Abaxis, Inc. to Present at Jefferies and Co.’ 2011 Global Healthcare Conference

UNION CITY, Calif., May 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Abaxis, Inc. (NasdaqGS: ABAX), a medical products company manufacturing point-of-care blood analysis systems, announced today that Don Wood, chief operations officer, will present at Jefferies' 2011 Global Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 11:30 a.m. ET at the Grand Hyatt New York.

About Abaxis

Abaxis develops, manufactures, markets and sells portable blood analysis systems for use in any veterinary or human patient-care setting to provide clinicians with rapid blood constituent measurements. The system consists of a compact, 5.1 kilograms (11.2 pounds), portable analyzer and a series of single-use plastic discs, called reagent discs that contain all the chemicals required to perform a panel of up to 13 tests on veterinary patients and 14 tests on human patients. The system can be operated with minimal training and performs multiple routine tests on whole blood, serum or plasma samples. The system provides test results in less than 12 minutes with the precision and accuracy equivalent to a clinical laboratory analyzer.


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Chief Executive Officer

Joe Dorame, Robert Blum and Joe Diaz


Abaxis, Inc.

602-889-9700


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