LONDON, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Agreement allows traders, financial executives to benefit from timely news and issues critical to business activities

Acquire Media, a premier digital content provider serving the financial services and corporate communities, today announced plans to distribute news from Dow Jones Newswires to financial executives in Europe, enabling them to benefit from critical economic and financial news rapidly and efficiently.

Under the agreement, Acquire Media will include Dow Jones Financial Wire as part of its standard content set for trading solutions in Europe. The news will be delivered from Acquire Media's new data center in the United Kingdom, which opened last month.

STOCKHOLM, January 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Karolinska Development AB (publ) recently closed a fully subscribed new share issue, raising SEK 147 million (USD 19 million). Its major shareholders - Karolinska Institutet Holding AB, Tredje AP-fonden; Östersjöstiftelsen; Näsudden; Foundation Asset Management; and Praktikerinvest - took their share of the new issue, while new investors participated with SEK 50 million. Karolinska Development was advised by EFG Bank AB.

The new issue, combined with current liquidity, secures the investment program of Karolinska Development for a further two years.

SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Over 100,000 People In The UK Already Use Yelp As A Travel Guide; The Site is Now Available Locally

Yelp (http://yelp.com), the community-led local search site, today announced the availability of Yelp UK (http://yelp.co.uk). Now people in the UK can use Yelp to read and write reviews about great businesses in their neighborhood. Locals are able to share their opinions on everything from curry houses to spas to mechanics. Additionally, small business owners can set up a free business owner's account to attract new customers and communicate with current ones.

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MUMBAI, India, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) and Leading Learning Architect, Gordon Bull Join Hands to Offer Learning Consultancy to Organizations With the Objective of Providing a Strategic and Business Perspective to Learning Initiatives

TIS and Gordon will offer free consultancy in pre-booked slots over the 2 day Learning Technologies event at their stall (No.38) on learning business issues and challenges organizations are currently facing. Each 20 minute session will be personalized based on questions / issues mailed in to TIS and Gordon and will aim to provide practical solutions and advice to deliver better learning solutions.

LONDON, January 8 /PRNewswire/ -- January 2009: New research commissioned by dental payment plan provider, Denplan, has revealed that the Tooth Fairy is likely to become known as a miser this year as the amounts she leaves under pillows are slashed.

Children as well as adults will be worse off in 2009, as a new survey reveals that a third of parents in Great Britain said that the credit crunch would impact payments left by the Tooth Fairy by up to 10 per cent. That's an estimated GBP2 million yearly reduction in pocket money usually left out as a reward for milk teeth.

New research into the effects of antipsychotic drugs commonly prescribed to Alzheimer's patients concludes that the medication nearly doubles risk of death over three years. The study, funded by the Alzheimer's Research Trust, was led by Prof Clive Ballard's King's College London team and is published in Lancet Neurology on 9 January. 

The study involved 165 Alzheimer's patients in UK care homes who were being prescribed antipsychotics. 83 continued treatment and the remaining 82 had it withdrawn and were instead given oral placebos. 

Southerners die from stroke more than in any other U.S. region, but exactly why that happens is unknown. A new report by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the University of Vermont underscores that geographic and racial differences are not the sole reasons behind the South's higher stroke death rate.

The data is from UAB's Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study, which has enrolled more than 30,200 U.S. participants. The study confirms a greater-than 40 percent higher stroke death rate in eight southeastern states known as the Stroke Belt – Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina and Tennessee.

New cells are born every day in the brain's hippocampus, but what controls this birth has remained a mystery. Reporting in Science, neuroscientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered that the birth of new cells depends on a protein that is involved in changing epigenetic marks in the cell's genetic material. 

If global warming projections turn out to be accurate, a rapidly warming climate would seriously alter crop yields in the tropics and subtropics by the end of this century and could leave half the world's population facing serious food shortages, according to new research.

Compounding matters, the population of this equatorial belt – from about 35 degrees north latitude to 35 degrees south latitude – is among the poorest on Earth and is growing faster than anywhere else.

The first people to arrive in America traveled as at least two separate groups to arrive in their new home at about the same time, according to new genetic evidence published Current Biology.