Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon has the operating room all sewn up. The company's Ethicon Products division is a leading maker of sutures and wound-closure products, including sutures, Dermabond skin glue, surgical mesh products, and wound drains. Another division, Ethicon Biosurgery, provides a line of absorbable hemostats and other products that help control bleeding during surgery, while its Biopatch product offers infection-resistant wound dressings. Ethicon Women's Health and Urology makes surgical grafts, devices, and equipment under the Gynecare brand. Through its Mentor unit, Ethicon also makes a line of sutures, breast implants, and other plastic surgery products.

Providence Little Company of Mary, a member of the Providence Health System. The not-for-profit subsidiary provides health care to the southern region of Los Angeles through two acute care hospitals (Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center San Pedro and Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Torrance), as well as more than two dozen urgent care clinics, doctors' offices, home health and hospice facilities, and specialty outpatient care centers. Services include diagnostic imaging, emergency care, cancer treatment, cardiac care, surgery, and women and children's health care. The Providence Little Company of Mary health system is led by CEO Nancy Carlson.

Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare is an independent, not-for-profit hospital located in St. Paul, Minnesota, with clinics in Duluth, Burnsville, Maple Grove, Minnetonka, and services for adult patients at our St.Paul - Phalen Clinic. Gillette is internationally renowned for a level of pediatric expertise that distinguishes us from many health care organizations.

Forum Health care system includes acute-care and specialty hospitals (Northside Medical Center, Trumbull Memorial Hospital, and Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital), home care agencies, and other medical facilities. Specialty services include cardiology, cancer care, behavioral medicine, obstetrics, and emergency medicine. The company operates several community medical clinics and outpatient centers, and it offers nursing and physician training and residency programs. Forum Health was acquired by Community Health Systems in 2010.

Best Medical International has set a high standard for the medical equipment it manufactures. The vertically-integrated company has rolled up a collection of businesses in the US and Canada that manufacture and distribute radiotherapy systems and supplies. Its product lines include brachytherapy systems (radioactive seeds implanted to zap tumors), external beam therapy systems, blood irradiators, and other supporting equipment used to deliver and monitor radiation therapy. Its subsidiaries include Best Cyclotron Systems, Best NOMOS, Best Theratronics, CNMC, Huestis Medical, and Novoste. The company was founded by its president Krishnan Suthanthiran in 1977.

Weirton Medical Center has 240-bed, not-for-profit hospital provides a wide range of health services to the tri-state region of West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Inpatient services include pediatrics, obstetrics, and other acute care services. Founded in 1953, the hospital also offers clinical and diagnostic care services such as emergency medicine, home health care, rehabilitation, and occupational therapy. Weirton Medical Center has seen a steady decrease in patient volumes in recent years forcing the hospital to enact a number of cost-saving measures including cutting back on some services and laying off employees.

Devax, Inc., a medical device company focused on developing next generation products for interventional cardiology, today announced that the Company has completed patient enrollment in the DIVERGE clinical trial evaluating its novel AXXESS™ Bifurcation Stent System. The DIVERGE trial, a prospective, multi-center trial which enrolled 302 patients, is the largest study conducted to date with a drug-eluting stent specifically designed for treating bifurcation lesions.

Biosense Webster makes products that explore, and in some cases alter, the terrain of the human heart. Its catheters and imaging systems are used by electrophysiologists and interventional cardiologists worldwide to find and treat heart arrhythmias (irregular heart rhythms.) Its CARTO XP EP Navigation System uses 3-D imaging technology to map the heart's electrical activity and lets doctors navigate the heart using the company's diagnostic catheters. Biosense Webster also makes therapeutic ablation catheters and systems that destroy faulty electric pathways in the heart that cause arrhythmias. Biosense Webster is a member of parent Johnson & Johnson's medical devices and diagnostics division.

ThermoGenesis Corp. makes equipment that harvests, freezes, and thaws stem cells and other blood components taken from adult sources like umbilical cord blood, placentas, and bone marrow. Its core products include the AutoXpress System (AXP), a medical device that retrieves stem cells from cord blood; and the BioArchive System, which freezes and stores stem cells harvested from such blood. Other products include Res-Q, which processes stems cells from bone marrow, and the plasma storage product ThermoLine. Founded in 1986, the company sells its products to cord blood banks, stem cell researchers, and clinical laboratories around the world.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is a learned institution: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital organization is affiliated with both the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University. NewYork-Presbyterian comprises two medical centers, Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical Center, which conduct educational and research programs in partnership with the universities. The two facilities combined have about 2,300 beds and offer patients specialized programs for burns, digestive diseases, pediatrics, women's health, gene therapy, and infertility. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is part of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System.

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