LAVAL, QC AND CUPERTINO, CA / ACCESS Newswire / August 26, 2025 / Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE:BHC)(TSX:BHC), a global, diversified pharmaceutical company, and DURECT Corporation (NASDAQ:DRRX) today announced that BHC Lyon Merger Sub, Inc. ("Purchaser"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Bausch Health Americas, Inc. ("BHA"), and an indirect subsidiary of Bausch Health Companies Inc. ("BHC"), has extended the expiration date of its tender offer (the "Offer") to acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock of DURECT Corporation for $1.75 per share in an all-cash transaction for an upfront consideration of approximately $63 million at closing, with the potential for two additional net sales milestone payments of up to $350 million in the aggregate (subject to certain adjustments in respect of a retention plan) if the milestones are achieved before the earlier of the 10 year anniversary of the first commercial sale of larsucosterol (5-cholesten-3ß, 25-diol 3-sulfate sodium salt) in the United States and December 31, 2045. The Offer, which was previously scheduled to expire at 5:00 p.m.

LAVAL, QC / ACCESS Newswire / August 21, 2025 / Bausch Health, Canada Inc., part of Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE:BHC)(TSX:BHC), a global, diversified pharmaceutical company, today announced that PrCABTREO™ (clindamycin phosphate, adapalene and benzoyl peroxide) gel 1.2% w/w, 0.15% w/w and 3.1% w/w, for the treatment of acne vulgaris,1 is now available to beneficiaries of the public drug plans of Quebec and Saskatchewan. This new public drug plan availability of CABTREO is in addition to that announced last month for those using the Ontario and Nova Scotia public drug plans as well as through the federal government's Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB) drug plan for Indigenous populations as well as those of the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) and Veterans Affairs Canada.

Bausch + Lomb said on Monday Brett Icahn and Gary Hu have resigned from its board of directors after the termination of the agreement with billionaire Carl Icahn and some of his affiliates.