READING, England, May 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leaders Have Best Overall Combination of Current Offering and Strategy

Verizon Business has been recognised as a leading provider of European-wide-area-network (WAN) services in an April 2008 Forrester Research report.

The report, "Forrester Wave(TM): European WAN Services, Q2 2008," recognised Verizon Business as "a great all-round performer. Verizon Business has coverage in 30 countries, a strong product portfolio, leading SLAs (service-level agreements), the best e-portal, and top customer satisfaction scores."

LONDON, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Online Media Technologies Ltd. launches a new online portal which features the collection of freeware for home video and audio management. All free solutions presented on http://www.avs4free.com are the innovative programs of Online Media Technologies Ltd. which concentrates on the development of high-quality software. AVS4FREE applications have no time or feature limits and are absolutely free.

Having about thirty video and audio software in its product line Online Media Technologies Ltd. releases AVS4FREE.com, a separate online portal with only multimedia freeware. AVS4FREE.com doesn't require any user registration to download and use the software for free.

CALGARY, Canada, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Oncolytics Biotech Inc. ("Oncolytics") (TSX:ONC, NASDAQ:ONCY) announced today that that it has received a letter of approval from the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for its Clinical Trial Application (CTA) to begin a Phase II clinical trial using intravenous administration of REOLYSIN(R) in combination with paclitaxel and carboplatin in patients with advanced head and neck cancers. The principal investigator is Dr. Kevin Harrington of The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.

PALO ALTO, California, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Facebook today announced another step towards enabling anyone in the world to communicate and share information with the people they know, regardless where they live or what language they speak, by releasing the site in Polish. Current users who want to view Facebook in Polish can change their language preference from their account settings, and beginning today, any person who goes to http://www.facebook.com from Poland will see the site in Polish.

We all know that children who are popular do well socially. A new study has found that teenagers who feel good about themselves and are comfortable with their peers can also be socially successful without being popular in the traditional sense.

These findings come from researchers at the University of Virginia and are published in the May/June 2008 issue of the journal Child Development.

Researchers studied 164 adolescents from racially, ethnically, and socio-economically diverse backgrounds. The teens were interviewed at age 13 and then again at 14. The researchers also interviewed the adolescents’ same-sex close friends.

A study investigating aging in mice has found that hormonal changes that occur when mice eat significantly less may help explain an already established phenomenon: a low calorie diet can extend the lifespan of rodents, a benefit that even regular exercise does not achieve.

“We know that being lean rather than obese is protective from many diseases, but key rodent studies tell us that being lean from eating less, as opposed to exercising more, has greater benefit for living longer. This study was designed to understand better why that is,” said Derek M. Huffman, the study’s lead author.

The study applies only to rodents, which are different in some key ways from humans, cautions Huffman.

CALABASAS, California, May 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- JM-4 Looper Features Jam Tracks Performed by A-list Studio Musicians, Sound-on-Sound Loop Recording and Famous Line 6 Tone -

Line 6, Inc. (http://www.line6.com), the industry leader in amp-modeling technology, introduces JM-4 Looper, the only looping stompbox that combines a complete palette of vivid guitar sounds and explosive jam tracks performed by world-class studio musicians.

CALABASAS, California, May 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- M13 Stompbox Modeler provides a massive collection of celebrated stompbox sounds, stunning effects and an easy to use looper -

Line 6, Inc. (http://www.line6.com), the industry leader in modeling technology, announces M13 Stompbox Modeler, an all-in-one stompbox experience featuring sought-after stompbox sounds and an easy-to-use looper in a brawny box that's built for the stage.

Common Sense 101: if benefits outweigh the costs, generally people will opt in to whatever action is under consideration. If you can prevent or reduce your chance of death from cancer by early screenings at a nominal fee, you will probably get screened. Now throw a twist into the equation. Say that screening is only 50 percent effective at catching early cancer. On the benefit side, screening will still prevent or reduce cancer. On the cost side, you may not catch a tumor; you may be exposing yourself to harmful radiation (which ironically could contribute to the cancer you’re trying to prevent), emotional stress from false positives and possible physical harm from false negatives; and you’re spending money on a service that only works half the time. (Using the same idea, if your airbag only worked in 50 percent of accidents, would you pay for it to be installed in your car, or would you demand that auto manufacturers developed an airbag with 100 percent efficiency?)

COPENHAGEN, May 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Circadin(R) Improves Quality of Sleep and Morning Alertness

A new, first in class sleep medication is launched today, offering hope for thousands of sufferers of insomnia in Europe. Circadin(R), sustained-release melatonin, provides natural sleep by increasing the body's own level of this naturally occurring hormone throughout the night. (1)