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Multiple Clinical Data Presentations At EuroPCR 2008 Support Use Of OrbusNeich's Genous(TM) Bio-engineered R Stent(TM) As Safe A

Multiple Clinical Data Presentations At EuroPCR 2008 Support Use Of OrbusNeich's Genous(TM) Bio-engineered R Stent(TM) As Safe A

May 15 2008 | comment(s)

BARCELONA, Spain, May 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Randomized TRIAS HR Pilot Study Compares Genous, Boston Scientific's Taxus(R)

- Other Presentations Focus on Real-World Use of Genous, Stent's Performance in Patients with AMI, Those Who Could Not Tolerate Dual-Antiplatelet Therapy

OrbusNeich today announced that multiple clinical data presentations in a symposium at EuroPCR 2008 support the use of the company's Genous Bio-engineered R stent, the world's first pro-healing stent, as a safe alternative to drug-eluting stents.

12-Month TRIAS HR Pilot Study Data

Mechel Announces Appointment Of Managing Director At Southern Kuzbass OAO

Mechel Announces Appointment Of Managing Director At Southern Kuzbass OAO

May 15 2008 | comment(s)

MOSCOW, May 15 /PRNewswire/ --

Mechel OAO (NYSE: MTL), one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces a new appointment to the management at its Southern Kuzbass OAO coal mining subsidiary.

Victor Skulditskiy (50), who previously held the position of Director of Coal Concentration and Processing Division, was appointed Managing Director of Southern Kuzbass OAO. Mr. Skulditskiy succeeded Sergei Popov, who was Acting Managing Director and now becomes the First Deputy Managing Director - Director for Operations.

Oekologie, Oekologie, Golly What A Day

Oekologie, Oekologie, Golly What A Day

May 15 2008 | comment(s)

Do you like that title? I can't help it, I hear that song from Robin Hood every time I see the word 'oekologie' so hum along with me and enjoy episode #16.

First, I can't take credit for finding most of the terrific stuff contained in here. We're big fans of community events like this so we bothered everyone we could to help find good stuff rather than stay passive and just use submissions that got sent in. As a result, we got some terrific work that was done over the last month. Let's get right to it.

Justin at Sustainablog advocates a velvet glove approach rather than the iron fist approach sometimes taken by enviromentalists in Myths of Environmentalism. He says it's a better idea to remind people that the beautiful nature experiences they enjoyed as kids should be around when they have grandkids too. No argument about that, though we're generally inclined to make fun of Proust here, but that's only because we have fewer Ph.D.'s in English than those guys.

Your Anti-Bacterial Soaps Could Be Killing The Environment

Your Anti-Bacterial Soaps Could Be Killing The Environment

May 15 2008 | comment(s)

Parental concerns in maintaining germ-free homes for their children have led to an ever-increasing demand and the rapid adoption of anti-bacterial soaps and cleaning agents. But the active ingredients of those antiseptic soaps now have come under scrutiny by the EPA and FDA, due to both environmental and human health concerns.

Two closely related antimicrobials, triclosan and triclocarban, are at the center of the debacle. Whereas triclosan (TCS) has long captured the attention of toxicologists due to its structural resemblance to dioxin (the Times Beach and Love Canal poison), triclocarban (TCC) has ski-rocketed in 2004 from an unknown and presumably harmless consumer product additive to one of today’s top ten pharmaceuticals and personal care products most frequently found in the environment and in U.S. drinking water resources.

The Importance Of Habitat Area In Conservation: A Look At The Species-area Relationship

The Importance Of Habitat Area In Conservation: A Look At The Species-area Relationship

May 15 2008 | comment(s)

This is the first in a series of posts in which I plan to examine one of the fundamental concepts in ecology - the species-area relationship

Species conservation has always been intimately linked with the idea of habitat conservation. While habitat quality determines the amount of habitat required to protect a viable population of a given species, it’s only a modifier - the determining factor is area. Habitat quality can determine whether you need more or less area, but area is still the critical factor. While protected areas can be set aside for specific species, more commonly protected areas seek to protect as many species as possible. More land is likely to protect more species, but there are other factors that influence conservation decisions like the cost of land acquisition and the competing interests such as agriculture, mining or housing development.

