LONDON, January 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Global Communications Provider Takes Leadership Role in Driving Open, Secure and Privacy Respecting Digital Identity Management Solutions

Liberty Alliance, the global identity consortium working to build a more trusted internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced that BT has become a member of the Liberty Alliance Management Board. BT joins Liberty Alliance 2008 board members from AOL, France Telecom, HP, Intel, Novell, NTT, Oracle and Sun Microsystems to drive the strategic direction of Liberty Alliance on a global basis.

HONG KONG, January 17 /PRNewswire/ --

With over 10,000 gift and houseware trade professionals expected to attend, the 8th Asia Expo-London is the definitive Asian sourcing event, right at the beginning of the year.

To meet for the increasing sourcing requirements of local and international buyers, the show days of the London Expo have been extended to add a further day to a 4-day show, opening from Tuesday 29 January -- Friday 1 February, 2008. The 8th Asia Expo London, a "UFI -- Approved Event" since 2003, will present the broadest selection of distinctive, diverse and directional Asian products from the gift, housewares, premiums and toy industries, direct from Asia.

SALT LAKE CITY, January 17 /PRNewswire/ --

PC Project, a public charity, announced that a Phase 1b clinical trial began today for treatment of pachyonychia congenita (PC) with a short interfering RNA (siRNA)-based therapeutic. PC is a dominant genetic disorder resulting from mutations in genes that encode keratins, which give structural integrity to skin cells.

BASINGSTOKE, England, January 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Non-Calcium Phosphate Binder for the Management of Hyperphosphataemia Now Available in 24 Countries

- NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES

Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY, TSX: SHQ) announces that with the launch today in Spain of FOSRENOL (lanthanum carbonate), a non-calcium phosphate binder, Shire is celebrating the completion of the launch roll-out in the major European markets. FOSRENOL is the first of the company's medicines developed in-house from research molecule to market.

WEVELGEM, Belgium, January 17 /PRNewswire/ --

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The Slim Form Patch, a diet patch containing algae extracts, has beaten the more traditional slimming methods in the slimming test on TV channel CBS. The patch technology has now reached the slimming industry. During the test one man lost 11.4 kg in four weeks. If you go to http://www.slimformpatch.eu you can see how the Slim Form Patch won the competition.

PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, January 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leading Research University is First in China to Purchase 100 Years of Web Of Science Comprehensive Backfile and Cited Reference Data

Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced that Century of Science(TM) has been purchased by Peking University in China. Century of Science expands Web of Science with the most important scientific bibliographic and cited reference data covering the period from 1900 to 1944.