CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, October 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Following fulfillment of all the conditions precedent, Essilor has now completed the acquisition* of all outstanding shares of Satisloh Holding AG, the world leader in prescription optical equipment.

Satisloh designs and markets antireflective coating units and surfacing machines, as well as consumables, for prescription laboratories. It reported EUR161 million in revenue in 2007 and employs more than 400 people around the world.

BRUSSELS, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- No Child Should Die of Diabetes

The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) announced today that it is bringing together key opinion leaders to push for action to secure care for the thousands of children with diabetes in developing countries without access to care.

The more alcohol an individual drinks, the smaller his or her total brain volume, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Neurology.

Brain volume decreases with age at an estimated rate of 1.9 percent per decade, accompanied by an increase in white matter lesions, according to background information in the article. Lower brain volumes and larger white matter lesions also occur with the progression of dementia and problems with thinking, learning and memory.

LONDON, October 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Absolutely Training, a leading online e-learning provider in partnership with Smith Spiers, a leading regulatory and risk management consultancy have created a unique training package designed to help organisations train staff in Bribery, Corruption and conflicts of interest.

Doing Business with Integrity - Bribery, Corruption and Conflicts of Interest is an e-learning training course targeted towards businesses being open, transparent and honest with focus on the legal and reputational damage bribery and corruption in a workplace can cause.

With high profile cases of corruption hitting the headlines, large organisations should make sure contracts are won fairly or the legal and financial consequences can be serious.

Caffeine consumption does not appear to be associated with overall breast cancer risk, according to a report in the October 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. However, there is a possibility of increased risk for women with benign breast disease or for tumors that are hormone-receptor negative or larger than 2 centimeters.

Caffeine is probably the most commonly consumed drug worldwide, present in coffee, tea, chocolate and some medications, according to background information in the article. It was hypothesized that caffeine may increase the risk of breast cancer after a study showed that women with non-cancerous breast disease experienced relief from their symptoms after removing caffeine from their diet.

When it comes to embryo formation in the lowly fruit fly, a little molecular messiness actually leads to enhanced developmental precision, according to a study in the Oct. 14 Developmental Cell from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

While the fundamentals of this tiny bug's reproductive biology may seem insignificant, one day they could matter quite a bit to humans. That's because the study provides new information about how cells choose their own fates, especially in maintaining the size relationship and proportionality of body parts during embryonic development, said Jun Ma, Ph.D., a researcher in the divisions of Biomedical Informatics and Developmental Biology at Cincinnati Children's and the study's corresponding author.

SEATTLE, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Previews New Network Security Appliance; Teams with Local Distributor, LinkQuest

READING, England, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Verizon Business Designated as a Key Partner in the Delivery of Integrated Communications Solutions for the European Market

Verizon Business announced today it has achieved Multinational Certification from Cisco for Europe, having met the equipment maker's rigorous standards for networking competency, service, support and customer satisfaction. The certification enables Verizon Business to deliver integrated solutions in collaboration with Cisco to its customers across Europe, and follows receipt of individual certifications in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

MADRID, October 13 /PRNewswire/ -- ONDAS Media S.A., the Satellite Radio company for Europe, has today announced that it has entered into a commercial agreement with BMW Group to install satellite radio receivers in its vehicles in Europe. In the future, this will allow BMW's customers to receive the programming diversity, continuous coverage and superior sound quality of ONDAS Media's Satellite Radio throughout Europe.

The deal where both parties have agreed to aim for receivers in BMW vehicles starting in 2012, follows ONDAS Media's announcement earlier this year that it is also to supply and install satellite radio receivers in Nissan and Infiniti vehicles.

By mopping up excess neurotrophic factor from neuronal synapses, astrocytes may finely tune synaptic transmission to affect processes such as learning and memory, say Bergami et al.

The major cellular events of learning and memory are long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD), both of which affect neurons' ability to communicate with one another. Neurons that have undergone LTP display a stronger electrical response to the same level of a stimulus, whereas neurons that have gone through LTD display a weaker response. These changes are thought to result from modifications of the neuronal synapses, such as alterations in the density of postsynaptic receptors, or downstream signaling events.