When health care supplies are on the line, Medline Industries goes toe-to-toe with the bigger guns, selling more than 100,000 products. The family-owned company's catalog includes hospital furnishings, exam equipment, housekeeping supplies, and surgical gloves and garments. The firm manufactures and distributes health care products to customers including hospitals, long-term care facilities, physician practices, and home health providers. It also acts as a distributor for other manufacturers' products. In addition, Medline offers inventory and supply chain solutions for health care providers. Products are marketed by its more than 800 sales representatives through some 35 distribution centers in 20 countries.

MEDRAD,Inc. part of Bayer HealthCare, makes medical devices used in diagnostic imaging procedures that provide doctors with an inner view of the human body. MEDRAD products include vascular injection systems used for radiology contrast agents, magnetic resonance scanner coils, and related accessories such as syringes and disposable tubing. In addition, the firm offers equipment repair, training, and other support services. MEDRAD also makes interventional cardiology devices such as clot removal systems. MEDRAD makes its products in the US and markets them directly and through distributors to hospitals and medical imaging centers in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Medtronic CardioVascular strives to mend broken hearts (and clogged arteries, too). A division of medical device maker Medtronic, the unit makes devices that treat conditions affecting the heart and circulatory system. Its products include stents and catheters for treating coronary and peripheral vascular conditions (such as atherosclerosis); stent grafts for fixing aortic aneurysms; products for open heart and coronary bypass surgery; mechanical and tissue heart valves; and surgical ablation technologies for treating cardiac arrythmias. Medtronic CardioVascular markets its products to specialty physicians around the globe.

Medtronic Sofamor Danek USA, Inc. Company Profile It takes backbone to be the one of the world's biggest makers of spinal implants, and Medtronic Sofamor Danek USA has some serious spine. The Medtronic subsidiary's products treat degenerative diseases, deformities, and spine and cranium trauma. It also develops minimally invasive surgical techniques and computer-assisted surgical instruments, and provides physicians and patients with information through websites such as iscoliosis.com, back.com, and necksurgery.com. Medtronic Sofamor Danek USA markets and distributes its products worldwide. Along with hospitals and physicians, the company has federal contracts with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to supply medical equipment to some of its hospitals.

A leading maker of implantable biomedical devices, the company makes defibrillators and pacemakers that shock the heart to help it beat normally. Subsidiary Medtronic Sofamor Danek makes spinal implant devices, while Medtronic CardioVascular produces catheters, stents, valves, balloons, and surgical ablation technologies used to treat vascular and heart disease. The company's neuromodulation division makes nerve and brain stimulation and drug delivery systems. Medtronic also makes devices for diabetes; ear, nose, and throat (ENT) conditions; and emergency medicine.

Mekanika specializes in making devices for the treatment of spinal instability. The company's restablilization system is used for treating degenerative joint disease, as well as trauma to the spine joint. Mekanika was founded by Chairman and Chief Science Officer David Holmes. The company has an alliance with the University of Miami School of Medicine.

Mentor Corporation produces cosmetic surgery products including Memory Gel breast implants, Prevelle Silk tissue expanders, and facial implants. Additional products include the Byron line of ultrasonic liposuction systems that remove unwanted fat and a line of post-surgery clothing called Caromed. Its Mentor Solutions software helps busy plastic surgeons manage their practices. Mentor's products are sold through its international sales force; it has operations in the US, Europe, and Africa. Founded in 1969, Johnson & Johnson purchased the company in 2009.

Most syringes are designed to inject medication into blood vessels, but Mercator MedSystems' (formerly EndoBionics) MicroSyringe is designed to go inside blood vessels and inject medication outside the vessel wall, allowing for a more targeted application of medication that reduces the amount dispersed to areas where it is not needed. In addition to delivering traditional injectable drugs, it can deliver stem cells and gene therapies. The MicroSyringe, which was approved for use by the FDA in 2004, can be used to treat tumors and vascular, cardiac, and neurological diseases.

Mercury Medical manufactures the medical equipment used to administer and monitor medical gasses for respiratory, anesthesia, and critical care. It also offers technical consulting services, equipment repair, and equipment reconditioning services. Customers include hospitals, biomedical clinics, and home care clients. Along with marketing its own products, its sales team also represents products from other life-support equipment manufacturers. It distributes products directly to institutional customers in the southeastern US; elsewhere it relies on a network of distributors. Mercury Medical ships its medical supplies for home health directly to customers through its ShurShip division.

Meridian Medical Technologies (MMT) wards off attacks of allergies and nerve gas alike. The company develops and manufactures auto-injectors designed to provide emergency drug delivery. As a primary supplier to the US and allied governments and law enforcement agencies, MMT provides auto-injectors filled with antidotes to chemical nerve agents and insecticide poisoning, as well as anti-convulsant and pain medications, which are typically used by emergency responders. Its brands include AtroPen and DuoDote. The product best-known to civilians is the EpiPen auto-injector, which is filled with epinephrine to treat anaphylaxis (severe allergic reaction). The company is a subsidiary of King Pharmaceuticals.

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