Cardinal Health to sell drug manufacturing unit
546587
Cardinal Health Inc.  said on Thursday that it plans to divest its ailing drug manufacturing business, sending its shares up over 5 percent.
458023
Pharmacy benefit manager Medco Health Solutions Inc.  said on Tuesday it agreed to buy PolyMedica Corp.  for $1.5 billion in cash, in a move to expand its diabetes care services.
641578
NEW YORK, December 6  - ID Biomedical Corp (IDBE.NAS) announced today that it has signed a ten-year US distribution agreement for its Fluviral treatment, expected to generate $2.5 billion in sales and offset the shortage of flu vaccines
460302
Drug wholesaler Cardinal Health Inc. (CAH.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday it would cut 4,200 jobs, or 7 percent of its work force, and close 25 facilities
606574
Bayer AG, the German drug and chemical company, has agreed to sell its plasma products business for &#36;590 million in cash and stock to the private U.S. investment groups Cerberus Capital Management and Ampersand Ventures.
35087
German drugs and chemicals group Bayer  said it planned to sell unit H.C. Starck to a consortium formed by Advent International and the Carlyle Group for 700 million euros ($908 million) plus debt.
284786
Bristol-Myers Squibb, the pharmaceutical company, is in talks to sell its Excedrin line of pain relievers for as much as $1 billion.
556480
Priceline has been sold to Australian Pharmaceutical Industries for $112 million in cash and shares just six months after the health and beauty care chain was bought by local managers from its South African parent.
564798
Two private equity groups -- The Carlyle   Group CYL.UL and Apax Partners -- said on Sunday they have   signed an agreement to sell healthcare marketing services firm   MediMedia USA Inc. to Vestar Capital Partners.
751438
Cardinal Health Inc., the second-largest distributor of pharmaceuticals and other medical supplies in the United States, reported Thursday that first-quarter earnings fell 25 percent because of declines in drug distribution due to drug maker sales
476567
Tenet Healthcare Corp. yesterday said that it is selling three Massachusetts hospitals to Vanguard Health Systems of Nashville for $167 million.
582652
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.
151568
The company said it is selling the unit to Standard Chartered for nearly $1.1 billion so it can focus on its core credit card business.
507775
By Tricia Bishop, The Baltimore Sun  Dec. 14--One of MedImmune Inc.'s major shareholders is urging the state's flagship biotech to put itself up for sale, suggesting management hasn't made the most from its assets, which include four products on the market and about 40 in the pipeline.
639985
As part of its push to become a bigger player in cancer drugs, Genzyme Corp. of Cambridge said yesterday it will buy out business partner Bioenvision Inc. of New York for $345 million , consolidating its ownership of a cancer treatment to which the two companies had been sharing rights.
267365
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
540068
Cardinal Health Inc. said it will cut 4,200 jobs as part of a three-year restructuring plan aimed at boosting annual earnings by $500 million.