Genoptix is a specialized consultative laboratory service provider focused on delivering personalized and comprehensive services to community-based hematologists and oncologists. Genoptix is more than just a company. We are a team of highly trained professionals working together to optimize patient outcomes. We specialize in diagnosing cancers, disorders, and subtypes in bone marrow, blood, and lymph nodes, with expertise in the most challenging diagnoses. We also specialize in solid tumor workups using molecular testing.

Varian Medical Systems radiates success in electrotherapeutics. The company works mainly with products related to x-rays and radiation treatment of cancer. The company's oncology unit makes linear accelerators, simulators, and data management software, primarily for cancer radiotherapy. Other cancer treatment offerings include devices for brachytherapy, a treatment that protects healthy tissue through the use of radiation implants. Varian Medical Systems' X-ray unit makes imaging subsystems and X-ray-generating tubes for medical imaging, security, and OEM applications. The company markets its products through direct sales forces and distributors worldwide; it also operates global service and support centers.

Angiotech Pharmaceuticals is teaching old devices new tricks. The firm develops medical products that combine devices with drugs to make them more effective with fewer side effects. Its flagship product in the Pharmaceutical Technologies segment is the TAXUS drug-eluting stent, which Boston Scientific sells and for which it pays Angiotech royalties. The stent is used to open up diseased arteries, and the drug coating keeps scar tissue from forming and creating a new blockage. The company's Medical Products segment makes the Quill wound closure system and other single-use medical products for interventional radiology, ophthalmology, and surgery. Angiotech has facilities in North America and Europe.

Doctors Hospital of Augusta serves eastern Georgia and western South Carolina. The general and acute health care facility has some 350 beds and is part of hospital giant HCA. Its specialty units include the Joseph M. Still Burn Center and the Healthy Living Center. In addition, the hospital offers centers for cardiopulmonary health, digestive diseases, occupational medicine, cancer care, sleep disorders, stroke care, and women's health. Doctors Hospital of Augusta also operates freestanding surgical centers and Human Motion Institute rehabilitation clinics.

Helping the world's edentulous and incontinent is a part of Astra Tech's mandate. The company, a unit of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, concentrates on researching, developing, and manufacturing medical devices and implants used in odontology (dental surgery) and urology. Other products include wound drains and hemorrhoid ligators. Through international subsidiaries (including Astra Tech Inc. in the US), Astra Tech operates globally through more than 15 subsidiaries; more than 90% of its sales are made outside its home country. Key products include the Astra Tech Dental Implant System, the LoFric hydrophilic bladder catheter, and the Bellovac A.B.T autologous blood transfusion system.

ArthroCare’s mission is to design surgical instruments that will improve patient outcomes by using our internationally patented Coblation® technology. This technology precisely dissolves target tissue and limits damage to surrounding healthy tissue. Coblation significantly improves many existing surgical procedures and enables new minimally invasive procedures.ArthoCare Corporation have created a multi-business medical device company around this platform technology — developing, manufacturing and marketing products for a variety of soft tissue surgical applications. ArthroCare is leveraging Coblation technology to capitalize on a multi-billion dollar market opportunity across several surgical specialties, including arthroscopy; spine and neurology; ear, nose and throat; cosmetic; urology; gynecology; and laparoscopy/general surgery.

Biodex Medical Systems aims to have a Rolodex overflowing with customers for its health care equipment. The company designs and manufactures a variety of products for the diagnostic radiology market, as well as equipment used for physical rehabilitation such as treadmills, elliptical cross-trainers, and balance testing equipment. Diagnostic supplies include tables, stretchers, and stools for medical imaging, as well as radiation shields, lung ventilation systems, and storage and dosing devices for nuclear medicine applications. Biodex Medical Systems' products are marketed through direct sales reps and international distributors. The company also offers technical support and clinical training for its equipment.

The leading provider of hospital medicine in the U.S., IPC The Hospitalist Company delivers management services to hospitalist practices operating in more than 500 facilities. IPC providers deliver high quality care efficiently and cost-effectively, supported by IPC-Link®, the most sophisticated, comprehensive hospitalist-centric software. IPC facilitates dramatic improvements for three constituencies:

The Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis campus includes the flagship hospital of the Baptist Memorial Health Care system. Opened in 1979, the hospital is located adjacent to the I-240 loop. Also located on the Baptist Memphis campus is a separately licensed 30-bed skilled nursing facility and the 30-bed Restorative Care Hospital. With more than 26,000 admissions, 57,000 emergency department visits and 15,000 surgeries in 2009, Baptist Memphis is one of Tennessee’s highest volume hospitals. The emergency department has 31 treatment suites staffed by 24-hour-a-day emergency physicians for the treatment of adults. It also has a separate, dedicated five-room pediatric treatment area staffed around the clock with in-house pediatric emergency physicians. In addition, the hospital houses the 19-bed inpatient Hardin Pediatric Center.

Q-Med seeks a smooth future, but thus far it still has a few wrinkles in its plans. The company develops and manufactures the high-tech goo Restylane dermatologists inject to fill in lines and creases in facial skin. Its Durolane product, also based on its non-animal sourced hyaluronic acids, is used as an injection to treat osteoarthritis of the knee. Its products are distributed in over 70 countries, but only Restylane has received FDA approval for use in the US. The Swedish company entered the US exchanges by buying up the shell of a public company in 2008.

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