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Cardinal bought Pyxis Corporation in 1996 for $ 920 million. Pyxis had been founded in San Diego by Ronald R. Taylor and investor Tim Wollaeger in 1987 and had around 1,500 employees when it was acquired. Cardinal had acquired Pyxis as part of an earlier strategy to
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Kingdom. In November 2012, CareFusion acquired Intermed Equipamento Medico Hospitalar Ltda, a privately held respiratory technologies company based in Cotia, Brazil. Intermed designs, manufactures and markets ventilators and respiratory care devices for
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reached a USD $ 40.1 million settlement with CareFusion. The
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