MILAN, Italy, January 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier has acquired Edra S.p.A, an online publishing company in the healthcare field. Together, Elsevier and Edra will be able to provide professional and promotional support to pharmaceutical companies by combining Elsevier's content and services with Edra's electronic capabilities and online delivery channel. An important tool is Medikey, the largest online medical and healthcare professional community in Italy.

Elsevier Masson S.r.l, based in Milan, is the market leading provider of scientific and medical content and services, in the form of books, journals, drug databases and pharmaceutical marketing support.

The 1000 Genomes Project, announced today, will involve sequencing the genomes of at least a thousand people from around the world.

Drawing on the expertise of multidisciplinary research teams, the 1000 Genomes Project will develop a new map of the human genome that will provide a view of biomedically relevant DNA variations at a resolution unmatched by current resources.

As with other major human genome reference projects, data from the 1000 Genomes Project will be made swiftly available to the worldwide scientific community through freely accessible public databases.

Any two humans are more than 99 percent the same at the genetic level.

HOLMDEL, New Jersey, January 22 /PRNewswire/ --

Sparta Systems, Inc. (Sparta), the maker of TrackWise(R), and the market leader in enterprise quality and compliance management software, announced today that AlfaBeta, the second largest food retailer in Greece, deployed TrackWise as its Quality Management System of record to improve overall customer service and supplier quality while reducing the complexity of its manufacturing process.

CHICAGO, January 22 /PRNewswire/ --

InfoDyne Corporation, a leading provider of low latency, high performance market data technology, today announced that Man Investments, a global leader in alternative investment products and solutions, has deployed InfoDyne's TPS+Plus feed handlers for Bloomberg's B-Pipe on Demand (BPOD) datafeeds. The solution provided seamless integration of BPOD within Man's existing RMDS production system.

PHILADELPHIA, January 22 /PRNewswire/ --

ExploTrack, Inc. is pleased to announce that the Saudi Chemical Company has taken an investment position in its company, which provides breakthrough technical solutions that detect, track, monitor, and identify explosives in real-time and enable unprecedented supply-chain security. In doing so, the Saudi Chemical Company is demonstrating leadership as a Middle Eastern entity committed to the goal of global explosives security.

NOVATO, California., and LONDON, January 22 /PRNewswire/ --

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (Nasdaq and SWX: BMRN) announced today that it has appointed Mr. Steve Glass as Vice President and General Manager of European Operations. BioMarin Europe Ltd., headquartered in London, is responsible for the sales and distribution of Naglazyme(R) for MPS VI (mucopolysaccharidosis VI) in Europe. Mr. Glass is the former General Manager for Altana/Nycomed, France. He has replaced former Vice President and General Manager, William Aliski who played an instrumental role in the successful launch of Naglazyme in Europe and the establishment of BioMarin's first international commercial operation.

RAMAT GAN, Israel, January 22 /PRNewswire/ --

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A good fight with your spouse may be good for your health, research suggests.

Couples in which both the husband and wife suppress their anger when one attacks the other die earlier than members of couples where one or both partners express their anger and resolve the conflict, according to preliminary results of a University of Michigan study.

Researchers looked at 192 couples over 17 years and placed the couples into one of four categories: both partners communicate their anger; in the second and third groups one spouse expresses while the other suppresses; and both the husband and wife suppress their anger and brood, said Ernest Harburg, professor emeritus with the U-M School of Public Health and the Psychology Department, and lead author.

LOS ANGELES, January 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Mike Franzino to Take on Global Role

MOSCOW, January 22 /PRNewswire/ --

Mechel OAO (NYSE: MTL), one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces the appointment of Stanislav Ploschenko as its Chief Financial Officer effective immediately.

Previously, Mr. Ploschenko (31) was Mechel OAO's Acting Chief Financial Officer. As Chief Financial Officer, he will continue to be responsible for strategic development of Mechel's Finance Division, financial policies and planning, US GAAP reporting, implementation of internal controls, integration and unification of Mechel subsidiaries' operations, and operational management of the financial units.