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Given Imaging to Present at the CIBC World Markets Healthcare Conference
| Source: Given Imaging
YOQNEAM, ISRAEL--(Marketwire - November 2, 2007) - Given Imaging (NASDAQ : GIVN ) today
announced that Yuval Yanai, Chief Financial Officer, and Gilad Mamlok,
Corporate VP of Finance, will present at the CIBC World Markets 18th Annual
Healthcare Conference taking place November 5 - 7 in New York City. Given
Imaging's presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, November 6 at 1:20pm ET.
To access a live webcast of this presentation, visit www.givenimaging.com
and click on 'About Given Imaging.' The webcast will be available in the
Investor Relations section. A replay 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 a number of 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; the Agile™ patency capsule to
determine the free passage of the PillCam capsule in the GI tract; and the
PillCam COLON video capsule to visualize the colon that has been cleared
for marketing in the European Union and is pending clearance with the
United States Food and Drug Administration. More than 600,000 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 operating subsidiary companies in the United
States, Germany, France, Japan and Australia. For more information, visit
http://www.givenimaging.com.