Liver cancer is the third most common global cause of cancer death and a new study may be good news for drinkers and growers.

The large, prospective population-based study confirms an inverse relationship between coffee consumption and liver cancer risk. The study also found that higher levels of gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) in the blood were associated with an increased risk of developing the disease.

Researchers led by Gang Hu at the University of Helsinki set out to examine the associations between coffee consumption and serum GGT with the risk of liver cancer in a large prospective cohort. Residents of Finland drink more coffee per capita than the Japanese, Americans, Italians, and other Europeans, so Hu and colleagues studied 60,323 Finnish participants ages 25 to 74 who were cancer-free at baseline. The Finns were included in seven independent cross-sectional population surveys conducted between 1972 and 2002 and followed up through June 2006.

TEANECK, New Jersey, June 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Cognizant chosen for its vital customer support, flexible and reliable partnership and innovative solutions that helped enhance KeyCorp's products and services

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of global consulting, technology and business process services, today announced that KeyCorp, one of the largest bank-based financial services companies in the US, has selected it as The Technology Vendor Of The Year 2007 for Enterprise Technology Development from among its 30 strategic vendors.

LONDON, June 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Working Buildings 2008 - 8-9 October 2008 - Olympia, London

The organisers of the London-based built environment exhibition Working Buildings 2008, is searching for London's best office. The Office of the Year award will honour businesses within the capital for office innovation and excellence, with particular emphasis on energy and waste management. The award is a new addition to the Working Buildings Innovation Awards which takes place during Working Buildings 2008 at London Olympia from 8-9 October 2008.

EAST GRINSTEAD, England, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Diskeeper Corporation has issued a new white paper detailing how disk defragmentation continues to be a major issue even with new storage technologies.

Due to the significant complexity and breadth of software and hardware used in modern storage environments, there can be confusion regarding the continuing need for defragmentation.

The white paper outlines that although new disk subsystem technologies do contribute to a better performing system, they do not solve issues generated at the file system level such as file fragmentation. Even with new storage technologies such as SAN, RAID, SATA, NAS...etc the disk still remains the weakest link.

READING, Pennsylvania, June 26 /PRNewswire/ --

EnerSys (NYSE: ENS), the world's largest manufacturer, marketer and distributor of industrial batteries and Accumulateur Tunisie Assad SA ("Assad"), the market leader in automotive batteries in Tunisia and North Africa, announced today the formation of a new joint venture company for the production and sale of industrial batteries. The new company, EnerSys-Assad SARL, will be 51% owned by EnerSys and 49% by Assad.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 26 /PRNewswire/ --

Network operators and ISPs from around the world have cooperated on two new best practice papers addressing technical issues that will help block botnet-induced spam and improve the deliverability of consumers' personal emails. The recommendations for sharing IP address space and for email forwarding were approved at a Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) meeting in Heidelberg, Germany last week and are available today.

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PARIS and CUPERTINO, California, June 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Investments From Techfund and Credit Agricole Private Equity Validates Miyowa's Leadership in the Mobile Applications Market and Aids in Expansion to the U.S. and Singapore

COLUMBIA, Maryland, June 26 /PRNewswire/ --

Martek Biosciences (Nasdaq: MATK) announced today that life'sDHA(TM), its patented, vegetarian form of DHA-omega 3 essential for infant brain and eye development, is now available to Eastern European consumers in the new Pregnium prenatal supplement from Walmark. Featuring 200 mg per serving of life'sDHA, Pregnium is available at major retailers in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania.

We read (and write here) a lot about gender issues in the scientific arena but usually topics are related to science education and promoting greater equality of numbers at the higher levels. There are a number of studies detailing the issues women face in a predominantly male science world but a University of Missouri religion professor has found that if the researcher is a male fieldworker studying women, the situation can be just as challenging.

His conclusions about male researchers studying female subjects are based on his extensive observations of the Diola (pronounced joe-la) people. Robert M. Baum, professor of religious studies in the College of Arts and Science has been traveling to southwestern Senegal on the African continent and conducting field research among the Diola communities, approximately 600,000 people, for more than 30 years. The modern Diola are primarily rice farmers.

Initially, Baum's work focused on pre-colonial Diola religious history during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, a period when there were male prophets. Later in his research, Baum studied the work and influence of Diola female prophets who began appearing after the French and Portuguese conquest of Diola lands in the late 1800s.

ALTRINCHAM, England, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- ITIS Holdings plc, a UK Market-leader in real-time traffic information today announces the immediate availability of Next Generation Traffic Services over DAB.

Cars and Personal Navigation devices fitted with DAB TPEG Receivers are now able to receive the most up-to-date traffic information in the London area and nationally thereafter.

As Europe's first RDS-TMC broadcaster, today's announcement further extends ITIS' innovative and market-leading reputation.