LONDON, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Responding to reports in the media that Obecalp, a placebo pill for children, is due to be made available on the UK market, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain's (RPSGB) Chief Scientist, Jayne Lawrence said:

"The RPSGB is concerned that this product is due to be made available on the UK market as a placebo pill to give to children.

"As a dietary supplement, the manufacturers have not been required to carry out clinical trials. Further, the use of this drug indicates that symptoms diagnosis and advice have not been sought from a qualified healthcare professional, which runs the risk of misdiagnosis.

"We are also concerned that giving a child the pill reinforces the wrong message - that tablets are the answer for all of life's aches and pains."

LONDON, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- ONSPEED, the brand leader in Internet acceleration, and Tiscali, the broadband, telephone and media company, today announced an agreement providing ONSPEED's powerful Internet acceleration software to Tiscali's Internet customers for free. Tiscali will offer ONSPEED as a free value-added service to increase retention and customer satisfaction.

"The partnership gives Tiscali's Internet customers unrivalled speeds and allows Tiscali to continue to set its product apart from the competition," says Greg Lee, Head of Sales for ONSPEED. "ONSPEED will significantly enhance download speeds for Tiscali customers, ensuring they get the best possible Internet experience."

HOUSTON, June 16 /PRNewswire/ --

Endeavour International Corporation (Amex: END) (LSE: ENDV), a company involved in the exploration, development, and production of oil and gas in the United Kingdom and Norwegian North Sea, today announced the 6407/8-4A sidetrack well to appraise the Galtvort natural gas discovery encountered a gas column in Middle to Lower Jurassic reservoir rocks. Interpretation of comprehensive well data suggests the gas water contact is at the same level as seen in the adjacent discovery well.

BERLIN, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- New results of the ADVANCE (Action in Diabetes and Vascular disease: PreterAx and DiamicroN-MR Controlled Evaluation) trial have been presented today at the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and show that the antihypertensive Preterax - a fixed combination of the ACE-inhibitor perindopril and the diuretic indapamide - reduces the likelihood of new or worsening nephropathy (kidney damage) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus by up to 31% and in patients with existing kidney damage leads to nephropathy regression in about one-in-six.(1)

OXFORD, England, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Oxford Computer Group (OCG) proudly announced it has won the 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year award for Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Active Directory. The company was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft partners as delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology.

"It is a great honour to receive this award which is a validation of our expertise and focus on identity and access solutions," said Neil Coughlan, Director, Oxford Computer Group. "We would like to thank our customers for great references and our people whose capability and professionalism sets us apart from the competition."

LAS VEGAS, June 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Tellabs accelerates optical transport networks

NXTcomm08 -- Service providers need networks without speed limits. They need unlimited bandwidth to deliver video, business and mobile services. Simpler and more scalable Carrier Ethernet capabilities on the Tellabs(R) 7100 optical transport system (OTS) surpass networks' current speed limits.

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SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Kenshoo and AdBrite Announce an Integration Between the KENSHOO SEARCH(TM) Automation Platform and AdBrite's Comprehensive Online ad Network.

Kenshoo LTD and AdBrite have announced a partnership to provide an integrated online marketing solution. The companies, both funded by Sequoia Capital, have integrated their best-of-breed solutions to allow search marketers to efficiently extend their campaigns to run in non-search inventory such as display ad units.

REDMOND, Washington, June 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 provides a platform enabling original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to quickly build next-generation connected PNDs.

LONDON, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- E-Health Insider, the UK's leading online information portal for healthcare IM&T, is launching a new conference and exhibition called Healthcare Interoperability on 30 October 2008, ICC, Birmingham.

The event is a response to the current wide ranging discussion about interoperability in healthcare systems - what it is, where it is needed and how it can be made to happen. What is clear is that much of our 21st century healthcare policy and practice requires clinical information sharing that is only possible if there are high levels of interoperability between systems.