UNION CITY, Calif., May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Abaxis, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABAX), a medical products company manufacturing point-of-care blood analysis systems, announced today that Don Wood, chief operations officer, will present at the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch 2009 Health Care Conference on Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. ET. The conference will be held at The Palace Hotel in New York City. Interested investors are invited to listen to a live audio webcast of the Company's presentation by logging onto http://www.veracast.com/webcasts/bas/healthcare09/id66304539.cfm Replays will be available starting approximately one hour after conclusion of the live event and will be available through May 29, 2009. About Abaxis Abaxis develops, manufactures and markets 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 kilogram (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. Contact: Clint Severson Lytham Partners, LLC Chief Executive Officer Joe Dorame, Joe Diaz & Robert Blum ABAXIS, Inc. 602-889-9700 510-675-6500 DATASOURCE: Abaxis, Inc. CONTACT: Clint Severson, Chief Executive Officer of ABAXIS, Inc., +1-510-675-6500; or Joe Dorame, Joe Diaz, and Robert Blum, all of Lytham Partners, LLC, +1-602-889-9700

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