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Given Imaging to Present at the Needham Growth Conference
| Source: Given Imaging
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.