GOTHENBURG, Sweden, October 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentice, a leading supplier of solutions for medical simulation, announces the appointment of Mr. Björn Larsson as Vice President of Global Marketing.

Effective from today Mr. Björn Larsson will head up and coordinate Mentice's marketing activities globally from a corporate standpoint.

Mr. Larsson brings to Mentice over 15 years of experience of global sales, marketing and product management within pharmaceuticals and medical technology in areas including cardiology, stroke management and CNS. Before joining Mentice, he held global leadership positions at well renowned companies like Astra Zeneca, Novo Nordisk, Medtronic and Astra Tech. Mr. Larsson holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering.

BEIJING, October 13 /PRNewswire/ -- momagri, the Paris-based think tank established to prepare solutions to the inadequacies facing the agricultural sector worldwide, held a press conference in Beijing on October 10, to outline its new vision for agriculture. Topics included the threats facing the 21st century: how to feed 9 billion people by 2050, how to fight poverty and how to guarantee food security in a world of never ending crises.

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LONDON, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- IBC 2008 Reveals the Broadcast World's Take on New Delivery Platforms

AmberFin today announces the results of a research survey conducted at this year's IBC conference in Amsterdam. AmberFin spoke to industry experts attending to gauge their opinion on what issues would most influence the industry in the coming year.

CHARENTON-LE-PONT, France, October 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Following fulfillment of all the conditions precedent, Essilor has now completed the acquisition* of all outstanding shares of Satisloh Holding AG, the world leader in prescription optical equipment.

Satisloh designs and markets antireflective coating units and surfacing machines, as well as consumables, for prescription laboratories. It reported EUR161 million in revenue in 2007 and employs more than 400 people around the world.

BRUSSELS, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- No Child Should Die of Diabetes

The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) announced today that it is bringing together key opinion leaders to push for action to secure care for the thousands of children with diabetes in developing countries without access to care.

The more alcohol an individual drinks, the smaller his or her total brain volume, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Neurology.

Brain volume decreases with age at an estimated rate of 1.9 percent per decade, accompanied by an increase in white matter lesions, according to background information in the article. Lower brain volumes and larger white matter lesions also occur with the progression of dementia and problems with thinking, learning and memory.

LONDON, October 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Absolutely Training, a leading online e-learning provider in partnership with Smith Spiers, a leading regulatory and risk management consultancy have created a unique training package designed to help organisations train staff in Bribery, Corruption and conflicts of interest.

Doing Business with Integrity - Bribery, Corruption and Conflicts of Interest is an e-learning training course targeted towards businesses being open, transparent and honest with focus on the legal and reputational damage bribery and corruption in a workplace can cause.

With high profile cases of corruption hitting the headlines, large organisations should make sure contracts are won fairly or the legal and financial consequences can be serious.

Caffeine consumption does not appear to be associated with overall breast cancer risk, according to a report in the October 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. However, there is a possibility of increased risk for women with benign breast disease or for tumors that are hormone-receptor negative or larger than 2 centimeters.

Caffeine is probably the most commonly consumed drug worldwide, present in coffee, tea, chocolate and some medications, according to background information in the article. It was hypothesized that caffeine may increase the risk of breast cancer after a study showed that women with non-cancerous breast disease experienced relief from their symptoms after removing caffeine from their diet.

When it comes to embryo formation in the lowly fruit fly, a little molecular messiness actually leads to enhanced developmental precision, according to a study in the Oct. 14 Developmental Cell from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

While the fundamentals of this tiny bug's reproductive biology may seem insignificant, one day they could matter quite a bit to humans. That's because the study provides new information about how cells choose their own fates, especially in maintaining the size relationship and proportionality of body parts during embryonic development, said Jun Ma, Ph.D., a researcher in the divisions of Biomedical Informatics and Developmental Biology at Cincinnati Children's and the study's corresponding author.

SEATTLE, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Previews New Network Security Appliance; Teams with Local Distributor, LinkQuest