Abbott to buy nutrition company
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Abbott Laboratories Monday said it has agreed to pay $320 million in cash to acquire EAS, a privately held company that sells nutritional products including AdvantEdge low-carbohydrate nutrition bars.
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American Oriental Bioengineering makes an acquisition.
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VEVEY, Switzerland -- Nestle SA, the world's biggest food and drink company, will buy the medical nutrition unit of pharmaceutical company Novartis for $2.5 billion, the companies said Thursday.
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Abbott Laboratories Inc.  is betting &#36;1 billion in deals and the start of a new clinical trial will finally get Wall Street to focus on its cardiovascular device business.
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FOSTER CITY, Calif. -- Gilead Sciences Inc., a drug research company, said Monday it plans to buy Myogen Inc. for about $2.5 billion in cash, giving Gilead access to Myogen's heart-drug candidates.
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The Perrigo Company, the world&#39;s largest maker of store-branded over-the-counter drugs, plans to announce today that it has reached an agreement to buy Agis Industries, a developer and
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Nestle , the world's largest food group, is buying the medical nutrition business of Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis AG  for $2.5 billion, the companies said on Thursday.
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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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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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GNC Corp. , the leading  retailer of vitamins and nutrition products, agreed to be  acquired by Ares Management LLC and the Ontario Teachers'  Pension Plan in a deal with a total enterprise value of $1.65  billion.
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A Sun Capital Partners affiliate will buy Friendly Ice Cream Corp. for $337.2 million in cash.
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Roche Holding AG, the world's biggest maker of diagnostic tests, offered to buy Ventana Medical Systems Inc. for about $3 billion as it expands screening to match patients with the right drugs.
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Pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has agreed to buy antibody therapy developer Domantis for 230 million pounds.
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Gilead Sciences Inc. , the  world's third-biggest biotechnology company, said on Monday it  has agreed to acquire Myogen Inc.  for $2.5 billion in  a surprise transaction that gives Gilead access to Myogen's  experimental hypertension drugs.
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NEW YORK -- Eli Lilly &amp; Co. will buy Hypnion Inc. as part of an effort to enter the market for sleeping pills.
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Gilead Sciences Inc. , a leading producer of HIV drugs, said yesterday it plans to acquire biotech firm Myogen Inc. for about $2.5 billion in cash, signaling a surprising expansion into treatments for pulmonary diseases.
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AstraZeneca Plc, the UK&#39;s second biggest drugmaker, bought a 19.9 percent stake in Cambridge Antibody Technology Group Plc, an unprofitable biotechnology company, for 75 million pounds ($139 million).