Cardinal Health, Inc., an Ohio corporation formed in 1979, is a holding Company that owns operating subsidiaries conducting business as Cardinal Health. The Company is a provider of products and services supporting the health care industry, and helping health care providers and manufacturers improve the efficiency and quality of health care. The Company's operations are organized into four reporting segments. They are Pharmaceutical Distribution and Provider Services, Medical Products and Services, Pharmaceutical Technologies and Services and Clinical Technologies and Services. Through its Pharmaceutical Distribution and Provider Services segment, the Company distributes a line of pharmaceutical and other health care products. The Company's Pharmaceutical Distribution business is the wholesale distributors of pharmaceutical and related health care products to independent and chain drug stores, hospitals, alternate care centers and the pharmacy departments of supermarkets and mass merchandisers located throughout the United States. Through this segment, the Company also provides certain services to pharmaceutical manufacturers in connection with new distribution service agreements entered into during fiscal 2005. Through this segment, the Company also operates a pharmaceutical repackaging and distribution program for independent and chain drug store customers as well as mail order customers. In addition, through this segment the Company also is a franchisor of apothecary-style retail pharmacies through its Medicine Shoppe International, Inc. and Medicap Pharmacies Incorporated franchise systems. Through its Medical Products and Services segment, the Company provides medical products and cost-saving services to hospitals and other health care providers. The Company offers a range of medical and laboratory products, representing approximately 2,000 suppliers in addition to its own line of surgical and respiratory therapy products to hospitals and other health care providers. The Company also manufactures sterile and non-sterile procedure kits, single-use surgical drapes, gowns and apparel, exam and surgical gloves, fluid suction and collection systems, respiratory therapy products, surgical instruments, special procedure products and other products. This segment also assists its customers in reducing costs while helping to improve the quality of patient care in a variety of ways, including online procurement, fulfillment and information provided through cardinalhealth.com, supply-chain management and instrument repair. Through this segment, the Company also distributes oncology, therapeutic plasma and other specialty pharmaceutical and biotechnology products to hospitals, clinics and other managed-care facilities. The Biotechnology and Sterile Life Sciences business provides advanced aseptic blow/fill/seal technology, drug lyophilization and manufacturing for nearly all sterile dose forms, such as vials and prefilled syringes, as well as biologic development and regulatory consulting services. The Pharmaceutical Development business provides drug discovery, development and analytical science services. Through this segment, the Company also manufactures and markets generic injectible pharmaceutical products for sale to hospitals, clinics and pharmacies in the United Kingdom. In addition, through the Clinical Services and Consulting business, the segment provides services to the health care industry through integrated pharmacy management, temporary pharmacy staffing and the gathering and recording of clinical information for review, analysis and interpretation.S. and abroad.