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Media Releases

17/02/2012

FIRST AND ONLY PERSONALIZED TREATMENT FOR DEADLIEST FORM OF SKIN CANCER APPROVED BY HEALTH CANADA

01/02/2012

New Hope Ahead for Children Suffering with Rare Childhood Disease

27/01/2012

Roche enters strategic alliance with Technoclone to expand reagent portfolio for coagulation diagnostics line targeted for US and Canada in 2014.

25/01/2012

Approval of first-ever medicine for rare blood vessels diseases offers hope for Canadians

08/12/2011

Roche announces positive results of pivotal Phase III study with pertuzumab in HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer

05/12/2011

Roche acquires Verum Diagnostica GmbH as part of plan to develop comprehensive coagulation testing portfolio for diagnostic laboratories

29/11/2011

Health Canada approves the cobas® 4800 BRAF V600 Mutation Test, the first Roche companion diagnostic developed with a drug

04/10/2011

Roche to expand coagulation testing portfolio, develop new systems for diagnostic laboratories in US and Canada by 2014

25/08/2011

Roche Canada Supports University of British Columbia

16/08/2011

Roche makes significant investment to establish a global site for Pharmaceutical Development in Canada

12/05/2011

Roche Diagnostics launches its new blood gas analyzer

12/05/2011

Roche Diagnostics launches the cobas® 8000 modular analyzer series in Canada at BC Biomedical Laboratories.

09/03/2011

Roche Diagnostics Canada launches Accu-Chek®Mobile, the world’s first strip-free blood glucose monitoring device

07/03/2011

Pivotal Study Validates Roche’s cobas® HPV Test with HPV-16 and 18 Genotyping for Identifying Women at Highest Risk for Cervical Cancer

07/03/2011

New automated regional lab means better efficiency and increased patient safety

07/10/2010

Roche Diagnostics launches new assays for early detection of  Preeclampsia, a serious pregnancy complication. A first in Canada!

09/08/2010

Health Canada approves HERCEPTIN® for patients with HER2-positive advanced stomach cancer

08/07/2010

A New Study Shows that Testing for Human Papillomavirus Genotypes 16 and 18 Detects Cervical Pre-Cancer Missed by Pap Test

14/06/2010

Roche Diagnostics launches post-analytical workflow solution for high volume labs

06/05/2010

Roche Introduces New Health Canada Approved Automated Clinical Laboratory System for Testing of Human Papillomavirus, Chlamydia and N. gonorrhoeae

30/04/2010

The CHUS biochemistry and hematology laboratories acquire state of the art technology (in order to provide) enabling faster, safer services

23/10/2009

Health Canada Approves Most Comprehensive System to Test Donated Blood for HIV, Hepatitis B & Hepatitis C

 
17/10/2009

ACTEMRA inhibits progression of joint destruction in RA patients by over 80% compared to methotrexate alone

13/10/2009

Landmark Genotyping Study Demonstrates the Power of 454 Sequencing Systems for Immunogenetics

05/10/2009

“Rex by Your Side”

13/07/2009
 

Roche Diagnostics Distributes TheraScreen®: K-RAS Mutation Kit

Test aids physicians to identify colorectal cancer patients who are unlikely to benefit from certain cancer drugs based on their genetic mutations

 
02/06/2009

Northern Health launches new analyzers and laboratory solution

01/12/2008

Launch of large study on vascular events in noncardiac surgery patients - prospective study to find previously undetected myocardial infarctions through troponin testing

10/09/2008

Battlefords Union Hospital goes live with the Cobas 6000 Chemistry Analyzer

13/05/2008

The Mont Blanc Ascent and organ donation from living donors - Two challenges to out do oneself

28/04/2008

Even easier to use

The new Accu-Chek Compact Plus with all-in-one convenience

28/03/2008

AHSC’s Medical Laboratory at the Saint John Regional Hospital becomes first fully operational, automated and integrated laboratory in the Maritimes