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Allergan Beats Analysts' Expectations
Irvine-based Allergan Inc. Wednesday reported mixed fourth-quarter financial results.
Tenn. Company Adds Aliso Hospital
AAC Holdings Inc., a publicly traded operator of inpatient substance abuse treatment centers, is buying a hospital with a license for 84 beds in Aliso Viejo for $13.5 million, according to a news release.
Edwards Beats Wall Street
Irvine-based Edwards Lifesciences Corp. after markets closed Tuesday reported fourth-quarter financial results that beat expectations.
UCI Could Reconfigure Duties for Medical Post
HEALTHCARE: Likely to oversee all of ‘medical enterprise’
The search for a new chief executive for UC Irvine Medical Center will likely take awhile as another key job gets reconfigured.
USGI Raises $19.5M for Launch of Pose
San Clemente-based USGI Medical Inc. raised more than $19.5 million from equity and debt investors.
Pearson Tells of ‘Miscalculations’ in Allergan Pursuit
Valeant CEO Talks To Financial Times
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc.’s chief executive is speaking out on his company’s unsuccessful seven-month pursuit of Irvine-based drugmaker Allergan Inc.
Jobs Site Signs 146 Western Dental Offices
Mission Viejo-based Jobrivet said it had signed to provide employment services to 146 offices in Southern California of Orange-based Western Dental Services Inc.
$15M for Crossover Health
Aliso Viejo-based Crossover Health Inc. said it received $15 million in equity financing.
USGI Medical Gets $19.5M
San Clemente-based USGI Medical Inc. has raised more than $19.5 million from equity and debt investors.
Allergan Sets Meeting on Actavis Deal
Irvine-based Allergan Inc. has set a March 10 special meeting to get shareholder approval of its acquisition by Actavis PLC in a cash-and-stock deal currently valued at about $70 billion.
Ketchum Pays $10.3M for Eye Care Digs
Fullerton-based Marshall B. Ketchum University paid $10.3 million for an 88,000 square foot building on La Palma Avenue in Anaheim and will move its University Eye Center there, the school said.
Stem Cells Step Forward With OC Manufacturing
HEALTHCARE: Latest FDA trial, manufacturing set to start here
What could be the most advanced attempt to bring stem cell treatments to the market could start any day now in Orange County.
Times Taps OC for Big Hire; Revenge of Mt. Rushmore?
The L.A. Times plucked its latest big hire from the OC Register’s backyard, tapping UCI grad and Monarch Beach resident Don Reis as chief revenue officer.
Alliant Buys Australia Firm’s US Arm
Newport Beach-based Alliant Insurance Services Inc. agreed to pay about $300 million to acquire QBE US Agencies, the U.S. operations of Sydney, Australia-based QBE Insurance Group Ltd.
Senate Again Tackles Medical Device Tax Repeal
Industry Leaders Monitor Debate Over Hated Levy
A new Congress is in session, and one of its first actions took up a top goal of the medical device industry in Orange County and elsewhere: the repeal of a federal tax on companies’ revenues.
