Specialized Health Products International

About:

SHPI is a developer & manufacturer of proprietary safety medical products, designed to minimize the risk of accidental needlesticks.

Website: http://www.shpi.com/

Top Investors: Galen Partners

Description:

Specialized Health Products International, Inc. (OTC BB: "SHPI"), designs and develops innovative and cost-effective safety needles and other safety healthcare products. To date, SHPI has agreements with Ethicon Endo-Surgery (J&J), The Kendall Company (Tyco), Becton Dickinson and Merit Medical Systems for a total of 19 safety medical products. SHPI is now developing 12 safety needle products with 15 additional products specified for development for some of the world's largest needle suppliers. The company expects market introduction of the first of these products first quarter 2001. SHPI now has 16 different and unique safety technologies, which provide needle safety. Its technologies apply to almost all medical needles used today including: syringe, prefilled syringe, phlebotomy, IV catheter, IV infusion, winged needle set, dental, specialty, and lancets.