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New LC-MS workflow provides higher quality data for clinical research samples

Attendees at MEDLAB 2017 had the opportunity to see a powerful fully-integrated liquid chromatography- mass spectrometr y (LC -MS) workflow designed to offer accurate and consistent analysis of the most challenging and complex sample matrices for clinical researchers. This workflow is part of a research collaboration with Amerispec Diagnostics, a Dubai-based reference laborator y focused on offering cutting-edge technologies based on mass spectrometry to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the Middle East. The LC-MS…

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Pharma can learn from other sectors” – TEAM-UP

Speaking recently at the 15th IQPC Coldchain Logistics Summit in Toronto, Canada, Alan Kennedy from TEAMUP stressed the need for the pharmaceuticals sector to embrace some of the supply chain concepts that have proved so profoundly transformational in other industries. Introducing the new TEAM-UP pharma-logistics collaboration initiative, Kennedy pressed his proposition by describing some of the inspired approaches to logistics that are the business signatures of leading companies such as Amazon, Apple and Inditex. "The common denominator in all these…

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National Reference Laboratory (NRL) puts education in the spotlight

National Reference Laborator y (NRL), par t of Mubadala's network of world-class healthcare providers and managed by LabCorp®, a world leading life sciences company, providing comprehensive clinical laboratory services, are demonstrating their commitment to continuing medical education for laboratory and other healthcare professionals by their participation in a number of leading healthcare events in the first half of 2017, including two of the largest healthcare events in the world, Arab Health and MEDLAB. Approximately 70 percent of medical decisions are…

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ATM to focus on $8.3 billion MENA wellness tourism sector

A Wellness Symposium, which will throw the spotlight on the $8.3 billion industry in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA), will be launched at Arabian Travel Market (ATM), which takes place in Dubai from 24-27 April 2017. A partnership between the World Travel Market (WTM) portfolio of events and the Global Wellness Institute (GWI), the symposium has been organized as part of a schedule of events in ATM's Wellness Lounge. It will also analyse MENA's thriving domestic (4 million trips) and…

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UAE praised for its leading role in blood transfusion services

A leading expert in blood transfusion services praised Dubai for being a backbone in the creation of services set up to improve blood transfusion safety globally. Speaking at the MEDLAB Exhibition and Congress in Dubai, Dr Jean-Claude Faber, President of the L u x e m b o u r g H a e m o p h i l i a A s s o c i a t i o n i n Luxembourg City, said the UAE…