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Abbott Laboratories, Inc.
Abbott Park, Ilinois
For more than a century, Abbott Laboratories has been working to advance health care for people around the world. Founded by a young Chicago physician, Dr. Wallace Calvin Abbott, in 1888, Abbott Laboratories has evolved into a diversified health care company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets innovative products and services that span the continuum of care – from prevention and diagnosis to treatment and cure. Headquartered in north suburban Chicago, Abbott helps people around the world in the more than 130 countries. Building leadership and combining strengths in the areas of pharmaceuticals, nutritionals, hospital products and diagnostics has enabled Abbott to provide total, integrated solutions across the health care spectrum for some of the world’s most prevalent medical conditions, including AIDS, cancer and diabetes. We focus on advancing medical science and the practice of health care with expertise in the therapeutic areas of diabetes, pain management, respiratory infections, HIV/AIDS, men and women’s health, pediatrics and animal health. | Abbott Vascular Devices
Redwood City, California
Abbott Vascular Devices brings together the best in medical device innovation with world-class pharmaceuticals to deliver advanced solutions for the treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Technologies: - Coronary Stents
- Peripheral and Embolic Protection
- Perclose Vessel Closure
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Accuray Inc.
Sunnyvale, California
Accuray is a privately held corporation whose primary focus is to revolutionize the treatment of solid cancers throughout the body by the precise delivery of high doses of radiation using the CyberKnife® Stereotactic Radiosurgery System. Through the development and promotion of the CyberKnife system and participation in ongoing clinical research at prominent academic hospitals, Accuray will help make stereotactic radiosurgery a viable and accessible option for patients all over the world. Located in Sunnyvale, California, the heart of the Silicon Valley, the company designs, manufactures, and distributes the CyberKnife® Stereotactic Radiosurgery System, worldwide. | Acuson, A Siemens Company
Mountain View, California
Acuson, a Siemens company, is a leading worldwide manufacturer and service provider of diagnostic medical ultrasound systems that generate, display, archive and retrieve ultrasound images. | Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc. (ANS)
Plano, Texas
Implantable therapies for chronic pain and neurological disorders. | Aesculap, Inc.
Tuttlingen, Germany
Aesculap has earned a reputation throughout the world as a manufacturer of high-quality medical products. The aim is to consolidate and to expand this position in the future. Indeed, this goal can only be attained by means of an all-encompassing approach. The strong position on the international market requires highly efficient services alongside the first-rate product portfolio. Moreover, Aesculap is focusing on its competence as an innovative system provider. Strengthened for competition, Aesculap therefore achieves an optimum market penetration on a national and international level. | ALARIS Medical Systems, Inc.
San Diego, California
ALARIS Medical Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of ALARIS Medical, Inc. (AMEX: AMI), develops practical solutions for medication safety at the point of care. The company designs, manufactures and markets intravenous (IV) medication delivery and infusion therapy devices, needle-free disposables and related monitoring equipment. ALARIS Medical Systems' "smart" technology, tools and services reduce the risks and costs of medication errors, and safeguards patients and clinicians. The company provides its products, professional and technical support and training services to over 5,000 hospital and health care systems, as well as alternative care sites in more than 120 countries through its direct sales force and distributors. | American Medical Systems, Inc. (AMS)
Minnetonka, Minnesota
American Medical Systems is a leader in medical devices and procedures to treat three major diseases: incontinence, erectile dysfunction (ED) and urinary obstructions caused primarily by enlarged prostate (benign prostate hyperplasia, or BPH). Although not life-threatening, these disorders can significantly diminish one's quality of life and profoundly affect social relationships. In recent years, the number of people seeking treatment has increased markedly as a result of longer life expectancy, higher quality-of-life expectations, and greater awareness of new treatment alternatives. American Medical Systems' products reduce or eliminate the incapacitating effects of these diseases, often through minimally invasive surgery. | Appriva Medical, Inc. (ev3 Sunnyvale)
Sunnyvale, California
Appriva Medical, a new member of ev3, Inc., manufactures innovative technologies that aim to prevent STROKE. The company has developed the PLAATO™ procedure for patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). This is a minimally invasive, catheter-based therapy that occludes the left atrial appendage (LAA), an outpouching of the left atrium. During AF, in the absence of significant valve or aortic disease, the LAA is believed to be the source of over 90% of the blood clots that can dislodge and travel to the brain, resulting in a devastating stroke. PLAATO provides the AF patient with a mechanical alternative that may reduce their risk of stroke with a simple, one-time therapy, and offers exciting new hope to those who do not tolerate life-long anticoagulation medication. | Arrow International, Inc.
Reading, Pennsylvania
Arrow International, Inc. combines technology and product innovation to extend the use of catheterization for the diagnosis and treatment of critically ill patients. Arrow disposable critical care catheterization products are used principally to access the central vascular system for administration of fluids, drugs and blood products. These products are also used for patient monitoring and diagnosis. Market studies indicate that Arrow is a leading supplier of central vascular access catheterization products worldwide. | ATI Medical, Inc.
San Diego, California
ATI Medical is engaged in the development and commercialization of innovative thermal and radiation therapy products for the treatment of solid tumors. The company has established a strong proprietary position with numerous United States patents on ThermoRod™, IsoRod™plus and ComboRod™ implants, and the ThermoTherapy Table. Initially, ATI will focus on commercializing its products for prostate cancer, the most commonly occurring cancer among males, behind skin cancer. Clinical trials have treated more than 80 prostate cancer patients since 1997, including U.S. trials at the University of California at San Francisco and Arizona Oncology Services. | Axiom Medical, Inc.
Rancho Dominguez, California
Axiom Medical, Inc. manufactures the largest variety of superior quality silicone and PVC disposable wound drainage catheters for all types of surgery. | B. Braun Medical Inc.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
B. Braun is part of a $2.5 billion international healthcare corporation with more than 25,000 employees worldwide. Our far-reaching family of companies includes over 90 strategically-located manufacturing, marketing and sales firms in Asia, Europe, North America, the Pacific Rim and South America. | 
Bard Access Systems, Inc.
Salt Lake City, Utah
An innovator and market leader in vascular access products. | 
Bard Electrophysiology
Lowell, Massachusetts
In the year 2000, Bard Electrophysiology division offered its 13th annual Electrophysiology Fellows-in-Training seminar in the U.S. A similar program was started in Europe three years ago. This in an extraordinary professional forum in which seeds of knowledge are passed between two generations of brilliant medical minds—and often gives rise to Bard’s research and development of patented, innovative technologies.
| Bard Endoscopic Technologies Division
Billerica, Massachusetts
Bard Endoscopic Technologies has specialized in the field of gastroenterology for over a decade with a focus on developing minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic products used in conjunction with procedures requiring flexible endoscopy. | Bard Medical Division
Covington, Georgia
Bard Medical Division of C. R. Bard Inc., is a market leader in urological drainage systems, with its Foley catheters and trays, urine drainage bags, urethral catheters and trays, irrigation products, leg bags, male external catheters, and temperature-sensing catheters and equipment. In addition to urology, Bard Medical also provides a broad offering of skin and wound care products, wound drainage products, and a variety of specialty tubing products including suction catheters, feeding tubes, and nasogastric tubes. | Bausch & Lomb
Rochester, New York
Bausch & Lomb is a global eye care company dedicated to helping consumers see, look, and feel better through innovative technology and design. Founded in 1853, the company has annual revenues of approximately $2 billion and employs approximately 12,000 people in 35 countries. Bausch & Lomb products are available in more than 100 countries around the world. Bausch & Lomb has three product lines: Vision Care, Surgical, and Pharmaceuticals. | 
Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Deerfield, Ilinois
Baxter Healthcare Corporation is the principal domestic operating subsidiary of Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX), a global health care company that, through its subsidiaries, provides critical therapies for people with life-threatening conditions. Baxter's bioscience, medication delivery and renal products and services are used to treat patients with some of the most challenging medical conditions, including cancer, hemophilia, immune deficiencies, infectious diseases, kidney disease and trauma. | Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD)
Franklin Lakes, New Jersey
BD Medical Systems holds leadership positions in hypodermic needles and syringes, infusion therapy, insulin injection systems and prefillable drug delivery systems for pharmaceutical companies. It offers the industry's broadest, deepest line of safety-engineered sharps products, as well as surgical and regional anesthesia, ophthalmology, critical care, medication management and sharps disposal products. | 
Biomet, Inc.
