The development-stage medical device company,EnteroMedics Inc. uses neuroblocking technology called VBLOC therapy to combat obesity. Its initial product in development, the Maestro System, is a device laparoscopically implanted near the diaphragm that uses electrical impulses to limit the expansion of the stomach, thereby producing a feeling of prolonged fullness. The Maestro System is in US and international clinical trials, with FDA approval and commercial sales anticipated by 2010. EnteroMedics plans to build a direct sales force to market the product to bariatric surgeons and weight management specialists.

Surgical Innovations Group makes medical devices used in minimally invasive surgeries. Its products include the YelloPort laparoscopic access system and FastClamp, an instrument used in endoscopic procedures. The company sells its products through distributors and licensing deals with other equipment makers; its customers are mainly in Europe but it also has distribution arrangements in the US and elsewhere. Though its minimally invasive surgical products represent its core business, Surgical Innovations also makes autologous blood transfusion equipment, which collects and re-infuses a patient's own blood during surgery, through its Haemocell subsidiary.

Boekel resides in a modern 70,000 sq ft facility today located 35 miles north of Philadelphia, PA. The company has continued to update products and processes over the past several years and we will continue our dedication to make new innovative research tools for the scientist. Boekel make products for the Environmental, Clinical, Food, Life Sciences, Schools, Veterinary and Physician office markets.Boekel has moved ahead in many areas over the past few years and has progressed as a leader in new products. Boekel has a new extensive line of hybridization products including the company's new microslide hybridization oven.Boekel has introduced many new carousels to keep up with demands for smaller samples and to be able to accommodate the researcher whether you use tubes, bottles, slides or microplates and blocks.All of the company's Incubators feature mechanical convection. The incubators are available in new sizes with either solid or clear, see-thru doors.

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Rahway (RWJUHR) has the people of Rahway cheering for it. Providing health care services for Rahway and 15 other communities of eastern New Jersey, the hospital has 265 beds. Founded in 1917, RWJUHR offers patients ambulatory, cardiac, geriatric, psychiatric, pulmonary, rehabilitation, and surgical services. The hospital has specialty divisions for wound healing, balance, sleep, and pain care, and it has hospice and long-term stay units. Part of the Robert Wood Johnson Health System and Network since 2003, RWJUH is also affiliated with The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey's Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Health Plan of Nevada, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth, is a Nevada health maintenance organization (HMO) offering health care coverage to the state's residents. Its offerings include various HMO and point-of-service (POS) plans, as well as prescription drug coverage. It also gives members access to its affiliated multi-specialty medical group, Southwest Medical Associates, and other health care and wellness services. Established in 1982, Health Plan of Nevada offers plans through employer groups as well as to individuals. It sells its Senior Dimensions HMO plans to Medicare beneficiaries.

Osteotech uses donated human tissue (also known as allograft) to make bone repair, replacement, and regeneration products for the orthopedic, neurological, oral/maxillofacial, and dental surgery markets around the globe. Its Grafton brand of bone matrix comes in gel, sheet, putty, and even chip form to fill bone defects and induce bone growth. Other marketed products include Magnifuse graft material and FacetLinx for spinal fusion. Additionally, Osteotech processes bovine tissue (xenografts) for use as bone grafts. The company is owned by medical device maker Medtronic.

Astra Tech makes products for two very different, yet equally important, parts of the body. The company manufactures medical devices for the fields of dentistry and urology. Its Astra Tech Dental Implant Systems include titanium screws and bone stimulation materials used to secure abutments, bridges, and dentures. Astra Tech also makes a line of catheters and catheter systems; its LoFric product is a hydrophilic urinary catheter for the intermittent emptying of the bladder. The company also offers some wound draining, blood transfusion, surgical suction products. Astra Tech's Swedish parent Astra Tech AB is a direct subsidiary of drug maker AstraZeneca.

OsteoTec do have a particular fondness for those body parts. OsteoTec distributes medical devices and implants in the UK, specializing in products used in hand, foot, and craniomaxillofacial surgical procedures. Products include finger and toe joints, wrist implants, tissue anchors, bone ties, and a cranial flap fixation system. The company's suppliers include Ascension Orthopedics, KMI Medical, and OsteoMed, and OsteoTec is also developing its own line of products.

NxStage Medical is giving some life back to those needing dialysis to treat acute kidney failure and end-stage renal disease. The medical device company's primary product, System One, is a portable hemodialysis machine, which can be used by patients at home or by professionals in a hospital setting. The FDA-approved device is also marketed to hospitals for critical care and to dialysis clinics that want to create or expand their services to home-based patients. Typically, customers rent the System One equipment, but its largest customer, DaVita, has chosen to purchase. NxStage Medical's subsidiary, Medisystems, supplies customers with disposable blood tubing and needles.

Cleveland may be home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but you don't have to have the rocking pneumonia or the boogie woogie flu to visit another Cleveland institution: The Cleveland Clinic. The heart of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, the not-for-profit hospital has more than 1,300 beds and specializes in cardiac care, digestive disease treatment, and urological and kidney care, along with medical education and research opportunities. The clinic campus includes an international care center, a children's hospital, an outpatient center, and several research institutes. The Cleveland Clinic Foundation network also includes 10 community hospitals and additional health clinics in northeast Ohio and Florida.

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