LONDON, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- A widespread confusion and ignorance about multiple sclerosis (MS) in the minds of the general public has been revealed in a new survey.

The results of the poll carried out for the MS Society highlight the many misconceptions that exist around the condition, and have been released ahead of next week's MS Week, during which the charity hopes to encourage better understanding among the public.

The You Gov poll shows that of the more than 2,000 questioned there was a lack of understanding of how common MS is, what its symptoms were and at what age it is generally diagnosed.

DROITWICH, England, April 21 /PRNewswire/ --

Ericom announced today that the London-based charity United Bible Society (UBS) has selected PowerTerm WebConnect to provide secure remote application access.

Ericom's PowerTerm WebConnect RemoteView is recognised by many as the leading Citrix alternative solution providing secure access at a significantly lower cost than the alternatives.

HOUSTON, April 21 /PRNewswire/ --

Endeavour International Corporation (NYSE-Alt: END) (LSE: ENDV) will host a conference call to discuss its 2009 first quarter financial and operating results on Friday, May 1, 2009 at 9 a.m. Central Daylight Time, 3 p.m. British Summer Time.

To participate and ask questions during the conference call, dial the local country telephone number and the confirmation code 4312643. The toll-free numbers are 888-708-5692 in the United States, 0-800-051-7166 in the United Kingdom, and 800-191-83 in Norway. Other international callers should dial +1-913-312-0962 (tolls apply). To listen only to the live audio web cast access Endeavour's home page at http://www.endeavourcorp.com.

ATLANTA, April 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Secure Erase Firmware-Based Command Combined With Software Overwriting and Reporting Capabilities Safely Sanitize ATA and SCSI Drives

Blancco, the global leader in data erasure and end-of-lifecycle solutions, today announced support for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines for firmware-based erasure of ATA and SCSI drives. With its new and enhanced client erasure software, Blancco takes the NIST-recommended guidelines a step further by uniting them with a software overwriting option that verifies complete erasure - a level of support not found in other data erasure products.

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A team of astronomers from University College London (UCL) have discovered that an exotic world passes directly in front of the Sun-like star it orbits, revealing for the first time that it is about the same size as Jupiter.

The team were alerted by the exoplanet science website http://www.oklo.org, run by Greg Laughlin of the University of California Santa Cruz. Using infrared space observations, Greg predicted that a planet (HD 80606b) would pass in front of its parent star (HD 80606) in a so-called transit event.

Rather than travelling to one of the major observatories in Hawaii or Chile, the students used a telescope at UCL's University of London Observatory (ULO) in the capital's northern suburb of Mill Hill.

Exoplanet researcher Michel Mayor today announced the discovery of the lightest exoplanet found so far. The planet, Gliese 581 e, in the famous system Gliese 581, is only about twice the mass of our Earth. The team also refined the orbit of the planet Gliese 581 d, first discovered in 2007, placing it well within the habitable zone, where liquid water oceans could exist.

These amazing discoveries are the outcome of more than four years of observations using the most successful low-mass-exoplanet hunter in the world, the HARPS spectrograph attached to the 3.6-meter ESO telescope at La Silla, Chile.

Want to hunt down enemy bacteria?   Look at the sugars on the germs' surface where they start building a 'structure' that helps the microbes resist efforts to kill them.

Scientists have determined that the bacterial cell-surface sugar, a polysaccharide called Psl, is anchored on the surface of the bacterium as a helix, providing a structure that encourages cell-to-cell interaction. When multiple bacterial cells join together with the help of such a structure, they form what is called a biofilm, a persistent community of bugs that is able to resist the effects of a human immune response, as well as antibiotic drugs.

Dartmouth researchers have determined that the presence of the rare element osmium is on the rise globally. They trace this increase to the consumption of refined platinum, the primary ingredient in catalytic converters, the equipment commonly installed in cars to reduce smog. A volatile form of osmium is generated during platinum refinement and also during the normal operation of cars, and it gets dispersed globally through the atmosphere.

Thinking your memory will get worse as you get older may actually be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that senior citizens who think older people should perform poorly on tests of memory actually score much worse than seniors who do not buy in to negative stereotypes about aging and memory loss.

LONDON, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- World First, one of the UK's leading foreign exchange brokers, is delighted to announce it has won the Queen's Award for International Trade.

World First won the award for offering its customers exceptional exchange rates, service and innovative products which have seen its overseas earnings increase six-fold over the last three years.

Jonathan Quin, managing director of World First commented, Winning the Queen's Award for International Trade is an incredible honour. Everyone at World First is very proud of the foreign exchange service we provide and it is our clients' ongoing belief and trust in us that has helped us achieve this major award.