ZURICH, Switzerland, September 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Preclinical Pharmacokinetic Data to be Presented at the 7th International Symposium on Uveitis in Germany

LONDON, September 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Vagisil(R) are delighted to invite you to The WoW Show - a one-day event, run by Wellbeing of Women, focusing on women's gynaecological health issues at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

Bringing together the college's well-respected consultants and leading doctors in the field of gynaecology, The WoW Show gives you the chance to meet the experts and ask the questions you've always wanted to know the answers to.

When: Saturday 20th September 2008, 10.00 am to 4.00 pm Where: The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 27 Sussex Place, London NW1 4SP Visit the Vagisil(R) stand and collect samples. Attend educational seminars to help you dispel the myths surrounding women's health issues.

LONDON, September 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Myconostica, a UK-based medical diagnostic company which specialises in rapid and highly specific tests for life-threatening fungal infections, today announces the launch of a new test to assist medical and scientific professionals identify the two most common causes of fungal pneumonia. The assay, FXGTM: RESP (Asp +), uses Real-Time PCR technology to accurately and rapidly identify infections caused by both Aspergillus and Pneumocystis.

Key Points:

- Fungal pneumonia is the leading cause of infectious death in leukaemia and bone marrow transplant patients and is the most common first manifestation of AIDS.

LONDON, September 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Convenient One-Stop Shop Will Attract Serious Buyers Looking to Acquire Struggling Businesses

At a time when business failures are expected to rise dramatically, IP-BID.com aims to transform the process of marketing distressed businesses and assets by matching buyers and sellers in a dedicated online marketplace. The unique service has been trialled with insolvency specialists with businesses to sell during the summer and from today it is being targeted at buyers, including entrepreneurs, private equity firms, venture capitalists and companies seeking to grow through acquisition.

Pollution is bad for the lungs but it's also bad for the heart, says a recent study of 48 Boston-area patients, all of whom had coronary artery disease. 24-hour Holter monitors were used to examine electrocardiograms for the conductivity change, called an ST-segment depression, which may indicate inadequate blood flow to the heart or inflamed heart muscle.

The average 24-hour levels for all pollutants included in the analysis were below accepted or proposed National Air Quality Standard thresholds, meaning patients were breathing air considered healthy.

Previous studies have documented that exposure to road traffic can trigger heart attacks, and that particulate air pollution increases the risk for cardiac death or heart attack.

If you've grown concerned that young people chuckling ironically at news clips of real events may actually not be getting a real grasp of what those fake news shows are ridiculing, you can rest assured there is no truthiness to it. A new study suggests that those entertainment news shows, such as The Daily Show or The Colbert Report, may not be as influential in teaching voters about political issues and candidates as was previously thought.

Previous studies have reported up to 48 percent of all adults and 60 percent of young voters used fake news shows as a source of campaign news in the 2004 presidential election. But researchers from Ohio State University have found reasons to discount how effective these shows are in informing the general public.

Patients visiting an ophthalmologist report that prayer is important to their well-being and that God plays a positive role in illness, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Ophthalmology.

"Ethical medical practice includes physician behavior, beyond technical competence, that promotes healing and optimizes the patient's welfare," the authors write as background information in the article. "The physician who respects the patient as a person with dignity must acknowledge the patient's value system to establish a relationship that permits conversations that nourish trust for joint therapeutic decision making. For many patients, religion and spirituality is important to their value system and may represent a unique source of motivation and coping with life events, including the experience of personal illness (illness refers to the response of a patient to a disease)."

HAGEN, Germany, September 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's largest mobile social network peperonity.com has just been relaunched to feature a completely refurbished service home page in the mobile web for this year's CTIA show in fall.

The CTIA show from 10th to 12th September 2008 taking place in San Francisco, CA, USA will be a perfect opportunity for visitors to see the new design but users from all around the world can access the new layout by then as well. The surface that was implemented according to common design standards will be much easier to use than the one that exists today and offers a wide range of convenient features.

In an article in Nature, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) has reported results from its first comprehensive study which focused on the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma.

The TCGA team, comprised of more than 100 investigators from seven cancer centers and research institutions throughout the country, analyzed 601 genes in tumor samples from 91 glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) patients.

Investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and University of Southern California, members of the TCGA team, studied 2000 genes.

The probability of someone cheating during the course of a relationship varies between 40 and 76 percent. "It's very high," says Geneviève Beaulieu-Pelletier, PhD student at the Université de Montréal's Department of Psychology.

According to psychologists, people with avoidant attachment styles are individuals uncomfortable with intimacy and are therefore more likely to multiply sexual encounters and cheat. But this has never been proved scientifically, which is what Beaulieu-Pelletier attempted to do in a series of four studies.

The student wanted to know if the type of commitment a person has with his or her loved ones is correlated to the desire of having extra-marital affairs. "The emotional attachment we have with others is modeled on the type of parenting received during childhood," she says.