Abbott to Commence Tender Offer for Advanced Medical Optics on Jan. 27 – Quick Facts
) announced that it would commence a cash tender offer on January 27, 2009 for all outstanding shares of common stock of Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. or AMO for $22 per share.
As part of the transaction with AMO, Abbott has entered into tender and support agreements with ValueAct Capital Master Fund, L.P., ValueAct Capital Master Fund III, L.P., G. Mason Morfit Read the rest of this entry »
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Oct. 9
New Visions program: 1:30-3:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, Ela Area Public Library, 275 Mohawk Trail, Lake Zurich. Attendees will learn more about macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy or other vision loss issues. The next topic is “Staying Informed and Read the rest of this entry »
NEW YORK, Nov. 17 (UPI) — A New York prosecutor says the online sales Web site Craigslist should remove postings that appear to offer illegal drugs for sale.
Special narcotics prosecutor Bridget Brennan alleges her investigators found numerous instances in which drug dealers offer their illegal goods through thinly veiled Craigslist personal ads, New York’s Daily News said Monday.
The investigators claim after answering Craigslist postings with Read the rest of this entry »
Walgreen Co. plans to announce on Wednesday a network of pharmacies, in-store clinics and company health centers it will market to corporate and government employers nationwide.
Under the drugstore chain’s “Complete Care and Well-Being” program, participating employees at work would be able to get checkups, preventive care and other services, such as dentistry and optometry. Walgreen’s Take Care health clinics would be available for basic services Read the rest of this entry »
> Kidz Fit, a new child-care center in Fort Collins, will open Monday at 200 W. Foothills Parkway.
Partners David Palmer and David Haase, who started Anytime Fitness, have created a kid-haven with motion fitness, WII fit, Light Space and bounce activities.
For parents, Kidz Fit offers biometric security, transportation to and from school and extended hours to accommodate working parents with early-morning hours.
Licensed for 150 children, Read the rest of this entry »
MOST magazines were in bad shape in the six months to December, but their readers were seemingly determined to avoid the same fate, making the health category a rare bright spot in the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations report.
Healthy Food Guide was the best-performing title of the survey, with a year-on-year sales rise of 24 per cent,
reports.
Also blooming were HealthSmart (up 19 per cent), Women’s Health (up 15.3 per cent), Men’s Health Read the rest of this entry »
A teenager has died in hospital from his injuries after being hit by a car in Gravesend, Kent Police said.
Officers said a Vauxhall Vectra hit the 16-year-old boy and then collided with a stationary car at about 1600 GMT on Saturday on the A226 at Overcliffe.
The teenager, from the Bromley area, was taken to hospital in London, but was pronounced dead on Sunday morning.
The driver of the Vauxhall Vectra, who is from Rochester, is currently being Read the rest of this entry »
Roseville Police arrested six people Sunday afternoon after a traffic violation led officers to an apartment in the 500 block of Vine Way, where they seized methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and loaded firearms. At 10:38 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25, Roseville officers were on routine patrol on Sixth Street when they passed a white Chevrolet Tahoe SUV. The SUV driver ducked down, as if to avoid being seen. The officers also noticed that the SUV’s rear Read the rest of this entry »
Two years ago while at work in Montana, Mary Firth got the call she’d dreaded.
A biopsy of a mole removed from her cheek revealed melanoma, said the voice on the other line. Suddenly crying, Mary Firth hung up and strode into her boss’s office. She announced, “I have cancer. I’m leaving.”
In her cozy North Chattanooga living room on a sunny November afternoon, Mary Firth recalled the day of her first diagnosis of the skin cancer — Read the rest of this entry »
Dr. Todd Mitchell was awakened by a phone call at 8 a.m. on the Tuesday after Christmas.
A woman and her twin 11-year-old grandsons had eaten soup made from deadly mushrooms they picked in the woods. Dr. Kent Olson of California Poison Control was asking for the phone number of the German company that makes a drug used to treat death cap mushroom cases in Europe.
The call gave Mitchell chills.
He knew mortality from death caps is higher for Read the rest of this entry »