Med-Tek Laboratories

Pre-War Business
Med-Tek Laboratories
Locations	Med-Tek Research
Employees	Wayne Tournquist
Industry	Biomedical

Med-Tek Laboratories also known as Med-Tek Labs, Med-Tex, Med-Tek and Medtech was a pre-War company.

Background

A biomedical research company in the United States, Med-Tek products included the Mentats and Fixer. It also released a series of kits including "My First Infirmary" and "My First Laboratory" which were capable of diagnosing and treating any injury or level of irradiation and removing addictions or producing chemical compounds.

Med-Tek invested in public relations campaigns in the form of trivia prizes in the National Archives featuring flavored Mentats variants. Sales of Prevent were projected to be +250% by 2078, and +330% in 2079.

In Appalachia, the company's Sympto-Matic machines were used in Harpers Ferry and in the Charleston AVR Medical Center. Med-Tek researched infectious diseases that targeted specific demographics, such as children. The Med-Tek Research facility went into lockdown when the bombs fell to prevent any contagion from spreading, trapping all the inhabitants.

Publication

“This private research laboratory owned by the Med-Tek Corporation began experimenting with infectious diseases. One was a virus that affected only teenagers and children. The entire facility went into lockdown when the bombs fell to prevent any contagion from spreading, trapping all the inhabitants. The lockdown was never lifted.”— Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide/Map

“Med-Tek Laboratories, a/k/a Med-Tek, a/k/a Medtech (sic) provided bleeding-edge medical technologies in the decades before the Great War, specializing in pharmaceutical research. Their premier products were Mentats and Fixer.

Mentats was a line of nootropic smart drugs built to enhance memory and cognitive function, but also used recreationally for their impact on creativity. They were also highly addictive. Rumors that Fixer, their line of addiction-curing medications, was developed in response to that trait in Mentats, were never confirmed.
By the 2060s, Med-Tek also invested heavily in a line of self-diagnostic tools so regular citizens could determine what drugs they needed without the intervening influence of a doctor. My First Infirmary, My First Laboratory, and Sympto-Matic were all greeted enthusiastically by test markets, despite some troubling rumors about whether medical science or economics drove the prescription decisions behind those tools.
Finally, later years saw work on a new line of products: bespoke viruses that would target specific populations ranging from gender, to ethnicity, to age, to various genetic markers. By the Great War, this line had not yet seen full production, but its research vault was sealed prior to the first exchange and remains intact.

After the War
In a world where the overwhelming majority of medical experts and information is but a memory, the value of tools to diagnose and treat illnesses or injuries automatically cannot be overstated. Thus, Med-Tek lives on as a constant source of desire, a holy grail of sorts for many communities struggling with plague or nearby hazards.

Such factors bring scavengers to the Med Tek Research lab in the Commonwealth from time to time, determined to breach this locked-down facility in search of medical wonders the wasteland has forgotten. However, the place is guarded by lethal intruder countermeasures and infested with feral ghouls, making even a brief incursion a deadly affair”— Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook p.230

Products

• Fixer
• Mentats (Berry, Orange, Grape)
• Prevent
• My First Infirmary
• My First Laboratory
• Sympto-Matic

Notes

The company's name is spelled "Med-Tex" on the packaging for Fixer.

Appearances

The company product Mentats appears in Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76.

Behind the scenes

Products from Med Tek were to appear in Fallout Online, Interplay's original Project V13.