Takeover

FRC Action to Host Webcast Tonight on the Government Takeover of Health Care

WASHINGTON, July 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Tuesday, July 28 at 8:30 p.m. EDT, FRC Action, the legislative lobbying arm of Family Research Council, will host a special one hour Webcast to mobilize opposition to President Obama's proposed government takeover of the health c...

FRC Action to Host Webcast on the Government Takeover of Health Care

WASHINGTON, July 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --On Tuesday, July 28 at 8:30 p.m. ET, FRC Action, the legislative lobbying arm of Family Research Council, will host a special one hour Webcast to mobilize opposition to President Obama's proposed government takeover of the health care system....

Cephalon Launches Takeover Offer for Australian Biotechnology Company, Arana Therapeutics

Arana Independent Directors Recommends Shareholders Accept the A$318 Million Offer, in the Absence of a Superior Proposal Australian Biotechnology Company Offers Strong Technology Platform and Phase II Antibody in Development for Inflammatory Diseases FRAZER, Pa., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-Fir...

SEIU Impersonates Nurses in Hostile Takeover Campaign Against California Nurses Association/NNOC

OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Impersonating nurses in a multimillion dollar campaign replete with deceptive mailers, phone calls, a website linked to a phony RN group, and the diversion of groups ostensibly working on "healthcare reform," the Service Employees International Union has...

Consumer Watchdog Says California Nursing Home Patients' Quality of Care in Jeopardy Under SEIU Takeover of United Health Care Worker Facilities

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer Watchdog warned that the move by SEIU International to take over nursing home worker unions in California will lead to degradation of the quality of patient care, as the agreements negotiated by SEIU tend to put the interest of nurs...

As SEIU Prepares Hostile Takeover of United Healthcare Workers, Surveillance of Local Union Office Ends in Assault by Off-Duty Police Officer

OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Days before national SEIU officials are expected to launch a hostile takeover of United Healthcare Workers (UHW), an off-duty police officer apparently hired as a private investigator aggressively photographed members of the local union and assau...

Zimmer Announces Successful Completion of ORTHOsoft Takeover Bid

Will Proceed to Compulsory Acquisition WARSAW, Ind. and MONTREAL, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Zimmer Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ZMH ; SWX: ZMH), a leader in the orthopaedics industry, and its indirect wholly owned subsidiary ZMH Acquisition Co. ("Offeror"), announced today th...

FRC Action Launches TV Ad Campaign On Government Health Care Takeover

WASHINGTON, July 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tonight, during a live webcast joined by more than 49,000 viewers, Family Research Council Action President Tony Perkins unveiled a new TV ad which will initially run in five key states including Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Alaska, Louisi...

Bankruptcy forces Hospital staff to Call For County Takeover

Hospital staff including registered nurses and doctors from Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo, on Tuesday, has called on the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors// to take over control of the hospital that followed a unanimous vote from the hospital’s board of directors that required hospital...

White House Launches 'Fishy' Expedition

... is a good offense. The wide spread opposition to the President's proposed takeover of health care has apparently blind sided the administration and is causing...se asking people to help them keep track of those who oppose the government takeover of health care. Is the White House simply wanting to keep a scrapbook of t...

Takeover in Medical Technology

Shire to add New Orphan Drug to its HGT Portfolio - EU Launch Imminent

...German indirect subsidiary of Shire Limited, will launch a voluntary public takeover offer for shares in Jerini AG (FSE: JI4, ISIN: DE0006787476), the publicly ...Jerini AG are strongly advised to read the relevant documents regarding the takeover offer when they become available because they will contain important inform...

Takeover in Biological News

TB bacterium uses its sugar coat to sweeten its chances of living in lungs

...erculosis-causing bacteria have hijacked the human body's immune response to play tricks on cells in the lungs, scientists say. The results of this takeover are mixed. The cells essentially welcome the bacteria into the lungs and invite them to stay a while, meaning the human host becomes infected with the...

8 National Medals of Science awardees to be honored at gala, then the White House

...te candidly about her difficult journey to international recognition in physics. She came to America at the age of 15 after narrowly escaping the Nazi takeover of France. She had planned to become an engineer like her father, but switched to physics after she was told the only engineering jobs open to women w...

