LONDON, January 10 /PRNewswire/ --

Millions of Brits could be playing Russian Roulette with their health buying prescription-only medicines from rogue internet sites, according to research conducted by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB).

In response to this growing online danger, the RPSGB today rolls out the Internet Pharmacy Logo, a visual tool to help the public identify if a website is being operated by a bona fide pharmacy in Britain.

LONDON, January 10 /PRNewswire/ --

The MS Society has responded to the Health Select Committee's report on Session 2007-08 of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), to be published at 00.01am on Thursday 10 January.

MS Society chief executive, Simon Gillespie, said: "Five years ago this same Select Committee said NICE had to improve relationships with patient groups and there is still precious little evidence of this. We support calls to make the drug approval process more transparent and streamlined, and welcome proposals to ensure guidance is carried out more effectively by PCTs but there is still a long way to go."

For more information on the MS Society, visit http://www.mssociety.org.uk

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AMHERST, Massachusetts, January 9 /PRNewswire/ --

The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association(R) (CAIAA), an independent, not-for-profit international organization that provides a charter program for professionals in alternative investments, will be giving introduction seminars on the CAIA educational program in Cape Town and Johannesburg on 22 and 24 January.

The event in Cape Town will run from 5 - 6:30 p.m. on 22 January and will be hosted by Investec Prime Broking, 36 Hans Strijdom Avenue, Foreshore. It will be followed by an event in Johannesburg, also hosted by Investec Prime Broking, 100 Grayston Drive, Sandton.

DALLAS, January 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS) today announced that it has acquired Syan Holdings Limited, a U.K.-based provider of information technology outsourcing (ITO) services and one of the United Kingdom's largest IBM Business Partners, for approximately US$60 million (30.5 million pounds Sterling). Syan's trailing twelve-months revenue was approximately US$75 million. The transaction will be funded entirely with existing cash on hand.

The acquisition strengthens ACS' global ITO presence by adding a solid base of U.K. operations, including two data centers, and expanding its reach into the United Kingdom. It also enhances the company's position as a leading provider of IT solutions to global FORTUNE 1000 clients.

Hundreds of millions — or even billions — of years after planets would have initially formed around two unusual stars, a second wave of planetesimal and planet formation appears to be taking place, UCLA astronomers and colleagues believe.

"This is a new class of stars, ones that display conditions now ripe for formation of a second generation of planets, long, long after the stars themselves formed," said UCLA astronomy graduate student Carl Melis, who reported the findings today at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, Texas.

One of the roadblocks for electric motor technology is that as operating temperatures go up, the magnets in the motors get weaker, resulting in a drop in power. Ames Laboratory Researcher Iver Anderson and his team have developed a new magnetic alloy that maintains its strong magnetic properties even at high operating temperatures approaching 400 degrees F.

The Ames Lab senior metallurgist and Iowa State University adjunct professor of materials science and engineering is playing a major role in advancing electric drive motor technology to meet the enormous swell in consumer demand expected over the next five years.

Fungi don't exactly come in boy and girl varieties, but they do have sex differences. In fact, a new finding from Duke University Medical Center shows that some of the earliest evolved forms of fungus contain clues to how the sexes evolved in higher animals, including that distant cousin of fungus, the human.

A team lead by Joseph Heitman, M.D. has isolated sex-determining genes from one of the oldest known types of fungi, Phycomyces blakesleeanus, findings which appear in the Jan. 10 issue of Nature.

Fungi do not have entire sex chromosomes, like the familiar X and Y chromosomes that determine sexual identity in humans. Instead, they have sex determining sequences of DNA called "mating-type loci."

WAKEFIELD, Massachusetts, January 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Industry Veteran Joins Emerging Leader in Infrared Night Vision Imaging Technology

NoblePeak Vision (http://www.noblepeak.com) announced today that Mike Decelle has joined the company as President and Chief Executive Officer. Decelle takes the reins from co-founder Cliff King, bringing 25 years of experience to NoblePeak with demonstrated leadership capabilities and success in both startup and large public companies. King moves into the Chief Operating Officer role to focus on new product development and manufacturing as NoblePeak rapidly approaches market introduction of its revolutionary night vision TriWave(R) camera cores in 2008.

Mitch Waldrop has written an informative piece on the Science 2.0 movement in Scientific American:



Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk?



Consistent with the content of the article, Mitch invites feedback:

Welcome to a Scientific American experiment in "networked journalism," in which readers—you—get to collaborate with the author to give a story its final form.

LONDON, January 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Shell International Trading and Shipping Co Ltd (Shell) is upgrading the navigation systems on several liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers with new- generation bridge electronics from Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC).

The new navigation systems are being installed on four LNG carriers managed by Shell for Bonny Gas Transport, a fully owned shipping subsidiary of Nigeria LNG Ltd. (NLNG); Northrop Grumman's Sperry Marine business unit is supplying the systems and performing the installations.