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‘NBTY Inc.’ is gone forever, though not really

Possibly sensing it had the cart before the horse, Ronkonkoma-based NBTY Inc. has announced an immediate corporate name change. The 45-year-old manufacturer and distributor of vitamins, nutritional supplements and beauty…



At Chembio, looking beyond the numbers

By GREGORY ZELLER // While it made “important advances … intended to prepare the company for growth,” according to its CEO, Chembio Diagnostic Systems has suffered another subpar fiscal quarter….





Applied DNA Sciences closes $5 million stock deal

Applied DNA Sciences has closed a roughly $5 million deal with “a single healthcare-dedicated institutional investor,” the company announced late Monday. The Stony Brook-based supply-chain, anti-counterfeiting, anti-theft and product-authentication specialist…


Big plans in Minneapolis, but IPS still loves LI

By GREGORY ZELLER // With a three-year-old Seattle office growing steadily and a new shingle hanging in the middle of Minnesota’s red-hot digital-medicine ecosystem, Intelligent Product Solutions is in full-on…



Spotlight on ThermoLift’s Gen-2 Prototype

By GREGORY ZELLER // ThermoLift’s second-generation TC-Cycle has made a whirlwind multistate debut. Representatives of two U.S. Department of Energy laboratories traveled to Michigan in October to check out the…



In Brazil, a big forward step for Chembio

The national health-regulatory agency of Brazil has approved commercial use of Chembio Diagnostics’ rapid field rest for the Zika virus – a major step toward selling the product in the…