<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060117/bs_nm/guidant_dc"><img src="http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/afp/20060117/capt.sge.biz03.170106155921.photo00.photo.default-384x167.jpg?x=130&amp;y=56&amp;sig=PCUApmkf_lhkyFB 5tX1Xdg--" align="left" height="56" width="130" alt="A sign on the front gate of Boston Scientific's headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts. Boston Scientific raised its offer for rival medical device maker Guidant to 27 billion dollars as a bidding war intensified.(AFP/Getty Images/File)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Boston Scientific Corp. on
Tuesday hiked its offer to buy Guidant Corp. to about
$27 billion, escalating a bidding war with Johnson &amp; Johnson
for the maker of cardiac devices and raising concerns
among analysts that the price may be too high. .</p><br clear=all>

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