Bergen Brunswig exiting med/surgical business via $181 mil. sale to Cardinal

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Bergen Brunswig is to sell Bergen Brunswig Medical Corp to Cardinal Health for $181 million as part of a decision to concentrate business on drugs and pharmacy products. Cardinal plans to expand into the medical/surgical supplies business.

Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Medical equipment and supplies industry, Medical equipment industry, Surgical equipment and supplies industry, Allegiance, Bergen Brunswig Corp., Bergen Brunswig Medical Corp., Cardinal Health Inc., BBC, CAH

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Cohesion's CoStasis surgical hemostat to ship in July, gains FDA approval

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Tyco International is to sell Cohesions's CoStasis, a liquid surgical hemostat, after gaining approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The device stops bleeding in soft and hard tissue sites and will be marketed by US Surgical.

Tyco International Ltd. (Pembroke, New Hampshire), Hemostatics, TYC, Cohesion Corp., United States Surgical Corp., USS

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Sunrise's Hyperion laser gains FDA approval for Hyperopia

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Sunrise Technologies has gained approval from the Food and Drug Administration for its new Hyperion laser for treating hyperopia. The pricing and leasing arrangements for the system are examined.

Care and treatment, Lasers in surgery, Laser surgery, Hyperopia, Sunrise Technologies Inc., SNRS

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