We all know that we should eat our fruits and vegetables, but a new study suggests that they could also help prevent inflammation.  According to a study conducted by researchers from UC Davis in cooperation with National Center for Food Safety and Technology in Illinois and Penn State University investigated the effects of certain tomato products and found some interesting results.

Scientists have grown increasingly interested in properties of tomatoes, as they contain the compound lyocpene, a powerful antioxidant, as well as vitamins A, C, fiber, potassium and beta-carotene. All of these nutrients do a body good, but tomatoes may also help stave off chronic conditions, aided by increased inflammation.

DUBLIN, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Experts gather at medical meeting in Dublin to discuss more personalized treatment strategies

Emerging research presented today at a symposium during the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) shows that optimizing therapeutic nicotine products through new uses can significantly enhance efficacy while offering more ways of quitting. Global leaders in smoking cessation discussed clinical study and real-world results that highlight how these innovative treatment approaches go beyond the established and common uses of therapeutic nicotine to offer smokers encouraging new options in personalized quitting.(1)

NEWARK, New Jersey, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Offering Enables Organizations to Migrate To Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS Standard) From IBM Lotus Notes In As Little As One Weekend

Richard Dawkins doesn’t usually strike me as being naïve, but one has to wonder when Dawkins abandons himself to the following sort of writing about his favorite topic these days, the incompatibility between science and religion, on his web site:

DUBLIN, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announces that at its Annual General Meeting today, all resolutions contained in the notice of meeting were duly passed and the results of the poll are as follows:

ATLANTA, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Enterprise Management Associates paper focuses on reducing costs with Stonebranch's Infitran and Indesca solutions.

Stonebranch(R), Inc. today announced that Enterprise Management Associates(R) (EMA) has published a white paper focusing on Stonebranch's Infitran(TM) and Indesca(TM) solutions entitled, Reducing Costs with Consolidated Job Scheduling and Intelligent File Transfer. A core challenge addressed in the paper is the need for alignment of IT services with business needs when confronted with infrastructure expansion outpacing budget expansion.

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Two days ago, I woke up blind. Couldn't open my eyes-- lids were fused shut. For that early morning hour, I had to question just what I would do as a blind astronomer.

I'd had blurry vision the night before, but this was still unexpected. Pragmatically, I found my way to a sink to try and flush out my eyes, get some vision back. To avoid false suspense-- I was able to see (mostly) in fairly short order. And I can safely assure you there is a huge emotional difference between 'no sight' and 'can see slightly'.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

Africa and the Middle East will lead the world in terms of the percentage of mobile broadband subscriptions through 2012, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com).

LONDON, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Strengthens Focus on Quality Product Delivery Whilst Expanding Team to Meet Demands of Increased Legislative Change

IRIS Accountancy Practice Solutions today announced that in the course of the past twelve months it has doubled the size of its Development organisation, strengthening its focus on product quality, whilst significantly expanding resources to meet the demands of increasing legislative change.

In line with a Group wide initiative to invest GBP20m in RD during 2009, IRIS Accountancy Practice Solutions (http://www.iris.co.uk/practice) has now brought together its Engineering teams from IRIS, PTP and Drummohr and has concurrently delivered new releases of all three product lines for the new tax year.

BEIJING, April 28 /PRNewswire/ --

IVT, a major global supplier of Bluetooth software, announced it has released the world's first Bluetooth V3.0+HS commercial stack for Intel's Moblin and Google's Android platforms.

IVT has been actively involved in developing the Bluetooth standards on a number of Bluetooth Technical Working groups, and was recognized by the Bluetooth SIG as a major contributor on developing the latest Bluetooth technology.