COPENHAGEN, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Omada, a Microsoft solution provider for Advanced Role Based Access Control and Compliance Reporting, today proudly announced it has won the 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year award for Security Solutions, Identity and Secure Access. Omada was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft partners as delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology.

"We are thrilled that Omada has won a Microsoft Partner worldwide award," said Morten Boel Sigurdsson, CEO of Omada. "We are dedicated to continue raising the bar in bringing exceptional innovation to our product and value to our customers based on Microsoft technologies."

READING, England, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers, today announced they have been selected by TDG, a leading European supply chain management company to provide its managed hosting requirements. TDG, who are listed on the London Stock Exchange, have extensive experience in retail, FMCG, industrial and chemical markets and have 135 operating sites across Europe.

In addition to the website being a key marketing tool for TDG, for many of their customers it is the main point of access into systems providing delivery tracking and POD retrieval, so TDG understands the need to ensure that their web hosting arrangements are robust and reliable.

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, June 17 /PRNewswire/ --

Pinnacle Biologics, a private, full-service pharmaceutical and biotech solutions company, today announced it has entered into a logistic service agreement with Movianto, a German-based company. The agreement, which is scheduled to take effect immediately, grants Movianto certain logistics and distribution rights in several countries in Europe. Additional terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

A few hundred years ago, the Germans played a practical joke on the rest of the world; they invented a medical field based on the idea that you could cure a disease by using something that caused similar symptoms.

It is called homeopathy and some people still haven't caught on to the joke. Why do I say joke? It's medicine that relies on the "energetic imprint" of substances to provoke the symptoms they already have - they're often so diluted that not even a molecule of the original substance remains - and the more diluted, the more powerful the cure, they say.

Researchers have long known that type-2 diabetes and depression often go hand in hand. However, it's been unclear which condition develops first in patients who end up with both. Now, a new study led by Johns Hopkins doctors suggests that this chicken-and-egg problem has a dual answer: Patients with depression have an increased risk of developing type-2 diabetes, and patients with type-2 diabetes have an increased risk of developing depression.

For the study, published in the June 18 Journal of the American Medical Association, diabetes expert Sherita Hill Golden, M.D., M.H.S., and her colleagues took advantage of data generated by the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), which examined risk factors for atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, in an ethnically diverse group of 6,814 men and women between ages 45 to 84. Participants in the MESA study identified themselves when they enrolled as white, black, Hispanic or Chinese.

Meningiomas are tumors of the brain and nervous system and they account for 20% of all brain tumors. Doctors have a problem discriminating between the four different subtypes of meningiomas due to three key problems:

* The work can be painstakingly slow requiring up to two hours of analysis and expert consideration of a full "slide" of information.

* The finest histopathologists (tumor specialists) can at times come up with completely contradictory findings based on slight variations in their method of analysis.

* Currently the slides that specialists examine contain a few million pixels of data and the task of tumour diagnosis is painstakingly slow already. This problem is quite literally growing as medical equipment is coming out that can produce slides with hundreds of millions pixel resolution.

Clearly doctors would welcome any technological support which could speed up this process, use more of the information available and allow them time to diagnose and treat many more patients.

A hernia is produced when the content of the abdominal cavity protrudes through a weakened natural orifice of the abdominal wall such as the inguinal canal, the umbilical area, the epigastrium or a previous incision in the abdomen such as from a surgical operation. The hernia manifests itself as a bulging lump since the internal lining of the abdomen protrudes in what is called a hernial sac that shrinks or grows depending on the effort exerted by the affected individual.

Hernias are more frequent in the groin or navel areas and in the area of an old surgical scar, and they never improve or disappear naturally; on the contrary, they tend to grow. Not only painful but unaesthetic too, hernias can produce complications such as bowel obstructions and strangulations.

A new study published today in Annals of Internal Medicine has good news for coffee drinkers: Regular coffee drinking (up to 6 cups per day) is not associated with increased deaths in either men or women. In fact, both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee consumption is associated with a somewhat smaller rate of death from heart disease.

Women consuming two to three cups of caffeinated coffee per day had a 25 percent lower risk of death from heart disease during the follow-up period (which lasted from 1980 to 2004 and involved 84,214 women) as compared with non-consumers, and an 18 percent lower risk of death caused by something other than cancer or heart disease as compared with non-consumers during follow-up. For men, this level of consumption was associated with neither a higher nor a lower risk of death during the follow-up period (which lasted from 1986 to 2004 and involved 41,736 men).

LONDON, June 17 /PRNewswire/ --

Unite members at the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) are to go on a continuous overtime ban from today (Tuesday 17th June) with a full day of strike action planned for Friday 20th June.

Administrative staff were forced to ballot for strike action when management failed to secure a salary settlement that should have been paid from 1st April 2008.

EIS came back with a final offer of a five-year pay deal which didn't even match the retail price index.

Tony Trench, Unite Regional Official said:

"Unite has tried everything to get EIS to sit down and discuss this situation properly but even with the overtime ban they are still not prepared to talk.

LONDON, June 17 /PRNewswire/ --