BUZZ-Smith & Nephew drops as Stryker buys Sage Products
** Smith & Nephew (LSE: SN.L - news) falls 3% on news U.S (Other OTC: UBGXF - news) . medical devices maker Stryker (Swiss: SYK.SW - news) to buy Sage Products for $2.78 billion
** Stryker long seen as potential acquirer of British-based S&N, which has a market cap of around 10 billion pounds ($14 billion)
** Earlier, S&N stock moved little on news CEO Olivier Bohuon has highly treatable form of cancer ($1 = 0.6996 pounds) (RM (LSE: RM.L - news) : ben.hirschler.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)