LONDON and CAMBRIDGE, England, December 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- ATRIPLA is a Landmark Achievement of Two Co-operating Companies

ATRIPLA (600 mg efavirenz / 200 mg emtricitabine / 245 mg tenofovir disoproxil as fumarate), launched today in the UK, is the first and only complete HIV treatment in one pill once-daily for virologically suppressed adults, and represents a new era in HIV therapy for these patients. (1,2) In a unique collaboration, two companies - Bristol-Myers Squibb and Gilead Sciences - have come together to develop a single treatment to improve the lives of people with HIV. ATRIPLA offers virologically suppressed adults effective and discreet HIV treatment in one pill, once daily.(2-5)

LOS ANGELES, December 20 /PRNewswire/ --

Live Nation (NYSE: LYV) announced today that it has entered into a long-term agreement with CTS Eventim which will enable Live Nation to launch its own ticketing business utilizing the most technologically advanced ticketing platform in the world. Live Nation will exclusively license the Eventim platform in North America, and Eventim will provide back office ticketing services in the UK and ticketing services across Europe. The new agreement will allow Live Nation to begin selling tickets on January 1st, 2009.

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EL SEGUNDO, California, December 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Agreement Expands Geographic Coverage

Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) today announced that it has signed a five-year, US$192 million information technology (IT) outsourcing contract renewal with TrygVesta, the second-largest insurance company in the Nordic region. The new agreement, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2008, expands geographic coverage throughout the region.

BERKELEY, California, December 20 /PRNewswire/ --

BookFinder.com has released the list of the top 10 most sought-after out-of-print books in the UK. Unlike traditional annual lists of bestselling books, this list consists of titles which readers seek out independently, without being biased by publishers' publicity machines.

The books represent diverse interests, including Angling Times articles, 1950s environmental disaster fiction, historical timepieces, and Madonna's somewhat less historical collection of racy photos (the only title to appear both on the U.S. and UK lists).

SAN DIEGO, California, December 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- First Molecular Test to Simultaneously Identify Staphylococcus aureus and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus from Nasal and Wound Specimens

GENEVA, Switzerland, December 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Flamel's Medusa(R) Technology Designed to Allow Less Frequent Administration of Therapeutic Proteins and Peptides

SUNNYVALE, California, December 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Music-Centric Social Networking Community Expands Language Offerings in Polish, German, Portuguese and Korean

Melodis Corp., a leader in search and sound recognition technologies, today announced the availability of Midomi.com in German, Korean, Portuguese and Polish. This latest advancement allows people to find, share, and record versions of music in these languages just in time for the holidays.

Tufts University researchers have updated their Food Guide Pyramid for Older Adults to correspond with the USDA food pyramid, now known as MyPyramid. The Tufts version is specifically designed for older adults and has changed in appearance and content.

The Modified MyPyramid for Older Adults continues to emphasize nutrient-dense food choices and the importance of fluid balance, but has added additional guidance about forms of foods that could best meet the unique needs of older adults and about the importance of regular physical activity.

“Adults over the age of 70 have unique dietary needs,” says first author Alice H. Lichtenstein, D.Sc., director of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts (USDA HNRCA).

Researchers at Stanford University report in Genome Biology a new approach to computationally predicting the locations and structures of protein-coding genes in a genome.

Gene finding remains an important problem in biology as scientists are still far from fully mapping the set of human genes. Furthermore, gene maps for other vertebrates, including important model organisms such as mouse, are much more incomplete than the human annotation. The new technique, known as CONTRAST (CONditionally TRAined Search for Transcripts), works by comparing a genome of interest to the genomes of several related species.

What could be a greater test of the limits of human physiology than the Olympics? To mark the 2008 games in Beijing, the Journal of Physiology present a special issue focusing on the science behind human athleticism and endurance.

This unique collection of original research and in-depth reviews examines the genes that make a champion, the physiology of elite athletes, limits to performance and how they might be overcome.

Excess body heat is a barrier to performance in many sports, and a novel study by Romain Meeusen et al.1 shows that both the neurotransmitter systems have an important impact on the control and perception of thermoregulation.