Gambro Sells U.S. Kidney Clinics Unit
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Swedish kidney-care company Gambro AB  has signed an agreement to sell its U.S. clinics business to  dialysis firm DaVita Inc. for $3.05 billion in cash, Gambro  said on Tuesday.
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American Oriental Bioengineering makes an acquisition.
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A 58-year-old Colorado man received a  new kidney on Wednesday in the first transplant operation in  the United States using an organ found on a private Web site,  hospital officials said.
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Caritas Carney Hospital in Dorchester, part of the six-hospital Caritas Christi Health Care system being sold by the Archdiocese of Boston, has tapped William Bulger to help it raise money.
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General Electric plans to sell its WMC Mortgage sub-prime lending business that it bought in 2004.
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DENVER Oct 20, 2004 - A Colorado man underwent surgery for a new kidney Wednesday in what was believed to be the first transplant brokered through a commercial Web site a transaction that has raised a host of ethical and legal questions.
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Massachusetts is about to lose another corporate headquarters -- but not many jobs. In a $1.5 billion deal made public yesterday, Wakefield's PolyMedica Corp. , a mail-order company that sells drugs and supplies to diabetes patients, agreed to sell itself to Medco Health Solutions Inc., the country's biggest manager of drug benefits.
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Restaurant operator branches out with purchase of the Golden Nugget.
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Bethesda-based Coventry Health Care Inc. is buying managed health care company First Health Group Corp. for $1.8 billion in cash and stock in a deal that would create a national health benefits company capable of providing health insurance and administrative services to a broad array of clients.
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Germany&#39;s Bayer has agreed to sell its blood products business to US investment firms Cerberus and Ampersand Ventures for about $590 million as it continues to narrow the focus of its health-care business.
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A Colorado man underwent surgery for a new kidney Wednesday in what was believed to be the first transplant brokered through a commercial Web site - a transaction that has raised a host of ethical and legal questions.
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Trading in shares of Swedish health care company Gambro AB were halted Monday by the Stockholm Stock Exchange amid a report that a US company was poised to buy one of its units.
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Bayer AG, the German drug and chemical company, has agreed to sell its plasma products business for $590 million in cash and stock to the private U.S. investment groups Cerberus Capital Management and Ampersand ...
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Ionics Inc., a Watertown water treatment company with global operations, agreed to be purchased yesterday by General Electric Co. for $1.1 billion in cash.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Genzyme Corp. won clearance from US regulators to market Renvela, a medicine for patients on kidney dialysis.
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Rite Aid Corp. , the No. 3 U.S.  drugstore chain, on Thursday said it will buy the Brooks and  Eckerd drugstore chains from Canada's Jean Coutu Group (PJC)  Inc. (PJCa.TO) for about $2.6 billion in cash and stock.
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Boston Scientific Corp. (BSX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday it received US regulatory approval for a device to treat complications that arise in patients with end-stage kidney disease who need dialysis.