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In 2014 Alere received clearance from US FDA for the Alere i
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under the name SelfCare, which went public in 1996. The company changed its name from SelfCare to
Inverness Medical Technology (IMT) in 2000. One year later, it sold its diabetes business to
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announced it would acquire Alere Inc for $ 5.8 billion. However, in April, Abbott requested of Alere that this deal be terminated, a proposal rejected by Alere's board of directors.
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FDA clearance for its second test on the Alere i platform, the Alere i Strep A test for Group A Streptococcus, which provides results in 8 minutes or less.
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327:"ALR Key Statistics | Alere Inc Stock - Yahoo! Finance"
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