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• GE Acquires Elscint's Share of ELGEMS

• A Growing Use of Robotic Surgery in Japan

• Kodak Reorganizes Global Health Business

• Internet Exchange to Launch European Operations

• Marconi Begins Direct Operations in Spain

• Sulzer Medica to Acquire IntraTherapeutics

• Damage Award in Patent Case Called Excessive

• Milestone Payment for Glucose Monitoring System

• Alliance Continued on Point-of-Care Testing

• Major PACS Contract for Sectra

• GE and Critikon Finalize Merger Agreement

• Varian and Impac Abandon Proposed Merger

• Manufacturer of Defective Glucose Monitors Pleads Guilty

• Hologic Announces Contract for DirectRay Systems

• New Manager for GE's Global Diagnostic X-Ray

• Marketing Alliance on Storage of Medical Images

• Market for Bone and Joint Therapies to Double by 2005

• Record Participation at Medica

• Mixed Verdict on Boston Scientific Patents

• Drug Causing Severe Side Effects Is Withdrawn

• Alliance in Gene Therapy for Hemophilia B

• Z-Kat Acquires Marconi's Image-Guided Surgery Business

• Philips to Acquire Agilent's Medical Unit for $1.7 Billion