Warsaw, Indiana
Established in 1977, Biomet Orthopedics, Inc., is a family of companies that has enjoyed steady growth at levels exceeding market expansion. Even in a dynamic, cost-conscious environment, Biomet thrives by strengthening its commitment to innovation and partnership. Biomet prides itself on its unconventional profile: the responsiveness and innovation of a small company, with the resources and market presence of a large company. Biomet, Inc. and its subsidiaries design, manufacture and market products used primarily by musculoskeletal medical specialists in both surgical and non-surgical therapy, including reconstructive and fixation devices, electrical bone growth stimulators, orthopedic support devices, operating room supplies, general surgical instruments, arthroscopy products, spinal implants, bone cements, bone substitutes, craniomaxillofacial implants and dental implants, and associated instrumentation. Headquartered in Warsaw, Indiana, Biomet and its subsidiaries currently distribute products in more than 100 countries. | BIOTRONIK, Inc.
Lake Oswego, Oregon
BIOTRONIK is recognized worldwide as a complete provider of cardiovascular products of the highest quality and reliability. The company is committed to researching and developing new biomedical products that improve the quality of life for thousands of patients. With this release, BIOTRONIK becomes one of only two companies in the U.S. to provide atrial therapies in a dual-chamber ICD. Its unmatched reliability record is the result of maintaining the highest standards in engineering and design. Since the early 1970s, BIOTRONIK has been represented in the USA by BIOTRONIK, Inc., our North American headquarters for sales and marketing, customer service, training, clinical studies, and regulatory affairs. | 
Boston Scientific Corporation
Natick, Massachusetts
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) is the world's largest medical device company dedicated to less-invasive therapies. The Company's products and technologies are designed to reduce risk, trauma, cost, procedure time and the need for aftercare. These products and technologies are generally used for enlarging narrowed blood vessels to prevent heart attack and stroke, clearing passages blocked by plaque to alleviate pain, opening obstructions and bringing relief to patients suffering from various forms of cancer, performing biopsies and ultrasounds, mapping electrical problems in the heart, placing filters to prevent blood clots from reaching the lungs, heart or brain, and treating urological, renal, pulmonary, cerebrovascular and gastrointestinal diseases. | 
BrainLAB Inc.
Chicago, Illinois
BrainLAB develops and distributes software and integrated solutions worldwide that enable minimally invasive therapies in medicine | BSD Medical Corporation
Salt Lake City, Utah
BSD Medical Corporation is the world leader in technical microwave systems used in the treatment of cancer. Microwave hyperthermia therapy can substantially improve local control, tumor response and survival rates when added to radiation and chemotherapy. BSD Medical has 30 employees who provide a broad complement of management, technical, regulatory, sales/marketing, production and administrative skills. |
C. R. Bard, Inc.
Murray Hill, New Jersey
C. R. Bard, Inc. is a worldwide leader in developing, manufacturing, and supplying healthcare products that focus on Vascular, Urology, and Oncology Disease States. In addition, Bard offers a complete line of advanced Surgical Specialty products and services that address needs in hernia repair, performance irrigation, hemostasis, and other areas. Bard markets its products and services worldwide to hospitals, individual health care professionals, extended care facilities, and alternate site facilities.
| Candela Corporation
Wayland, Massachusetts
Candela Corporation is a pioneer in the development and commericalization of advanced aesthetic laser systems that allow physicians and personal care practitioners to treat a wide variety of cosmetic and medical conditions. An ISO 9001 certified company, Candela has an installed base of over 5,000 systems in more than 55 countries worldwide. | CardioCommand, Inc.
Tampa, Florida
CardioCommand takes advantage of the anatomical proximity between the esophagus and left atrium for minimally invasive pacing and monitoring of the heart. Our transesophageal systems are safe, easy-to-use and provide unique options for management of cardiac disease. | Cardiodynamics International Corporation
San Diego, California
CardioDynamics International Corporation is committed to fundamentally changing the way hemodynamic monitoring is performed in healthcare. The Company's primary product, the BioZ.com®, uses proprietary Impedance Cardiography (ICG) technology to noninvasively assess a patient's hemodynamics, data which typically has been available only through a time-consuming, costly, and potentially dangerous invasive procedure called Pulmonary Artery Catheterization (PAC), or the Swan Ganz Catheter. Since the BioZ's ICG monitoring is noninvasive, it can be performed in outpatient areas such as physician offices, which have never before had access to hemodynamic information in treating heart failure, hypertension, pacemaker, and dialysis patients. | CardioGenesis Corporation
Foothill Ranch, California
CardioGenesis is the leading medical device company that designs, manufactures and distributes laser-based surgical products that promote cardiac angiogenesis, or the development of new blood vessels. The company was founded in 1989 specifically to develop systems that deliver laser energy to the heart to induce cardiac revascularization. Our focus is on patients with advanced cardiovascular disease and specifically severe angina. We are committed to a dynamic program of research and development, to bring new Angiogenic applications and devices to our customers. This includes: TMR (Transmyocardial Revascularization), PMR (Percutaneous Myocardial Revascularization), Gene Therapy, Angiogenic Delivery Systems, and other Cardiac Devices. | CardioTech International
Woburn, Massachusetts
CardioTech (i) is developing a polyurethane-based vascular graft (artificial arteries) for the treatment of heart disease, (ii) produces medical grade polyurethanes for use in implantable medical devices, wound dressings, and (iii) manufactures medical devices on an OEM basis. | CLOSURE Medical Corporation
Raleigh, North Carolina
CLOSURE Medical Corporation is a global leader in the development, manufacture, and commercialization of medical adhesive brands for wound closure and care based on its proprietary medical grade cyanoacrylate technology. CLOSURE's proprietary technology has customized the physical and chemical properties of cyanoacrylates to develop medical adhesive formulations to close and seal topical skin wounds and incisions. | Codman & Shurtleff, Inc.
Raynham, Massachusetts
Codman & Shurtleff, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company, provides for the surgical treatment of central nervous system disorders through a wide range of products such as hydrocephalic shunt valve systems, neuro endoscopes and spinal fixation implants. The company also represents a premier line of surgical instruments for all specialties in the OR. | Computer Motion, Inc.
Goleta, California
Computer Motion is pioneering the Operating Room of the Future "the Intelligent OR™ " with its expertise in medical computers and robotics. The Company develops, manufactures and markets proprietary computer and robotic surgical systems for the operating room which enhance surgeons' capabilities, improve outcomes and reduce costs. Merger agreement with Intuitive Surgical announced 3/7/03. | CONMED Corporation
Utica, New York
CONMED Corporation is a medical technology company specializing in instruments, implants and video equipment for arthroscopic sports medicine, and powered surgical instruments, such as drills and saws, for orhopedic, ENT, neuro-surgery and other surgical specialties. We are also a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of advanced surgical devices, including radio frequency, or RF, electrosurgery systems used routinely to cut and cauterize tissue in nearly all types of surgical procedures worldwide, and endoscopy products, such as trocars, clip appliers, scissors and surgical staplers. We also manufacture and sell a full line of ECG electrodes for heart monitoring and other patient care products. | Cook Critical Care
Bloomington, Indiana
Critical care and emergency medicine specialists are served by their own division, Cook Critical Care. | 
Cook Group Inc.
Bloomington, Indiana
Privately held COOK(R) is a leading designer, manufacturer and global distributor of minimally invasive medical device technology for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Since its founding in 1963, Cook has created innovative technologies for stents and stent-grafts, catheters, wire guides, introducer needles and sheaths, embolization coils, tissue-engineered medical biomaterials, vena cava filters, implanted cardiac lead extraction equipment and other minimally invasive medical devices. | Cook Incorporated
Bloomington, Indiana
Cook Incorporated's commitment to product innovation, skilled hand-craftsmanship and unsurpassed customer satisfaction has earned the company worldwide recognition among medical professionals. Recognizing early on the clinical value of the Seldinger percutaneous entry technique that led to dramatic reductions in the need for risky open surgical procedures, Cook Incorporated became the first U.S. manufacturer to produce matched sets of needles, catheters and wire guides needed to perform this procedure. That foresight put Cook Incorporated at the start of a revolution in medical technology and led to international success. The company, which started in a spare bedroom in 1963, now manufactures more than 50,000 individual products sold worldwide. The company is acknowledged as a leading manufacturer of catheters, wire guides, introducer needles and sheaths, stents and stent grafts, embolization coils, intraluminal filters and other minimally invasive devices. | Cook Surgical
Bloomington, Indiana
Cook Surgical markets medical biomaterials from acellular natural tissues through its tissue engineered products group. In addition, the company's growing team of medical device engineering and development specialists works with leading researchers at hospitals and university medical centers around the world to develop, test and perfect important new diagnostic and interventional medical products. | CooperSurgical, Inc.
