LONDON, August 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- But Sustainable Fashion and Eco Charities Still Fail to Convince

LONDON, August 28 /PRNewswire/ --

The majority of Brits believe that our own natural environment is in good health, according to the findings of a global study by market insight leader TNS. In contrast, the global environment is seen by 71% of us as 'poor' or at best 'fair', with our top three eco worries consisting of air pollution, deforestation and over-development. With such concerns in mind, more than half of the UK claim to have recently changed their ways to benefit the environment.

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- Results Further Support the Clinical Profile of This Novel Anti-Cancer Agent Under Development to Improve the Survival of Patients With Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer (HRPC)

LONDON, August 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Pfizer Limited has launched Toviaz(R)(Black Triangle Drug) (fesoterodine fumarate), a new once daily treatment for the symptoms of overactive bladder (OAB). OAB is a condition which affects an estimated 4.9 million people in the UK(1) (more than twice the number of people with diabetes(2)) and has been shown to have a serious and detrimental effect on people's emotional, psychological and sexual wellbeing(3).

TORONTO, August 28 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company Sought Solution to Facilitate Flexible, Changing Incentive Compensation Plans

Varicent Software, an innovator and provider of sales performance management (SPM) solutions, today announced its solution, Varicent SPM, has been selected by medical devices company Smith & Nephew (LSE: SN; NYSE: SNN), to manage, model, analyze and report on incentive compensation plans and sales performance. Varicent SPM was selected after a comprehensive competitive evaluation.

Shedding some genetically induced excess baggage may have helped the tiny Indostomus paradoxus fish thrive in freshwater and outsize its marine ancestors, according to a University of British Columbia study published in Science Express.

Measuring three to 10 centimetres long, stickleback fish originated in the ocean but began populating freshwater lakes and streams following the last ice age. Over the past 20,000 years - a relatively short time span in evolutionary terms - freshwater sticklebacks have lost their bony lateral plates, or "armour," in these new environments.

"Scientists have identified a mutant form of a gene, or allele, that prohibits the growth of armour," says UBC Zoology PhD candidate Rowan Barrett. Found in fewer than one per cent of marine sticklebacks, this allele is very common in freshwater populations.

All drugs used to treat psychosis are linked to an increased risk of stroke, and dementia sufferers are at double the risk, according to a study published on bmj.com today.

Previous research has shown that second generation (atypical) antipsychotic drugs can increase the chances of patients having a stroke. But the risk of stroke associated with first generation (typical) antipsychotics, and whether the risk differs in people with and without dementia, is not known.

Concerns about an increased risk of stroke among people taking atypical antipsychotic drugs were first raised in 2002, particularly in people with dementia. In 2004, the UK's Committee on Safety of Medicines recommended that these drugs should not be used in people with dementia, despite a lack of clear evidence.

LONDON, August 28 /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.

There are no lost cities containing aliens and otherworldly technology but ancient settlements in the Amazon, now almost entirely obscured by tropical forest, were once large and complex enough to be considered "urban" as the term is commonly applied to both medieval European and ancient Greek communities, according to a paper in Science authored by anthropologists from the University of Florida and Brazil, and a member of the Kuikuro, an indigenous Amazonian people who are the descendants of the settlements' original inhabitants.

The paper also argues that the size and scale of the settlements in the southern Amazon in North Central Brazil means that what many scientists have considered virgin tropical forests are in fact heavily influenced by historic human activity. Not only that, but the settlements – consisting of networks of walled towns and smaller villages, each organized around a central plaza – suggest future solutions for supporting the indigenous population in Brazil's state of Mato Grosso and other regions of the Amazon, the paper says.

NUREMBERG, Germany, August 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The GfK Group recorded a successful second quarter in 2008. The Group achieved excellent sales growth in organic terms of 11.4%. Adjusted operating income rose by 13.4% to EUR 43.8 million compared with the second quarter of 2007. With a figure of 13.6%, the margin, which represents the ratio of adjusted operating income to sales, was above the same quarter in the prior year when it stood at 13.2%.