Cook Incorporated Withdraws From TCT Conference in Washington, D.C. To Ensure Employee Safety and Ensure Delivery of Medical Supplies To Customers.Business & Health/Medical Editors BLOOMINGTON, Ind.--(BW HealthWire)--Sept. 11, 2001 Following today's terrorist attacks in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and Washington, D.C., Cook Incorporated has withdrawn from the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics therapeutics Treatment and care to combat disease or alleviate pain or injury. Its tools include drugs, surgery, radiation therapy, mechanical devices, diet, and psychiatry. (TCT TCT The Capital Times (Madison, WI newspaper) TCT Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics TCT The Coroner's Toolkit TCT Trans Canada Trail TCT Tcl Core Team TCT Tsukuba College of Technology (Japan) ) in the nation's capital. "Cook Incorporated has a large number of employees and professional associates either presently in Washington for the TCT conference or planning to travel there tomorrow. In the interest of their safety and well-being, we have decided to withdraw our exhibit booth from the conference and allow our people to return home as soon as federal authorities determine that it is safe to travel," said Phyllis McCullough, chairman of Cook Incorporated. "In addition, we want to ensure that all Cook employees are available to service the nation's hospitals and medical clinics and help deliver any medical devices required to cope with the injuries caused by this national tragedy." With international headquarters in Bloomington, Ind., privately held COOK(R) (www.cookgroup.com/) is a leading designer, manufacturer and global distributor of minimally invasive medical device technology for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Since its founding in 1963, COOK has been committed to product innovation, skilled hand-craftsmanship and unsurpassed customer satisfaction, earning the company global recognition among medical professionals. Cook Incorporated is acknowledged as an innovator in catheter technology, wire guides, introducer needles and sheaths, stents and stent-grafts, embolization embolization /em·bo·li·za·tion/ (em?bo-li-za´shun) 1. the process or condition of becoming an embolus. 2. therapeutic introduction of a substance into a vessel in order to occlude it. coils, drainage catheters, tissue-engineered medical biomaterials, vena cava filters Vena Cava Filter Definition A vena cava filter is a device inserted into a major vein to prevent a blood clot from entering the lungs. Purpose , implanted cardiac lead extraction technology and other minimally invasive devices. More than 40 companies in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Europe, Canada, Australia and Asia design, produce, manufacture and distribute COOK brand medical devices to physicians and other medical professionals around the world. |
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