Trumbull, Connecticut
CooperSurgical is the leading company dedicated to providing medical devices and procedure solutions that improve health care delivery to women regardless of clinical setting. Our company is fostering that position through expansion of its core businesses and introduction of advanced technology-based products which aid clinicians in the management and treatment of commonly seen conditions. CooperSurgical products fall into three main segments based on the point of health care delivery: Hospital, Office and Clinic. Our Customers are health care professionals and institutions providing care to and for women. | 
Cordis Corporation
Miami, Florida
Cordis, a Johnson & Johnson Company, is the Global Leader in Circulatory Disease Management.
| Criticare Systems, Inc. (CSI)
Waukesha, Wisconsin
Founded in 1984, Criticare Systems, Inc. (CSI) is an international medical device company headquartered in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Unlike many companies its size, CSI develops, markets, and distributes a wide range of patient monitoring devices that incorporate technological innovation and cost-containment features. The company's products address patient safety concerns and monitoring needs in anesthesia, critical care, respiratory care, transport, and outpatient care environments. Comprehensive customer support, economical rental ownership programs, prompt equipment service and technical support programs make even its most advanced systems affordable and consistently productive. | 
CryoCath Technologies, Inc.
Quebec, Canada
Our mission is to maintain world leadership in developing and commercializing cost-effective catheter cryotherapy products and support systems for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. | 
Curetteblade, Inc.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Curetteblade, Inc. distributes the Curetteblade(TM) Single Use Surgical Curette Blade, the first and only single use, stainless steel, surgical curette blade on the market. The patented Curetteblade(TM) Single Use Surgical Curette Blade can be used with standard, reusable surgical blade handles and offers the convenience and safety of a disposable, with the strength and sturdy feel of a reusable curette. Email: info@curetteblade.com | Curon Medical, Inc.
Sunnyvale, California
Curon Medical, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets innovative proprietary products for the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders. The Company's products and products under development consist of radiofrequency generators and single use disposable devices. Its first product, the Stretta System, received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance in April 2000 for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease, commonly referred to as GERD. Its second product, the Secca System, received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance in March 2002 for the treatment of fecal incontinence. | Cyberonics, Inc.
Houston, TX
Cyberonics, Inc was founded in 1987 to design, develop and market implantable medical devices for the treatment of epilepsy and other debilitating neurological disorders. The Company is currently focused on epilepsy, the world's second most prevalent neurological disorder. Over 600,000 individuals in the United States, Europe and Japan suffer from refractory epilepsy characterized by seizures which are not controlled by traditional drug therapies. The Company's principal product, the VNS Therapy™ System consists of a pacemaker-like electrical pulse generator and a nerve stimulation electrode which deliver intermittent electrical stimulation to the left vagus nerve in the patient's neck. Stimulation of the left vagus nerve has been shown to cause widespread and bilateral effects in the areas of the brain known to be responsible for seizure activity. Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) with the Cyberonics VNS Therapy System is the first new approach to the treatment of epilepsy in over 100 years. The VNS Therapy System was the first and continues to be the only FDA approved medical device for the treatment of epilepsy. On July 16, 1997, Cyberonics received United States Food and Drug Administration approval to market the VNS Therapy System for the treatment of medically refractory partial onset seizures in adults and adolescents over twelve years of age. Cyberonics has received similar approvals to market the VNS Therapy System in Canada and the member countries of the European Union. Approvals for Japan and certain other Asian, Latin American and South American countries are being sought. Surgical implantation of the VNS Therapy System is a straightforward, fully-reversible procedure which takes between 30 minutes and two hours, does not involve the brain and has been performed by surgeons with a variety of specializations using general or local anesthesia. Reimbursement for the device and the procedure has been provided by a variety of third-party payors in the United States, Canada and Europe. In the United States a number of payors such as the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Technology Evaluation Committee and the Health Care Finance Administration (Medicare) have issued national coverage policy decisions or recommendations for the NCP System. To date, more than 10,000 patients throughout the United States and Europe have been treated with VNS. Cyberonics holds exclusive rights to a broad array of device patents which cover the VNS Therapy System and method patents which cover application of a pulsed electrical signal to the vagus nerve for the treatment of movement disorders such as epilepsy, Parkinson's Disease and tremor, neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression and dementia, cardiac arrhythmia and migraine headaches. Clinical studies are underway to enhance the worldwide understanding of VNS for the treatment of epilepsy and to evaluate the efficacy of VNS for the treatment of other disorders covered by the Company's method patent portfolio. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Cyberonics Common Stock trades on the NASDAQ National Market System under the symbol "CYBX."
| Cygnus, Inc.
Redwood City, California
Cygnus, Inc. is engaged in the development, manufacture and commercialization of new and improved glucose monitoring devices. Cygnus' products are designed to provide more data to individuals and their physicians and enable them to make better-informed decisions on how to manage diabetes. Cygnus' first approved product, called the GlucoWatch® Biographer, is a non-invasive, automatic glucose monitoring device. | Datascope Corporation
Montvale, New Jersey
Datascope Corp. manufactures proprietary products for clinical health care markets in interventional cardiology and radiology, anesthesiology, cardiovascular and vascular surgery, emergency medicine and critical care. | Datex-Ohmeda
Louisville, Colorado
Datex-Ohmeda is the largest division of Instrumentarium Corporation, one of the world’s leading medical technology companies. Datex-Ohmeda’s wide range of products includes patient monitors and networked systems for anesthesia, intensive care units and sub-acute care, as well as anesthesia machines, ventilators, drug delivery systems, pulse oximeters, and supplies and accessories.
| Davol, Inc.
Cranston, Rhode Island
Davol Inc., a subsidiary of C. R. Bard, Inc., is a leader in the medical products industry with over a century of quality service to its customers. Davol Inc. focuses its business on innovative products in key surgical specialties, including orthopaedics, laparoscopy, and hernia repair. With its breadth of offerings, Davol can increase operating room efficiencies and lower costs for health care providers through product standardizations. | Del Mar Medical Systems, LLC
Irvine, California
Del Mar Medical specializes in the design and distribution of Holter monitoring equipment.
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DePuy AcroMed
Raynham, Massachusetts
DePuy AcroMed is an operating company of DePuy, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company, one of the world’s leading designers, manufacturers, and suppliers of orthopaedic devices and supplies. We are known throughout the medical world for the development, manufacture, and marketing of innovative solutions of a wide range of spinal pathologies. | Derma Sciences, Inc.
Princeton, New Jersey
Derma Sciences, Inc. provides a full range of skin care, wound management, and specialty securement devices that are used primarily in the professional markets, specifically - hospitals, nursing homes and home care settings. | dj Orthopedics, Inc.
Vista, California
dj Orthopedics, Inc. is a global orthopedic sports medicine company specializing in the design, manufacture and marketing of surgical and non-surgical products and services that repair, regenerate and rehabilitate soft tissue and bone, help protect against injury, and treat osteoarthritis of the knee.
| Dräger Medical Inc.
Telford, Pennsylvania
Dräger offers complete anesthesia workstations combining leading edge anesthesia products together with information technologies. Dräger also offers a complete line of products and services for Critical Care. | Dymax Corporation
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Dymax was founded in January, 1980 by Terrence Matzuk, Ph.D., M. Leon Skolnick, M.D. and Irene R. Skolnick for the development and licensing of new ultrasound probes and scanners for the medical imaging industry. In 1990 Dymax introduced the Site~Rite® Ultrasound System, pioneering the application of ultrasound guidance for vascular access. The second-generation scanner Site~Rite II Ultrasound System was released three years later. Bard Access Systems acquired Dymax Corp. in December, 1998, and the third-generation scanner, Site~Rite 3 Ultrasound System, was released in early 2000. Today Dymax is the industry leader in the development of user-friendly ultrasound scanners for vascular access and biopsy applications. | Edwards Lifesciences, Inc.
