appointment increases board membership to seven.

The continued spread of H1N1 influenza virus this spring is cause to pay heed to upper-respiratory maladies such as congestion, runny nose and cough, says David Kimberlin, MD, a preeminent influenza specialist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

IVAX Diagnostics Inc, a fully integrated global in vitro diagnostics company, announced that its subsidiary, Diamedix Corp, has entered into a three-year OEM agreement with SCIMEDX Corp to market and sell SCIMEDX’s products, on a worldwide basis, under the Diamedix brand.

Once considered a hospital anomaly, community-acquired infections with drug-resistant strains of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus now turn up regularly among children hospitalized in the intensive-care unit, according to research from the Johns Hopkins Childrens Center.

bioMerieux has announced the launch of the first FDA cleared chromID VRE, a simple and cost-effective solution in the struggle against vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE).