Month: November 2011

Gilead pharmaceuticals acquires Pharmasset 8.164 million

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FOSTER CITY (United States), 21 (EUROPA PRESS)

Gilead Sciences and Pharmasset pharmaceutical companies have reached a definitive agreement whereby Gilead will acquire Pharmasset by 11 billion dollars (8.164 million euros) in cash, amounting to 137 dollars per share, as reported by the company in a statement.

Operation, scheduled to conclude in the first quarter of 2012, has received the unanimous support of the Board of Directors of Pharmasset, a pharmaceutical company specializing in treatments for hepatitis C (HCV).

The price paid by Gilead is an 89% more in comparison with $69,02 in which closed last Friday Pharmasset actions, as well as a premium of 59% compared to its historic maximum.

Gilead intends to finance this operation with cash that is available, with bank debt and unsecured senior bond and provides for the operation, once completed, affects the benefits until 2014 and raise them in 2015 and years later.

“The acquisition of Pharmasset represents an opportunity important and attractive to accelerate the efforts of Gilead change the paradigm of treatment for patients infected with HCV through the development of regimes by mouth for the treatment of the disease,” said the President and CEO of Gilead, John C. Martin.

Also, he stressed that this operation will serve to boost your business’s long-term growth and showed their confidence in that can work closely with the team of Pharmasset to move towards a more comprehensive hepatitis C. clinical program

For his part, President and Chief delegate, Pharmasset, Schaefer Price, was satisfied to Gilead, who shares his commitment to provide new oral therapies for high efficiency HCV patients. Furthermore, stressed that the company can benefit from “the experience and the leadership of Gilead in the development and commercialization of antiviral drugs”.

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The CNPT hoped to “move” in the tobacco control with the new Government

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MADRID, 21 (EUROPA PRESS)

The National Committee for the prevention of tobacco (CNPT) has congratulated the Popular party for his victory in the elections and has been willing to cooperate in improving health of the Spaniards and the increase in tobacco control.

Francisco Rodríguez, President of the CNPT, told Europa Press, said, even expected to “move in the tobacco control” which gave “positive results” in health.

. In the statements of Mariano Rajoy in which he hinted he could change the law of tobacco, the Chairman of the Committee has acknowledged that he “would be surprised”, in particular for “support of the Spanish society” to that law, and that “makes no sense to step back, outside the line of Europe”. Also, Rodriguez has stated that they have not been “too serious problems in the hospitality sector and not the collapse said”.

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Doctors warn that it will only accept cuts that affect the quality of health care

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MADRID, 21 (EUROPA PRESS)

The President of the College medical organization (WTO), Juan José Rodríguez Sendín, warned the new Government that will form the people’s Party that “not tolerated” cuts to “minimize the quality of the service” but “a from there, any element that serves to rationalize, welcome”.

After the “expected” results of general elections, the highest representative of Spanish physicians has been relied on PP “live up to its promises” and does not establish any measure of substantial cuts, so that “no one has to wait longer” of what we have established or diagnostic tests, or treatment or surgery.

Nonetheless, Rodriguez Sendín has softened in an interview to Reuters that can opt for other measures “rationalization”, recognizing that “in the past three years are squandered much has been wasted, and has been done dispensable.” “And what is surplus now, it should waive.”

“There are pockets of inefficiency that improve, there is a salary and organizational model that modify, and you can now do the people’s Party.” Will this be enough to solve the deficit? “Then probably not, but will greatly help”, recognized.

, The Chairman of the WTO has called the new Government to clarify “the truth about debt and financing for the SNS”, and to explain how to deal with. “This is very important because who has to face with citizens are professionals,” recalls.

In addition, understand that professionals “can be with uncertainty without knowing what will happen tomorrow, if you will remove the guards or if there will be more cuts”. “We need an explanatory model and someone to tell us the truth, and to act with a level of transparency that until now have not”.

On the other hand, Rodríguez Sendín has claimed the PP that signs up with the PSOE “happy” Pact for the healing, that are “almost eight or nine years asking, and that it is necessary that the partisan struggle does not affect the prudent decision-making”.

Similarly, calls the implementation underway law of management of health professions (LOPS), which in his view “has developed poorly in recent years”.

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ACAI is afraid that the PP delete abortion of the benefits of the SNS, although he doubts to repeal the current law

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MADRID, 21 (EUROPA PRESS)

The President of the Association of accredited clinics for termination of pregnancy (ACAI), Santiago Barambio, fears that the future Government, which will be chaired by Mariano Rajoy, delete the benefit of the national system of health (SNS) voluntary interruption of pregnancy, although he doubts to consider repealing the current law.

