Cordis Corporation

WATERLOO, Belgium, September 30, 2010 - Investigators reported results of SORT-OUT IV, comparing Cordis Corporation's CYPHER(R) Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent and Abbott's XIENCE V (R) Everolimus-eluting Stent in the primary endpoint of MACE (major acute coronary events) at nine months.

STOCKHOLM, September 2, 2010 - Three new analyses of subgroups from the SORT OUT III study presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, provide additional detail on longer-term follow-up subgroup safety and efficacy outcomes in the SORT OUT III trial in three high-risk subgroups (diabetes, acute coronary syndrome and multiple lesion).

STOCKHOLM, August 31, 2010 - Cordis Corporation, a worldwide leader in the development and manufacture of interventional vascular technology, announced today at European Society of Cardiology in Stockholm that the results of follow-up tests undertaken ten years after the first patient was treated with a CYPHER(R) Sirolimus-eluting coronary stent have proven outstanding long-term efficacy and safety and were published earlier this year in "JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions".

PARIS, May 27, 2010 - Cordis Corporation, a worldwide leader in the development and manufacture of interventional vascular technology, announced the launch of the ExoSeal(TM) Vascular Closure Device.

PARIS, May 25, 2010 - At 12 months the NEVO(TM) Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent has continued to demonstrate excellent safety and efficacy outcomes compared to Taxus(R) Liberte(R) according to new data presented today from the NEVO(TM) RES-I clinical trial.