LPC: US healthcare lending rouses from policy-induced sedation
April 20, 2017 at 14:43 PM EDT
NEW YORK, April 20 (Reuters) - US drug distributor Cardinal Health Inc’s deal to buy Medtronic Plc’s medical supplies units days after Abbott Laboratories agreed to a long-awaited purchase of diagnostic testing company Alere Inc has raised the pulse of a sector suppressed by potential healthcare policy upheaval.