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The deal could be worth $380 million including royalties and milestone payments.
Hologic Inc. agreed to acquire BioLucent Inc. for $70 million.
Hanger Orthopedic Group Inc. bought Paris O&P Inc. for an undisclosed sum.
Cardinal Health announced VIASYS is a majority owned subsidiary of the company.
Greatbatch Inc. completed the buyout of Enpath Medical Inc.
Inverness Medical Innovations acquired Quality Assured Services Inc.
Cordis Corp. has recieved FDA notification that previosly outlined issues have been resolved.
J.&J.'s Cordis unit has resolved issues with the FDA and can now introduce new products.
Wright Medical Group, Inc. is planning to close its manufacturing, distribution and administrative facility located in Toulon, France.
Medtronic Inc. has sued J&J's Cordis unit and Cordis has sued Abbott Laboratories.
Qiagen and Digene announced a definitive agreement to combine the two companies.
Biomet Inc. agreed to a sweetened $11.4 billion buyout offer from private equity firms.
Greatbatch Inc. has announced it has acquired 90.1 percent of Enpath Medical Inc.'s stock.
Medical device maker Datascope Corp. has acquired Artema Medical AB.
Medisystems will be acquired for $78.7 million by one of its customers.
Inverness Medical Innovations will buy Cholestech Corp. for about $326 million.
Medtronic announced plans to cut 350 to 500 jobs at the division that makes heart defibrillators.
Flextronics International Ltd. will buy rival Solectron Corp. for $3.6 billion to cut costs and expand its product line.
Gaithersburg company that developed HPV test agrees to $1.6 billion deal.
Cardinal Health Inc. will pay $600 million to settle a lawsuit filed by shareholders.
Arrow International Inc. has fired Chairman and Chief Executive Carl G. Anderson Jr.
Quest will complete its acquisition of AmeriPath this week.
Shareholder Services recommended Biomet holders vote down a $10.9 billion private-equity deal for the company.
Boston Scientific expects to disclose a long-range plan to cut jobs and sell off assets.
Greatbatch Inc. chief executive Thomas J. Hook unleashes plans to expand the company.
A Federal District Court judge has denied a motion by AngioDynamics Inc. to overturn a patent infringement verdict.
Bausch & Lomb is likely to face a bidding war.
Hologic Inc. aquired Cytyc Corp for $6.2 billion.
Bausch & Lomb accepted a $4.5 billion takeover offer from investment groups controlled by Warburg Pincus.
Shares of Beckman Coulter Inc. climbed when the company exited a bidding war for Biosite Inc.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. nearly doubled its shares of Johnson & Johnson and bought more Sanofi-Aventis SA.
Biomet announces Daniel P. Florin as the company's new CFO.
Smith & Nephew buys BlueSky Medical Group.
Cardinal Health buys VIASYS for about $1.5 billion.
Biosite Inc. announced that Inverness Medical Innovations Inc. has raised its offering to purchase the company.
The Senate has approved legislation that renews the user fees to be paid by medical device companies to the FDA.
Boston Scientific is facing a lawsuit involving its balloon catheters.
FDA announces it will recall Shelhigh's medical devices.
Smith and Nephew have announced a margin review plan as the company's CEO announces he will retire.
Cyberonics hires a new chief executive.
Boston Scientific hires Sam Leno as CFO.
Zimmer Holdings hires a new CEO and CFO.
Greatbatch pays $102 million for Enpath Medical
Cardinal Health Inc. has $600 million set aside for lawsuit resolution.
Resmed and the FDA announced a worldwide recall of sleep apnea devices.
GE is granted permission from the EU to purchase Abbott Labs Unit
Medtronic plans to purchase Breakaway Imaging.
The FDA raided a NJ-based medical device company, believing its products cause harm.
Wright Medical has purchased R&R Medical Inc. for $8 million.
THE FDA has lifted a warning letter, which now gives Boston Scientific's Guidant division the ability to introduce new products.
Medical device industry will pay 31% more to surpass product review by the government.
Quest Diagnostics Inc. will purchase diagnostic testing company.
Medtronic Inc. is combining its vascular and cardiac surgery businesses to form a new unit.
Synergetics USA Inc. has agreed to pay Iridex Corp. $6.5 million over five years to settle a patent litigation lawsuit, the medical device makers said Tuesday.
Agilent Technologies Inc., which makes devices used to test and inspect network components, said Friday it is buying Stratagene Corp., a maker of life science research and testing products, for about $246.2 million in cash.
