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Cardinal Health gets regulatory clearance for $1.3B Kinray buy

The Federal Trade Commission granted early termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976. The law generally requires a 30-day waiting period for a merger or acquisition to close so regulators have enough time to investigate the deal. Cardinal announced the deal last month, noting that adding Kinray would help expand its presence in the lucrative New York market.

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Eli Lilly to pay up to $800M for Alzheimer’s tracing agent maker

Indianapolis drug maker Eli Lilly & Co. (NYSE:LLY) has agreed to pay up to $800 million for Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, the Philadelphia developer of a tracing agent that can help diagnose Alzheimer's disease. The tracing agent, florbetapir F 18 -- which last week topped the Cleveland Clinic's Top 10 Medical Innovations list for 2011 -- is coupled with a PET scan to allow doctors to see inside patients' brains to detect beta-amyloid plaques, the tell-tale signature of Alzheimer's.

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Cardinal Health expands ability to make molecular imaging agents

Cardinal Health Inc. (NYSE: CAH) will manage and operate the Knoxville, Tennessee, cyclotron facility of ProVision Healthcare through an agreement that expands the Dublin, Ohio, drug distributor's ability to make molecular imaging agents nationwide. Ohio's largest corporation has been partnering with academia and industry to push the boundaries of nuclear medicine -- and have first dibs on commercializing the industry's innovations -- by using its know-how and technologies to enable researchers to come up with new products.