MY Medicare wants to help with your medical care. Mingyuan Medicare Development, or MY Medicare, makes medical diagnostic products for the Chinese market. Its HealthDigit subsidiary produces biochips that detect certain proteins in the body and are used to diagnose and monitor cancer as well as track treatment efficacy. The company has agreements with major Chinese insurance companies, including Taiping Life, China Life, and Ping An Life, that use the chips in medical checkups. MY Medicare also makes a testing kit used to detect cervical cancer. It offers consultation for clinical and technical research and conducts training and seminars from research centers and plants in Shanghai and Beijing.

Metabolic Nutrition ships out products that help people shape up. Products include meal replacement shake powders, weight loss supplements, and anti-oxidant formulations. Its weight loss division offers products such as SyneDrex and Phenolox, which are metabolism stimulators, and Ametrol, a carbohydrate inhibitor. Sports performance offerings includes meal replacement Advantage and stamina enhancer TAG. The health and wellness division offers customers vitamin supplement Quidprim and immune system booster Stipatore, among other formulations. Metabolic Nutrition's products are sold in select health food stores; the company also takes orders through its Web site and over the phone.

ProMetic was founded in 1994. The scientists at ProMetic Life Sciences are meticulous about proteins. The biotech company develops protein technologies for pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and blood and plasma product development. ProMetic's Protein Technologies division licenses its technologies to companies around the globe, who then make their own products. The company's Therapeutics division conducts proprietary drug development programs for blood disease and cancer therapeutics. The company has collaborative agreements with pharmaceutical companies and health organizations such as Abraxis BioScience, Merck Serono, and The American Red Cross.

Oragenics, Inc. company was founded in 1996 and is based in Alachua, Florida. Oragenics, Inc., a biotechnology company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of products and technologies associated with oral health, antibiotics, and other general health benefits. The company develops Probiora3, an oral probiotics technology that employs three natural strains of beneficial bacteria, which promote oral health; LPT3-04 for weight loss; and DPOLT or differentially protected orthogonal lantionine technology, which is a solid or liquid phase peptide synthesis platform technology that has various applications for the manufacture of commercially important bioactive peptides. It is also developing Mutacin 1140, an antibiotic with antimicrobial activity against gram-positive bacteria, including methicillin-resistant and vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Proteomic-based In-Vivo Induced Antigen Technology (PIVIAT) and Proteomic-based Change Mediated Antigen Technology (PCMAT) diagnostic platforms that enable the identification of novel and potentially important gene targets associated with the natural onset and progression of infections, cancers, and other diseases in humans and other living organisms, including plants; and SMaRT Replacement Therapy, which is a painless topical treatment for protection against tooth decay. The company primarily operates in the United States and Mexico. It was formerly known as Oragen, Inc.

Myriad Genetics, Inc. company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. Myriad Genetics, Inc., a healthcare company, focuses on the development and marketing of novel molecular diagnostic products. It commercializes predictive medicine, personalized medicine, and prognostic medicine products. The company markets BRACAnalys for assessing a woman's risk for breast and ovarian cancer; COLARIS molecular for assessing a person's risk of developing colorectal cancer or uterine cancer; COLARIS AP, a molecular diagnostic product for colon cancer that detects mutations in the APC and MYH genes; and MELARIS, which assesses a persons risk of developing melanoma. It also offers OnDose, a personalized medicine product to measure a patient's exposure to 5-FU chemotherapy; PREZEON that assesses loss of PTEN function in cancer patients; and TheraGuide 5-FU assesses a person's risk of developing a toxic reaction to 5-FU-based chemotherapy.

ARYx Therapeutics, Inc. was incorporated in 1997 and is based in Fremont, California. ARYx Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing a portfolio of product candidates designed to eliminate known safety issues associated with commercial drugs using its RetroMetabolic Drug Design technology. Its product portfolio includes tecarfarin, an oral anticoagulant in Phase II/III clinical development for the treatment of patients who are at risk for the formation of dangerous blood clots; budiodarone/ATI-2042, an oral antiarrhythmic agent in Phase II clinical development for the treatment of atrial fibrillation, a form of irregular heartbeat; ATI-7505, an oral prokinetic agent in Phase II clinical development for the treatment of chronic constipation, gastroparesis, functional dyspepsia, irritable bowel syndrome with constipation, and gastroesophageal reflux disease; and ATI-9242, an antipsychotic agent in Phase I clinical development for the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. The company also involves in the preclinical development of ATI-20,000 and ATI-24,000, which focus on metabolic and gastrointestinal disorders.

Pharsight wants to shorten the path to market for tomorrow's pharmaceutical breakthroughs. The company's software and consulting services aim to take some of the guesswork out of the drug development process for pharmaceutical and biotech firms, helping them choose the most promising drug candidates, to design effective clinical trials, and to keep up with regulatory reporting. Pharsight's WinNonlin and WinNonMix applications, for instance, analyze research and clinical data to help companies develop appropriate dosing regimens for clinical trials. And its consulting services help them make key strategy decisions about the future of development programs. Pharsight was acquired by Tripos in 2008.

Alacer Corp. will "C" you through your cold. Maker of the popular Emergen-C fizzy drink mix, the company set the cornerstone on branded vitamin C products. In addition to Emergen-C, which blends mineral ascorbates with B vitamins and mineral complexes, the company's other products include ElectroMIX (electrolyte drink mix) and its Super Gram time-released tablets. Alacer also develops other vitamin and herbal supplements, all with a walloping dose of vitamin C stirred in. Its products are sold through natural foods retailers, mass market retailers, and chain drug stores.

QLT Inc. company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. QLT Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of pharmaceutical products, primarily in the field of ophthalmology. It offers Visudyne, a photosensitizer to treat the eye disease, known as wet age related macular degeneration; and also used for the treatment of subfoveal CNV due to pathologic myopia, or severe near-sightedness, and presumed ocular histoplasmosis or other macular diseases. The company also offers Eligard product line that includes one, three, four, and six month commercial formulations of Atrigel technology combined with leuprolide acetate for the treatment of prostate cancer. Its products in development include Visudyne therapy; punctal plug drug delivery system, an invasive drug delivery system for delivering various drugs topically to the eye through controlled sustained release to the tear film, under Phase II studies targeting the treatment of glaucoma and ocular hypertension; and QLT091001, a Phase Ia orally administered synthetic retinoid replacement therapy for 11-cis-retinal, which is a key biochemical component of the visual retinoid cycle, as well as OT-730, a prodrug of a beta adrenergic antagonist (a type of beta blocker) under investigation for the treatment of glaucoma.

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma makes proprietary prescription pharmaceuticals in a number of therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neuroscience, immunology, and oncology. In its home market, it sells products such as anticoagulant Anplag, anti-allergy medicine Talion, liver drug Urso, and neuroprotective agent Radicut. Its Benesis unit makes therapeutic plasma proteins such as albumin. The company markets and sells its products through in-house sales agents and distributors. Formerly Mitsubishi Pharma, the company merged with fellow Japanese drugmaker Tanabe Seiyaku and subsequently changed its name; Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings owns a majority stake in the new entity.

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