According to a new study published by the Mayo Clinic, patients with Parkinson disease (PD) have another problem to deal with. Researchers have found that one in six patients taking therapeutic doses of
certain prescription drugs for management of PD have developed troubling behavioral symptoms. The most problematic symptoms include compulsive gambling and hypersexuality.

PARIS, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Project Will Link Countries in Southern Africa, Western Africa and Europe, With High Capacity International Bandwidth

The WACS consortium and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) have signed today a turnkey contract valued at several hundred million US dollars to deploy a new submarine cable network that will provide the first direct connection between Southern Africa and Europe. Named the West Africa Cable System (WACS), this 14,000 km-long submarine network system will bolster Internet and other communications capabilities to and from the African continent.

By combining the results of a number of powerful techniques for studying material structure at the nanoscale, a team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working with colleagues in other federal labs and abroad, believe they have settled a long-standing debate over the source of the unique electronic properties of a material with potentially great importance for wireless communications.

The new study* of silver niobate not only opens the door to engineering improved electronic components for smaller, higher performance wireless devices, but also serves as an example of understanding how subtle nanoscale features of a material can give rise to major changes in its physical properties.

Portuguese scientists discovered a new molecular mechanism that allows gamma herpes viruses to chronically infect patients and helps to explain why these patients present an abnormally high incidence of the lymphocyte (or white blood cell) cancer lymphoma, particularly when their immune system is compromised.

The research, just published in the advance online edition of The Embo Journal, reveals how these viruses mimic the host molecular machinery to shutdown NF-kB –a key regulatory protein complex involved in cell division and death – on infected lymphocytes, and how this - probably by disrupting the cells normal regulatory systems - creates the conditions for the development of lymphomas.

NEW YORK, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Medidata Solutions Chosen for Flexible, Fast and Cost-Effective Implementation and eLearning Capabilities

Medidata Solutions, a leading global provider of hosted clinical development solutions, today announced that U-Systems, Inc. selected Medidata Rave(R) as its standard for electronic data capture (EDC) to perform the SOMO-INSIGHT clinical study of an automated breast imaging ultrasound system for early detection of breast cancer. Medidata's implementation team and eLearning capabilities were key to U-Systems' ability to start a six-site, 20,000-patient study using Medidata Rave in just six weeks.

ATLANTA, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Stonebranch provides additional Intelligent File Transfer functionality to leading Danish IT Company

Stonebranch(R), Inc. today announced that KMD, a leading provider of IT and consultancy services, has selected its Intelligent File Transfer solution to streamline business processes between KMD and its customers. KMD is the largest IT provider in the Denmark public sector, providing service to 98 municipalities, the Danish Government and its agencies as well as the private sector. Because of the diversity of its clients, KMD needed a solution that was both flexible and that provided more visibility than any other solution in the market.

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GUETERSLOH, Germany, April 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Even in times of global challenges and growing transnational interdependencies - national governments still have considerable broad scope of action. This is especially underlined by the positive example of the Nordic states, which are ranked as top performers by the Sustainable Governance Indicators 2009 - a new ambitious study of the German Bertelsmann Foundation on policy performance and executive capacity in the OECD. The United Kingdom only achieves average results with some major deficits especially in the fields of social affairs, education and civil rights protection.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

3G subscriptions in the Honduras telecommunications market will surge to 30 percent by 2014, up from 2 percent today, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com).

LONDON, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- NParchive Embraces XAM to Offer Flexible Solution for Preserving and Searching Historical Data on any Storage Platform

Clearpace, the data archive store specialist, http://www.clearpace.com is launching an eXtensible Access Method (XAM) compliant version of its data compression and storage product - NParchive. By adopting XAM, NParchive enables partners who resell or embed the Clearpace technology to deliver solutions that instantly archive structured data to XAM-based storage platforms. NParchive v3.0 will be available to partners and end-user organisations from 8th April 2009.

SAN JOSE, California, April 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Atmel's QTouch Technology wins in Capacitive Touchscreen Controller ICs Category

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced that its multi-touch devices, the AT42QT5320 and AT42QT5480 have been awarded the 2008 Product of the Year by the influential electronics magazine, Electronic Products China (EPC). Atmel's devices for genuine dual-finger touch were selected by EPC's highly experienced judging panel in the Capacitive Touchscreen Controller ICs category.