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Johns Hopkins scientists have found that a safe and inexpensive antibiotic in use since the 1970s for treating acne effectively targets infected immune cells in which HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, lies dormant and prevents them from reactivating and replicating.
The drug, minocycline, likely will improve on the current treatment regimens of HIV-infected patients if used in combination…

Football Match Showcasing Athletes With and Without Intellectual Disabilities To Be Played During 2010 FIFA World Cup® South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Special Olympics athletes, playing alongside football legends and other celebrities, will compete in the inaugural match of the Unity Cup presented by Coca-Cola, on the same pitch that just hours later will host a FIFA World…

VCAS for DVB to be Featured in TelstraClear’s Case Study Presentation on “Advanced Hybrid Pay-TV Deployments in New Zealand”
WHO: Verimatrix enhances the value and security of pay-TV networks with advanced software-based technologies designed to address the challenges facing the pay-TV industry of today, and anticipate the challenges of tomorrow. The Verimatrix 3-Dimensional Content Security approach provides a framework…

IBM Collaborates with Specialty Insurance Provider Assurant Solutions to Reinvent Call Center Experience Using Analytics
Armonk, NY – IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced a new service today which uses advanced analytics to match a caller with the optimal customer service representative (CSR) in real-time. IBM has collaborated with specialty insurance provider Assurant Solutions, part of Assurant, Inc. (NYSE: AIZ), to develop…

Background:
In January 2010, www.ooh.com, the new online notice board that offers thousands of activities for people around the world seeking unique things to do, began awarding $100 to the best suppliers each week. The winners are those individuals and small businesses that post on Ooh.com and create the most compelling listings on the site.
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada – Canada Office Supplies, a leading online retailer of office supplies and office furniture, responds to customers with a next generation Find What You’re Looking For Fast website experience.
With more than 20,000 office supplies products, customer feedback revealed the #1 roadblock to completing a purchase was the speed and ease of the search functionality of…

LockLizard are pleased to announce a new approach to PowerPoint security: delivering high level copy protection for PowerPoint presentations enhanced by converting to Flash (SWF) format.
New PowerPoint protection features include encryption and DRM controls that prevent PowerPoint presentations from unauthorized copying, modifying, sharing, screen grabbing, printing, saving and unauthorized distribution, all without the use of passwords. Publishers can…

Incredible Spring Giveaway Underway at Incredible Pizza Company
[Springfield, MO] – March 19, 2010 – America’s Incredible Pizza Company announced its “Incredible Spring Giveaway” is underway at many of its corporate locations. The multi-store contest is sponsored by Beaches Resorts, The Luxury Included Family Vacation. Participating locations include; Tulsa, OK, Springfield, St. Louis and St. Peters, MO, Indianapolis, IN,…

WORCESTER — Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (OTCBB: ACTC), a biotechnology company applying cellular technology in the field of regenerative medicine, announced that company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer William M. Caldwell IV was interviewed yesterday on Bloomberg Radio’s popular mid-day program, The Hays Advantage, hosted by Kathleen Hays.

The discussion covered Advanced Cell’s retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cell program…

Avis India, the number one (1) premium car rental services provider, has become the first to offer customized holiday packages with all the elements – return air fare, hotel stay, sight-seeing, meals, taxes and a comprehensively insured and impeccably maintained Avis self-drive car available from a single point of contact.

Offered to outbound travelers, seeking to experience the destination…

Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal, in a heart-to-heart conversation with Dr. Kiran Bedi on Zee News’ ‘Kiran aur Kirnein’, spoke about the challenges and obstacles she faced and overcame to become the idol of many young women in India.

During the interview, Saina opened her heart while talking about the problems she had to face to reach where she is…

TwitMdu2010, Madurai’s first-ever Twitter camp, hosted by Dot Com Infoway and organized by Galatta media, was officially e-inaugurated by celebrity singer Ms. Chinmayee, today (Sunday, March 21, 2010). Tweeps of Madurai thronged the event venue.
TwitMdu2010, Madurai’s first-ever Twitter Camp, which is being hosted by Madurai-based Technology Firm, Dot Com Infoway and organized by Galatta media of Chennai, was…

Release date for Oscar winner Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman) starrer “Eat, Pray, Love” has been announced, its trailer is out, but now Hindus are concerned about the authenticity of the depiction of Hinduism objects-rituals-beliefs-concepts-traditions-philosophy in it.

Directed by Emmy nominated Ryan Murphy (Nip/Tuck), its India part was shot in/around Pataudi, about 60 kilometers from India’s capital Delhi. Starting with USA…

Jessica Morgan, New York magazine fashion writer tells us of Mizrahi’s Fall 2009 New York Fashion Week show held in February about the new ‘purse hats’… an impractical headgear this season that makes you look like an alien from outer space. Designer Narciso Rodriguez joined the band wagon staging a runway with a cow-print-camouflage outfit topped off with a bucket…

Most people wouldn’t have time to accomplish a fraction of what Dr. Chuck Ager has accomplished in the 40 years he’s been a geophysical engineer with a focus on the mining industry. In addition, Chuck Ager also has a head for business and finance, which led him to not only succeed in his chosen field of geophysical engineering, but to…

BOULDER–The use of prescribed burns to manage Western forests may help the United States reduce its carbon footprint. A new study finds that such burns, often used by forest managers to reduce underbrush and protect bigger trees, release substantially less carbon dioxide emissions than wildfires of the same size.

It appears that prescribed burns can be an important piece of…

Chronic feelings of loneliness take a toll on blood pressure over time, causing a marked increase after four years, according to a new study at the University of Chicago.

A new study shows, for the first time, a direct relation between loneliness and larger increases in blood pressure four years later—a link that is independent of age and other factors…

Today, March 17, at 0900 UTC (5 a.m. EDT), Tomas was 710 miles southeast of Nadi, Fiji, near 27.0 South and 174.7 West and was a Category One cyclone. Tomas has maximum sustained winds near 86 mph (75 knots) and was speeding south-southeast at 31 mph (27 knots). Tomas is a large cyclone with hurricane-force winds extending 65 miles from…

Since its development in China thousands of years ago, silk from silkworms, spiders and other insects has been used for high-end, luxury fabrics as well as for parachutes and medical sutures. Now, National Science Foundation-supported researchers are untangling some of its most closely guarded secrets, and explaining why silk is so super strong.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technologys…

Graphene has become something of a celebrity material in recent years due to its conductive, thermal and optical properties, which could make it useful in a range of sensors and semiconductor devices. The material does not store hydrogen well in its original form, according to a team of scientists studying it at the NIST Center for Neutron Research. But if…

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– An international team of scientists, including several who are affiliated with UC Santa Barbara, has discovered a new planet the size of Jupiter. The finding is published in the March 18 issue of the journal Nature.

The planet, called CoRoT-9b, was discovered by using the CoRoT space telescope satellite, operated by the French space agency, The…

This release is available in French.

A team of McGill Chemistry Department researchers led by Dr. Hanadi Sleiman has achieved a major breakthrough in the development of nanotubes – tiny magic bullets that could one day deliver drugs to specific diseased cells. Sleiman explains that the research involves taking DNA out of its biological context. So rather than being…

URBANA – Researchers at the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) at the University of Illinois have discovered widespread occurrence of plant-parasitic nematodes in the first reported nematode survey of Miscanthus and switchgrass plants used for biofuels.

Lead researcher Tesfamariam Mekete, a U of I post-doctoral research associate, said the teams first step was to identify potential pathogenic nematodes of these top…

Mrksich cautioned that the method is far from ready for use in the harvest of stem cells for therapeutic use, but it does signal a potentially promising direction for further study.

