TOKYO and INDIANAPOLIS, December 18 /PRNewswire/ --

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (TSE: 4568), and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced today that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency has issued a positive opinion recommending approval of prasugrel for the prevention of atherothrombotic events in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

SAINT PREX, Switzerland, December 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH) Receptor Antagonist Demonstrates Rapid, Long-Term Suppression of Testosterone

REDWOOD CITY, California, December 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Gigle's GGL541 IC integrated into Blusens' HDTV and Home Entertainment Device enables HD connections through the highest performance multimedia Ethernet home network over existing wiring at up to 1Gbps.

Gigle Semiconductor, the leading developer of any wire home networking solutions today announced that the GGL541 will be used in Blusens' Multi-Media Home Entertainment equipment to provide the high-speed connection from the media center to the HDTV over existing home wiring during CES2009. The GGL541 is the first time that a dual channel solution for HomePlug(R)AV (200Mbps over powerline) and mediaxtream(TM) (1Gbps over any wire) has been implemented in a single low cost IC.

ROCKFORD, Illinois, December 18 /PRNewswire/ --

EMERYVILLE, California, December 18 /PRNewswire/ --

ProGenTech Limited, a life science and molecular diagnostics company based in Shanghai, China and the San Francisco Bay Area has signed a collaboration agreement with the China CDC to create a joint laboratory that will focus on developing next generation molecular diagnostic systems and assays.

LONDON, December 18 /PRNewswire/ --

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has announced that it is to appoint Sir Nigel Essenhigh as non-executive chairman for Northrop Grumman in the UK. He will join the board of the company's UK holding company NGC UK Ltd as a director early in 2009.

A photo accompanying this news release is available at: http://media.primezone.com/noc/

LONDON, December 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- UK Accountancy Resellers Offered Recession Lifeline With E-Procurement Solution

DATE: Compleat Software Limited - http://www.compleatspendcontrol.com - (formerly Vectra IT Limited), a provider of purchase to pay (P2P) e-procurement and expense solutions, today announces the launch of its UK channel programme to help IT resellers target the mid-market with P2P e-procurement software that enables advanced purchase ordering for complete spend control.

ANDOVER, England, December 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Cards for Good Causes today revealed the results of its 2008 Christmas card survey, revealing the UK's Christmas card habits. It found that people are a little like one of the five characters summarised below depending on how they buy, send and think about Christmas cards. Each character is female, simply because women still buy and send more than 90% of Christmas cards.

Generous Georgia - it's got to be a charity card

Georgia simply wouldn't dream of sending any card but a charity card at Christmas. She buys her cards on-line and from charity card shops. Preferring religious and peace themes on cards, the fact that the card supports a charity matters more than the design or price.

LONDON, December 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The independent Pay Review Body (PRB) has 'too narrow a remit' to tackle the current pay and employment conditions in the NHS, Unite the Union has said.

Unite, the largest union in the country, was commenting after the PRB declined to recommend to Health Secretary, Alan Johnson that the 're-opener' clause be triggered on the current three-year pay deal.

Unite's National Officer for Health, Karen Reay said: 'Our members voted overwhelmingly to reject the three-year pay deal imposed by the government. The PRB report is a bitter blow and we think its remit is too narrow when looking at the overall pay and employment conditions for NHS staff.'

CAMBRIDGE, England, December 18 /PRNewswire/ -- ERBI's Innovation in Enabling Bio-Technology Award 2008 was presented to Oxygen Healthcare Ltd (O2h) at the ERBI Winter Ball held at Duxford's Imperial War Museum. This award recognises the role O2h has played in developing technologies that facilitate drug discovery and development.

To receive recognition for innovation from an organisation that hosts the largest bio cluster in Europe makes us extremely proud, said Sunil Shah, CEO and Head of Business Development who accepted this award from Lady Archer. O2h was incorporated in 2003 and we have grown the company organically as owner-entrepreneurs from business plan, he added.