SINGAPORE, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- In the news release, "Techpro Electronics Launches COPROTECTOR(TM) - The World's 1st Electrochemical Carbon Monoxide Detector Specially Designed for Use in Cars" issued on 5 May 2008 06:47 GMT, by TECHPRO ELECTRONICS PTE LTD over PR Newswire, we are advised by a representative of the company that that the following link, http://asianetnews.net/Download.asp?ID=95606 should be included at the end of the release. Complete, corrected release follows:

ZURICH, Switzerland, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The research for non-invasive glucose monitoring has found new investors: The Zürich Cantonal Bank will invest in Solianis; together with a research grant from the European Union and private investors a total of CHF 2.5 Mio is raised.

Solianis Monitoring AG has reached another mile stone in its career: The company has concluded a capital increase of CHF 2.5 Mio. Alongside with private investors the Zürich Cantonal Bank will participate with CHF 500'000 as a part of their funding program for pioneer companies. "It is essential for us to support start-ups in the difficult fund raising process and be a reliable partner for the development of the company," says Herbert Huwiler, Start-up Finance, Zürich Cantonal Bank.

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Longest Continuous-Treatment Prospective Study of a Biological Therapy for Psoriasis

Final results of the first three-year prospective efficacy and safety study in moderate-to-severe chronic plaque psoriasis were recently published in the British Journal of Dermatology(1). They demonstrate the sustained safety and efficacy obtained with Raptiva(R) (efalizumab) in the long-term three-year therapy of this chronic autoimmune disease.

VIENNA, Austria, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- From 7 to 29 June, Austria, together with Switzerland, is presenting the European Football (Soccer) Championship. Important information is available to all fans under http://www.sozialversicherung.at/ecguide/ so that the consequences of possible injury or sickness remain as minor as possible. Standing behind this information is the Austrian social insurance system that is responsible for Austria's health care system, recognized as among the best in the world.

Via the internet address http://www.sozialversicherung.at/ecguide/ fans can already inform themselves of important steps to take in case anything should happen:

LONDON, May 5 /PRNewswire/ --

ASDA has teamed up with Information TV to broadcast its own programme, called People, Prices, Planet, to everyone with access to Sky Digital. The documentary style programme will be broadcast daily from Tuesday May 6th on Information TV, Sky Digital channel 167 at 21.00hrs Monday to Saturday and on Sundays at 18.30hrs. ASDA is taking advantage of Information TV's innovative business model that allows organisations to broadcast their own programmes on digital television to enhance the effectiveness of their communications.

SINGAPORE, May 5 /PRNewswire/ --

Accidental exposure to carbon monoxide is the number one cause of gas poisoning deaths in cars around the world. Continued exposure to low but excessive levels of this gas, though not necessarily lethal, is also capable of producing many varied residual health effects such as headache, nausea or even risk of miscarriage in pregnant women.

With COPROTECTOR(TM) - the world's 1st electrochemical carbon monoxide detector designed for use in cars - it is now possible to guard against the risk of carbon monoxide death or poisoning associated with motor-vehicles.

MALMO, Sweden, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- iClin Solutions, a supplier of intelligent solutions for cancer treatment, today announced the launch of Electro Chemo Therapy - ECT - and the first treatment using the Cliniporator in Sweden. The treatment was performed at the Department of Oncology at Lund University Hospital under the supervision of Dr. Julie Gehl from Herlev Hospital in Denmark.

The Cliniporator is used to fight cutaneous and sub-cuteaneous metastasies by increasing the effect of chemotherapeutic drugs, offering a very good alternative to traditional radiation therapy and surgery.

NEW YORK, May 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Licensing experts to offer a full scale system for mechanical clearance to record labels, distributors, and online music retailers.

Privately held and employee-owned NY-based RightsFlow, LLC -- a music, media and entertainment-focused professional services firm, today announced the launch of its Outsourced Music Licensing Solutions. RightsFlow offers outsourced music publishing licensing and royalty systems to record labels, distributors, online music retailers, and any other company engaged in distribution and sale of recorded music.

Older adults with low blood levels of vitamin D and high blood levels of a hormone secreted by the parathyroid glands may have a higher risk of depression, according to a report in Archives of General Psychiatry.

About 13 percent of older individuals have symptoms of depression, and other researchers have speculated that vitamin D may be linked to depression and other psychiatric illnesses, according to background information in the article.

“Underlying causes of vitamin D deficiency such as less sun exposure as a result of decreased outdoor activity, different housing or clothing habits and decreased vitamin intake may be secondary to depression, but depression may also be the consequence of poor vitamin D status,” the authors write. “Moreover, poor vitamin D status causes an increase in serum parathyroid hormone levels.” Overactive parathyroid glands are frequently accompanied by symptoms of depression that disappear after treatment of the condition.

People with shorter arms and legs may be at a higher risk for developing dementia later in life compared to people with longer arms and legs, according to a study published in the May 6, 2008, bonus issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Researchers say the association between short limbs and dementia risk may be due to poor nutrition in early life, which can affect limb growth.

Several studies have shown that early life environment plays an important role in susceptibility to chronic disease later in life.

“Body measures such as knee height and arm span are often used as biological indicators of early life deficits, such as a lack of nutrients,” said Tina L. Huang, PhD, who was with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, when the study started. Huang is now with the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston, MA. “Because the development of the brain region most severely affected by Alzheimer’s disease coincides with the greatest change in limb length, we thought it was possible that men and women with shorter limbs could be at greater risk for developing dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.”