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The article presents information on a survey conducted by the journal "Medical Laboratory Observer," regarding clinical laboratory technicians in the U.S. According to the survey respondents, the representative laboratory reality survivor is a female, 48.85 years of age, working in an urban area somewhere in Texas, California or New York. She has a supervisory position as a lab manager or section supervisor in a hospital laboratory, and she generally works an eight-hour shift. An average clinical laboratorian says her employer awards some substantial benefit prizes. As part of her contract, healthcare insurance, life insurance, dental coverage, disability insurance, and bonuses were part of her 2004 annual compensation package.

Profiles Tadd S. Lazarus, director of medical and scientific affairs of Roche Diagnostics Corp. in the U.S. Educational attainment; Career background; Commitment on the improvement of HIV testing.

Features Becton Dickinson and Co., a medical technology company in the U.S. Mission statement; Philanthropic involvement; Services offered.

The article presents information about Boston Biomedica Inc. (BBI). In late 2002, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration challenged diagnostic manufacturers to develop a blood-screening test for West Nile virus (WNV), and BBI quickly introduced quantitated WNV nucleic acid panels, which were provided to kit manufacturers to help them develop and validate their assays. When the first kits were introduced for IND investigations within months, BBI had the first set of well-characterized controls to monitor kit performance and consistency and to ensure continued test reliability.