MUNICH - ESC Congress 2008, September 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Presented at the Annual ESC Congress 2008, Munich, Germany, 31 August 2008

For the first time, results from a new landmark trial of purified n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFAs) were presented at one of the worlds' largest cardiology meetings by Professor Luigi Tavazzi (GISSI-HF): n-3 PUFAs reduced mortality and hospital admissions for cardiovascular reasons in patients with symptomatic heart failure(1).

KIEV, September 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Lugansk Energy Interconnection Company LLC, one of the five largest electrical energy suppliers in Ukraine, a part of the Energy Standard Group, reports that it has received permission from the Ukrainian Anti-Monopoly Committee to purchase more than 50% of Teploelectrotsentral-3 CJSC (TEC-3), Kharkov, Ukraine. TEC-3, in an oblast (province) adjacent to Lugansk, is one of Ukraine's largest producers of heating and electrical energy, with annual production capacity of 100 Megawatts. Kharkov, in northeastern Ukraine, is the nation's second largest city, with a population of 1.5 million.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, September 2 /PRNewswire/ --

Terumo Cardiovascular Systems (Terumo CVS) announced that it filed a patent infringement complaint on August 21 in the Northern District of California against Maquet Cardiovascular LLC. The complaint alleges that Maquet's Vasoview(R) Endoscopic Vessel Harvesting Systems infringe a patent for which Terumo CVS owns the rights. The complaint also requests an injunction against further sales of the product in the U.S.

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Terumo CVS sells the VirtuoSaph(TM) Endoscopic Vessel Harvesting System in the United States. The VirtuoSaph system is distributed in Japan and Asia by Terumo Corporation and in Europe by Terumo's European subsidiary.

ATLANTA, September 2 /PRNewswire/ --

**Transaction Combines Innovators in OTC Products and Services** **Investor Call Scheduled for September 12**

IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of regulated global derivatives exchanges and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, announced the completion of its acquisition of Creditex Group Inc. (Creditex), a leader in trade execution and processing of credit default swaps (CDS) in markets spanning the U.S., Europe and Asia. The acquisition was completed on August 29, 2008. ICE expects to file a Current Report on Form 8-K, which will include Creditex's financial information and pro forma financial information, with the Securities and Exchange Commission prior to the close of business today.

ATLANTA, Georgia and LONDON, September 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Hugh Jackman's Strine and Bono's Brogue Also Rank High, but When it Comes to James Gandolfini... Fuhgeddaboutit!

The way we talk says so much about who we are, where we come from, and sometimes dictates how we're treated. But it turns out that despite this Americans just aren't that hung up over the sound of their own voices.

A poll commissioned by voice-to-screen leader SpinVox and conducted by Harris Interactive(R) found that overall, 47 percent of Americans are happy with how their particular regional accent sounds in comparison with other American accents. Only five percent reported they aren't fond of the way they talk. 48 percent expressed neutrality on the matter.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, September 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Mazu Profiler Provides Complete View of Activity across the IT Infrastructure Enabling Leading Financial Institution to Understand the Dependencies of its Complex Application Architecture -