Walgreen Has Deal to Buy Option Care
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The $760.5 million purchase of the home health services provider continues Walgreenâs expansion of health-related offerings.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s plan to sell   some generic drugs for just $4 should not impact leading U.S.   drugstores Walgreen Co. and CVS Corp. as much as initially   feared, Merrill Lynch said on Friday.
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U.S. pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts Inc.  said on Monday it was offering to buy rival Caremark RX  for about $26 billion, threatening to break up an offer made last month by drugstore chain CVS Corp. .
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Advanced Medical Optics Inc.  said on Thursday it was interested in acquiring Bausch & Lomb Inc.  and was willing to pay more than the $3.67 billion proposal the eye care company accepted from a private equity firm.
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Triad Hospitals Inc.  has accepted a takeover bid from affiliates of CCMP Capital Advisors and GS Capital Partners in a deal worth about $4.7 billion, the company said on Monday.
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A partnership deal has investors in the small specialty pharma excited.
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CVS Corp.  on Thursday again sweetened its $23.9 billion takeover bid for Caremark Rx Inc.  with an increased dividend, calling the new proposal its "best and final" offer for the pharmacy-benefits manager.
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Analysts said the venture would create a drug benefit manager that could take on retail leader Wal-Mart
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Retail drugstore chain CVS Corp. said it remains confident it will buy the pharmacy-benefit manager Caremark Rx Inc. , despite a higher, unsolicited offer for Caremark submitted yesterday by Express Scripts Inc.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Johnson &amp; Johnson has sealed a deal to buy medical device maker Guidant for $25.4 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, each Guidant share will be exchanged for $30.40 in cash and $45.60 in Johnson &amp; Johnson stock.
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Advanced Medical Optics Inc.   said on Thursday it was interested in acquiring Bausch  & Lomb Inc.  and was willing to pay more than the $3.67  billion proposal the eye care company accepted from a private  equity firm.
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PacifiCare Health Systems Inc. will pay $502 million to buy all outstanding shares of common stock of American Medical Security. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Cypress-based PacifiCare will pay $32.
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Advanced Medical Optics Inc., a maker of eye-care and surgical products, bid $75 a share for rival Bausch &amp; Lomb Inc., topping an offer from private-equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC, a person familiar with the matter said.
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Johnson and Johnson is in negotiations to acquire Guidant, one of the largest American makers of devices to treat heart and circulatory illnesses.
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Triad Hospitals Inc. , under pressure from its biggest stockholder to raise the share price, agreed to be acquired by CCMP Capital Advisors and a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. unit for $4.7 billion.
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Time Warner Inc. TWX.N and Comcast  Corp. CMCSA.OQ said on Monday they had agreed to a pact  giving Comcast an option to cut its interest in Time Warner  Cable Inc. in exchange for stock in a Time Warner subsidiary  that will hold cable systems and cash.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson announced last night that will buy medical-device maker Guidant for $23.9 billion in cash and stock. The deal, approved by both boards but subject to regulator approval, is one of the largest