Coventry will buy First Health for $1.8 billion
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First Health Group, which manages health-care benefits for employers and unions and which has struggled lately, will be acquired by Coventry Health Care in a $1.
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Health Care REIT will acquire Windrose Medical Properties.
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Managed care provider inks first international agreement.
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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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Latest licensing deal signals a move into the health-care arena.
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BRENTWOOD, Tenn. -- LifePoint Hospitals Inc. , an operator of acute care facilities in rural areas, outlined a deal yesterday to buy rival Province Healthcare Co. for about $1.1 billion in cash and stock.
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Premier Foods, the owner of brands such as Branston Pickle and Ambrosia Creamed Rice, buys RHM for Â£1.2bn.
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HCA Inc. , the No. 1 U.S.  hospital chain, on Monday agreed to be acquired by an investor  group for about $21 billion in the second largest leveraged  buyout deal ever excluding HCA's debt.
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UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday said it would buy Definity Health Corp. for $300 million, as the No.
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British-based wealth management and insurance group HHG Plc. is to sell its Life Services business to a venture capital group for 1.025 billion pounds (1.97 billion US dollars).
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Manor Care Inc. , the largest U.S. owner of nursing homes, on Monday said it agreed to be acquired by Carlyle Group for $4.9 billion, the latest health-care provider taken off the public market by a private equity buyer.
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Soft drink giant Coca-Cola spends makes its largest ever acquisition as it buys a health drink firm for $4.1bn.
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British property firm Segro has agreed to sell its U.S. life sciences real-estate business to Health Care Property Investors Inc. for $2.9 billion as it moves to focus on Britain and continental Europe.
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Insurer Coventry Health Care Inc  said on Friday that third-quarter profit increased as premiums rose.
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Plus, Sun's investors in the dark, trouble at Marsh & McLennan, and Coventry revives First Health.
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_ Kidde PLC, the British fire and safety company, said Thursday it had agreed to a 1.4 billion pound ($2.8 billion) takeover by United Technologies Corp.
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United Technologies said Thursday that it had agreed to buy the British fire-safety company Kidde for $2.8 billion, ending months of negotiations.