American Cancer Society now recommends that the PSA testing interval be reduced to every other year for men whose PSA level is under 2.5 ng/mL. Seems like this could potentially significantly reduce Beckman Coulter sales of PSA reagent. This coupled with the latest AccuTnI recalls have to impact sales for two of the "cash cows" of Beckman's immunoassay business.

GE Healthcare UK has filed suit against Beckman Coulter Genomics, alleging that the firm is infringing two patents that cover technologies for isolating and purifying nucleic acids.

CellaVision, a producer of digital morphology products for the routine analysis of blood and other body fluids, has entered into an agreement with Beckman Coulter. The agreement gives Beckman Coulter the right to sell CellaVision products in the US. The move is viewed as CellaVision's continuing efforts to strengthen its presence in the US market.

You want to know why tests find "nothing wrong" with Limbaugh's heart?

Because the hospital has Beckman Coulter analyzers that notoriously give unexplainable false positive results, especially for Troponin I and CK-MB.

CEO's (like SG at Beckman) that love to embrace the latest management fad (like Toyota's lean techniques) would do well to read Jim Collins' book.

Toyota has stepped on a banana peel and is beset by a host of problems. Does this sound familiar to you Beckman Coulter:

Sebia's web site says they are now welcoming Beckman Coulter customers into the new "collaboration" between the companies and invites them to call for more information. What exactly is the nature of the collaboration?

Things seem to be very quite with Beckman Coulter has every thing settled down or every one just resigned to the crap from S.G.

Unemployed for 9 months after working 10-12 hour days for Beckman Coulter. 20 plus years --- Beckman could care less -- college for the kids? Mortgage? --- all my old colleagues now pretend I don't exist. All those years of graduate school and this is the my real education.

It's no secret that Beckman Coulter has terminated the employment of many long term, hard working employees across all areas of the company. Many of those functions have been outsourced to other firms. Some functions like accounts payable or small subassembly manufacturing can be outsourced fairly easily.

How is the takeover working has it benefited the employee’s and the Customers?

How do the Olympus employees feel are they getting a fair deal?