One way to maximise the number of species in a protected area is to include as many habitat types as possible. If you include a forest, a meadow, a marsh and a lake in your protected area, you are likely to get a lot more species than you would if you only had forest habitat. The heterogeneity of the area increases the number of species. (After all, you don’t find a lot of fish in a pine forest, or field mice in a lake.) But again, this overlays a simple factor of area. A larger tract of forest will probably have more species than a smaller tract of forest. A larger section of a marsh will probably have more species than a smaller section of marsh. This fact, known as the species-area relationship is fundamental in both ecology and conservation biology. The existence of a relationship between species richness and area is obvious to anyone who has taken the time to think about it, but it is still interesting enough that it has attracted the attention of generations of ecologists.

Belgacom Selects Alcatel-Lucent's Midmarket Solutionas Its Preferred Choice For Enterprise Customers

Belgacom Selects Alcatel-Lucent's Midmarket Solutionas Its Preferred Choice For Enterprise Customers

May 15 2008 | comment(s)

PARIS, May 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Alcatel-Lucent BiCS Platform Lets Sennheiser Streamline Communications for Multi-Site, Mobile Workforce

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that Belgacom, Alcatel-Lucent's Enterprise Business Partner in Belgium, has selected Alcatel-Lucent's Business Integrated Communications Solution (BiCS) portfolio as its preferred midmarket communications offer. With BiCS, Belgacom can now offer its enterprise customers simplified one-stop shopping with a single server bundled communications solution that includes state-of-the-art unified communications tools and centralized management capabilities for a highly mobile, always-on workforce.

Ask.com To Acquire Lexico, Owner Of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, And Reference.com

Ask.com To Acquire Lexico, Owner Of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, And Reference.com

May 15 2008 | comment(s)

LONDON, May 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Transaction Grows Ask.com's User Base and Strengthens Its Position in the General Search Market

- This Acquisition is Likely To Grow the Ask Network's User Base by More Than 9% in the UK.

- In the UK, Neilsen NetRatings Reports That Lexico's Brands Have a Base of 800,000 Unique Users per Month, While the Ask Search Network Receives 8.4 Million Monthly Unique Users in the UK (Source: Neilsen NetRatings UK, March 08).

Stable Stroke Patients More Likely To Die From A Nonstroke Cardiovascular Event Than A Further Stroke

Stable Stroke Patients More Likely To Die From A Nonstroke Cardiovascular Event Than A Further Stroke

May 15 2008 | comment(s)

NICE, France, May 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- The REACH Registry reveals that 70% of deaths in the stable stroke population were due to a cardiovascular event other than stroke

New two-year data from the REACH Registry presented at the European Stroke Congress, highlight that among those who die after a stroke the vast majority (73%) will die from nonstroke cardiovascular (CV) events. The overall death rate is 4.45%, with 3.23% of these CV deaths from a nonstroke event.

The two-year data from the REACH Registry demonstrate that the risk of secondary ischemic events (including CV death) is very high in patients with previous stroke and/or TIA.

When ADHD Grows Up - New Study Supports Growing Body Of Evidence For Adult ADHD

When ADHD Grows Up - New Study Supports Growing Body Of Evidence For Adult ADHD

May 15 2008 | comment(s)

HIGH WYCOMBE, England, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- A new clinical study published today in Biological Psychiatry adds weight to the growing body of evidence that adults suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may respond to treatment.(1)

Hydroxyl Molecule Discovered On Venus

Hydroxyl Molecule Discovered On Venus

May 15 2008 | comment(s)

Hydroxyl is made up of a hydrogen and oxygen atom each. It has been found on another planet for the first time - in the upper reaches of the atmosphere of Venus, some 100 km above the surface - by Venus Express’s Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer, VIRTIS. It is thought to be important for any planet’s atmosphere because it is highly reactive. On Earth it has a key role in purging pollutants from the atmosphere.

The OH “radical” is a very special and reactive molecule, which is unusual in conventional chemistry because of its reactivity. This detection gives scientists an important new tool to unlock the workings of Venus’s dense atmosphere.

The elusive molecule was detected by turning the spacecraft away from the planet and looking along the faintly visible layer of atmosphere surrounding the planet’s disc. The instrument detected the hydroxyl molecules by measuring the amount of infrared light that they give off.