IRVINE, California, December 8 /PRNewswire/ --

Relsys International, the leading provider of drug safety, pharmacovigilance and risk management solutions, announces the launch of its Integrated Services Offering for pharmacovigilance as well as significant growth of its Global Professional Services (GPS) organization.

LONDON, December 8 /PRNewswire/ --

High Purity Water is a critical ingredient in the manufacturing process of life saving drugs. The continuing demand for high quality water (HQW) is the single biggest driver for the growth of the water treatment systems market segment in the pharmaceutical sector. Frost Sullivan's European Environment Research Analyst, Karthikeyan Ravikumar, foresees that the water and wastewater management market in the European pharmaceutical industry has exciting opportunities to offer particularly in the water treatment segment with the overall market experiencing high growth rates.

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MELBOURNE, Australia, December 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Quintiq, a leading provider of Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) solutions, today announced that Paul Sherrington is joining the Australia New Zealand team as Business Development Manager.

Sherrington has over 10 years of international software industry experience and joins Quintiq from McAfee as a corporate account executive. One of his key initiatives will be to help close cpurrent opportunities with a focus to further expand and grow the Workforce segment of the business in the region.

Paul Sherrington has a wealth of experience in Workforce Management which will bolster our expertise in that sector of the business, said Rob van Egmond, Director Quintiq Australia.

TEL AVIV, Israel, December 8 /PRNewswire/ -- InspireMD, Ltd. announced that the MGuard(TM) coronary stent system has been approved for use in Israel by the Israeli Ministry of Health.

University of Oregon sociologist Aliya Saperstein and sociologist Andrew M. Penner of the University of California, Irvine have a new twist on race - it isn't just appearance but socioeconomic status, they say.   Their new study says that Americans who are unemployed, incarcerated or impoverished today are more likely to be classified and identified as black, by themselves or by others, regardless of how they were seen -- or self identified -- in the past.

LONDON, December 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Epileptic seizures, facial rash, learning difficulties, kidney problems? If one or more of these ring a bell then you or someone in your family may have the genetic condition Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, also known as TSC. You may already have been given this diagnosis but have not yet taken the step of contacting The Tuberous Sclerosis Association.

Over 30 years we have invested millions of pounds into medical research which has already made significant changes to how people can be diagnosed and treated for TSC and even helped towards discovering the first ever possible treatment for TSC.

MUNICH, Germany, December 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Wirecard AG was commissioned to process credit card payments for the new online shop launched in November by the retail chain Lidl.

The Lidl online shop represents a further development of the stationary Lidl offering on the Internet. Schwarz E-Commerce GmbH Co. KG from Neckarsulm - like Lidl, a member of the Schwarz group of companies - presents new special offers each week on www.lidl-shop.de, ranging from household goods, tools and toys to winter sport articles. In implementing the project, a great deal of importance was assigned to establishing the shop from the very beginning on a technologically sophisticated level and simultaneously exploiting the existing core structures of the Schwarz Group.

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, December 8 /PRNewswire/ --

According to Millennium Research Group's (MRG's) European Markets for Urological Devices 2009 report, the prostate cancer device market-comprising brachytherapy seeds, cryotherapy, and high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) devices-will be driven by earlier detection of prostate cancer due to an increase in screening over the next five years.

Screening allows for early detection of cancer, enabling treatment at a curable stage that can be facilitated through minimally invasive devices, such as those required for brachytherapy, cryotherapy, and HIFU procedures.

PARIS, December 8 /PRNewswire/ --

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PARIS, December 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Patients Treated With Protelos Could be Better Protected Than With Alendronate

PARIS, December 8 /PRNewswire/ --

The osteoporosis treatment Protelos(R) (strontium ranelate) significantly improved bone structure in postmenopausal women when compared to the bisphosphonate alendronate according to the results of the first head-to-head study of the two drugs(1) recently released in Osteoporosis International, the official journal of the World Congress of Osteoporosis.

SAN LUIS OBISPO, California, December 8 /PRNewswire/ --

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