HONG KONG, February 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Innovative Hydrogen-Powered Radio-Controlled Car Leads Green Toy Revolution

Wah Shing Toys Co., Ltd. (Wah Shing), one of the world's largest toy manufacturers, today announced that its H2Go hydrogen-powered RC car has won the Toy Innovation 2008 Award in the Electronics and Technology category at this year's International Toy Fair in Nuremburg. The H2Go car, manufactured by Wah Shing, uses technology invented by Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies ("Horizon") the leading producer of consumer-oriented fuel cell technology and is being marketed by the renowned Corgi International.

Less smoking or less time eating in restaurants because of a ban on smoking? Either way, the number of acute coronary events such as heart attack in adults dropped significantly after a smoking ban in public places in Italy, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Researchers in Rome compared acute coronary events in the city for five years preceding a public smoking ban with those occurring one year after the ban. They found an 11.2 percent reduction of acute coronary events in persons 35 to 64 years and a 7.9 percent reduction in those ages 65 to 74.

“Smoking bans in all public and workplaces result in an important reduction of acute coronary events,” said Francesco Forastiere, M.D., Ph.D., co-author of the study and head of the Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology, Rome E. Health Authority, Italy. “The smoking ban in Italy is working and having a real protective effect on population health.”

A butcher from Mindelheim and Fraunhofer scientists have succeeded in manufacturing tasty sausage varieties containing only two to three percent of fat. The almost fat-free sausage is now making its way onto the refrigerated shelves of German shops.

Master butcher Josef Pointner from Mindelheim hit on the idea of making low-fat sausage. “Low-fat products for varieties such as ham sausage, Leberkäse (a German meat loaf specialty) or salami or Weisswurst (Bavarian veal sausage) have never been available until now. But I was only partially successful in producing these sausage varieties,” Pointner says.

"Scientists are supposed to be allowed to follow the evidence wherever it may lead…This attack on scientific freedom was so egregious that it prompted a congressional investigation." -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Best known as the lovable, deadpan economics teacher in "Ferris Beuller's Day Off," Ben Stein takes his role in the movie "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" very seriously but with perceptible passion.

SYDNEY, Australia, February 15 /PRNewswire/ -- In the news release, "Scholarships for Indigenous Australians: Education is the Key" issued on 15 Feb 2008 04:22 GMT, by Mary MacKillop Foundation Australia over PR Newswire, we are advised by a representative of the company that four additional paragraphs should be included in the beginning of the release. Complete, corrected release follows:

February 13 was a momentous day in Australia as the Prime Minister formally apologised to members of the Indigenous stolen generation. He did this on behalf of the current Australian government and nation apologising for the policy of previous Australian Governments of forcibly removing Indigenous children from their parents.

MELBOURNE, Australia, February 15 /PRNewswire/ --

In a landmark study electronically published today in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, a blood test for detecting TB infection, QuantiFERON(R)-TB Gold (QFT(TM)), has been shown to be six times more accurate than the conventional tuberculin skin test (TST) at predicting which tuberculosis (TB)-exposed individuals will go on to develop TB disease. This study has important implications for the worldwide effort to eradicate TB, as accurately indentifying TB-infected individuals allows health authorities to treat them before they develop disease, and the greater accuracy of the new test makes this more efficient as well as cheaper and safer.

SYDNEY, Australia, February 15 /PRNewswire/ --

Dr Janelle Trees, a descendant of the Daingadi clan, is the first indigenous student to graduate with Honours at the University of Sydney's medical school through the graduate entry program. A sole parent, Dr Trees believes one of the most important effects of the scholarship has been an insight into the long-learned 'poverty mentality.' "I have been able to show that it is possible to study medicine when you come from different circumstances," she said.

PRINCETON, New Jersey, February 14 /PRNewswire/ --

Pharmasset, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRUS), a clinical stage pharmaceutical company committed to discovering, developing and commercializing novel drugs to treat viral infections, reported unaudited financial results for the first fiscal quarter of 2008 ended December 31, 2007. Pharmasset reported a net loss attributable to common stockholders of US$12.2 million, or (US$0.57) per share for the first fiscal quarter of 2008, as compared to net income attributable to common stockholders of US$3.6 million, or US$0.33 per diluted share for the same period in fiscal 2007.

SAN MATEO, California, February 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Record 2007 Revenue of US$108.5M, up 62% year-over-year

- Record Q4 2007 Revenue of US$31.7M, up 13% quarter-over-quarter

- Record Q4 2007 Cash Flow from Operations of US$3.7M

- Record Q4 2007 Unique Log-ins of 930,000

NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), a leading vendor of on-demand, integrated business management application suites that include Accounting / Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Ecommerce software for small and medium-sized businesses and divisions of large companies, today announced operating results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2007.

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LONDON, February 14 /PRNewswire/ --

The 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) pumped an average 32.25 million (m) barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil in January, or a 220,000 b/d increase from December's rate of 32.03 million b/d, a Platts (http://www.platts.com/) survey of OPEC and oil industry officials showed February 14.

The biggest single increase came from Saudi Arabia, which boosted volumes to 9.2 million b/d in January from 9.02 million b/d in December. The UAE boosted production to 2.59 million b/d from 2.5 million b/d in December after a field maintenance program reduced output to 2.15 million b/d in November. Other smaller increases came from Angola, Iran and Kuwait.