Medical supply company Baxter International Inc said on Monday it had agreed to buy Sanofi 's Seprafilm unit, which makes specialist surgical products, for $350 million in cash.

Health insurer Centene Corp said on Monday it had entered an agreement to sell its Illinois unit to CVS Health Corp , moving a step closer to closing its $15.27 billion deal to buy smaller rival WellCare Health Plans Inc . 

Activist investor Starboard Value LP has taken a stake in CVS Health Corp and held talks with the drugstore chain's management, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

European private equity firm CapVest has tapped potential bidders for its French nuclear medicine provider Curium, sources told Reuters, aiming for a deal that values the business at up to 3 billion euros ($3.31 billion).

LivaNova Plc said on Wednesday it would stop developing its minimally-invasive mitral heart valve device and restructure its heart valve unit after years of declining sales.

New Zealand's Metlifecare Ltd said on Wednesday it had received a non-binding takeover offer from a "credible third party."

Tawazun, the United Arab Emirates' defense and security industry development arm, is taking a 50% stake in VR Technologies, a unit of Russian Helicopters, the two companies said on Monday.

Four Democratic leaders on the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce committee on Monday wrote Alphabet Inc's Google and Ascension Health demanding briefings by Dec. 6 on how patient data the hospital chain is storing on the cloud is used.

Swedish pharmaceutical group Recipharm has agreed to buy British peer Consort Medical for 505 million pounds or 6.3 billion crowns ($649 million), the companies said on Monday.

Tawazun, the United Arab Emirates' defense and security industry enabler, is taking a 50% stake in VR Technologies, a unit of Russian Helicopters, the two companies said on Monday.