UNION CITY, Calif., April 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Abaxis, Inc. (Nasdaq: ABAX - News) a medical and veterinary manufacturer of point-of-care blood analysis systems, announced today that the Piccolo xpress(TM) has received a 2007 Medical Design Excellence Award (MDEA). The Piccolo xpress is a compact, portable on-site chemistry analyzer that allows routine blood tests to be made in virtually any treatment setting with the precision and accuracy of larger laboratory analyzers.
