Thursday, May 03
Hospitals and health systems across the U.S. are shopping for doctors, plunking down dollars on existing physician practices and new MDs “at a fast clip” since 2005, according to a new report from ECRI Institute.
Thursday, May 03
Abbott has entered into an agreement to acquire AP214 from Action Pharma, a privately owned company based in Aarhus, Denmark, for $110 million.
Monday, April 30
Bracco Imaging has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire local subsidiaries in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico of Justesa Imagen, a distributor of contrast media in Latin America.
Monday, April 23
Thomson Reuters has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its healthcare business to an affiliate of Veritas Capital for $1.25 billion in cash.
Thursday, April 19
HealthCare Partners of Nevada merged with Cardiovascular Consultants of Nevada to create Cardiovascular Consultants of Nevada HealthCare Partners Cardiology. The merger, announced April 19, went into effect April 17.
Monday, April 02
HeartWare International, which develops and manufactures ventricular assist devices (VADs), has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire World Heart, a Salt Lake City-based developer of left ventricular assist devices, for consideration of $8 million, which will be paid in shares of HeartWare common stock or cash, at HeartWare's election.
Monday, March 19
Covidien has launched a definitive agreement to acquire superDimension, a developer of minimally invasive interventional pulmonology devices based in Herzliya, Israel.
Monday, March 12
Asahi Kasei has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Zoll, a manufacturer of resuscitation and critical care devices and related software, pursuant to which Asahi Kasei will acquire Zoll for approximately $2.21 billion. The transaction has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies.
Thursday, March 08
Boston Scientific has announced its intention to acquire Cameron Health, a privately held company based in San Clemente, Calif., which has developed the only commercially available subcutaneous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator–the S-ICD system.
Friday, February 10
CardioNet, a wireless medical technology company with a focus on the diagnosis and monitoring of cardiac arrhythmias, has acquired ECG Scanning & Medical Services.
Friday, February 10
Midwest Heart Specialists, an independent cardiology practice in Illinois with 50 physicians, has integrated with Advocate Medical Group, and will now be known as Midwest Heart Specialists-Advocate Medical Group.
Tuesday, February 07
Positron, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Manhattan Isotope Technology (MIT), has executed a memorandum of understanding with the Institute of Nuclear Research (INR) of Troitsk, Russia. MIT and INR will collaborate on strontium-82 production beginning with a pharmaceutical ingredient validation exercise in 2012.
Wednesday, February 01
AngioDynamics, a maker of minimally invasive medical devices for vascular access, surgery, peripheral vascular disease and oncology, has announced plans to buy Navilyst Medical from Avista Capital Partners for $372 million in cash and stock.
Tuesday, January 31
McKesson has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Drug Trading, an independent banner business of Katz Group Canada and Medicine Shoppe Canada, the franchise business of the Katz Group. The purchase price is approximately CAD$920 million (USD$1.21 billion), which McKesson expects to fund from its available cash.
Wednesday, December 21
C. R. Bard has acquired Lutonix for a purchase price of approximately $225 million paid at closing, with an additional $100 million to be paid upon pre-market application (PMA) approval of Lutonix’s drug-coated percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) balloon.
Thursday, October 27
Murray Hill, N.J.-based medical technology developer C.R. Bard will purchase Lousiville, Co.-based Medivance for $250 million.
Wednesday, October 19
W. L. Gore & Associates has purchased the assets and intellectual property of NMT Medical, including data related to CLOSURE I, for an undisclosed sum, while NMT was being auctioned off.
Friday, October 07
Kansas City-based Cerner has reached an agreement to acquire Durham, N.C.-based Clairvia, a healthcare workforce management technology developer, for an undisclosed sum.
Thursday, September 29
Greenway Medical Technologies, a health IT company, is acquiring technology assets of CySolutions, a Southlake, Texas-based developer of integrated IT for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Community Health Centers (CHCs).
Wednesday, September 07
Stryker of Kalamazoo, Mich., will acquire Concentric Medical in an all cash transaction for $135 million.
