Surgical Specialties Corporation

Industry:	Medical Devices & Equipment
Revenues:	$25.1 Million
Employees:	292

Description

Surgical Specialties Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, which was acquired during the acquisition of American Medical Instruments Holdings, Inc. in March 2006. Based in Reading, Pennsylvania, Surgical Specialties Corporation is a specialty surgical device company engaged in wound closure, aesthetic surgery and ophthalmology. It is best known for the Sharpoint(TM) line of surgical needles and sutures, Sharpoint(TM) ophthalmic microsurgical knives, and Contour Threads(TM) barbed sutures for performing minimally invasive facial ThreadLift(TM) Procedures.

Products & Services

sutures, ophthalmic surgical knives, wound closure products

News Archive

Verdicts & Settlements September 21, 2009: Jury finds for defense in slip-and-fall suit Missouri Lawyers Media; 9/21/2009 ...Plaintiff's Experts: Dr. Peter Buchert, Columbia (surgical specialties); Keith E. Vidal, St. Louis (engineering...Defendant's Experts: Dr. Garth Russell, Columbia (surgical specialties); Russell Kendzior, Southlake, Texas (floor... ...more

June 2009 Online EMR Survey of 1300+ Physicians in 40 Medical and Surgical Specialties. PR Newswire; 7/22/2009 NEW YORK, July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- httpwww.whatdoctorsthink.com/ is pleased to announce the results of its June 2009 Electronic Medical Records (EMR) survey of 1300+ physicians from all medical specialties. The survey results are insightful, unique, surprising and contain previously unavailable data ...more

Investigators at University of Oxford target health and medicine. Health & Medicine Week; 7/20/2009 ...hospital specialties, substantially so in the surgical specialties and anaesthetics. Women who had always worked full time were under-represented not only in the surgical specialties but also in general practice. Women not progressing... ...more