LONDON, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- BA renews MedAire medical service contract

British Airways (http://www.ba.com) will continue to offer its passengers an added level of medical safety and security through MedLink, a ground-to-air medical advisory service provided by MedAire (http://www.MedAire.com). Any time an in-flight medical situation arises, British Airways' pilots and flight attendants can use a radio to directly contact MedAire's 24/7 MedLink Global Response Center.

New research from the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute shows that an interaction between fetal brain cells and maternal antibodies could be linked with the repetitive behavior – also called stereotypies – that is characteristic of autism. While additional studies are needed to confirm the outcome, this result leads investigators to suspect that brain-directed antibodies during the prenatal period could be a causal factor for the disorder. The study appears online now and will be published in a future issue of Brain, Behavior and Immunity.

The study builds on recent research led by UC Davis immunologist Judy Van de Water (to be published in the March 2008 issue of Neurotoxicology) showing that IgG antibodies from the blood of mothers of children with autism react against fetal brain proteins. The outcome was predominant with IgG samples from mothers of children with the regressive form, rather than the early onset form, of the disorder. Her outcome raised the possibility that some cases of autism may be linked to antibody transplacental transfer during pregnancy which, in turn, affects the growing brain.

Ahhhh, Valentine's Day. Bad food, shoddy restaurant service - and you have no choice about it. The Soviet Union had toilet paper lines but they didn't force Valentine's Day on its people. Really, anyone who is unsure what mandates accomplish only needs to look at ethanol for a modern comparison of why things suffer when you force a solution on people.

But all is not lost. There's science in love, you know, and that means there's science in Valentine's Day. Science on Valentine's Day is like cold fusion instead of ethanol. Completely wonderful. And we have it all right here.

BARCELONA, Spain, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Commercially Proven to Drive Uptake and Usage

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, February 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it has been invited by TeliaSonera, the leading telecommunication company in the Nordic and Baltic region, to participate in a trial of its Base Station Router (BSR) Femto in-building wireless access solution in Denmark. TeliaSonera's planned trial activities in Denmark are expected to start this spring.

The goal of the trial is to demonstrate the functional viability of the solution and will encompass testing of voice and high-speed packet access (HSPA)-based wireless broadband data services in home and office environments. The trial also will involve integration of Femto in TeliaSonera's network.

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Samsung Multimode Handheld Device, Together With Network Features From Alcatel-Lucent, Enable Service Continuity Across Both WiMAX and GSM/EDGE Infrastructures

Today Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and Samsung unveiled at Mobile World Congress an optimized device-plus-infrastructure solution that will enable end-users to have seamless access to their voice and data services when switching between GSM/EDGE and WiMAX networks. On the exhibition show floor the two are showcasing live demonstrations of an optimized end-to-end solution for dual-mode, which tightly integrates the dual-mode PDA and network equipment from Alcatel-Lucent.

LONDON, February 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Stora Enso CEO Jouko Karvinen and Deputy CEO & CFO Hannu Ryopponen will host a live conference call at 1400GMT (1500CET/0900EST) discussing the group's financial results for Q4 2007. A replay will be available later in the day. The presentation will be available on http://www.cantos.com.

It's free to view. All you need to do is register at http://www.cantos.com. Cantos.com is an online financial website featuring in-depth interviews, documentaries and webcasts with senior company executives addressing the critical issues facing their businesses.

If you would like to contact us, please email enquiries@cantos.com or phone +44-207-936-1333.

REDWOOD CITY, California, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company Wins Mobile Monday Peer Award for Innovative Mobile Email Solution & Market Traction

Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, today announced it won the highest ranked Expert Jury Award from the Mobile Monday Peer Awards 2008 given out in conjunction with 3GSM Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Feb. 11-14. The awards were determined as part of an evaluation and selection process that was conducted during the first day of this week's conference.

BASINGSTOKE, England and CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Mexico is the First Latin American Country to Approve Treatment

Shire plc (LSE: SHP)(NASDAQ: SHPGY)(TSX: SHQ), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announced that ELAPRASE(R) (idursulfase), a human enzyme replacement therapy for the treatment of Hunter syndrome, has been approved for commercial sale by the Mexican Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risk (COFEPRIS). Mexico is the tenth-largest pharmaceutical market in the world(1) and the first Latin American country to approve ELAPRASE.

BARCELONA, Spain, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- UbiEst wins overall prize in application developers' contest

NAVTEQ (NYSE: NVT), a leading global provider of digital map data for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions, announced today at Mobile World Congress 2008 that UbiEst is the European grand prize winner of this year's Global LBS Challenge.

The winning application, UbiSafe, is an exciting new LBS service that gives families the peace of mind of always knowing the location of loved ones. Users can set preferences or get notifications via their mobile phone to know instantly that a child has left school or a user defined safety zone.

Three runners-up were also selected by the judging panel and include:

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