AngioDynamics agrees to buy Rita Medical for $220 mln
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- Medical device maker AngioDynamics Inc.  on Tuesday said it agreed to buy Rita Medical Systems Inc.  for $220 million in cash and stock.
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UK aerospace to medical goods group Smiths buys one of the world's leading medical products manufacturers, Medex, for $925m.
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Smiths Group is to buy Medex, a US healthcare company, for $925m (Â£477m), including $300m of debt, in the biggest deal for the UK engineering conglomerate since the merger of Smiths and TI Group in 2000.
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Medco Health Solutions, the biggest American manager of drug benefits, has agreed to buy PolyMedica, the largest supplier of glucose-testing supplies for patients with diabetes.
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Health Care REIT will acquire Windrose Medical Properties.
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ATLANTA -- Walgreen Co. , the largest US drugstore chain, agreed to buy Option Care Inc. for $673 million to gain 100 specialty pharmacies.
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Australia&#39;s Healthscope Ltd.   launched a A$2.86 billion ($2.34 billion) takeover offer for  larger rival Symbion Health Ltd.  on Tuesday, backed by  private equity firms Ironbridge Capital and Archer Capital.
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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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Medical equipment firm Huntleigh Technology is bought by Swedish rival Getinge for Â£409m ($802m).
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Pharmaceutical services company   AmerisourceBergen Corp. ABC.N said on Monday it has agreed to   buy Health Advocates Inc. for about $83 million in cash in a   move that will expand its workers' compensation business.
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AEROSPACE and defence group Smiths is dipping into its Â£1.4bn acquisition war chest to buy medical equipment firm Medex for Â£476m.
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PacifiCare Health Systems Inc. (PHS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , one of the biggest Medicare plan providers, said on Wednesday it has agreed to buy health-care benefits provider American Medical Security Group Inc.
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Metronic joins the U.S. drug-eluting stent market.
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Britain's Shire Plc  has agreed to buy U.S. partner New River Pharmaceuticals  for $2.6 billion to gain full control of the two firms' new drug for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Vyvanse.
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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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Boston Scientific Corp. said yesterday it sold $8.3 million worth of its Taxus drug-coated cardiac stents per day this month, a record level the Natick medical-devices giant said demonstrates it has won back doctors' confidence after three recalls.
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Shire PLC, the UK maker of attention-deficit drug Adderall XR, agreed to buy New River Pharmaceuticals Inc. for $2.6 billion to gain full control of Vyvanse, a potential successor.