Smiths Group buys a medical device company
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Smiths Group announced the acquisition of Medex, a privately held maker of medical devices. The cost of the deal was reported to be $925 million.
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IAC is buying a stake in a network of health-related websites.
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Haemonetics Corp. acquired Harvest Technologies Corp.'s Bloodless Surgery Station line, in an effort to expand its surgical blood salvage products and to enter the surgical patient management market. Haemonetics said it paid an undisclosed amount of cash to buy Plymouth-based Harvest Technologies' Bloodless Surgery Station, which is an integrated product for blood conservation and surgical blood salvage. The Braintree maker ...
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Serono SA , one of the world's largest biotechnology companies, was bought yesterday by German chemical giant Merck KGaA in a deal worth more than $13 billion.
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Real estate investment trust  Archstone-Smith  has agreed to be acquired by Tishman  Speyer and Lehman Brothers Holdings  for $22.2 billion,  including debt, the companies said on Tuesday.
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Consolidation in Europe's drugs   sector gathered steam on Thursday as Germany's Merck MRCG.DE   unveiled a $13.3-billion deal to buy Europe's top biotech firm   Serono SEO.VX, and Denmark's Nycomed won the drugs unit of   Altana ALTG.DE.
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Roche Holding AG  has agreed to  buy Ventana Medical Systems Inc  for $3.4 billion to  boost its diagnostics business, the Swiss drugmaker said on  Tuesday, raising its earlier bid.
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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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Orthopedic device maker Biomet Inc.  said on Monday it will be acquired by a private equity consortium for about $10.9 billion, eight months after putting itself on the auction block.
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Dutch Philips Electronics  said on Friday it is to buy U.S. medical products company Respironics for 3.6 billion euros ($5.17 billion) or $66 per share to strengthen its healthcare business.
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A private equity firm buys its medical-imaging division.
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Philips Electronics NV is to buy U.S. medical products company Respironics Inc for 3.6 billion euros ($5.2 billion), its biggest ever acquisition, as it expands in the fast-growing healthcare sector.
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Philips Electronics   said on Friday it is to buy U.S. medical products company  Respironics  for $5.17 billion to strengthen its  healthcare business.
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Philips Electronics NV is to buy U.S.  medical products company Respironics Inc for 3.6 billion euros  ($5.2 billion), its biggest ever acquisition, as it expands in  the fast-growing healthcare sector.
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SMITHS Group, the aerospace to medical products conglomerate, today announced plans to buy United States medical devices maker Medex for around Â£475 million.
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Dutch Philips Electronics   said on Friday it is to buy U.S. medical  products company Respironics for 3.6 billion euros ($5.17  billion) or $66 per share to strengthen its healthcare  business.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson announced that it will acquire Guidant Corp., one of the world&#39;s top makers of cardiac devices, for $25.4 billion US.