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UAFRS vs As Reported Weekly Highlights - 2020 02 06

This week, Valens identified distortions and the corresponding adjustments to correct for those distortions for EW, STAA, and BOO:GPR.
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Boohoo group Plc

boohoo.com is a holding company. Co. is an online fashion group. Co.'s brands include BOOHOO, BOOHOOMAN, PRETTYLITTLETHING AND NASTY GAL. Co. designs, sources, markets and sells clothing, shoes, accessories and beauty products targeted at 16 to 30 year old consumers in the U.K. and internationally.

EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORP

Edwards Lifesciences is engaged in patient-focused medical for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. The company is a manufacturer of heart valve systems and repair products used to replace or repair a patient's diseased or defective heart valve. The company is also engaged in hemodynamic and noninvasive brain and tissue oxygenation monitoring systems used to measure a patient's cardiovascular function in the hospital setting. The company's products and technologies are categorized into four main areas: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Therapies, Surgical Structural Heart, and Critical Care.

Staar Surgical Co.

STAAR Surgical designs, develops, manufactures, and sells implantable lenses for the eye and delivery systems used to deliver the lenses into the eye. The company is a manufacturer of lenses used worldwide in corrective or refractive surgery. The company's principal products are implantable Collamer lenses (ICLs) used in refractive surgery and intraocular lenses (IOLs) used in cataract surgery. ICLs, consisting of the company's ICL family of products, including the Toric implantable Collamer lenses and EVO+ Visian ICL, are intraocular lenses used to correct refractive conditions. IOLs are prosthetic intraocular lenses used to restore vision that has been affected by cataracts.

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