As it has been explained to Europa Press, history has shown that the right-wing governments tend not to “play, but is essential”, the law of abortion, “because it generates controversy”. However, it believes that it is possible to amend certain aspects of the abortion law as to the fact that the age of 16 aborten without notification of their parents.

Although warns, “has been shown that the incidence of demand is minimal, so there has been any kind of abuse in this regard”; and, has been mentioned, the majority of young women who have requested it is because they “didn’t have a great family”. However, doubt that this decision has a social impact to treat minors.

, Believes that this decision will be made on the basis of the resolution of the Constitutional Court take months waiting. “It is not known when it will be, but he assured that it will not be within the next 30 days.” “Until they do not take possession Rajoy and is geared, there will be no notification of the TC, and until that it does not occur, there will be no resolution on the resources of the current law unconstitutional”, explained.

Perhaps, what seems more worrisome is that it can eliminate as provision by appealing to “the lack of economic resources of the autonomies” and bulging health bills; although it sees feasible taking into account that “abortion is something that the population is planned only when it is”. In his view, this decision will not create controversy.

Finally, regarding the future, recommended, based on his experience, which does not restrict access to abortion because “doesn’t disappear, only hiding”; and this leads to women without resources to attend clandestine abortion.

“Prior to making decisions in the face to the Gallery, or taking into account the own morality, must know that restrict abortion does not end with him”, has been completed.

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The slow agony of largest lake in the Balkans, devastated by pollution

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Mimoza Dhima

Shkodra (Albania), 20 nov (EFE).-the Lake Shkodra, the largest in the Balkans and shared by Albania and Montenegro, is suffering a slow death caused by the contamination of industrial waste and others, including fecal, and waters as a result of the excesses of the sector of the construction during the last two decades.

Located west of the city in Albanian of Shkodra (North Albania), which gives it its name, the Lake has large concentrations of vegetation which are huge Islands and make it difficult for the navigation of the vessels.

On the coast there has formed a wide strip of abundant green algae that threaten fauna in this Lake from an area of 368 square kilometers, of which one third belongs to Albania.

“I fish in the Lake since 1978 and I have never seen such a bad situation,” he told Efe Mithat Galica, who with his wife, struggle daily with the mud and aquatic plants for your ship to get fish that are becoming more scarce.

“We go out to fish twice a day and instead of fish in the networks we have algae,” said Mithat, good days wins 10 euros from the sale of fish, which keeps his family.

Indicates that at the time of Communism had a State-owned fisheries which looked after the Lake, while today this natural wealth has become the forgotten.

The waters of the Lake have been withdrawn by the prolonged drought leaving ground bottles, shoes, furniture, toys, broken, thrown there for years, which had been joined sacs empty cement used in the new buildings in the surrounding area.

In this garbage dump flow into the drains of Shkodra, a city of 80,000 inhabitants, as well as toxic chemicals from an aluminum plant located in the capital of Montenegrin Podgorica, which pollute its waters and destroy flora and fauna.

“Before we fishing carp of 35 pounds, we are now satisfied if the hook catches one of few centimeters,” says Tonin Marashi, 60-year-old fan from a young age of the fishing.

The latest fashion of the fisheries of the place is to use a generator that transmits electrical current water which kills any living animal in the vicinity.

“These abusive cases are sporadic.” The situation has improved and the controls have been strengthened since the Lake was proclaimed protected area in 2005 “, says Ridvan Hebaj, head of the Directorate of forest service Shkodra.

Now, he says, there are 420 people with a fishing license and the number of illegal fishermen has decreased from 1,000 to 200, while this year complaints have been reduced to three, with 18 cases registered in 2010.

Nevertheless, the ecological disaster of Lake discourages more and more people to bathe and restaurants of la ribera, carp, fish the Lake symbol is a rarity.

But the specialists expect that the situation will soon change thanks to projects financed by the European Union and the World Bank.

Thus a project started on August 18 million euros donated by Germany, Austria and Switzerland rebuild channelling of Shkodra, network so fecal waste passing through a sewage treatment plant before reaching the Lake.

Next year will end up another project, the World Bank, amounting to $ 4.5 million, to develop common legislation and a joint strategy of management, supervision, and tourist promotion of the Lake by Albania and Montenegro.EFE

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Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips

Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips