WARRENDALE, Pennsylvania, May 18 /PRNewswire/ --

MEDRAD Interventional(TM)/Possis(R) today announced that it has reached key milestones in bringing the Paccocath(R) Technology closer to market as an option for the over 14 million patients in the United States and Europe who suffer from Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD). These milestones include the selection of physician investigators for U.S. clinical trials and the completion of a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility.

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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 18 /PRNewswire/ --

A potential new player in Cameroon's mobile market and regulatory pressure to cut prices will help to more than double the country's mobile penetration by 2014, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com).

BARCELONA, Spain, May 18 /PRNewswire/ --

CeloNova BioSciences, Inc., today announced that it will showcase the technology behind the CATANIA(TM) Coronary Stent System featuring a NanoThin Polyzene(R)-F surface treatment as part of the Company's participation in the EuroPCR conference May 19-22.

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GENEVA, Switzerland, May 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Global Epidemic Kills One Person Every 30 Seconds and One Million People Will Die Before the World Health Assembly Meets Again in 2010

Ahead of the second annual World Hepatitis Day, the World Hepatitis Alliance today called on governments not to forget the plight of 500 million people living with hepatitis B and C, as the World Health Assembly postpones discussion of a World Health Organization (WHO) resolution on viral hepatitis - one of the biggest threats to global health.

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TEL AVIV, Israel, May 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Studio - The innovative addition to the TestShell suite offers advanced drag-and-drop multi-sequence test creation for complex testing environments

QualiSystems, a leading provider of advanced test automation solutions, announced today the launch of TestShell Studio, the innovative latest addition to the TestShell system, at Interop Las Vegas, May 19th - 21st, booth #1956.

SUNNYVALE, California, May 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Frost Sullivan Research Declares Spirent as the Market Leader in Enterprise Network Test Measurement Solutions for Research and Evaluation Labs

Spirent Communications plc (http://www.spirent.com/ ) (LSE: SPT), a leader in network, service and device testing, has been recognized by Frost Sullivan (http://www.frost.com/ ) as the leader in enterprise network test and measurement solutions for research and evaluation labs. According to Frost Sullivan's recent report that surveyed the enterprise network system testing and monitoring solutions market, Spirent maintained its leadership position with more the one-third of the market share in the research and evaluation lab segment.

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, confirms its commitment to investing in the therapeutic area of fertility, after Merck KGaA informed earlier today the Oslo Stock Exchange of its withdrawal of the voluntary cash tender offer for MediCult A/S, a leader in Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART), as the required share threshold was not reached in the set timeframe.

Merck Serono has a proud heritage of leadership in the field of fertility and will actively pursue opportunities that will contribute to bring further innovation to physicians and patients, and increase the success rate of fertility treatments, said Dr. Richard Douge, Executive Vice President Global Marketing at Merck Serono.

LONDON, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- At a time when public interest in politics has never been so great, Durand Primary School, an outstanding state primary school in the London Borough of Lambeth, is drawing together MEP Candidates from all of the main political parties to take to the platform, to face public scrutiny and debate their policies and vision, ahead of the European Union Parliamentary Elections on June 4th 2009.

NEW YORK, May 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- TraderTools' LMP now equipped with superior white-labeling capabilities and a market-leading architecture for eFX trading, trade messaging and financial data distribution

TraderTools Inc. (TraderTools), a provider of business solutions, software and services to financial institutions trading FX, announced today that it signed an OEM agreement with Caplin Systems Ltd., the leader in web-based trading technology. Caplin Trader, which enables access to a broad range of instruments via a single Web front-end, will be integrated with TraderTools' Liquidity Management Platform allowing for superior white-labeling capabilities.

LONDON, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The majority of post-menopausal women are uncomfortable talking about vaginal dryness and pain and are reluctant to seek medical help, according to results from a new international survey presented today at the European Congress on Menopause in London. Results from the survey show that over a third (39 percent) of post-menopausal women experience these symptoms of vaginal atrophy and 40 percent of women who have recently experienced vaginal dryness and pain said it interferes with their sex life, yet seven out of ten would not discuss the problem with their physician (only 30 percent of women would consider talking to a gynaecologist, and only 29 percent would consider talking to a GP).