Kyphon Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire St. Francis Medical Technologies (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Kyphon Inc. , announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire St. Francis Medical Technologies, Inc. , a privately held, California-based company that manufactures the X STOP Interspinous Process Decompression System, the first FDA-approved interspinous process device for treating lumbar spinal stenosis.

In Interests of Patient Safety, Pfizer Stops All Torcetrapib Clinical Trials; Company Has Notified FDA and is in the (RedNova)
NEW YORK, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pfizer Inc said that in the interests of patient safety it is stopping all torcetrapib clinical trials and that it has informed the Food and Drug Administration.

Kyphon Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire St. Francis Medical Technologies (FinanzNachrichten)
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kyphon Inc. ( Nachrichten ), announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire St. Francis Medical Technologies, Inc. ("St. Francis"), a privately held, California-based company that manufactures the X STOP(R) Interspinous Process Decompression (IPD(R)) System, the first FDA-approved interspinous process device for treating