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Medical Instruments & Supplies
Composite Value: 822.0
Today's Change: -0.53%
S&P 500: -0.32%

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Medical Instruments & Supplies News

NUCRYST Announces Special Meeting of Shareholders
Fri 6:18 pm ET (PR Newswire)
NUCRYST Pharmaceuticals Corp. announced today that a Special Meeting of Shareholders will be held on Monday, December 21, 2009. The purpose of the Meeting is to consider approval of two special resolutions.

•	Becton Dickinson buys test maker HandyLab - (AP)
•	Integra LifeSciences to Present at the Piper Jaffray Health Care and JP Morgan SMid Cap Conferences in December - (GlobeNewswire)

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Industry Top Performers

Intraday Price Performance	% Change	Market Cap
Electro-Optical Sciences, Inc [MELA]	+8.10%	$200.5 M
CPC OF AMERICA INC [CPCF.OB]	+3.85%	$0
SenoRx, Inc. [SENO]	+3.19%	$76.4 M
Insulet Corporation [PODD]	+3.00%	$369.2 M
LeMaitre Vascular, Inc. [LMAT]	+2.74%	$74.6 M

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Market Capitalization	% Change	Market Cap
ALCON INC [ACL]	-0.94%	$43.8 B
BAXTER INTL INC [BAX]	-1.13%	$33.1 B
COVIDIEN PLC [COV]	+1.15%	$22.7 B
STRYKER CP [SYK]	-0.18%	$19.4 B
BECTON DICKINSON CO [BDX]	+0.33%	$17.6 B

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Date	Co	Event
12/08/09	COO	The Cooper Companies, Inc. Earnings Conference Call (Q4 2009)
01/26/10	ROCM	Rochester Medical Corporation Q1 2010 Earnings Release
01/26/10	SYK	Stryker Q4 2009 Earnings Release

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11/18/09	BAX	BAXTER INTL INC coverage initiated by Morgan Keegan
11/18/09	BCR	BARD C R INC coverage initiated by Morgan Keegan
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Industry Statistics

Market Capitalization:	213B
Price / Earnings:	50.8
Price / Book:	10.2
Net Profit Margin (mrq):	8.8%
Price To Free Cash Flow (mrq):	52.4
Return on Equity:	10.2%
Total Debt / Equity:	0.0
Dividend Yield:	1.8%

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