Irvine, California
Edwards Lifesciences is a global leader in products and technologies to treat advanced cardiovascular disease and the number-one heart valve company in the world. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Edwards focuses on four main cardiovascular disease states: heart valve disease, coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease and congestive heart failure. Edwards leverages its design, development and marketing expertise through its main product categories: Cardiac Surgery, Critical Care, Vascular and Perfusion. Edwards’ global brands, which are sold in over 80 countries, include Carpentier-Edwards, Cosgrove-Edwards, Duraflo, Fogarty, Research Medical, Starr-Edwards and Swan-Ganz. Working as trusted partners in the community fighting cardiovascular disease, Edwards is committed to helping patients and improving the quality of life around the world. The company’s Credo contains the pledge, “Helping Patients is Our Life’s Work, and Life is Now.”
| Endocare, Inc.
Irvine, California
Endocare, Inc. is a medical device company focused on the development of urological healthcare technologies with the potential to dramatically improve men's health and quality of life. Endocare has initially concentrated on developing devices for the treatment of the two most common diseases of the prostate, prostate cancer and benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH). Endocare also believes that its proprietary cryosurgical technologies have broad applications across a number of surgical markets, including treating tumors in the kidney, lung, breast, liver and bones, as well as treatment of cardiac arrhythmia. Timm Medical Technologies, Inc., acquired by Endocare in late February, offers urology products, including an innovative office-based treatment of BPH, as well as a number of products that diagnose and treat urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction. The Endocare product line now consists of products to diagnose and treat prostate cancer, to diagnose and treat BPH, and to diagnose and/or manage urinary incontinence, sexual dysfunction and bladder cancer. | EP MedSystems, Inc.
West Berlin, New Jersey
EP MedSystems develops and markets cardiac electrophysiology ("EP") products used to diagnose and treat certain cardiac rhythm disorders. The Company's EP product line includes the EP-WorkMate(R) Electrophysiology Workstation, the ALERT(R) internal cardioversion system, the EP-3(TM) Stimulator, diagnostic electrophysiology catheters, internal cardioversion catheters and related disposable supplies. | ESTECH Least Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Danville, California
ESTECH is a recognized leader in Least Invasive Cardiac Surgery (LICS), offering a complete system of products for both beating heart and stopped heart surgical approaches. The company's beating heart products have been used in more than 40,000 procedures. ESTECH has training, product support and distribution in the United States and Europe. Other products optimize surgical access and enable less invasive surgical techniques. | 
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company, works closely with surgeons in the design and development of new surgical procedures and related products. Its comprehensive product line consists of surgical instruments for both videoscopic and traditional surgery, as well as energy-based ultrasonic surgical instruments for cutting and coagulation of tissue. | 
Ethicon, Inc.
Cincinnati, Ohio
ETHICON, INC., a Johnson & Johnson company, is the world's leading marketer of surgical sutures, hemostats, and, through its Mitek Products division, suture anchors. ETHICON, INC. is the only U.S. company that offers an adhesive alternative to sutures for topical skin closure. The company also markets a full line of surgical mesh products. Through its Gynecare Products division, ETHICON, INC. markets adhesion prevention products and devices for the treatment of female incontinence and uterine disorders. The company offers a comprehensive line of instruments for cardiovascular surgery through its CardioVations division. | ev3
White Bear Lake, Minnesota
ev3 is a new global endovascular technology company that brings together the right people, technology, and resources to successfully identify and provide meaningful clinical solutions to underserved markets in the endovascular field. ev3 serves the needs of Interventional Cardiologists, Radiologists, and Neuroradiologists who strive to improve the lives of patients suffering from endovascular disease through the use of advanced minimally invasive technologies. Working closely with these practitioners, ev3 will strive to deliver meaningful clinical solutions through collective experience, careful collaboration, and unique technologies. | Fischer Imaging
Denver, Colorado
Founded in 1910, Fischer Imaging is the United States' oldest existing manufacturer of x-ray medical equipment, and a world leader in imaging solutions. In recent years, Fischer Imaging has focussed its expertise in medical imaging toward the early detection of breast cancer. Through a wealth of experience and industry recognition in breast imaging and biopsy, Fischer is proving itself as a leader in breast care. Fischer Imaging employs more than 200 people and is a dedicated global leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of specialty mammography and X-ray systems. | FONAR Corporation
Melville, Long Island, New York
Having conceived the scientific basis of MRI as well as having built the world's first commercial MRI, the tradition clearly continues with its introduction of new products such as the QUAD™ MRI scanners, the OR-360º™ and the Stand-Up MRI™. Headquartered on Long Island, New York, with over 600 employees, FONAR has installed more than 200 scanners worldwide. | Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA)
Lexington, Massachusetts
Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is a vertically integrated company that operates the nation’s largest network of dialysis clinics and is a leading manufacturer of dialysis products. The company, based in Lexington, MA., has more than 24,000 employees and operates over 1000 dialysis clinics across the country. | Gambro Renal Products, USA
Lakewood, Colorado
Gambro Renal Products offers a wide range of products for hemodialysis (HD), peritoneal dialysis (PD) and renal intensive care (RIC). HD treatments purify blood outside the patient’s body through an artificial kidney, a dialyzer. PD treatments use a cleaning liquid introduced into the patient’s abdomen. Gambro products are sold around the world under the Gambro and Hospal brand names.
| GE Medical Systems
Waukesha, Wisconsin
GE Medical Systems is a $7 billion global leader in medical information and technology. Its offerings include networking and productivity tools, healthcare information systems, patient monitoring systems, conventional and digital X-ray, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR), ultrasound, positron emission tomography (PET), and nuclear medicine. | Gen-Probe Incorporated
San Diego, California
GEN-PROBE currently markets several product lines, including the PACE® 2 System, the GEN-PROBE® AMPLIFIED™ Direct Tests, and the AccuProbe® System. Other products are currently under development or awaiting FDA approval. GEN-PROBE products continue to set the standard for DNA probe technology in the diagnostic industry, with assays for sexually transmitted diseases, microbial infectious diseases, and culture identification. In addition, we offer a full line of supporting instrumentation.
| Genetronics Biomedical Corporation
San Diego, California
Genetronics Biomedical Corporation is a leader in electroporation therapy with 216 patents issued, allowed, or pending. The Company utilizes its proprietary electroporation technology for the targeted intracellular delivery of therapeutic materials, concentrating on drugs, vaccines, and gene therapy. In oncology, Genetronics has initiated Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of recurrent head & neck cancer. In gene therapy, Genetronics has several collaborations with major biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies for the delivery of therapeutic genes or vaccines using electroporation. Genetronics' BTX Division, a leader in molecular delivery, features electroporation and electro fusion technology for research laboratory markets worldwide. | Genzyme Biosurgery
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Genzyme Biosurgery (Nasdaq: GZBX) develops and commercializes implantable biotechnology products. It is focused on three medical areas - orthopaedic disease and injury, serious heart disease, and improving the outcomes of surgery. Within these areas, our portfolio includes a range of marketed biotherapeutics, biomaterials and medical devices, with many more in the pipeline.
| Genzyme General
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Genzyme General, one of the three divisions of Genzyme Corporation, develops and commercializes innovative solutions for major unmet medical needs of patients with genetic and serious debilitating diseases. Genzyme General is composed of five operating units: Genzyme Therapeutics, Genzyme Genetics, Genzyme Diagnostics and Genzyme Pharmaceuticals.
| Gish Biomedical, Inc.
Rancho Santa Margarita, California
Gish Biomedical, Inc. (NASDAQ: GISH) designs, manufactures, and markets disposable medical devices for various surgical specialties including cardiovascular surgery, orthopedics, and oncology. All of Gish’s products are single use disposable products or have a disposable component. The company’s principal products include custom cardiovascular tubing systems, blood reservoirs, cardioplegia delivery systems, oxygenators, central venous access catheters and ports, and blood recovery devices for post-operative use in orthopedic surgeries. Gish currently employs approximately 160 employees, primarily at the company’s manufacturing facility and corporate headquarters in Rancho Santa Margarita, California. Gish markets its products worldwide through a combination of direct sales representatives and specialty medical distributors. Acquisition by CardioTech announced 4/1/03.
| Given Imaging Ltd.
