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BSN Medical has been put up for sale by Montagu Private Equity, its UK-based private equity owner, which expects to receive the planned €1 8 to €1 9 billion at auction http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Montagu-to-auction-bandage-maker-BSN-Medical-_7511.aspx http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Montagu-to-auction-bandage-maker-BSN-Medical-_7511.aspx Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:02:22 GMT Healthcare Digital Southern Cross Healthcare Group plc saidSeptember 4, Chief Executive Bill Colvin is to leave the company as it announced another tranche of property sales http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Southern-Cross-CEO-to-leave-_7480.aspx http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Southern-Cross-CEO-to-leave-_7480.aspx Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:51:15 GMT Healthcare Digital GeneThera Inc said it is continuing to evaluate a variety of commercial transactions with Oxford Biomedica plc, but that it has decided not to make an offer http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Genethera-Inc-shelves-bid-for-Oxford-BioMedica-_7451.aspx http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Genethera-Inc-shelves-bid-for-Oxford-BioMedica-_7451.aspx Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:44:14 GMT Healthcare Digital The specialist drug delivery company SkyePharma plc is set to announce a renegotiation of its convertible bonds this week, according to a report by Reuters http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/UPDATE--SkyePharma-to-set-new-terms-for-bonds--shortly-_7423.aspx http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/UPDATE--SkyePharma-to-set-new-terms-for-bonds--shortly-_7423.aspx Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:05:50 GMT Healthcare Digital Oxford BioMedica plc fell the most in 10 days in London trading following the resignation of the biotechnology company’s Chief Executive Officer Mike McDonald http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Oxford-Biomedica-shares-down-after-chief-executive-leaves-_7379.aspx http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Oxford-Biomedica-shares-down-after-chief-executive-leaves-_7379.aspx Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:45:45 GMT Healthcare Digital GlaxoSmithKline has signed a deal worth up to US$820 million with Valeant Pharmaceuticals to access the US drugmaker’s experimental epilepsy and pain treatments http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/GlaxoSmithKline--Valeant-sign-drug-development-deal-_7363.aspx http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/GlaxoSmithKline--Valeant-sign-drug-development-deal-_7363.aspx Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:52:12 GMT Healthcare Digital Skyepharma plc said on Thursday, August 28, it was close to a deal on renegotiating its convertible bonds, sending the company's shares 20 percent higher http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Skyepharma-shares-surge-_7342.aspx http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Skyepharma-shares-surge-_7342.aspx Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:36:01 GMT Healthcare Digital Specialist health company Ark Therapeutics plc reported a loss after tax of £9 17 million or four pence per share for the six months ended 30 June 2008 http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Ark-Therapeutics-H1-loss-narrows_7314.aspx http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Ark-Therapeutics-H1-loss-narrows_7314.aspx Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:40:00 GMT Healthcare Digital The UK's biggest care services firm for adults with severe learning disabilities has been bought by Anglo-American buyout firm GI Partners for an undisclosed fee http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Care-Aspirations-bought-by-GI-Partners_7286.aspx http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Care-Aspirations-bought-by-GI-Partners_7286.aspx Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:51:07 GMT Healthcare Digital The number of bidders for Irish pharmaceuticals company Elan Drug Technologies falls after Cinven, the private equity house, pulls out of auction http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Cinven-drops-out-of-EDT-race-_7255.aspx http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Cinven-drops-out-of-EDT-race-_7255.aspx Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:20:35 GMT Healthcare Digital AstraZeneca has won the right to seek compensation from Impax Laboratories and Apotex for some of the sales it lost to their generic versions of its drug Prilosec http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/AstraZeneca-to-seek-compensation-for-Impax--Apotex_7236.aspx http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/AstraZeneca-to-seek-compensation-for-Impax--Apotex_7236.aspx Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:16:35 GMT Healthcare Digital Scientists from Durham University and the North East England Stem Cell Institute develop new way of spotting bowel cancer, research published today, August 20, reveals http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/New-cancer-treatment-revealed_7221.aspx http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/New-cancer-treatment-revealed_7221.aspx Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:33:01 GMT Healthcare Digital Oxford BioMedica has rejected a takeover approach by GeneThera, the agricultural diagnostics specialist, saying the suitor was not a “credible bidder” http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Oxford-BioMedica-rejects-approach_7212.aspx http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Oxford-BioMedica-rejects-approach_7212.aspx Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:10:39 GMT Healthcare Digital Cytos Biotechnology AG said Friday, August 15, it has teamed up with Pfizer Inc to develop vaccines designed to stave off diseases in humans http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Cytos-and-Pfizer-in-vaccine-deal_7182.aspx http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Cytos-and-Pfizer-in-vaccine-deal_7182.aspx Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:40:38 GMT Healthcare Digital Nobel Biocare Holding AG announced today, August 14, that it has agreed to buy Medicim to gain medical imaging technology http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Nobel-Biocare-to-acquire-Medicim_7150.aspx http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Nobel-Biocare-to-acquire-Medicim_7150.aspx Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:45:57 GMT Healthcare Digital Troubled care home group Southern Cross reported an 18 percent rise in revenue on August 12 after raising the weekly fees it charges to its elderly patients http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Southern-Cross-reports-revenue-growth-_7097.aspx http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Southern-Cross-reports-revenue-growth-_7097.aspx Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:56:34 GMT Healthcare Digital Irish healthcare services group United Drug said that it expected to deliver profit growth in 2008 and continued to experience good trading conditions in its 3Q http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/United-Drug-looks-for-double-digit-profit-growth_7076.aspx http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/United-Drug-looks-for-double-digit-profit-growth_7076.aspx Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:28:34 GMT Healthcare Digital Dental implant maker Nobel Biocare Holding AG said second quarter profit dropped 42 percent because of a weak US dollar and lower demand in Europe and the US http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Nobel-Biocare-Q2-profit-drops-40-_7053.aspx http://www.healthcare-digital.co.uk/Healthcare/Nobel-Biocare-Q2-profit-drops-40-_7053.aspx Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:17:16 GMT Healthcare Digital