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.

Precision Optics makes specialized video cameras and stereo endoscopes for use in minimally invasive surgery. Its other products include laparoscopes (for abdominal surgery) and arthroscopes (for joint surgery), as well as sterilizable image couplers and beamsplitters that connect endoscopes to video cameras. The US is Precision Optics' biggest market, accounting for almost all sales, although the company has received regulatory approval to sell its products in Europe. In 2008 the company sold it custom optical thin film coatings business to privately held Optometrics, a subsidiary of Dynasil.

National Home Health Care Corp. through its five wholly owned subsidiaries is a provider of home health care and staffing services in the northeast region. Through its subsidiary in New York, the Company provides trained and caring home health aides, personal care workers and housekeepers throughout the New York City boroughs of Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan, as well as Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties. Through its subsidiaries in Connecticut, the Company provides Medical, Behavioral Health and Pediatric skilled nursing services, rehabilitation therapy, social work, paraprofessional and staffing services throughout the state.Through its subsidiary in New Jersey, the Company provides trained and caring home health aides and companions in Northern New Jersey. Through its subsidiary in Massachusetts, the Company provides Medical, Behavioral Health and Pediatric skilled nursing services, rehabilitation therapy, social work and paraprofessional services throughout the state. The Company, which is headquartered in Scarsdale, New York, currently has approximately 4,600 full and part-time employees.

Vision-Sciences, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets products for endoscopy. The company operates through two segments, Medical and Industrial. The Medical segment designs, manufactures, and sells a line of endoscopy-based products, including flexible endoscopes and sheath or EndoSheath disposables primarily to the ENT, urology, gastroenterology, and pulmonology markets. The Industrial segment designs, manufactures, and markets flexible borescopes under the Machida brand name. This segment offers various products, such as modulars, slim levers, knobs, battery operated portable flexible borescopes, industrial videoscopes, and portable video processors primarily to the aircraft engine manufacturing and aircraft engine maintenance industries. The company offers its products to the ENT doctors, urologists, gastroenterologists, primary care physicians, pulmonologists and other airway management doctors in hospitals, medical clinics, and physicians’ private offices. It provides its products through sales representatives in the United States; and through independent distributors in Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, the Middle East, Africa, and Central and South America. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in Orangeburg, New York.

Alden Management Services, Inc. was founded in 1971 by president Floyd Schlossberg as an offshoot of the Alden Bennett Construction Company. Alden Management Services, also known as The Alden Network, operates about 40 independent living, assisted living, and skilled rehabilitation and nursing facilities primarily throughout Illinois, but also in Wisconsin. Its elder care facilities provide a wide range of services such as rehabilitation, Alzheimer's care, long-term care, hospice, and infectious disease management. Alden Management Services also offers programs for children and young adults with special needs. Alden's pediatric services include behavioral management, nursing care, and physical therapy.

Midwest Heart Specialists (MHS) is a nationally recognized group of over 50 physicians including board certified cardiologists, electrophysiologists and heart failure specialists making us one of the largest cardiovascular practices in Illinois. In addition to being board-certified in cardiovascular disease, many MHS physicians are also certified in critical care medicine, internal medicine and emergency medicine. Midwest Heart Specialists provides easy access for patients at its multiple locations throughout the western and northwest suburbs of Chicago, Rockford, Illinois and surrounding areas.

Caritas Norwood Hospital gets to the hearts (and other body parts) of the people of Norwood. Part of the Caritas Christi Health Care family of health facilities, the facility is a more than 260-bed community hospital that serves patients in and around Norwood, Massachusetts. Founded in 1902, the hospital is an acute care facility and provides area residents with emergency and general health care and medical transport services. Caritas Norwood Hospital is also home to specialized programs including behavioral health services, cancer treatment, cardiology, obstetrics/gynecology, orthopedic medicine, pediatrics, rehabilitation, sleep disorder treatment, and surgery.

SafeGuard Health Enterprises offers US employers a variety of dental- and vision-care benefit programs. It provides dental benefits to about 1.8 million members through a network of thousands of dentists nationwide. Employers can choose from its dental HMO, PPO, or standard indemnity plans. SafeGuard Health Enterprises company also offers dental administration services to self-insured employers, vision insurance plans, and employee assistance programs. It's primary operations are in California, Florida, Nevada, and Texas. MetLife acquired SafeGuard Health Enterprises in 2008; SafeGuard operates as a subsidiary under MetLife's Dental Product Management division.

Unity Health System brings together a host of health care services for the good people of Rochester, New York, and western Monroe County. The 680-bed system's main facility is Unity Hospital (what was Park Ridge Hospital until 2006). Its Unity St. Mary's Campus (formerly St. Mary's Hospital) offers a variety of community-based health care services, such as primary care clinics, dental offices, and urgent care services, as well as specialized psychiatric, rehabilitative, and cancer care, among other things. Unity St. Mary's also operates a nursing home and a senior living facility (known as Moore Park Apartments).

Alphatec Spine designs, develops, manufactures and markets a full line of spinal implants and surgical instruments. Since our company's founding in 1990, we have developed a full-line of innovative products for spine surgeons. During that time, our focus has been on working to improve the quality of life of patients with spine disorders and to continue to innovate new products that advance the science of spinal surgery. Moving forward, we will continue this core mission. However, in analyzing our business and our product pipeline, we will also stake a leadership position in a segment of the spine market that has been underserved - the aging spine.Aging spine patients (65 years and older) have a desire to alleviate the pain and discomfort caused by disorders such as osteoporosis (which results in 700,000 annual vertebral compression fractures), adult scoliosis (which is prevalent in 60 percent of this age group) and spondylolisthesis (which afflicts 12 percent of men and 30 percent of women in the aging population). According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, one in two women and one in four men over age 50 will break a bone due to osteoporosis. It is estimated that 10 million Americans currently suffer from osteoporosis and 34 million more are at risk of developing it.

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