Yoqneam, Israel
Given Imaging Ltd., an Israel-based diagnostics company, develops, produces and markets The Given® Imaging Diagnostic System, a non-invasive technology for the diagnosis of gastrointestinal (GI) tract disorders. The company has plans to further develop its technology to provide a platform for diagnostic solutions for other areas of the gastrointestinal tract including the esophagus, the stomach and the colon. Cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in August 2001, the Given System is currently approved for sale in the United States, European Union, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Israel. | Gliatech Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio
Gliatech Inc. is engaged in the discovery and development of biosurgery and pharmaceutical products. The biosurgery products include ADCON(R) Gel (ADCON(R)-L & T/N) and ADCON(R) Solution, which are biopolymer medical devices designed to inhibit scarring and adhesions following surgery. Gliatech's pharmaceutical product candidates include proprietary monoclonal antibodies designed to inhibit inflammation. | Goodmoa Corporation
Seoul, Korea
Goodmoa Corporation specializes in Pulse Oximeter Sensors and cables used in non-invasive measurement of Blood Oxygen Saturation and Pulse Rate. Our products are designed to be practical. Our aim is to make quality products that are easy to use. We produce our own Photodiode & LED and our sensors are compatible with the major leading patient monitoring systems. Email: info@goodmoa.com | Graham Professional Medical Products
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Graham Medical markets and manufactures single use products for physician offices, clinics, group practices, other alternate site and emergency services. Product categories include exam table papers, drape and stretcher sheets, professional towels, capes and gowns, and other related products. | Graham-Field Health Products, Inc.
Atlanta, Georgia
Graham-Field is one of the world's leading manufacturers and distributors of medical products in the health care industry, offering approximately 4,000 medical, rehabilitation, long-term care and homecare products. Our offering is comprised of our quality brands such as Everest & Jennings and LaBac, wheelchair and seating products; Lumex, ambulatory, bath safety, pressure management and specialty seating products; Smith & Davis and Simmons, beds and institutional equipment; John Bunn, respiratory equipment; Labtron, diagnostic equipment; and Grafco, a line of exam treatment products, all - names you have come to trust for their quality and design. | 
Guidant Corporation
Indianapolis, Indiana
Guidant is a world leader in the design and development of cardiovascular medical products. Our devices help patients with heart disease return to active and productive lives. We provide physicians with leading-edge technologies for improved patient management and clinical outcomes. And we’ve created a culture in which employees, investors and our communities share in our success. | Gynétics Inc.
Gynétics' first major product was the PREVEN™ Emergency Contraceptive Kit, which was introduced in September, 1998. The original package has been supplemented with the addition of the PREVEN™ Emergency Contraceptive Pills package in May 2000. Gynétics also markets the GynoSampler® Endometrial Curette, a diagnostic endometrial tool that plays an increasingly important role within the in-office diagnostic environment. Endometrial sampling should be undertaken to rule out malignancy in all cases of undiagnosed persistent or recurring abnormal uterine bleeding and as surveillance of all women taking estrogen as part of hormone replacement therapy. | Gyrus, ENT Division
Memphis, Tennesee
Gyrus, the PlasmaKinetic Endosurgical device company, was founded in 1989. Dedicated to the development of radiofrequency energy based systems for advanced minimal access and outpatient surgical procedures, Gyrus products embody clear promotional features that provide clinical and economic benefits. Sales are worldwide with primary emphasis on an independent network of over 120 sales professionals. | Haemonetics Corporation
Braintree, Massachusetts
Haemonetics is the world's leading supplier of automated blood processing systems. Haemonetics also offers an array of automated blood collection devices to help alleviate blood shortages. Although blood is generally collected as whole blood, it is usually transfused as blood components (red blood cells, plasma or platelets), according to the patient's specific need. Haemonetics' systems make it possible to collect multiple units of selected blood components from one donor, thereby enabling blood collectors to get more usable blood from a smaller donor base.
| Harvard Bioscience
Holliston, Massachusetts
Harvard Bioscience is a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of a broad range of specialized products, primarily scientific instruments, used to accelerate drug discovery research at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities and government laboratories worldwide. HBIO sells its products to thousands of researchers in 100 countries through its direct sales force, its 1,000 page catalog (and various other specialty catalogs), and through its distributors, including Amersham Biosciences and PerkinElmer. HBIO has sales and manufacturing operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria and Belgium with sales facilities in Japan, France and Canada. | I-Flow Corporation
Lake Forest, California
I-Flow Corporation designs, develops and markets technically advanced, low cost ambulatory infusion systems that are redefining the standard of care by providing life enhancing, cost effective solutions for pain management and infusion therapy
| INAMED Corporation
Santa Barbara, California
Inamed is a global healthcare company with over 25 years of experience developing, manufacturing and marketing innovative, high-quality, science-based products. These products include breast implants for aesthetic augmentation and for reconstructive surgery following mastectomy; a range of dermal products to treat facial wrinkles; and minimally invasive devices for obesity intervention, including the LAP-BAND(R) System for morbid obesity.
| InFlow Dynamics AG
Munich, Germany
InFlow Dynamics AG was established in 1996 for the development and manufacturing of customer-oriented methods of bio-compatible, minimally invasive therapy treatments.
| INNERCOOL Therapies, Inc.
San Diego, California
INNERCOOL therapies is a world leader in developing innovative, endovascular-based technologies for temperature control therapy. The company's Celsius Control™ System is a proprietary technology platform that can be employed in a variety of clinical situations where cooling and/or rewarming is indicated. | 
Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation
Plainsboro, New Jersey
Integra LifeSciences & Integra NeuroSciences
| Integrated Surgical Systems, Inc.
Davis, California
Integrated Surgical Systems, Inc. (ISS) provides computer-controlled, image-directed robotic products for surgical applications. The ROBODOC® Surgical Assistant System is ISS's flagship product for orthopedic applications. Surgeons have used ROBODOC® to perform total hip replacement surgeries and revision hip surgeries on more than 7,500 patients. Recently total knee replacement surgeries have been added to the list of joint replacement surgeries performed by the system. The ORTHODOC® Preoperative Planning Workstation provides the surgeon with state-of-the-art tools for computerized preoperative planning. The plans created with ORTHODOC® are surgically executed with robotic precision. NeuroMate™ is ISS's flagship product for neurosurgeries. It is the first robotic system for use in stereotactic functional brain surgeries. Currently it is being used for the treatment of Parkinsons Disease, Epilepsy, tumors, etc. To date, NeuroMate™ has supported more than 2,000 neurosurgeries on patients in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and the Middle East.
| Interpore Cross International
Irvine, California
Interpore Cross International is the largest, independent public medical device company focused on providing innovative products for spinal surgery. Our family of spinal implant and orthobiologic products are used by orthopaedic surgeons and neurosurgeons around the globe in a wide range of applications. | Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
Sunnyvale, California
Intuitive Surgical has established itself as the world's leader in operative surgical robotics. Through its development and commercialization of the da Vinci™ Surgical System, Intuitive Surgical is taking surgery beyond the limits of the human hand.™ As the market leader in operative surgical robotics, Intuitive is committed to creating technologies that may enable surgeons to perform minimally invasive surgery (MIS) in a manner never before experienced, and to reduce trauma, postoperative pain and surgical complications for patients by operating with the flexibility of open surgery through tiny ports. | Inverness Medical Innovations
Waltham, Massachusetts
Inverness Medical Innovations manufactures and sells products for the women’s health and nutritional product markets and is engaged in the business of developing, acquiring, manufacturing, and marketing advanced medical device technologies. The Company’s women’s health and nutritional products are distributed to consumers through established retail distribution networks such as Wal-Mart, Walgreens and CVS. | Invivo Research
Pleasanton, California
Since 1979 Invivo Research, Inc., has been in the vanguard of the development, design, manufacturing and marketing of quality medical electronic equipment for patient monitoring.
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Johnson & Johnson
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Johnson & Johnson, with approximately 104,500 employees, is the world's most comprehensive and broadly-based manufacturer of health care products, as well as a provider of related services, for the consumer, pharmaceutical and medical devices and diagnostics markets. Johnson & Johnson has more than 197 operating companies in 54 countries around the world, selling products in more than 175 countries. | Karl Storz Endoscopy-America, Inc.
Culver City, California
The U.S. affiliate, Karl Storz Endoscopy - America, Inc., was established in 1971 and is headquartered in Culver City, California. Founded as the gateway to the United States, KSEA is responsible for U.S. distribution of all Karl Storz endoscopes, instruments, imaging systems and electromechanical devices.
| Kendall-LTP
Chicopee, Massachusetts
Kendall-LTP offers a complete line of high quality medical products for the OR, Labor & Delivery, NICU, Cardiology, and more. In fact, Kendall-LTP has All of the Products you Need… and the Brand Names you Trust. | Kinetic Concepts, Inc.
San Antonio, Texas
Founded in 1976, KCI is a privately-held, Texas based corporation that manufactures, rents and sells specialty wound care surfaces and products worldwide.
| Kyphon, Inc.
