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Baxter pursues $4 billion bid for Gambro

By Wall Street Journal

Posted: November 23, 2012 - 5:15 pm ET

Baxter International is in talks to buy Swedish medical-equipment maker Gambro for roughly $4 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, in a move that would boost the American company's kidney-dialysis business.

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