Social parasites of the smaller kind

...e benefits of others cooperative efforts. In evolutionary terms, cheats should indeed prosper, so how cooperation persists despite the threat of cheat takeover is a fundamental question. Recently, biologists at the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford have found that in bacteria, cheats actually orchestrate t...

HIV infection requires an accomplice: B cells with special protein direct HIV to T cells

...lls are key players in an immune response. While these cells themselves do not become infected, they play a pivotal role as an accomplice in HIV's takeover of T cells. According to the research to be reported by Giovanna Rappocciolo, Ph.D., research assistant professor of infectious diseases and micr...

Takeover in Biological Technology

Inverness Medical Innovations - Concateno plc, Further Announcement Regarding UK Takeover Code Share Dealing Disclosure Requirements.

WALTHAM, Mass., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In connection with its proposed acquisition of London based, drugs of abuse testing company Concateno plc, announced on June 5 2009, Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. (NYSE: IMA ) has been requested by the UK Takeover Panel to remind Inverness ...

OncoGenex Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

...echnologies") prior to the August 21, 2008 reverse takeover of Sonus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Sonus"), and the ...d higher facility costs resulting from the reverse takeover of Sonus. Reducing the expenses in the first six m... ended June 30, 2009, as subsequent to the reverse takeover there are no preferred shares outstanding. The C...

New Report Just Published: World Prostate Cancer Therapeutics Market Report

...ompany II-81 Schweizerhall Acquires Novosis II-81 Misonix Expands into France with Sonablate(R) 500 II-81 Indevus Enters into Agreement to takeover Valera II-82 Oncobionic Receives FDA Clearance for Cancer Treatment Technology II-82 Misonix Expands HIFU Business in Europe by Entering into ...

OncoGenex Reports First Quarter Financial Results

...echnologies") prior to the August 21, 2008 reverse takeover of Sonus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Sonus"), and the ...d higher facility costs resulting from the reverse takeover of Sonus. Reducing the expenses in the first quart...irst quarter of 2009, as subsequent to the reverse takeover there are no longer any preferred shares outstandi...

OncoGenex Reports Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2008 and Provides Outlook for 2009

...echnologies") prior to the August 21, 2008 reverse takeover of Sonus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Sonus"), and the ...d higher facility costs resulting from the reverse takeover of Sonus. General and administrative expenses fo...ary gain recognized in connection with the reverse takeover of Sonus and a reversal of tax expense associated ...

2009 is Healthy for Asia

... or JVs with niche Medtech players in China & India such as Meditronics, Alpha X-ray & Shinva. 2009 represents an opportunity for Asia to takeover the mantle of leadership from the US & Europe to become the key driver of innovation and profitability for Healthcare companies. About Frost...

OncoGenex Reports Third Quarter Financial Results

...e in employee expenses and higher facility costs resulting from the reverse takeover of Sonus. General and administrative expenses for the third quarter and n...ods was primarily due to the impact of an extraordinary gain on the reverse takeover of Sonus and a reversal of tax expense associated with the change in capita...

Vanda Pharmaceuticals Declares Dividend Distribution of Preferred Stock Purchase Rights

...uire the Company. The Rights are designed to assure that all stockholders of the Company receive fair and equal treatment in the event of any proposed takeover of the Company, to guard against two-tier or partial tender offers, open market accumulations and other tactics designed to gain control of the Compan...

Shire Announces Holding of 81% in Jerini AG and Publication of Offer Document

...maining outstanding shares in Jerini. The intention to make the voluntary takeover offer for a cash consideration of EUR6.25 per share was announced on July 3...Jerini AG are strongly advised to read the relevant documents regarding the takeover offer published by Shire Deutschland Investments GmbH, in particular the of...

Shire Delivers Strong Quarter: Driven by $243m of New Product Sales (+164% YOY Growth). Revenue Guidance Upgrade.

... On July 3, 2008 Shire announced that it was launching a voluntary public takeover offer for all shares in Jerini for an equity purchase price of EUR328 milli...ts to approximately 76% of Jerini's share capital before the receipt of any takeover offer acceptances. Once the offer document is posted, it is anticipated tha...