Sunnyvale, California
We develop innovative medical devices using our proprietary balloon technology for orthopedic applications. The KyphX Inflatable Bone Tamp (IBT) is designed to assist in the management of fractures involving crushed or collapsed bone through fracture reduction and creation of a cavity in cancellous bone.
| LifeScan, Inc.
Milpitas, California
For more than two decades, LifeScan has been committed to improving the quality of life for people with diabetes. LifeScan pioneered the modern era of blood glucose monitoring with the introduction of ONE TOUCH® technology. By eliminating wiping and timing procedures, ONE TOUCH Systems helped bring blood glucose testing out of the laboratory and into the hands of patients. Five years after incorporation, LifeScan joined the Johnson & Johnson family of companies in November 1986.
| Linvatec Corporation
Largo, Florida
Linvatec is at the forefront of technology for a growing range of least-invasive and orthopaedic surgery procedures. Orthopaedic surgeons use Linvatec arthroscopic instruments for diagnostic purposes, for minor surgeries and complex reconstructions of knees, shoulders and small joints such as the wrist and ankle. Linvatec's Hall Surgical line of power surgical instruments are used for— oral/maxillofacial, otolaryngology, hand surgery, podiatry, thoracic surgery, and neurosurgery. Additionally, many procedures are supported by a variety of endoscopic and fiber optic products also made at Linvatec. Linvatec is a subsidiary of CONMED Corporation.
| Lorenz Surgical
Jacksonville, Florida
Lorenz Surgical is a subsidiary of Biomet Inc. We manufacture a complete range of craniomaxillofacial products, including LactoSorb®, the first completely resorbable fixation system available in the U.S. Other Lorenz products include titanium plates and screws for craniomaxillofacial fixation as well as a complete line of instruments for craniomaxillofacial and orthopedic procedures.
| Lumenis, Ltd.
Santa Clara, California
Lumenis, Ltd. (NASDAQ: LUME) was formed through the union of ESC Medical Systems and Coherent Medical Group, the two pioneering companies in the laser and light-based industries. Emerging from this combination is the leading provider of laser and light-based systems that are used in the aesthetic, medical and ophthalmic markets. | Maersk Medical Inc. (USA)
McAllen, Texas
Maersk Medical Inc. (USA) and its subsidiary Maersk Medical S.A. de C.V. (Mexico) are a part of the Maersk Medical Group. The Maersk Medical Group employs some 4,500 people and specializes in the manufacturing and distribution of quality medical single use devices which include anesthesia, respiratory care, urology catheters, electrodes, urine bags, suction catheters and tubes, wound drainage devices and infusion therapy products. Maersk Medical Inc. and subsidiary manufactures single use respiratory and anesthesiology care products and is responsible for sales and distribution of these and other Maersk Medical products within North America, Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Mallinckrodt, Inc.
Hazelwood, Missouri
Tyco Healthcare/Mallinckrodt, based in St. Louis, Missouri, manufactures and markets medical products. Our mission is to improve healthcare for patients worldwide by providing superior products that sustain breathing, diagnose disease and relieve pain. We are committed to producing products that bring better healthcare to patients, more value to medical professionals, greater opportunity to employees, and increased earnings to reward Tyco shareholders.
| Masimo Corporation
Irvine, California
Masimo Corporation, founded in 1989, is the innovator and leader of motion and low perfusion tolerant pulse oximetry. Masimo develops, licenses and markets advanced medical signal processing technologies and products for the non-invasive monitoring of vital signs. Masimo Signal Extraction Technology represents a fundamental departure from conventional pulse oximetry technologies. Over 50 independent and objective, published studies have demonstrated that Masimo Signal Extraction Technology substantially overcomes the limitations of conventional pulse oximeters in accurately measuring arterial blood oxygen saturation levels and pulse rates in the presence of patient movement and low perfusion. There are currently over 100 Masimo SET based devices, including multi-measurement monitors, defibrillators and infant incubators from leading international patient monitoring system providers, which make up over 60% of the world's pulse oximeter shipments. Leading group purchasing organizations such as AmeriNet, Broadlane and Premier, and HealthTrust Columbia, the largest hospital system in America, are offering their member hospitals the ability to gain access to Masimo SET technology at group purchasing discounted prices.
| Maxxim Medical, Inc.
Waltham, Massachusetts
Maxxim Medical, Inc. is a major diversified developer, manufacturer and marketer of specialty medical products such as custom procedure trays, medical gloves, interventional radiology and critical care products for use in acute and alternate care settings worldwide. | Medex, Inc.
Dublin, Ohio
Medex provides system solutions for the range of intensive care areas - surgical, medical, adult, pediatric and neonatal ICUs. Our monitoring and therapeutic systems follow the patient from OR to ICU to the general floor. Medex also offers a wide range of systems required for diagnostic and interventional procedures in the cardiac catheterization lab and imaging departments, and a complete anaesthesia/respiratory gas delivery product line. | Medi-Flex, Inc.
Overland Park, Kansas
Medi-Flex, Inc. was founded in 1985 as a leveraged buy-out of Marion Laboratories in Kansas City. It was at Marion that our two original antiseptic hospital products, the Frepp® and the Sepp®, were created. In addition, Medi-Flex inherited from Marion a commitment to superior service, a genuine care for our customers, and a drive to create quality healthcare products. Medi-Flex has developed a strong presence in the intravenous therapy market thanks to our emphasis on excellence and customer care. | Medrad, Inc.
Indianola, Pennsylvania
Medrad, Inc. is a worldwide leading provider of medical devices and services that enable and enhance imaging procedures of the human body. Used in diagnostic and therapeutic imaging, Medrad's product offerings include a comprehensive line of vascular injection systems, magnetic resonance (MR) surface coils and accessory products. Total 2001 revenues were over $217 million. The company is headquartered near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in Indianola. Medrad is a U.S. affiliate of Schering AG, Germany | Medtronic MiniMed
Northridge, California
Medtronic MiniMed is a world leader in insulin pump therapy and continuous glucose monitoring. Our first insulin pump, the Model 502, was introduced in July of 1983. | 
Medtronic, Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Medtronic is the world's leading medical technology company, providing lifelong solutions for people with chronic disease. With deep roots in the treatment of heart disease, Medtronic now provides a wide range of products and therapies - every 8 seconds, another life is improved by a Medtronic product or therapy. Its businesses include Cardiac Rhythm Management, Vascular, Cardiac Surgery, Neurological & Diabetes and Spinal & ENT. | Merit Medical Systems, Inc.
South Jordan, Utah
Merit Medical Systems, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and marketer of over 2000 product variations used in diagnostic and interventional cardiology and radiology procedures. Its primary products consist of inflation devices used in angioplasty, stent placement and discography; diagnostic and therapeutic catheters used for various procedures in cardiology and radiology; guide wires used to place balloon angioplasty catheters within a patient's coronary arteries; products used to manage and monitor the administration of contrast and other fluid solutions during diagnostic and therapeutic procedures; thrombolytic catheters and fluid dispensing systems; angiography accessories; standard and custom angiography kits and products for wound irrigation.
| Nektar Therapeutics
San Carlos, California
Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NKTR) provides a portfolio of leading drug delivery solutions that enable the development of high-value pharmaceutical products. Formed through the fusion of Inhale Therapeutic Systems, Shearwater, and Bradford Particle Design, our company offers a suite of leading drug delivery technologies that encompasses molecule engineering including advanced pegylation, particle engineering comprising both pulmonary particle technology and supercritical fluid technology (SCF), and advanced drug delivery solutions for oral, injectable, and pulmonary administration.
| Nellcor Puritan Bennett, Inc.
Pleasanton, California
In 1981 Nellcor began as a small company in Hayward, California, across the bay from the Stanford Medical Center and not far from Silicon Valley. The company founders sought to develop a clinically viable pulse oximeter to improve patient safety during anesthesia. Experimentation with oximetry, a method for determining blood oxygenation using spectrophotometry, dates back to the 1940s. Merging medical science and technology, Nellcor pioneered pulse oximetry as we know it today and rapidly gained prominence as the worldwide leader in pulse oximetry products.As a result of strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, Nellcor now offers a multitude of medical products with an emphasis on patient safety and respiratory care. A major milestone in the company’s history occurred in 1995 when Nellcor acquired Puritan-Bennett, a leading producer of ventilators, oxygen therapy, sleep diagnostics and other respiratory-related products. Renamed Nellcor Puritan Bennett, the company was purchased in 1997 by Mallinckrodt Inc., a multibillion dollar medical products company specializing in respiratory care, diagnostic imaging and analgesic pharmaceuticals. In 2000, Tyco International Ltd. acquired Mallinckrodt and established Nellcor and Puritan Bennett as separate businesses under the Tyco Healthcare umbrella. Through this reorganization, Puritan Bennett markets its original product lines and manages its own sales force.
