Given Imaging to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences

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YOQNEAM, ISRAEL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- January 25, 2007 --Given Imaging (NASDAQ: GIVN) today announced that management will present at investor conferences in the coming weeks. The conferences include: 

--  Wachovia Securities 2007 Small and Mid-Cap Healthcare Conference
    taking place in Boston, January 30-31. Yuval Yanai, Chief Financial
    Officer, is scheduled to present on Wednesday, January 31st at 9:30 a.m.
    ET.
    
--  Merrill Lynch Global Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Medical Device
    Conference in New York, February 6-8.  Homi Shamir, President and CEO, and
    Yuval Yanai, CFO, are scheduled to present on Tuesday, February 6th at 3:20
    p.m. ET.
To access live webcasts of these presentations, visit www.givenimaging.com. Replays of these webcasts will be available for two weeks 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

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