FDA Sends Warning Letter To Merck About Manufacturing Problems At Pa. Plant (Medical News Today)
FDA on April 28 sent a warning letter to Merck officials informing them that agency investigators discovered manufacturing deficiencies at the company's vaccine plant in West Point, Pa., the Wall Street Journal reports. The vaccines produced there include Gardasil, the cervical cancer vaccine, as well as certain childhood vaccines (Loftus, Wall Street Journal, 5/1).

Partnership Formed to Accelerate Development of Microfluidics-Based Medical Devices and Life ... (ThomasNet)
Intertech Engineering Associates, Inc. and Dolomite Microfluidics Formalize Collaborative Relationship Westwood, Massachusetts - May 1, 2008 Microfluidics is a core technology enabling significant reductions in sample volume, reagent consumption and overall device size coupled with extremely fast mixing, rapid heating and cooling and significantly reduced reaction times. This lab-on-a-chip ...