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Avanos Medical, Inc.

A maker of medical devices for pain management and digestive health, Avanos sells products like the ON-Q pain-relief pump, which delivers local anesthetic to a surgical site, and feeding tubes under the MIC-KEY brand used by patients who can't eat by mouth. It began as Kimberly-Clark's healthcare business, spun off in 2014 as Halyard Health, and renamed itself Avanos in 2018—a name it says blends "advanced" and "innovation."