HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, and AMSTERDAM, January 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Agendia, a world leader in molecular cancer diagnostics, today announced the appointment of Kurt Schmidt, CPA, MBA, as the company's new Chief Financial Officer.

Kurt is an exceptional addition to our team and an invaluable asset, said Bernhard Sixt, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer. With his extensive financial management experience in the high tech and healthcare industries, he will be instrumental in driving Agendia's next phase of growth.

DALLAS-FORT WORTH, Texas, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

ATX Group, a leading provider of telematics services to global automobile manufacturers, announced today that it will partner with Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) USA, Inc., to deploy Lexus Enform and Safety Connect, TMS' all-new telematics platform.

ATX will provide multiple types of services including traditional location-based crash and in-vehicle emergency button response, maintenance reminders, and destination directions downloaded to the vehicle.

The ultimate cause of human behavior is the mind. The mind, an emergent property from the workings of collections of neurons, hormones, proteins, and other biochemical agents, controls everything every human does. From their intended actions to their subconscious actions, all of it is controlled by the human analogue of a central processing unit. Cognitive models in the social sciences and particularly in psychology and economics take seriously this point of view of the human decision maker and apply it to political, economic, and other social situations.

One of the major ideas of the subject is that people are equipped with a cognitive “toolbox” that houses tools that help them to solve problems in different environments.

SAN DIEGO, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

Amira Pharmaceuticals, a small molecule pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and early development of compounds to treat inflammatory diseases, today announced the appointment of Dr. Paul Anderson, Professor Jerold Chun and Professor Andrew Tager to its Scientific Advisory Board. This further strengthens the Board that includes Professor Frank Austen (Professor of Respiratory and Inflammatory diseases, Harvard Medical School), Professor Sally Wenzel (Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh), and Professor Joseph Witztum (Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego).

WESTPORT, Connecticut, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Content Nation Author John Blossom Sees a New Shape to Human Civilization Emerging and Outlines New Imperatives for Businesses and Societies Around the World

The explosion in electronic publishing by individuals and enterprises using social media and social networking tools is fundamentally changing how people relate to each other in their personal, business and community lives, according to a newly released book by well-known publishing and information industry analyst John Blossom.

Social media include Web 2.0-enabled self-publishing social networking forums that create unprecedented information sharing and collaborative links among vast self-organizing online communities.

TAPLOW, England, January 8 /PRNewswire/ --

- Benefits of Biologic Therapy Now Available for Children With Severe Psoriasis

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals has today announced that Enbrel(R) (etanercept) is approved for the treatment of chronic severe plaque psoriasis in children aged 8 years and above, making it the only biologic treatment approved for use in children.1 Etanercept has been shown to significantly reduce the symptoms of psoriasis in these children.2 As many of the therapies for severe psoriasis are not licensed for children or adolescents,2,3 this approval is a step forward in the treatment of paediatric patients with this highly impactful, debilitating disease.4

The eyes of deep-ocean dwelling creatures are always fascinating - in the near darkness of thousands of feet underwater, a very dim flash of light can mean an organism has found its meal for the month (or has become a meal for another fish). Detecting these flashes of light is difficult for a biological system, simply because of the extremely low energy of the light source. Some deep-sea creatures have abandoned eyesight altogether, relying instead on other sensory systems to find food. In the case of the spookfish, a creature that inhabits the murky depths 3000 feet below the surface of the south Pacific ocean, evolution has provided a novel and completely unique method for detecting light - a mirror.

NEW YORK, January 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier, the leading publisher of medical and scientific literature, announced today that it renewed its publishing partnership with the American College of Cardiology (ACC) (http://www.acc.org), the leading nonprofit medical society in the field of cardiovascular research. The agreement calls for Elsevier to publish the society's flagship journal, Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) ( http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jac), for the next ten years. Also included are the ACC's two specialty journals, JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jacima) and JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/JACINT), both successfully launched by the ACC and Elsevier in 2008.

STOCKHOLM, January 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Karolinska Development AB (publ) recently closed a fully subscribed new share issue, raising SEK 147 million (USD 19 million). Its major shareholders - Karolinska Institutet Holding AB, Tredje AP-fonden; Östersjöstiftelsen; Näsudden; Foundation Asset Management; and Praktikerinvest - took their share of the new issue, while new investors participated with SEK 50 million. Karolinska Development was advised by EFG Bank AB.

The new issue, combined with current liquidity, secures the investment program of Karolinska Development for a further two years.