LONDON, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Physician experts at the British Association of Urological Surgeons' (BAUS) annual meeting this week heard how discussions with NICE have opened the way for patients with prostate cancer to have continued access to cryotherapy - a promising therapy threatened by earlier NICE guidance published in February.

At a session discussing the NICE Clinical Guideline on Prostate Cancer, urologists reiterated their concern that its recommendations will harm survival rates. In the UK, prostate cancer survival rates are below the European average.

HANOVER, Germany and VIENNA, June 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Hybrid and Electric Vehicles Gaining Recognition Worldwide

- Automotive Supplier Continental Presents Results of an Unprecedented Study

- Increasing Fuel Prices are Driving a Change in Thinking

- Approximately Half of all Drivers Would Like an Emission-Free, Battery-Powered Car for Urban Traffic

- Consumer Acceptance of Hybrid Vehicles is Increasing Internationally - Especially When Government Incentives are Offered

- Nearly Two-Thirds of Motorists Travel on Short Routes and/or in Urban Traffic, Providing Significant Potential for Hybrid Vehicles

WASHINGTON, June 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- ICANN Solution to Domain Tasting is a Half Measure that Will do Little To Eliminate Tasting or Offer Protections to Internet Users

The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA), a coalition comprised of 11 globally recognized brand-name companies, would like to recognize ICANN's solution to the problem of "tasting" as a partial success.

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ICANN recently put forth a proposal to address tasting due in large part to CADNA's championing of this issue and because of objective research and analysis of the proposed solutions conducted by the coalition. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that the proposed solution will adequately address domain name tasting.

Almonds, as well as being high in vitamin E and other minerals, are also thought to have other health benefits, such as reducing cholesterol. Recently published work by the Institute of Food Research has identified potential prebiotic properties of almonds that could help improve our digestive health by increasing levels of beneficial gut bacteria.

Our digestive system maintains large population of bacteria that live in the colon. Prebiotics are non-digestible parts of foods that these bacteria can use to fuel their growth and activity. These 'good' bacteria form part of our body's defence against harmful bacteria and play a role in the development of body's immune system. The prebiotics work by stimulating the growth of these bacteria. However, in order to get to where they are needed prebiotics must be able to get through the upper part of the intestine without being digested or absorbed by the body.

Ground-breaking technology that will enable biologists to identify and monitor large numbers of endangered animals, from butterflies to whales, without being captured, will be shown to the public for the first time at this year's Royal Society Summer Science exhibition [30 June to 3 July].

Scientists at the University of Bristol, working on Robben Island in South Africa, have devised an intelligent, visual surveillance system that can be integrated into wildlife habitats as a non-intrusive means of capturing detailed and reliable data on the population dynamics and social behaviour of endangered species.

The research advances techniques that originated in computer vision and human biometrics in order to help field biology and to better understand and conserve endangered species, in particular, the African penguin (Spheniscus demersus).

TALLINN, Estonia and COPENHAGEN, June 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Charter Brings Equity, Performance and Accountability to Health Sector

Ministers of health from 53 countries (1), which make the WHO European Region, today signed a new charter on health systems, committing themselves to concrete and measurable action on strengthening health systems that will allow both their own people and the international community to hold them to account.

NERVIANO, Italy, June 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- Accelera Recognised as Key Partner in the Development of a New Therapy

The development of fexinidazole for the treatment of African trypanosomiasis, commonly known as "sleeping sickness", by DNDi (Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative), along with Accelera, a business unit of Nerviano Medical Sciences (NMS), is to be honoured as one of DNDi's Success Stories of the Year. The award will be conferred today in New York, at the prestigious headquarters of the New York Academy of Sciences, during the first annual Stakeholders' Meeting of DNDi. Accelera is recognised as DNDi's key partner in the non-clinical development of fexinidazole.

LONDON, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Rustlers may be the market leaders in the hot snacking section of your local supermarket, but that doesn't mean they're content to rest on their burgers. They've teamed up with Machinima.com, the most popular machinima website in the world, to launch the art in the UK - and they've brought along a friend to help them.

The odd behavior of a molecule in an experimental silicon computer chip has led to a discovery that opens the door to quantum computing in semiconductors.

In a Nature Physics journal paper currently online, the researchers describe how they have created a new, hybrid molecule in which its quantum state can be intentionally manipulated - a required step in the building of quantum computers.

"Up to now large-scale quantum computing has been a dream," says Gerhard Klimeck, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University and associate director for technology for the national Network for Computational Nanotechnology.

LONDON, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Solcara, the market-leading provider of software for the control, management and searching of digital information, has partnered with ISYS Search to extend its SolSearch offering. SolSearch Indexer will deliver a powerful, comprehensive and cost effective enterprise search solution, which combines market leading federated search technology with an advanced indexing capability.