Moderate growth is expected from vascular and diagnostics division (excluding to certain royalty and supply arrangement revenues and currency impact), after the company launched various products including its next-generation Drug Eluting Stent XIENCE Xpedition and XIENCE PRIME in different parts of the world.

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For targeted therapies, it would be smart to include companies that make targeted diagnostics--such as Vysis , a division of Abbott Labs (nyse: ABT - news - people ) that makes a version of the Herceptin test--from the outset.

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