HERZLIYA, Israel, September 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Teledata Networks, a leading provider of advanced multiservice access solutions won a $21 million deal from a major Central Asian telecommunications company to enhance their existing infrastructure with Teledata Networks' BroadAccess-1000 MSAG. The systems will provide a mix of voice, broadband data and IPTV services over Next Generation IP Network.

LONDON, September 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- UK-based Global Business Expects US$25 Million Savings Over Five Years on Communications Costs as Part of on-going Business Transformation Programme

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) and Smiths Group plc (LSE: SMIN) today announced that the global technology business Smiths Group, has selected AT&T as its world-wide communications provider. The five year agreement reflects Smiths' ongoing business transformation programme and will help Smiths to leverage its global scale, delivering improved productivity and cost reductions across the group's five business divisions. The company expects to achieve annual savings of at least of at least US$5 million on its IT and related communications costs.

BANGKOK, Thailand, September 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- MEETING TO BE HELD AT RENEWABLE ENERGY ASIA in BANGKOK

With countries in Asia experiencing rapid economic growth, a dramatic increase in demand for new energy resources is under way. Although fossil fuels still contribute the largest share of total energy at 79%, renewable energy sources are growing by leaps and bounds and now account for around 20%. And, as oil prices have soared to over US$100 a barrel, that trend shows no sign of changing any time soon.

LONDON, September 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Study of Downton Service Management Consultants Identifies Successful Strategies

Using technology to provide technical services is an important engine of growth. Technical services can produce substantial revenue growth, but achieving profitable growth requires a smart service strategy.

A new study from Downton Service Management Consultants examines the strategies of successful service operations and how they produce revenue and profit growth.

Pregnancy is a biologically unusual situation where one organism lives and develops inside another that is genetically different.

Ordinarily, the immune system identifies and destroys the dissimilar tissue as if it were a parasite but in some early mammals changes 'turned down' the immune system, allowing the developing embryo to grow and thrive unchallenged by the maternal immune response.

Yale researchers npw say that the origin and evolution of the placenta and uterus in mammals is associated with evolutionary changes in a single regulatory protein.

GENEVA, Switzerland, September 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- ORACLE MS Phase III Trial Will Assess Effectiveness of Cladribine Tablets in Preventing Conversion to Definite Multiple Sclerosis in Addition to the Fully Enrolled Phase III Pivotal Trial - the CLARITY Study - for Treatment of Relapsing Forms of Multiple Sclerosis

Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced today the initiation of a Phase III trial to evaluate the therapeutic effects of its proprietary oral formulation of cladribine (cladribine tablets) in patients at risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS).

TORONTO, Canada, September 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Rapid Link of Atlanta is a Finalist for the Best of WiMAX World Award for its City-Wide 3.65 GHz Deployment of Redline's RedMAX(TM) WiMAX Forum Certified(R) Equipment

Redline Communications Group Inc. ("Redline") (TSX and AIM: RDL), a leading provider of WiMAX and broadband wireless infrastructure products, today announced that its customer, Rapid Link Incorporated, (OTCBB: RPID) a leading provider of WiMAX and communication services in Atlanta, Georgia has been selected by xchange magazine as a finalist for the Best of WiMAX World 2008 Award in the Service Provider category and the Best of WiMAX World 2008 Industry Choice Award.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, September 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics (Euronext: AMT), a leader in the field of human gene therapy, today announced that it obtained a license from Amgen to use their GDNF gene for the development of a gene therapy treatment for Parkinson's disease. The combination of this gene with AMT's proprietary adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy platform could potentially allow the development of an effective, long-term treatment for this progressive and crippling disease.

SUSSEX, England, September 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading Sussex based law firm Rix & Kay Solicitors LLP, is delighted to announce that it is supporting a major scientific expedition to the North Pole to capture vitally needed data for scientists studying the impact of global warming on the Arctic ice cap.

Expedition leader, explorer and environmentalist Pen Hadow said that the aim of the Arctic Survey is to measure the exact thickness of the permanent Arctic ice and so determine more accurately the rate at which it is melting.

Scotland’s cold and cloudy climate plays a large part in causing the chronic diseases that plague its people. Scots suffer more chronic disease than almost anywhere else among former Western block countries, but this could be turned around.

For years scientists and cancer charities have told people to avoid the sun and reduce the risk of skin cancer with little regard for the fact that the sun provides the human body with life-saving vitamin D.

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