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I'm Marshal Urist with the medtech team sitting in for David Lewis, who was double booked this afternoon. So we are happy to be here with Glenn Muir with Hologic. And before we get started Glenn, why don't you give an overview, sort of a five minute overview of the Company for anyone in the audience not necessarily familiar with the story. Glenn Muir - Hologic - CFO, EVP Fin. &amp; Admin., Assistant Sec., Treasurer Great. Thank you, Marshall. Maybe I could start off a little bit at where we are at this point in the year. We -- this is September for us, we are a fiscal September year-end Company. So this is the end of our fiscal ####. And I must say it's been somewhat of a challenging year FY '##, especially as it relates to the capital equipment pieces of our business. I think Hologic is well known as the leader in digital mammography. Our flagship product is our Selenia product. And it has been a challenge. The economy and...

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I think that is the number one driver for us, especially for things such as breast cancer, osteoporosis, cervical cancer. But in addition to that, advanced screening improved outcomes. We are all about finding better screening modalities to help catch cancers early. We are pushing for less invasive, less costly therapies. We want to move away from open surgical procedures such as in the breast biopsy world and move to minimally invasive procedures. And then finally, technological advancements. This is a big part of what Hologic does. It's to try to obsolete the products that we have today. The recent example that we are working on is #-D tomosynthesis hopefully to replace the #-D digital products in the market today, which replaced the analog film from years ago. If you look at a number of our products within the various segments that we have, you find that many of them are ranked number one. And the primary reason -- well,...

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</description><category>Credit &amp; Investment Research</category><alacra:ip>Thomson StreetEvents</alacra:ip></item><item><link>http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/spcred/701106</link><guid isPermaLink="false">spcred/701106</guid><spcred:index_mode xmlns:spcred="http://www.alacra.com/spcred">norm</spcred:index_mode><spcred:docid xmlns:spcred="http://www.alacra.com/spcred">701106</spcred:docid><description>The latest News from S&amp;P</description><spcred:dataset xmlns:spcred="http://www.alacra.com/spcred">global</spcred:dataset><pubDate>06 Feb 2009 12:57:00 EST</pubDate><spcred:price xmlns:spcred="http://www.alacra.com/spcred">100</spcred:price><title>Hologic Inc. 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This action reflects the decline in Selenia digital mammography unit sales in the first quarter of fiscal 2009 (fiscal year-end Sept. 27, 2008) due to constrained hospital capital spending. We expect this trend, caused by the recession, to continue. As a result, financial parameters may not strengthen to levels that might otherwise suggest a higher near-term rating. 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