Schering to buy Dutch drug unit (The Record)
Schering-Plough Corp. said Monday it will buy the pharmaceutical division of Netherlands-based health care products maker Akzo Nobel NV for $14.4 billion in cash, in a bid to diversify its product range and strengthen its pipeline of new drugs.

Local doctors offer new contraceptive implant (Eagle-Tribune Online)
DERRY - A new, matchstick-sized contraceptive implant that lasts three years and is more than 99 percent effective has become available to women locally.

Schering-Plough buys $14B Organon (CNN.com)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) -- Akzo Nobel said on Monday it was selling its drugs unit Organon BioSciences to Schering-Plough for 11 billion euros ($14.4 billion), in a last-minute reversal of plans to float it on the stock market.