ORLANDO, Florida, March 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Attendees at The 18th CPM Resource Center Conference Hear Recommendations for Change in the Stimulus Plan Era

The healthcare industry has a unique opportunity to make valuable use of the billions allotted for healthcare information technology transformation in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the Stimulus Package, according to observations shared at the 18th CPM Resource Center (CPMRC) International Conference, held in Orlando, February 17-20, 2009. Rather than investing exclusively in new technologies, providers must simultaneously re-engineer workplace culture and patient care processes.

LONDON, March 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Romania has been attracting many contract manufacturers due to low competition and operating costs, making it one of the fastest-growing electronics manufacturing services (EMS) markets in Eastern Europe.

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New analysis from Frost Sullivan (http://www.smt.frost.com), Romanian Electronics Manufacturing Markets, finds that the markets earned revenues of over US$1.6 billion in 2008 and estimates this to reach US$3.38 billion in 2014.

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Rising numbers of baby boomers with eye-ailments and soaring medical costs are causing European consumers to demand innovative diet supplements to protect their eyes and curb any potential eye care-related expenses. The ability of supplements to alleviate blinding diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and glaucoma has opened up lucrative growth avenues in the market.

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LONDON, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Lightweight and portable, laptops allow us to store and carry an entire workspace or office anywhere in the world. In a recent survey, carried out by Symantec, 78% of laptop users across Europe, Middle-East and Africa stated that the data on their device was of substantial value in terms of intellectual property or commercially sensitive information. Enticing pickings for thieves, opportunist or planned, data stored on the average laptop is estimated being in the region of GBP550,000.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Plentyoffish.com takes official top rank as North America and the U.K.'s favorite Internet dating site.

Plentyoffish.com is now the official #1 online dating site in both the USA and the UK according to Hitwise* and is quickly gaining the reputation for being the site where people meet their true love. At least that's the case in San Diego, California.

SAN DIEGO, March 9 /PRNewswire/ --

Victory Pharma, Inc. (Victory or the Company), a privately held specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced that it has closed on a US$45 million equity financing facility led by Essex Woodlands Health Ventures (Essex). Ampersand Ventures, an existing investor, also participated in the financing. Proceeds will be used to support future growth initiatives, including product acquisitions. As part of the transaction, Victory announced that Scott Barry, Essex Partner, has joined its Board of Directors.

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- European Presence Headed by Former Juniper Networks EMEA VP to Provide Customers with Improved Mobile Voice and Unified Communications, Expanded Wireless Coverage and Reduced Mobile Costs

Agito Networks, Inc.(TM), the company delivering new technology in enterprise mobility, today announced the availability of its award-winning RoamAnywhere(TM) Mobility Router(TM) in Europe. The RoamAnywhere Mobility Router is the industry's most powerful enterprise fixed mobile convergence (eFMC) product, purpose built for enterprises to help them increase mobile worker productivity while reducing mobile costs.

You might think that predicting eye color is easy because we all learned in high school about recessive genes and eye color is a great example of those.    But it isn't easy.  In fact, human eye color, which is determined by the extent and type of pigmentation on the eye's iris, is what geneticists call a 'complex trait,  meaning that several genes control which color the eyes will ultimately have. Over the past decades a number of such 'eye-color genes' have been identified, and people with different eye color, will have a different DNA sequence at certain points in these genes. 

There's no question that employees at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have watched with some concern as the LHC got all the press about being the future of physics despite the fact it hadn't actually produced anything.    They have also quietly continued setting world records and are once again reminding people that Fermilab's Tevatron, currently the world's most powerful operating particle accelerator, is actually ahead, even in the race to find the as-yet undefined "Higgs particle."

Animals have an astonishing ability to develop reliably, in spite of variable conditions during embryogenesis. New research published this week  addresses how living things can develop into precise, adult forms when there is so much variation present during their development stages. A team led by John Reinitz at Stony Brook University, and funded by the National Institutes of Health, shows how fruit fly embryos can "forget" initial incorrect versions of their body plan and develop into recognizable adult flies.