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Invacare sells ISG medical supplies business to AssuraMed

Invacare Corporation announced today that it has completed the sale of its Invacare Supply Group (ISG) medical supplies business to AssuraMed of Twinsburg, Ohio, a leader in wholesale and home-delivered medical supplies across the United States, for a purchase price of approximately $150.8 million in cash, which is subject to final post-closing adjustments.

19 Jan 2013

AVEO commences underwritten public offering of shares of common stock

AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that it has commenced an underwritten public offering of shares of its common stock. All of the shares in the offering are to be sold by AVEO.

17 Jan 2013

Parkinson’s assessment devices from Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies receive TGA approval

Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies announced today that they received TGA approval to market Kinesia technology in Australia. The Kinesia™ product line includes patient-worn motion sensors and a tablet computer to quantitatively assess tremor, bradykinesia, and dyskinesia associated with Parkinson’s disease and in response to treatments.

10 Jan 2013

Debiopharm, Spinomix announce closing of Series A equity financing

Debiopharm Group (Debiopharm) and Spinomix SA, a Swiss company advancing molecular diagnostic technologies, announced the closing of a Series A equity investment of $ 3 Million.

9 Jan 2013

Merck’s resubmission of the NDA for suggammadex sodium injection accepted for review by the FDA

Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the resubmission of the New Drug Application (NDA) for sugammadex sodium injection has been accepted for review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Merck expects the FDA’s review to be completed in the first half of 2013.

7 Jan 2013

ReadSoft reaches agreement with global healthcare manufacturing company

ReadSoft North America has reached an agreement with a global manufacturing company in the healthcare sector.

4 Jan 2013

Concord Medical acquires 19.98% of indirect ownership of MD Anderson Proton Therapy Center

Concord Medical Services Holdings Limited, a leading specialty hospital management solution provider and operator of the largest network of radiotherapy and diagnostic imaging centers in China, announced today that it has closed the acquisition of 19.98% of indirect ownership of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Proton Therapy Center (MD Anderson Proton Therapy Center).

4 Jan 2013

New analysis on global trends in medical imaging for cardiology applications

The promise of cost and clinical benefits are spurring the penetration of imaging modalities in cardiac applications. While demographics are favouring market growth, cardiac imaging device manufacturers will have to focus on innovative, patient-friendly products that promote greater safety and easier operability.

2 Jan 2013

Acadia Healthcare closes BCA and AmiCare acquisitions

Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. today announced that it completed the previously announced acquisitions of Behavioral Centers of America, LLC and AmiCare Behavioral Centers on December 31, 2012. In addition, Acadia has expanded and extended its senior secured credit facility.

2 Jan 2013

Halt Medical receives $15M financing for commercialization of Acessa uterine fibroid treatment system

Halt Medical, Inc. announced today that it has received $15 million of financing to support commercialization of the Acessa System, a newly FDA cleared medical device to treat uterine fibroids.

2 Jan 2013

RaySearch and Siemens terminate development and licensing agreement

In May 2009 RaySearch Laboratories entered into a long-term development and licensing agreement with Siemens Healthcare. Under the agreement RaySearch provided a number of treatment planning modules for integration in Siemens' syngo Suite for Oncology, which is Siemens' integrated workflow solution for radiation therapy.

2 Jan 2013

Park Nicollet, HealthPartners complete merger

HealthPartners and Park Nicollet Health Services today announced the completion of their agreement to combine their organizations. Effective today, the two organizations are officially joined under the name HealthPartners and a single, consumer-governed board of directors.

1 Jan 2013

NHI purchases 120-unit assisted living and memory care facility in Wisconsin

National Health Investors, Inc. announced today a $20.2 million purchase of Charleston House, a 120-unit assisted living and memory care facility in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

26 Dec 2012

NanoViricides to advance influenza drug candidate with completed $5M funding

NanoViricides, Inc., announced today that it has received the final tranche of $2.5M from Seaside 88, LP, thereby completing the total of a $5M financing. This raise, and the receipt of the initial $2.5M tranche, was previously announced on June 29, 2012.

25 Dec 2012

MEDNAX acquires South Oakland Anesthesia Associates

MEDNAX, Inc., today announced the acquisition of South Oakland Anesthesia Associates, P.C., a physician group practice that provides anesthesia care and pain management services at three hospitals, four ambulatory surgery centers, one eye center, and four pain management centers throughout Oakland, Wayne and Macomb counties in Michigan.

21 Dec 2012

Acorda Therapeutics acquires Neuronex

Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that the Company has completed the acquisition of Neuronex, Inc., a privately held company developing a nasal spray formulation of diazepam. Under the terms of the agreement, Acorda paid $6.8 million to Neuronex to complete the acquisition.

21 Dec 2012

Akorbi announces aggressive growth strategy in early 2012

Akorbi, one of the health insurance industry's largest suppliers of translation and interpretation services, announced an aggressive growth strategy in early 2012 that included the addition of multilingual and technology consulting staffing services.

21 Dec 2012

Echo Therapeutics prices underwritten public offering of 3,200,000 shares of common stock

Echo Therapeutics, Inc., a company developing its needle-free Symphony tCGM System as a non-invasive, wireless, transdermal continuous glucose monitoring system, today announced the pricing of a previously announced underwritten public offering of 3,200,000 shares of its common stock, offered at a price to the public of $0.95 per share.

20 Dec 2012

Coherent announces acquisition of Lumera Laser

Coherent, Inc. today announced that it had acquired privately held Lumera Laser GmbH (Kaiserslautern, Germany) for approximately $52 million in an all cash transaction.

20 Dec 2012

Ortho Kinematics closes more than $2 million in Series B financing

Ortho Kinematics‚ Inc. (OKI), a privately held healthcare diagnostics company focused on spine imaging informatics, announced today the close of more than $2 million in its Series B financing.

18 Dec 2012