LONDON, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- In video interviews Said Darwazah, CEO, and Bassam Kanaan, CFO, discuss Hikma's 2007 performance, financing and acquisitions, plus what they are expecting from the company in 2008. The interviews, transcripts, podcasts and vodcasts are available now on http://www.cantos.com.

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LONDON, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- In a video interview Mike Lawrie, CEO Misys, and Glen Tullman, CEO Allscripts, talk about the combination of Misys Healthcare and Allscripts to create a leader in US healthcare software and the opportunities for the new business. The interview and transcript are available now on http://www.cantos.com.

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CHICAGO, March 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- 'Product Recalls & Claims - Facing the New Challenges' to Advise Legal Professionals on Global Product Liability Claims & Product Safety Regulation

DRI Europe, a newly created section of DRI -- the Voice of the Defense Bar (the world's largest organisation of business defence lawyers with over 22,000 members worldwide) will be holding its inaugural conference on April 17-18, 2008 at the Hotel Ritz Madrid in Madrid, Spain.

DALLAS, March 18 /PRNewswire/ --

Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of sds business services GmbH. The company purchased sds from Waterland Private Equity Investments (Waterland) and funded the transaction with cash on hand.

Based in Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany, sds will enhance ACS' global information technology capabilities in Germany and Europe with its expertise in data center and infrastructure services and application-related solutions.

EAST GREENBUSH, New York, March 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- Unique customer community helps drive Autotask Corporation's product roadmap with hot-links to real time polls, blogs, and discussion boards

Autotask Corporation, the leading provider of hosted business management software for IT service companies, today announced that its customer community portal already has more than 5,000 registered users who have driven more than 30 product enhancements into the product in less than four months since the site was first launched.

New findings about a protein called the nogo receptor are offering fresh ways to think about keeping the brain sharp.

Scientists have found that reducing the nogo receptor in the brain results in stronger brain signaling in mice, effectively boosting signal strength between the synapses, the connections between nerve cells in the brain. The ability to enhance such connections is central to the brain’s ability to rewire, a process that happens constantly as we learn and remember. The findings are in the March 12 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.

A gluten-free vegan diet may improve the health of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, according to new research from the Swedish medical universit Karolinska Institutet. The diet also has a beneficial effect on several risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

Rheumatoid arthritis is associated with an increased risk of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and cardiovascular diseases. The underlying causes are unknown, but researchers suspect that the disturbed balance of blood fats seen in patients with rheumatoid arthritis may be part of the explanation.

A research team at Karolinska Institutet has shown in a new study that a gluten-free vegan diet has a beneficial effect on cardiovascular risk factors in people with rheumatoid arthritis. The effect was seen when a group of patients who kept to a gluten-free vegan diet for a year were compared with a control group which had followed ordinary dietary advice.

After nearly ten years of research and development, scientists at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn and Peking University in Beijing were awarded a United States patent for their virtual telemicroscope. This patented software permits off-site pathologists to diagnose cancer or other diseases in patients living in remote locations around the world.

Virginia M. Anderson, MD, associate professor of pathology at SUNY Downstate, and Jiang Gu, MD, PhD, dean and chairman of pathology at Peking University, developed the virtual microscope system, the only one of its kind capable of emailing electronic slides. Using their patent, the Chinese company Motic – a global leader in microscope manufacturing -- created a microscope with a robotic stage that scans whole slides at various magnifications and then creates compressed images that can be emailed all over the world.

GAITHERSBURG, Maryland and BERN, Switzerland, March 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- As UC Magazine recognizes SmartNode(TM) 4650 for outstanding innovation, SmartNode(TM) claims its fifth major award in three years

Patton -- the leader in business and carrier-class network access, connectivity, and VoIP equipment -- together with Patton-Inalp Networks AG -- creator of SmartNode(TM) industry-leading VoIP technology -- announced today that UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS magazine (http://www.uc-mag.com) has named the SmartNode(TM) 4650 Multiport ISDN VoIP IAD with G.SHDSL.bis Interface as recipient of the 2007 Product of the Year Award.

BUFFALO GROVE, Ilinois and LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS, Switzerland, March 17 /PRNewswire/ --

Today Eagle Test Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: EGLT) & Ismeca Europe Semiconductor SA announced their plans to partner together to provide integrated Final Test solutions for Index Parallel Testing of Discrete Devices. The partnership pairs Eagle Test's 200T(R)/FT Discrete Final Test Solution with Ismeca's NX-Series Index Parallel Handlers in a powerful combination to provide superior technical capability & service excellence to the Discrete Device Manufacturing Industry.