Month: April 2012

ZURICH (Reuters) – Roche Holding improved its offer by Illumina for $ 6.7 billion after talking with the shareholders of the firm of gene sequences, in an attempt to get the backing of a reluctant directory to negotiate its sale. The Swiss drugs manufacturer said Thursday that is now offering 51 dollars per share, a rise of 15 percent regard its initial supply of 44,50 dollars. Roche needs to reap the backing of investors before the general Assembly of Illumina next month. “This is a fair offer and I believe that it is beginning to offer to the shareholders of Illumina portion of the value of the Corporation,” said analyst Vontobel, Andrew Weiss. “is also an indication that some people is supporting Roche.” “That may be enough to carry the Illumina management to the table and discuss the offer”, he added. The original offer from Roche – made in January – was discarded by Illumina for being too low and the firm adopted the strategy called the poison pill, a movement with its current shareholders to rein in a hostile buyer. Franz Humer, Chairman of Roche, said in a letter to the Chief Executive Jay Flatley Illumina that the company had decided to increase the offer following “productive discussions” with shareholders and after observing the reactions of the market after the original offer. “If they continue to refuse to...

Caracas, 26 mar (EFE).-the Venezuelan former President Jaime Lusinchi, of 87 years, presents a “good health” and confirm the exams that were made last week at a hospital in Caracas, Efe said his son Álvaro. “Is in good health,” said the youngest son of the Venezuelan leader between 1984 and 1989, who confirmed that it remained hospitalized three days last week because, by a back ailment, “his mobilization is made difficult”. Only therefore decided that for a “full general checkup” was hospitalized, and not because there is any emergency or “condition different from the usual chronic ills has been presenting since long ago”, added Lusinchi Álvaro. After a residence alternating between Costa Rica and United States after leaving the power, the pediatrician and exmandatario of the democratic action (AD, social democratic) party returned definitely to Venezuela at the end of 2009. This, after that in the middle of that year a gastric ulcer complications that forced him to enter emergency at a hospital in this American city suffered in Miami. After the death in Miami in December 2010 of its predecessor and successor, the two-time President Carlos Andrés Pérez (1974-79 and 1989-94), ad, Lusinchi is also the only Venezuelan exgobernante with life....

they have the record of having doubled the consumption of alcohol in 15 years MADRID, 27 ( EUROPA PRESS) Europeans consume more alcohol than the citizens of any other part of the world. In particular, the equivalent of 12 litres and means of pure year alcohol or three drinks a day. Thus reflects it a report by the World Organization of health ( who) co-sponsored by the European Commission, which shows that Europe has the “dubious honor” of doubling in 15 years the average consumption of alcohol in the world. “the dubious honour European have to double the global average consumption of alcohol is clear, with known health implications for drinkers, people around them and society in general,” said regional director for Europe of the who, Zsuzsanna Jakab, for whom the message of this report is that “the burden of disease associated with alcohol in Europe is avoidable”. According to this document, changes in social, cultural, geographical and economic between the various countries of the EU have led to distinguish four groups: Eastern and Central – Eastern Europe, Midwestern and Western Europe, Scandinavia and southern Europe, with different consumption patterns and trends. This differentiation reveals that higher consumption of alcohol occurs in the Eastern and Central – Eastern Europe, with 14 liter and a half of pure alcohol per adult per year, compared with the nearly 12 litres and...

Caracas, 24 mar (EFE).-the Venezuela President, Hugo Chávez, today traveled to Cuba to start radiotherapy treatment a month after surgery in Havana of a cancerous tumor, recurrence of cancer for which he underwent in June of last year. Chavez returns to the Cuban capital just a week after returning to his country from Havana, where he spent 21 days recovering from an operation which had its removed a tumor of two centimetres which turned out to be cancerous and which only reported that he is in the pelvic area. In addition, the Venezuelan President traveled to the Cuban capital on the eve of the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the island. “now I’m going to Havana to continue working but above all and first of all for the full recovery of my health; I ask God, the God of the armies and armed (…) and the will to fight and live that we all, and I have, everything goes well,” said Chavez at Maiquetia airportthat serves to Caracas “Come back in a few days,” he added, noting that radiotherapy is charged several days and then will take a break, “so I’m going to be going and coming”, he said. The representative, that this afternoon a mandatory radio and television chain reported that this treatment will take between four and five weeks, said that “it is possible” that some...

CARACAS (Reuters) – the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, will start on Sunday the first round of sessions of radiotherapy in Havana by cancer who suffer, a treatment that could weaken it in the hard-fought race towards the elections of October. Chavez’s trip comes two days before Pope Benedict XVI arrives to the island from Mexico, preceded by his statements that communism doesn’t work in Cuba and that the Catholic Church is prepared to help advance new models without “trauma”. “ask the God of armies, the God of us soldiers, to the Virgen del Valle to the Virgen del Carmen, (…) everything goes well, I’ll start the phase of radiotherapy in the coming hours”, said the President in a mystical tone before flying to the Caribbean country. Chavez said he will return to his country “in the coming days” and announced that it will be “going and coming” of Cuba during the five weeks that will survive the radiation therapy, a treatment whose side effects could limit their participation in the daily life of Venezuelan politics before that looms as the tougher campaign since to power in 1999. “Beyond that detected me the cancer, it was beyond they operated me emergency the first time and the second and then the third.” “We considered and I have taken the (…) decision to follow the treatment (in Cuba) and come back...