LONDON, January 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The availability of anti-obesity drug Orlistat from pharmacies provides accessible and convenient care for patients, said the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB).

David Pruce, RPSGB Director of Policy and Communications said: We fully support the move to make Orlistat available in pharmacies without prescription. Pharmacists' roles are changing and this is great opportunity to make a real impact on improving patients' health.

Pharmacists are highly visible in the community and are ideally placed to tackle the country's growing obesity problem. Community pharmacists can help thousands of people, not only with their weight-loss goals, but with their lifestyle choices too.

LONDON, January 22 /PRNewswire/ --

The economic crisis is inevitably affecting the telecommunications sector. Continuous strain in the credit market has a big effect on investments. The reduction in consumption is changing the adoption and acceptance of new services. During these difficult times the key to staying afloat is to implement an open and shared innovation model focusing on enhancing the effectiveness of processes and innovative business.

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LONDON, January 22 /PRNewswire/ -- A spoof rap song, created by members and writers of the American sketch show Saturday Night Live, was voted by London Bloggers as the overall favourite viral video at the first-ever Voscars ceremony (Virgin Mobile Oscars).

The winning video, featuring Justin Timberlake, Molly Simms and Jamie Lynn Sigler, can be seen on YouTube.

Created by Virgin Mobile, the Voscars ceremony was held at the Curzon Cinema in Mayfair. It brought together thirty of the UK's top bloggers, social media commentators and journalists to vote for their top 30 viral marketing campaigns.

Please note that the winner and runner-up video are intended for a mature audience. To view these videos on YouTube, enter the viral name in the search field.

ZURICH, Switzerland, January 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Lead time reduced to two weeks

Novelis today announced the start of a new rapid delivery service in response to the needs of its aluminium sheet customers in the lithographic printing sector. Novelis lithographic sheet can now be delivered just two weeks from receipt of order, which is much shorter than the industry standard.

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LONDON, January 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Apps in My Pocket Ltd Launches PocketPhonics for iPhone

A new development in iPod applications is helping children to read.

Phonics, the reading system taught by UK primary schools can now be taught electronically via an iPod Touch or iPhone.

Phonics is a traditional method of teaching children to read and decode words, it was once deemed too boring to be inflicted upon young children, but a recent government review (the Rose report in 2006) led to the revision of the national curriculum to mandate synthetic phonics.

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida has filed a petition with Secretary Salazar of the United States Department of the Interior to provide additional legal protection for the endangered Florida panther to help prevent its extinction.

Only an estimated 90 to 100 Florida panthers remain today, almost all within South Florida. Because of these low numbers, they are considered at extremely high risk of extinction. Although there are provisions to protect the panther provided by the Endangered Species Act (ESA), designation of critical habitat, a key component of the Act, has yet to be undertaken.

The cathedral termite, found in parts of Australia, is capable of creating mounds for the colony well over 10 feet high. Individual cathedral termites are just standard-looking bugs - head, thorax, abdomen, legs, and so on, with a tiny little primitive brain. But when combined with others of its species, the cathedral termite is capable of constructing a huge, complex hive to house the colony. Unlike human building projects, however, there is no foreman, no plan, and it's unlikely that any termite even knows what it is helping to create.

How is this possible?

The answer lies in the fact that sometimes, a system can provide more complexity than the sum of its parts - leading to what scientists call "emergent behavior."

Living with a female mouse can extend the reproductive life of a male mouse by as much as 20 percent, according to a study conducted by Ralph Brinster and a team of other researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and reported in the journal Biology of Reproduction. 

They say this significant implications for the maintenance of male fertility in wildlife and even human populations. 

The researchers hypothesize that the females' effect on the environment of the spermatogonial stem cells likely occurs through the male's endocrine and nervous systems, but other systems are likely involved. The change amounts to a reduction of fertility six months earlier in "lonely" mice as opposed to those who have female companionship.

Using Mini-SAR instrument, a lightweight, synthetic aperture radar, flying aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists are getting their first look inside the moon's coldest, darkest craters. 

The images show the floors of permanently-shadowed polar craters on the moon that aren't visible from Earth. Scientists are using the instrument to map and search the insides of the craters for water ice. 

Even though scientists have successfully sequenced the human genome, they still lack a clear picture of exactly how coding and non-coding DNA sequences function together, or how genomes evolve over time. This has been particularly problematic for scientists who use genetic similarities to characterize evolutionary divergence. Historically, the processes of genetic evolution and genome degradation have been difficult to study due to technological limitations and lack of accurate historical records for species.