LAS VEGAS, April 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Longest African Road Rally This Year -

Vanguard Integrity Professionals CEO & CTO Ronn Bailey announced today that he will be the sole U.S. participant entering this year's most challenging African road rally, the FIA OPTIC 2000 Tunisia Rally 2008. The nine day race, which extends over three countries and 4,123 km of terrain, is the first step of the Rally World Cup. The 2008 Tunisian race starts in Marseilles, France on April 23rd, runs through Libya and Tunisia and finishes in the city of Djerba, Tunisia on May 3rd.

COLLEGEVILLE, Pennsylvania and TARRYTOWN, New York, April 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- Final Decision from European Commission Expected by Mid-2008

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE: WYE), and Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: PGNX), today announced that the companies have received a positive opinion for RELISTOR(TM) (methylnaltrexone bromide) subcutaneous injection from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), the scientific committee of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA). The companies are seeking the approval of RELISTOR in Europe for the treatment of opioid-induced constipation in advanced-illness patients who are receiving palliative care when response to usual laxative therapy has not been sufficient.

SAN DIEGO, April 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- HspE7 Phase 2 Trial for Cervical Dysplasia to Begin Mid-2008 -

Nventa Biopharmaceuticals Corporation (TSX: NVN) today announced the completion of the safety and tolerability assessment of the fourth and final cohort of patients in its Phase 1 clinical trial of HspE7, its lead therapeutic candidate, in women with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). Findings from the fourth cohort safety review demonstrated that HspE7 was safe and well tolerated with no serious adverse events being reported.

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SAO PAULO, Brazil, April 24 /PRNewswire/ --

BP announced today that it intends to take a 50 per cent stake in Tropical BioEnergia SA, a joint venture established by Brazilian companies Santelisa Vale and Maeda Group, which is constructing a 435 million liter (115 million gallons) a year ethanol refinery in Edeia, Goias State, Brazil.

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The joint venture, in which Santelisa Vale and Maeda Group would each hold 25 per cent, also intends to progress plans to build a second ethanol refinery, investing a total of approximately R$1.66 billion (US$1 billion) in the two refineries.

Monitoring Earth's rising greenhouse gas levels will require a global data collection network 10 times larger than the one currently in place in order to quantify regional progress in emission reductions, according to a new research commentary by University of Colorado and NOAA researchers appearing in the April 25 issue of Science.

The authors, CU-Boulder Research Associate Melinda Marquis and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist Pieter Tans, said with atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations now at 385 parts per million and rising, the need for improved regional greenhouse gas measurements is critical. While the current observation network can measure CO2 fluxes on a continental scale, charting regional emissions where significant mitigation efforts are underway -- like California, New England and European countries -- requires a more densely populated network, they said.

BASINGSTOKE, England, April 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Shire plc (LSE: SHP) (NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announces today that Michael Rosenblatt M.D. will join the Board as a Non-Executive Director with immediate effect.

Dr Rosenblatt is the Dean of Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. He was previously Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and has served in senior research positions at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He was the founding director of the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

There is a good reason most Americans stink at chess - our unfailing optimism. No matter how bad things get with the economy or the environment or (insert your pet cause here) Americans will always believe that, because we have Christina Aguilera, we beat the pants off of everyone else. Russians, for example, don't think that way. Half of Moscow is populated by women hotter than Christina Aguilera and they're all on a Russian dating site hoping to meet an American mechanic who will get them a green card and raise their kid.

MARICOPA, Arizona, April 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- FDA provides 510(k) on examination gloves made from U.S.-sourced guayule rubber that is naturally safe for people with Type I latex allergy

Yulex Corporation, a company that produces natural rubber found to be safe for medical devices, received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the first medical device made from guayule, a desert crop native to the U.S. Southwest. The examination gloves made with patented Yulex(R) natural rubber, and cleared by the FDA, do not contain proteins associated with allergic reactions to latex products from Hevea brasiliensis, and are naturally Hevea latex-free.

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 24 /PRNewswire/ --

GPS Industries, Inc. (GPSI) (OTC Bulletin Board: GPSN), the only provider of Wi-Fi powered, advertising enhanced GPS systems for golf facilities, resorts and residential communities and owner of golf-related GPS technology patents in 15 countries announced that it licensed its golf related GPS technology patent portfolio to Karrier Communications.

The license settles Karrier Communications involvement in a major patent infringement lawsuit brought by GPS Industries in Dallas federal district court. The License Agreement covers all jurisdictions in which GPS Industries holds patents, including U.S. Patent No. 5,364,093.

LONDON, April 24 /PRNewswire/ -- A new social networking site for Arab women, iMatter, was launched last night in Dubai on the MBC1 and MBC4 TV channels. A 60" TV commercial introduced Arab women to iMatter and the headline sponsor of the site, Pantene Shine, and invited them to join an online community designed around their needs. The design and management of the site overcomes a lot of the difficulties sites like Facebook, Bebo and MySpace often pose for Arab women.

http://imatter.mbc.net/

The site was designed and built for MBC (Middle East Broadcasting Company) by UK agency Leftfield Digital.