AbbVie made the fourth largest corporate bond sale of all time when it sold $30 billion worth of bonds to partially finance its $83 billion takeover of Allergan, the Financial Times reports.
GI & Endoscopy
Atlanta Gastroenterology Associates took on a private equity partner in Frazier Healthcare Partners on Dec. 17, 2018, forming gastroenterology management company United Digestive in the process.
Here are five gastroenterology-focused companies that either recently began developing or launched new products:
Matthew A. Ciorba, MD, is chief of the gastroenterology division's inflammatory bowel disease program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Exact Sciences closed its $2.8 billion acquisition of Genomic Health Nov. 8, securing rights to Genomic's diagnostic oncology test, Oncotype DX.
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Boston Medical Center is studying how Motus GI's Pure-Vu System affects bowel preparation in a clinical setting.
Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health and Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health broke ground on a medical clinic in Lock Haven, Pa., Oct. 31.
The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy outlined how the CMS final rule for 2020 will affect gastroenterologists.
Jeremias C. Tan, MD, is chief of gastroenterology at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital in Fairfax, Va.
CRH Medical continues to bring in the revenue in 2019, posting $30.4 million in third quarter revenues, up from $28.7 million in the same period last year, the company announced Nov. 7.