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Orthovita, Inc.
Malvern, Pennsylvania
Orthovita is a biomaterials company with proprietary technologies applied to the development of BioStructures, synthetic biologically active tissue engineering products for restoration of the human skeleton. Our focus is on developing novel products for use in spine surgery and in the repair of osteoporotic fractures. We are also addressing a broad range of clinical needs in the trauma market.
| OsteoMed Corporation
Addison, Texas
Established in 1991, OSTEOMED CORPORATION is an American medical products manufacturer and supplier which develops and markets high-end medical devices and surgical implants on a global scale. Our 30,000 square foot manufacturing facility and world headquarters are located in Dallas, Texas. The OSTEOMED CORPORATION is positioned as THE company for small bone reconstruction by manufacturing state-of-the-art products for the Oral Maxillofacial, Neurosurgery, Plastic & Reconstructive, Otolaryngology, Orthopedic and Dental Surgical markets. | Perclose, An Abbott Laboratories Company
Redwood City, California
Perclose's Suture Mediated Closure (SMC) is the new standard of care for vascular access management following catheterization procedures. The security of an SMC closure provides new confidence when managing patients. It allows patients to recover more quickly and profoundly impacts clinical pathways. Email: info@perclose.com | 
Philips Medical Systems
Bothell, Washington
Philips Medical Systems is a world leader in integrated diagnostic imaging and IT solutions, offering a complete range of products and services. Philips Medical Systems North America is part of Philips Electronics North America Corporation, one of the top 100 industrial companies in the U.S. Philips Electronics North America is a subsidiary of Philips Electronics N.V., a global enterprise based in the Netherlands. | PhotoMedex
Radnor, Pennsylvania
PhotoMedex is engaged in the development of proprietary excimer laser and fiber optic systems and techniques directed toward dermatological applications, with FDA approval to market the XTRAC(TM) laser system for the treatment of psoriasis, vitiligo, eczema and leukoderma. The Company's excimer laser system generating 308-nm UV-B radiation is the first FDA-approved laser treatment for psoriasis, which is the second most common skin disorder in the U.S. The XTRAC(TM) laser system is also the first FDA approved excimer laser system to treat vitiligo, a skin disease that, according to the National Vitiligo Foundation, afflicts approximately 1 to 2% of Americans, and eczema, a skin disease that is estimated to afflict 15 million Americans. | Primary Technology, LLC
Tampa, Florida
Primary Technology develops, manufactures, and markets state-of-the-art proprietary intense pulsed light devices. Its systems are used in a variety of aesthetic applications, including hair removal, non-invasive treatment of vascular lesions and pigmented lesions. | Radiant Medical, Inc.
Redwood City, California
Radiant Medical, Inc. is a leading developer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art Endovascular Temperature Management (ETM™) systems. Radiant's catheter-based SetPoint® ETM System permits rapid changes in patient core body temperature and precise control in maintaining a target temperature. | 
Radionics
Burlington, Massachusetts
Since 1938, Radionics has been improving the future of medical technology by producing innovative surgical devices. Radionics has become a world leader in the fields of neurosurgery, neurological pain treatment and radiation therapy by combining technical innovation with clinical experience. Our products are used in thousands of procedures every day and are world-renowned for their functionality and high quality. In January of 2000, Radionics became a division of Tyco Healthcare Group LP. This merger ensures that Radionics will continue to be a worldwide leader in the medical industry focusing on rapid growth through well-funded research and development, intense marketing efforts, and enhanced customer service. We will continue our sixty-year history of listening to clinicians' needs and developing innovative medical technologies that improve the quality of life of patients around the world. | 
Respironics, Inc.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Respironics, a recognized resource in the medical device market, provides innovative products and unique programs to health care providers that are designed to help them to grow and manage their businesses efficiently. The company's focus is on home care, hospital and international markets, providing programs that manage sleep disordered breathing, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, infant care, heart failure and restrictive lung disorders. Globally positioned, the company employs approximately 1800 individuals worldwide and has manufacturing facilities in several domestic and international locations. | RITA Medical Systems
Mountain View, California
RITA Medical Systems develops, manufactures and markets innovative products for patients with solid cancerous or benign tumors. The proprietary RITA system uses radiofrequency energy to heat tissue to a high enough temperature to ablate it or cause cell death. While the Company's current focus is on liver cancer and metastatic bone cancer, the Company believes that its minimally invasive technology may in the future be applied to other types of tumors, including tumors of the lung, breast, uterus, prostate and kidney. The Company has received regulatory clearance in major markets worldwide, including the United States. In March 2000, RITA became the first radiofrequency ablation company to receive specific FDA clearance for unresectable liver lesions in addition to its previous general FDA clearance for the ablation of soft tissue. In October 2002, RITA again became the first company to receive specific FDA clearance, this time, for the palliation of pain associated with metastatic lesions involving bone. | 
Medtronic Sofamor Danek
Memphis, Tennessee
Medtronic Sofamor Danek's main mission is to be the global leader in today's marketplace, and the primary company that today's spinal and cranial surgeons turn to for solutions to clinical and practice challenges. Dedication to this mission has enabled us to focus the energies, talents and resources on delivering state-of-the-art products and services for our surgeon customers. With offices located in Memphis, Tennessee, Louisville, Colorado, Warsaw, Indiana, Deggendorf, Germany, and Paris, France, and more than 1,800 associates around the world, Medtronic Sofamor Danek has the capabilities to meet the needs of the spinal and cranial surgeon in the 21st Century. | Scion Cardio-Vascular, Inc.
Miami, Florida
Scion Cardio-Vascular, Inc., a privately held company located in Miami, Florida, is dedicated to bringing creativity and innovation to the interventional cardiology and radiology markets. Scion Cardio-Vascular offers simple, cost effective technology for use in minimally invasive surgical procedures. | Siemens Medical Solutions
Hoffman Estates, Illinois
Siemens Medical Solutions is a technical and entrepreneurial core sector of Siemens AG, which for over 100 years has constantly produced world premieres: in 1896 - one year after the discovery of X-rays - the first X-ray tube, in1911, the electrocardiograph with electronic signal amplification, in 1913, the electric hearing aid, in 1956, a universal measuring system for nuclear medicine, in 1966, the first ultrasonic echography unit with real time display and in 1975, the first instant picture with a computer tomograph. | Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics
Memphis, Tennesee
Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics is a global provider of leading-edge joint replacement systems for knees, hips and shoulders; trauma products to help repair broken bones and a range of other medical devices to help alleviate pain in joints and promote healing. Its reputation is for innovative products that offer clear clinical and cost benefits, supported by first class service. One of the leading companies in its field, Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics is continuously developing new materials and techniques to meet the growing demands of patients and hospitals for longer-lasting implants, and faster-to-heal trauma products. Smith & Nephew provides an industry-leading range of implants for hips and knees, developing tougher materials that extend the life of the implant and makes them suitable for younger patients. It has also worked with surgeons to improve techniques and instruments to reduce the invasiveness and surgical time of joint replacements, resulting in faster healing and health care efficiencies. In trauma, its nailing systems for broken bones are world-leaders, with new products enabling the surgeon to operate more quickly and less-invasively. The company is also introducing new alternative therapies for orthopaedic needs. Two examples are Exogen, a non-invasive ultrasound system that accelerates healing in fresh fractures and delayed healing bone fractures and Supartz, the world's number one joint fluid therapy for pain reduction of the knee. Its global sales team offers comprehensive support to surgeons and healthcare providers, backed by a full range of clinical education programmes. | 
St. Jude Medical
St. Paul, Minnesota
St. Jude Medical offers leading-edge cardiovascular products and services to healthcare professionals and patients worldwide. Our portfolio of devices includes cardiac pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, catheters, mechanical heart valves (sometimes known as artificial heart valves), tissue valves (or porcine valves), anastomotic connectors for bypass surgery and other medical devices for heart valve disease and cardiac rhythm management. | Stryker Corporation
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Stryker Corporation develops, manufactures and markets specialty surgical and medical products, including orthopaedic reconstructive, trauma, spinal and craniomaxillofacial implants, the bone growth factor osteogenic protein-1, powered surgical instruments, endoscopic systems, patient care and handling equipment for the global market, and provides outpatient physical therapy services in the United States. | Stryker Endoscopy
San Jose, California
Stryker Endoscopy, a division of Stryker Corporation, is a global technology leader in the medical device industry. We develop, manufacture and market state-of-the-art medical video products, powered equipment and related instrumentation for minimally invasive surgery. Stryker Endoscopy was founded in 1989 on the commitment to advance state-of-the-art medical video technology. Our leadership in this industry began with the introduction of the world's first 3-Chip Medical Video Camera, and continues today with the launch of Hermes, the first ever voice controlled medical video system. Another key innovation includes our Endosuite® operating room, a fully functioning operating room that facilitates minimally invasive surgery across virtually all specialties by enabling the clinical team to control all equipment via our Switchpoint 3 routing device. | Stryker Howmedica Osteonics
Allendale, New Jersey
Howmedica Osteonics Corporation is the orthopaedic implant manufacturing subsidiary of surgical and medical product leader Stryker® Corporation. Howmedica Osteonics develops, manufactures, and markets orthopaedic reconstructive products, such as hip, knee, upper extremity, trauma and spinal implants for the United States and international markets. | Stryker Medical
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Stryker Medical manufactures, sells and services specialty medical equipment for the treatment, transfer and transport of patients. Stryker's complete product portfolio includes ambulance cots, stretchers, patient room furniture, sleep surfaces as well as critical care, med/surg and maternity beds.
