Given Imaging to Present at the Needham Growth Conference


YOQNEAM, ISRAEL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- January 3, 2007 -- Given Imaging Ltd. (NASDAQ: GIVN) today announced that Yuval Yanai, chief financial officer, will participate in the Ninth Annual Needham & Company Growth Conference taking place January 9 - 12 in New York. Mr. Yanai will provide a company update on Tuesday, January 9 at 4:30pm ET.

To access a live webcast of Mr. Yanai's presentation, visit www.givenimaging.com. A replay of the webcast will be available for thirty 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 50 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 400,000 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: Yuval Yanai Given Imaging Ltd. or Fern Lazar/David Carey Lazar Partners Ltd. 1-(866) GIVEN-IR Email Contact Email Contact