Windhover Information sold to Elsevier Health.

Elsevier Science (New York), through its Elsevier Health publishing unit, has acquired Windhover Information, Inc. (Norwalk, CT), a healthcare information company that produces analysis and commentary on healthcare business strategy, industry mergers and acquisitions, alliances, marketplace trends, and medical start-ups. No terms of the deal were given.

Established in 1989, Windhover produces a range of print, online and in-person resources for the healthcare, pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and medical device industries. The company publishes four periodicals, including: "In Vivo," a monthly journal that carries news and information for the biopharma, med-tech, diagnostics and hospital supply industries ($1250 per/year); "Start-Up: Review of Emerging Medical Ventures," a monthly journal that profiles new product companies and carries information for the pharmaceuticals, biotech, hospital supply, medical equipment and in vitro diagnostics industries ($1350 per/year); "The RPM (Regulation, Policy & Market Access) Report," a monthly journal that carries information on the regulatory and policy issues that impact market access ($1550 per/year); and, "Medtech Insight," a newsletter published ten times a year to carry information on medical technologies impacting the range of orthopedic, cardiovascular, surgical and related markets ($1350).

Through its MTI Reports unit, Windhover also produces custom reports on sector devices, technologies, procedures and global companies, annual guides and references, a series of conferences and summits, and a comprehensive database of healthcare industry transactions (Strategic Transactions Database). Windhover will operate within Elsevier's Pharma Business Intelligence unit, which includes F-D-C Reports (Rockville, MD) and Inteleos (Elizabeth, NJ), a drug development database company.

Elsevier Health includes medical book and journal publishers W.B. Saunders (Philadelphia, PA), Mosby (St. Louis, MO) and Churchill Livingstone (New York).