Cook announces new women’s health division

Cook, the world’s largest privately-held medical company, has announced it is to launch a new women’s health division to the company to deal specifically with conditions unique to women.

The company says that Cook Women’s Health intends to focus on fertility, chronic pelvic pain, pelvic organ prolapse and incontinence. The company also said it intends to further fertility techniques such as ultrasound-guided embryo transfers and improving culture environments.

Christina Anne, global leader of Cook Women’s Health strategic business unit, said: “Cook Women’s Health is truly bringing new, advanced technology and devices to market that address some of the most pervasive and chronic conditions facing females of all age groups in all regions of the world.”

“The advancements Cook delivers for assisted reproductive techniques enables physicians to address a much broader set of patients,” she added.

Pete Yonkman, president of CUI, the primary manufacturer for Cook Women’s Health, said that the new products from the division would “change the landscape of women’s health”.

The Cook Group started in 1963 as Cook Incorporated, in the spare bedroom of Bill Cook’s apartment in Bloomington. He says that he collaborated with Nobel Prize winner Charles Dotter in developing the telescopic Dotter Dilation Set and that their friendship helped to further the development of modern wire guides in surgery.

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