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Anything Technologies Media acquires Frontier Indoor Garden Solutions

Anything Technologies Media, Inc. has announced that it has successfully acquired Frontier Indoor Garden Solutions, Inc., a Nevada company focused on the development of commercial indoor medical cannabis facilities and outdoor industrial hemp operations throughout the United States.

29 May 2015

Covalon's revenue increases 24% to $1,742,672 in second quarter 2015

Covalon Technologies Ltd., an advanced medical technologies company, is delighted to announce its financial results for its second quarter ended March 31, 2015, which includes revenue for three months of $2,180,276 and net income for the quarter of $264,340.

29 May 2015

Zimmer finalizes divestiture agreements in furtherance of pending acquisition of Biomet

Zimmer Holdings, Inc. announced today that it has finalized agreements with buyers to divest in the United States certain Zimmer® Unicompartmental High-Flex Knee System assets, Biomet Discovery® Elbow System assets and Cobalt™ bone cement assets.

29 May 2015

Can-Fite BioPharma reports Q1 2015 financial results, provides updates on drug development programs

Can-Fite BioPharma Ltd., a biotechnology company with a pipeline of proprietary small molecule drugs being developed to treat inflammatory diseases, cancer and sexual dysfunction, today reported financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2015 and updates on its drug development programs.

29 May 2015

For World No-Tobacco Day WHO makes a stand against illicit tobacco trade

May 31 2015 is World No Tobacco Day and the World Health Organization (WHO) is using this opportunity to bring attention to the illicit trade in tobacco and try to bring an end to it by urging Member States to sign the Protocol to Eliminate the Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products...

29 May 2015

iCo Therapeutics reports financial results for first quarter 2015

iCo Therapeutics, today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2015. Amounts, unless specified otherwise, are expressed in Canadian dollars and presented under International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS").

29 May 2015

ESSA Pharma reports net loss of $5.9 million for second quarter 2015

ESSA Pharma Inc. today reported financial results for the second quarter and three and six months ended March 31, 2015. Amounts, unless specified otherwise, are expressed in Canadian dollars and in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards.

29 May 2015

ClearDATA closes $25 million Series C funding round

ClearDATA announced today the close of an over-subscribed $25 million Series C funding round with contributions from Heritage Group, HLM Venture Partners and Flare Capital Partners, along with existing investors Norwest Venture Partners, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and Excel Venture Management.

28 May 2015

TxCell reports results from annual general meeting of shareholders

TxCell SA, a biotechnology company developing innovative, personalized T cell immunotherapies using antigen specific regulatory T-cells (Ag-Tregs) for severe chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, today announces results of its annual general meeting of shareholders held in Valbonne, France.

28 May 2015

Novel in-line blood gas analyser demonstrated in Germany at H.I.T. 2015

The Proxima sensor is a miniaturised blood gas analyser that is integrated directly into the patient’s arterial line, which also ensures blood conservation since all blood is returned to the patient...

27 May 2015

NorthStar Healthcare announces acquisition of $875 million independent living portfolio

NorthStar Healthcare Income, Inc. , through a joint venture with NorthStar Realty Finance Corp., announced today the acquisition of an $875 million portfolio of independent living facilities (the Portfolio) from affiliates of Harvest Facility Holdings LP.

27 May 2015

EDC announces USD 67.5 M in financing for Valeant Pharmaceuticals

Export Development Canada today announced a previously disbursed USD 67.5 M in financing for Montreal's Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc., Canada's largest multinational pharmaceutical company.

27 May 2015

AXT to distribute OpenSpecimen Biobanking software solution

Based on an open source platform designed by Krishagni Solutions, OpenSpecimen (formerly known as caTissue Plus) is currently used by a host of highly-respected research institutions across 12 countries where it manages biospecimens from collection to utilisation...

From AXT Pty Ltd 26 May 2015

Orthocell presents at Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Congress in London

Orthocell’s current and future approaches to the regeneration of tendon tissue were presented with particular focus on the recent breakthrough by the Company in demonstrating its new technology to grow human tendons outside of the body...

25 May 2015

TGen and Baylor partnership set to increase treatment options for cancer patients

The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Baylor Research Institute (BRI) at Dallas today announce an agreement that will focus on accelerating early detection and treatments for patients with a broad range of cancers.

22 May 2015

Merus Labs International acquires rights to manufacture, market specialty pharmaceutical products in multiple countries

Merus Labs International Inc. is pleased to announce that one of its wholly owned subsidiaries has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the rights to manufacture, market, and sell two established specialty pharmaceutical products in certain European and other markets.

22 May 2015

Industry leaders meet at Frost & Sullivan's GIL 2015: Europe in London to learn, share new strategies for innovation

Between 2012 and 2014, over 70 companies globally valued at more than $1 billion were start-ups with new business models that were unique and transformative. During the same period, most business model innovators have managed to produce consistently profitable returns with average revenue gain between 100 and 500 percent. The keys to these success stories have been connectivity and convergence with 50 percent of new start-ups launched on mobile platforms.

22 May 2015

Hope For Heroes Foundation forms national alliance with USA Medical Card

Hope For Heroes Foundation today announced the formation of a groundbreaking national alliance with USA Medical Card, a leading provider of free pharmacy discount cards. The new nationwide initiative benefiting Hope For Heroes will help fund programs that empower independence for our nation's disabled military veterans, police, firemen, and EMS professionals, and will help more people afford their prescriptions.

21 May 2015

ABRY Partners signs definitive agreement to acquire FastMed Urgent Care

ABRY Partners, a leading private equity firm, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire FastMed Urgent Care, the second largest independent urgent care organization in the U.S. and the largest network in both North Carolina and Arizona. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter.

21 May 2015

CVS Health enters into definitive agreement to acquire Omnicare

CVS Health Corporation and Omnicare, Inc. announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement for CVS Health to acquire Omnicare, the leading provider of pharmacy services to long term care facilities, for $98.00 per share in cash, for a total enterprise value of approximately $12.7 billion, which includes approximately $2.3 billion in debt.

21 May 2015