LOVELAND, Colo., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Heska Corporation (Nasdaq: HSKA - News) today announced the launch of the new, improved i-STAT® 1 Handheld Clinical Analyzer. Heska Corporation (“Heska”) has placed a significant number of the original i-STAT analyzer with veterinarians worldwide. The i-STAT handheld analyzers are the only handheld analyzers available for veterinary medicine and provide veterinarians with critical electrolyte, blood gas, chemistry and basic hematology results in two minutes with just three drops of sample.