EVANSTON, Illinois, June 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Increasing power of public health care payers drives need for significantly revamped sales models in Europe -

Despite rampant downsizing in the pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical companies in Europe cannot rely solely on sales force reductions to drive future success. Instead, they must break with tradition and change how they sell to Europe's increasingly powerful public health care payers.

These are among the conclusions of a new report by global management consulting firm ZS Associates and eyeforpharma, a leading provider of pharmaceutical business intelligence and conferences.

PORTON DOWN, England, June 16 /PRNewswire/ --

Enigma Diagnostics Limited, the decentralised and point-of-care molecular diagnostics company, announced today it was issued European Patent EP1044283, which covers the use of endonuclease-based reporting in PCR and other nucleic acid amplification technologies. Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) had filed a claim in opposition to this patent which was rejected by the European Patent Office at a proceeding in Munich on May 28.

DUBLIN, June 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Facility Part of Ambitious Expansion Plans at Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust Campus

ICON plc, (NASDAQ: ICLR; ISIN:IE0005711209), a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, today announced that it has signed a collaborative agreement with the Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation (CMFT) to develop a purpose built translational medicine facility.

ROCKVILLE, Maryland and INDIANAPOLIS, June 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Phase 3 PROTEGE ENCORE Clinical Trial Initiated

MacroGenics, Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced that the PROTEGE trial achieved its targeted patient enrollment. The trial is a pivotal Phase 2/3 clinical study evaluating teplizumab, an investigational compound under development for the treatment of individuals with recent-onset type 1 diabetes.

HIGH WYCOMBE, England, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- APMG-International (APMG) announces the release of a Qualification for Service Catalogue. The qualification initiated by market leaders newScale, headquartered in San Francisco and Pink Elephant in Toronto, Canada, has been developed over the last several months and is the second complimentary qualification for the ITIL(R) Qualification Portfolio.

The Service Catalogue qualification was subject to independent review and scrutiny by the International Qualifications Committee of itSMF International, the leading Service Management movement with 52 different Chapters.

AMSTERDAM, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- One month ago, Sylvie van der Vaart was diagnosed with breast cancer in the early stages. Sylvie has since undergone a successful operation. There is no evidence of the cancer having spread to anywhere else in the body. Her oncologist has assured her that she will have a complete recovery. Starting in July, Sylvie will undergo preventive chemotherapy. Sylvie and Rafael are currently on holiday. They would appreciate being able to recover from this difficult period in private. I would like to ask the press and other media to give Sylvie and her family the time and space to come to terms with this news and work on her recovery.

Mr. Robert D. Geerlings, info@geerlingsadvocaten.nl, T: +31(0)20-5700118

LONDON, June 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Frost Sullivan to Host Analyst Briefing on Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS) Solar Cells on Thursday, 25 June 2009, at 16.00 BST

Solar energy has been growing in importance as a green and non-polluting energy source. The global market potential remains significant with cost and affordability as the key barriers to adoption of solar energy being a viable energy source. There are many photovoltaic technologies available on the market among which Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS) has emerged as the best one thanks to its technological advantages, low manufacturing costs and high yield rates. The CIGS technology is expected to increase global solar power penetration significantly in the coming years.

LENGNAU, Switzerland, June 16 /PRNewswire/ --

The iconic Swiss watchmaker Rado, a key media partner at Salone del Mobile 2009, made full use of the event in Milan to officially launch its exciting new initiative, www.radostar.com.

The Radostar.com site has been conceptualized and produced purely with international design students in mind. This community is renowned for being both inspirational and aspirational and Radostar.com aims to be their modern online destination. Rado has carefully chosen to engage with this generation of creative talent to continue to be a brand that is innovative and future focused.

TEANECK, New Jersey and CHENNAI, India, June 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- e-commerce Infrastructure to Support mjunction's Retail, Auction, and Automobile Portals

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing services, today announced that it has been selected by mjunction services limited, one of India's largest e-commerce companies that also runs the world's largest e-marketplace for steel, to develop scalable e-commerce infrastructure for its online retail, auction, and automobile portals, thereby helping the company to increase its market share.

PARIS, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- B32Trust's B-Authenticated leaps ahead of competition by releasing on the market the first multi-factor strong mutual online authentication and transaction validation system.

One-way authentication systems are no longer sufficient as they are compromised by hacking techniques such as phishing and man in the middle attacks. B-Authenticated incorporates an Anti-Hacking environment (Sandbox + Intrusion Prevention System), Out-of-Band channels and PC Forensics technologies into an effective no-hardware security system that gives consumers the ability to securely connect to their bank or perform safe online transactions.