MDT Buys 2 Heart-Valve Co.s - NYTimes.com

Medtronic to Buy 2 Heart-Valve Tech Makers - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com: "Medtronic said on Monday that it is buying two privately held makers of heart-valve technologies, paying about $1.03 billion in cash for both. Both CoreValve, based in Irvine, Calif., and Ventor Technologies, based in Netanya, Israel, make technologies that allow heart valves to be replaced using a catheter, instead of through surgery."