| Sulzer Carbomedics Inc.
Winterthur, Switzerland
Sulzer, headquartered in Winterthur, Switzerland, develops manufactures and markets implantable medical devices and biomaterials for the cardiovascular and orthopaedic markets worldwide. The company"s products include joint prostheses, spine implants, products for traumatology, arthroscopy and oral rehabilitation, heart valves and vascular grafts.
| SurgiLight Inc.
Orlando, Florida
SurgiLight, a world leader of IR-lasers for vision correction, holds 16 patents and 20 patents pending for infrared lasers, optical fibers and new laser technologies in "Presbyopia Reversal". SurgiLight operates 2 U.S. centers - Surgilight Laser Center, Plantation Florida and the Cosmetic Moble Laser Center. In October 2000 the company acquired the Ophthalmic Laser Division of Premier Laser Systems, these systems and associated accessories have been cleared by the FDA for various applications in ophthalmology. | TabSafe Medical Services
Alpharetta, Georgia
Prescription drug medications are timed released providing a medicine plan scheduled by a pharmacy in a locked medicine cabinet for senior citizens in assisted living and adult day care community housing centers to provide accurate and reliable prescription drugs and medication administration by TabSafe Medical Services, Inc. Email: cgillig@tabsafe.com
| Thoratec Corporation
Pleasanton, California
Thoratec Corporation is engaged in the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of medical devices for circulatory support and vascular graft applications. The Thoratec® VAD System is the only ventricular assist device that is approved for use both as a bridge to transplant and for recovery from open-heart surgery. The company is also a leader in the research, development and manufacture of implantable left ventricular assist systems (LVAS). Its air-driven and electric HeartMate® heart assist devices, which are approved for sale in the U.S., Europe and Canada, are implanted alongside the natural heart and take over the pumping function of the left ventricle for patients whose hearts are too damaged or diseased to produce adequate blood flow. In addition, the company's Vectra® vascular access graft, which is used in patients undergoing hemodialysis, is approved for sale in the U.S., Europe and Japan and a number of other foreign countries. Its Aria™ coronary artery bypass graft, which is designed for use by patients having too few suitable native blood vessels, is currently in clinical trials in the U.S. | Toshiba Medical
Tustin, California
Toshiba Corporation, Medical Systems Company is a world leader in the development of medical imaging equipment, with a product line-up that includes CT, MRI, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, and both conventional and vascular X-ray systems.
| TransVascular, Inc.
Menlo Park, California
TransVascular, Inc is defining a new class of intervention for the treatment of vascular diseases and other disorders. Unlike conventional therapies that are limited to treatment within blood vessels, the Company's novel therapeutic approach extendes beyond the vessel boundries. By using the entire "vascular highway" as an efficient avenue for accessing treatment sites, TransVascular's devices will create entry and exit sites to and from the vascular highway, allowing physicians unprecedented access to treat issues and structures throughout the body. The Company's proprietary technology will facilitate catheter-based, non-surgical treatments that will improve patient care while reducing costs.
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US Surgical, Inc.
Norwalk, Connecticut
United States Surgical, a unit of Tyco Healthcare Group LP, is a leading manufacturer of innovative wound closure products and advanced surgical devices. Our products are available through three primary business divisions: the Auto Suture Division which offers a complete line of surgical devices and laparoscopic instrumentation for general and specialty procedures; the USS DG Sutures Division, one of the most comprehensive suture product lines in the industry; and Surgical Dynamics, a market leader in spinal fixation and sports medicine products. | 
Valleylab
Boulder, Colorado
Valleylab, a division of Tyco Healthcare Group LP, is the world leader in electrosurgery and ultrasonic surgery systems. We design, develop, and manufacture energy-based surgical treatment systems that continue to raise the standards in patient care and safety in the operating room. Our products include: • Electrosurgical generators • Vessel sealing system • Electrosurgical pencils • Patient return electrodes • Argon-enhanced electrosurgery systems • Laparoscopic instruments • Smoke evacuation systems • Ultrasonic Surgery System | 
VIASYS Healthcare
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
VIASYS Healthcare is a global market leader in health care technology. Our companies specialize in developing, manufacturing, and marketing high technology medical products focused on respiratory care, neuroscience, critical care medicine and medical/surgical products. During the 1990s, Thermo Electron Corporation (TMO – NYSE) assembled a biomedical business through the acquisition of several well-known companies. Each is recognized in its field as the market leader for innovative bioscience products. Together, these companies generate about $350 million in annual sales and a field customer support organization considered to be the best in the business. In November 2001, Thermo Electron spun out the biomedical businesses as a separate entity. This new company, VIASYS Healthcare, includes the following businesses: - Bear Medical Systems Inc.: Mechanical ventilators
- Bird Products Corporation: Mechanical ventilators
- CORPAK MedSystems: Critical care feeding tubes and disposable respiratory accessories
- Erich Jaeger GmbH: Pulmonary function testing and neurodiagnostic equipment
- E.M.E.: Infant CPAP
- Grason-Stadler Inc.: Hearing diagnostic equipment
- Medical Data Electronics, Inc.: Wireless patient monitoring systems
NOTE: Acquisition of MDE by Invivo announced 4/3/03 - Nicolet Biomedical: Neurodiagnostic equipment
- Nicolet Vascular: Peripheral vascular testing equipment
- SensorMedics Corporation: Pulmonary Function testing, sleep and specialized ventilators
- Stackhouse, Inc.: Surgical barrier control systems
- Thermedics Polymer Products: Medical grade polyurethanes and polyurethane films
- Tecomet: Surgical implant components and medical imaging components
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Vivax Medical Corporation
Torrington, Connecticut
Vivax is a developer, manufacturer and distributor of specialty medical devices in the areas of patient mobility, wound care, patient safety and assistive technology. The Company serves the hospital, long term care and home care markets. Our SomaCare program combines the utility of our products with home health services to enable patient to be cared for at home who would ordinarily require a stay in a rehabilitation or skilled nursing facility. Email: info@vivaxmedical.com
| World Heart Corporation
Oakland, California
World Heart Corporation, a global medical device company based in Ottawa, Ontario and Oakland, California, is currently focused on the development and commercialization of pulsatile ventricular assist devices. Its Novacor(R) LVAS (Left Ventricular Assist System) is well established in the marketplace and its next-generation technology, HeartSaverVAD(TM), is a fully implantable assist device intended for long-term support of patients with end-stage heart failure.
| Medtronic Xomed, Inc.
Jacksonville, Florida
Medtronic Xomed, Inc. is a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of surgical products for use by Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) specialists. Medtronic Xomed markets over 6,500 microsurgical products worldwide, addressing surgical procedures in the three major ENT subspecialties of Sinus & Rhinology, Head & Neck, and Otology. The Company's core ENT products include powered tissue-removal systems and other microendoscopy instruments, implantable devices, nerve monitoring systems, disposable fluid-control products, and an image-guided surgery system.
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