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SACRAMENTO—A private prison company that has been lobbying the Schwarzenegger administration and is a campaign contributor to the governor's causes has made a bid to operate an overhauled inmate medical system, a move that could conflict with court-ordered reforms, according to a document obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
The offer by The GEO Group Inc. of Florida caught the court-appointed receiver overseeing reform of California's Read the rest of this entry »

NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Medical device maker China Medical Technologies Inc. said Tuesday it bought the right to sell a human papillomavirus detection system from Molecular Diagnostic Technologies Ltd. for $345 million.
The Beijing-based company said it will pay for the HPV-DNA Biosensor Chip and Surface Plasmon Resonance based Analysis System over the next year. It expects to close the deal in December 2008 or January 2009, with the final Read the rest of this entry »