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- United States Surgical Corp - Company Profile
- HealthSouth Corp - completes acquisition of Surgical Care Affiliates
- Vital Signs Inc
- Candela Laser Corp - changes name to Candela Corp
- Herbert Schwind GmbH & Co - signs patent licensing agreement with VISX Inc
- Genzyme Tissue Repair - Company Profile
- Baxter Healthcare Corp - completes acquisition of Psicor Inc
- G.D. Searle & Co - buys out Norquisa's 60% share in Biolab Indus-trias Farmaceuticas SA joint venture
- Finnish diagnostic buyout - Kone Corp. sells off Kone Instruments
- Gelman Sciences - enters contract with B. Braun Melsungen AG
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The case for consolidation
by Duane Feldman - Target Therapeutics - Company Profile
- Healthcare Technologies Ltd - cancels acquisition contract for Orgenics Ltd
- Urohealth Systems Inc - completes mergers with Advanced Surgical Inc. and Osbon Medical Systems Ltd
- Belmac Corp - changes name to Bentley Pharmaceuticals
- Medical Sterilization Inc - enters agreement with Pilling Weck Inc
- C.R. Bard Inc - Company Profile
- Endoscope market in Japan is down, but far from out
- Pfizer Inc - acquires Liebinger GmbH
- SmithKline forms health care services group
- Base Ten Systems - signs agreement with King's Healthcare Trust
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Wave of consolidations continues its reshaping of the orthopedics industry
by Duane Feldman - Sofamor Danek Group - Company Profile
- Boston Scientific Corp - agrees to buy Symbiosis Corp. from American Home Products Corp
- SpaceLabs Medical Inc - calls off acquisition plans for Consolidated Peritronics
- Pioneering HMO may farm out patients
- InStent Inc - enters agreement with C.R. Bard Inc
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Price pressures create new knee product segments
by Duane Feldman - Acquisitions & agreements
- PRK approval just tip of iceberg of what's happening in U.S. refractive surgery market
- UroMed Corp - Company Profile
- Isomedix Inc - acquires sterilization facility from Medical Design Concepts
- Imaging in Europe
- Healthdyne Information Enterprises - acquires Healthcare Communications Inc
- City Visual Systems - develops computer program for eye tests
- Boston Scientific Corp - Company Profile
- Too many cracks in Windows 95 for medical computing
- NovaCare Inc - expands orthotics and prosthetics division
- Hoechst, RPR form plasma firm
- Advanced Technology Laboratories - enters joint venture with Hitachi Medical Corp
- Laboratoires Isotec - launches new spirometer
- Sunrise Medical - Company Profile
- Champion Healthcare Corp - CareServices of America unit acquires Select Health Systems
- Sun Healthcare Group Inc - acquires 76% of Columbia Health Care Inc
- Baxter World Trade Corp - forms joint venture with P.T. Kalbe Farma
- Marquest Medical Products - enters agreement with Ciba Corning Diagnostics Corp
- Renewed growth seen in the life sciences industry
- VidaMed Inc - Company Profile
- Medical Action Industries Inc - acquires Lawson Mardon Medical Products Inc
- Lunar Corp - plans to spin off its Bone Care International subsidiary
- Hamatschek Monitortechnik - develops Avio FR series of image recorders
- Biomaterial shortages may force relocation
- Biomet Inc - Company Profile
- Vital Signs Inc - Company Profile
- Metra Biosystems - acquires Osteo Sciences Corp
- Medtronic - to establish new offices and facilities in Shanghai, China
- Hellige - introduces VistaPort patient monitor
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