Given Imaging to Present at the Sixth Annual Needham & Co. Biotechnology and Medical Technology Conference
YOQNEAM, ISRAEL--(Marketwire - June 8, 2007) - Given Imaging Ltd. (NASDAQ: GIVN) today
announced that Homi Shamir, president and CEO, and Yuval Yanai, chief
financial officer, will participate in the Sixth Annual Needham & Co.
Biotechnology and Medical Technology Conference taking place June 13 - 14
in New York. Management will provide a company update on Thursday, June 14
at 2:30pm ET.
To access a live webcast of this presentation, visit www.givenimaging.com.
A replay of the webcast will be available for 30 days at the above
referenced website.
About Given Imaging Ltd.
Given Imaging is redefining gastrointestinal diagnosis by developing,
producing and marketing innovative, patient-friendly products for detecting
gastrointestinal disorders. The company's technology platform is the
PillCam® Platform, featuring the PillCam video capsule, a disposable,
miniature video camera contained in a capsule, which is ingested by the
patient, a sensor array, data recorder and RAPID® software. Given Imaging
has three commercially available capsules: the PillCam SB video capsule to
visualize the entire small intestine which is currently marketed in the
United States and in more than 60 other countries; the PillCam ESO video
capsule to visualize the esophagus; and the Agile™ patency capsule to
determine the free passage of the PillCam capsule in the GI tract. The
PillCam COLON video capsule to visualize the colon has been cleared for
marketing in the European Union, and multi-center clinical trials are
underway in Europe and the U.S. A capsule to visualize the stomach is under
development. More than 500,000 patients worldwide have benefited from the
PillCam capsule endoscopy procedure. Given Imaging's headquarters,
manufacturing and R&D facilities are located in Yoqneam, Israel; it has
direct sales and marketing operations in the United States, Germany and
France, and local offices in Japan, Spain and Australia. For more
information, visit http://www.givenimaging.com.
Contact Information: For further information contact:
Fern Lazar/David Carey
Lazar Partners Ltd.
1-(866) GIVEN-IR