Epocrates Inc. (NASDAQ: EPOC), owner of the popular iPhone app voted “Most Important Mobile Health-Care App” last December by readers of ModernHealthcare.com, was acquired by athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN) on January 7 for $293 million cash, equivalent to $11.25...
Inspiration Biopharmaceuticals Inc. is in bankruptcy proceedings, so it is selling its rights to hemophilia compound OBI-1 as well as related assets, to Baxter International, Inc. (NYSE: BAX). Paris-based Ipsen Pharma S.A.S. (Euronext: IPN; ADR; IPSEY) is selling...
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With more than 2 million patients on some form of dialysis around the world, and dialysis treatment rates rising more than 5% annually, it isn’t hard to discern the reasoning behind Baxter International’s (NYSE: BAX) $4 billion bid for Gambro AB, a privately held...
Pernix Therapeutics Holdings Inc. (NYSE: PTX) is another company on an acquisition roll. Following its November announcement of a dual purchase—Cypress Pharmaceuticals and Hawthorn Pharmaceuticals—Pernix announced its $25 million, stock-for-stock bid for Somaxon...
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