KEMSING, England, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Price of Blood Glucose Test Strips to the NHS to be cut by 50%

- My Lords, I Cannot say why They are so Expensive (Baroness Thornton House of Lords June 23 2008)

- NHS Spends 10% of Annual Budget on Treating Diabetes

Living with diabetes involves keeping a close eye on blood glucose levels. This is done by putting a drop of blood onto a small but expensive device called a test strip. A dramatic price reduction by Ambe Medical Group could herald a big change in diabetes management and NHS strategy.

DUBAI, UAE, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- 10% Discount on June Courses

Pinnacle PR Training is offering a 10% discount on its courses taking place in Dubai and London in June. These include its popular five-day Foundations in PR course in Dubai and its 10-day Intensive PR Seminar in London.

Pinnacle PR Training is the world's largest specialised international PR training company with training centres in Dubai, London and Brussels. The company runs more than 100 different types of communications training courses and has more than 80 international PR trainers.

LONDON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Clearpace, the data archive store specialist, http://www.clearpace.com is today launching a cloud-based archive service for structured data - RainStor.

RainStor http://www.rainstor.com allows users to instantly retire legacy applications and archive structured data to the cloud while keeping data secure and instantly accessible. Using Rainstor, organisations can eliminate the layers of cost associated with managing legacy applications: no more software licenses, servers, storage or data centre costs, and the expensive resources needed to keep legacy applications running can be redeployed.

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- ABSNet Loan Provides Performance Metrics on US Non-Agency MBS Transactions

Lewtan Technologies, Inc., provider of ABSNet, the industry's leading source for asset-backed securities surveillance data, analytics, software, and content for the global securitisation industry, today announced the unveiling of a new product called ABSNet Loan. ABSNet Loan provides valuable key performance metrics and predictive variables on the mortgages and home equity loans that back US non-agency MBS and home equity transactions.

LONDON, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- It's time to move beyond the Lehman Sisters would have survived argument, which suggested that if women had been in charge, the banks would not have fallen into crisis in 2008, says Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO of the consultancy 20-first, author and publisher of the new business website, http://www.WOMEN-omics.com.

Yes, women do have a right to be angry. The leadership teams of the banks that failed to judge the risks they were taking properly are dominated by men, she says.

But, she says, the most important question for all those concerned about the future robustness of the financial sector is what is the risk of not having a more equal gender balance on the top teams of the banks?

Pulsars are superdense neutron stars, the remnants left after massive stars have exploded as supernovae. Their powerful magnetic fields generate lighthouse-like beams of light and radio waves that sweep around as the star rotates. Most rotate a few to tens of times a second, slowing down over thousands of years.

The Mars rover, Opportunity, surveyed the rim and interior of Victoria Crater on the Red Planet from September 2006 through August 2008. Key findings from that work, reported in the May 22 edition of Science, reinforce and expand what researchers learned from Opportunity's exploration of two smaller craters after landing on Mars in 2004.

You're sitting in a room filled with a gazillion air molecules - how likely is it that most of those air molecules will spontaneously end up in the corner of the room opposite of where you're sitting?

Most likely you're not too concerned about this scenario, because something like that, a massive fluctuation in the distribution of air molecules in the room, is extremely unlikely, to put it mildly.

When you have zillions of air molecules bouncing around in a room (zillions here being on the order of 10^28 molecules of the various gases that make up air), the fluctuations away from the average distribution are miniscule.

BASEL, Switzerland, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --

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- Once daily QAB149 (indacaterol) significantly improves lung function compared to formoterol and tiotropium, two currently approved COPD treatments, at three months of treatment[1,2] - Pending approval, QAB149 could be the first once-daily bronchodilator to combine clinically relevant 24-hour bronchodilation with onset of action within five minutes[3,4,5] - All doses of QAB149 are well-tolerated with a good overall safety profile in three pivotal trials: INVOLVE (1 year), INHANCE (6 months) and INLIGHT-1 (3 months)[4,5,6] - COPD, a debilitating and progressive respiratory disease, is a leading and growing cause of death that affects 210 million people worldwide[7]

If you own a computer you have probably gotten a 'virus' but there have been no major outbreaks of mobile phone viral infection despite the fact that over 80 percent of Americans now use these devices. A team headed by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, director of the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University, set out to explain why this is true.