Mrksichs research group has a long history of developing methods for patterning surfaces with chemistry to control the positions, sizes and shapes of cells in culture, and applying those…

In the ongoing quest to identify the genetic factors involved in disease, scientists have increasingly turned to genome-wide association studies, or GWAS, which enable the scanning of up to a million genetic markers in thousands of individuals.

These studies generally compare the frequency of genetic variants between two groups — those with a particular disease and healthy individuals. Differences…

March 18, 2010 (Pasadena, Calif.) – Extreme obesity is affecting more children at younger ages, with 12 percent of black teenage girls, 11.2 percent of Hispanic teenage boys, 7.3 percent of boys and 5.5 percent of girls now classified as extremely obese, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of 710,949 children and teens that appears online in the Journal of…

STANFORD, Calif. — The key to human individuality may lie not in our genes, but in the sequences that surround and control them, according to new research by scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Yale University. The interaction of those sequences with a class of key proteins, called transcription factors, can vary significantly between two people and…

Patient referrals between hospitals influence the rates of hospital-acquired infections such as MRSA, according to a study by researchers based in the Netherlands. The findings, published March 19 in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology, explain that referred patients, who have the potential to carry a hospital-acquired infection with them, are more likely to be admitted to University Medical Centers…

A recent study organized by Stanford University researchers found patients with refractory partial and secondarily generalized seizures had a reduction in seizures after deep brain stimulation. This multi-center clinical trial determined that the benefits of stimulation of the anterior nuclei of thalamus for epilepsy (SANTE) persisted and by 2 years there was a 56% reduction in seizure frequency. Full findings…

Most kidney donors and recipients are in favor of exchanging personal health information that may influence success before scheduling a living organ donor transplant, while healthcare professionals are more reluctant, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The results suggest that clinicians should consider supporting and facilitating more…

WASHINGTON, DC (March 18, 2010) – Although Asian Americans have long been portrayed as a model minority with few major problems, data released online today in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) reveal that distinct groups of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (AA and NHPI) differ widely in death and disease rates, including from breast cancer and…

Researchers in Australia have demonstrated that blocking a certain protein can reduce or prevent cigarette smoke-induced lung inflammation in mice. Inflammation underlies the disease process of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and many other smoking-related ailments.

The findings have been published online ahead of print publication in the American Thoracic Societys American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.…

It is well known that the onset of puberty marks the end of the optimal period for learning language and certain spatial skills, such as computer/video game operation. Recent work published in the journal Science by Sheryl Smith, PhD, professor of physiology and pharmacology, and colleagues at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn shows that a novel brain receptor, alpha4-beta-delta,…

Shopping with a conscience is taking off in India, with over seven in ten respondents buying items that are either based on fair trade principles or are environmentally friendly. The latest survey from MasterCard Worldwide also shows how 66% of the respondents purchase certain items because a percentage of the sale is donated to a good cause. The survey was…

STAR Pravah, the popular Marathi General Entertainment channel from STAR Entertainment Media Pvt Ltd, takes yet another leap in creating regional television history with ‘Slumdog Crorepati’. Scheduled to be telecast on March 28, 2 pm on STAR Pravah, Slumdog Crorepati will be an exclusive and first opportunity for all the Marathi Television viewers to watch the most celebrated Oscar wining…

WaterAid India organized World’s Longest Toilet Queue on 20th March at a community Toilet at T. T Nagar Chouraha,

It is part of a global mobilization of bringing together thousands of campaigners from across Madhya Pradesh to demand real change in access to safe water and sanitation. The World’s Longest Toilet Queue is a mass mobilization event and…

The United Nations is celebrating French language today as part of a new initiative to raise awareness and respect for the history, culture and achievements of each of the six official languages of the world body.

“French, as a working language of the UN and one that is spoken on all continents, plays an important role in spreading the message…

The Security Council today agreed to extend the United Nations panel of experts monitoring compliance with sanctions related to the conflict in Somalia for another year and to expand its mandate to try to maintain the arms embargo imposed in the region.

Council members voted unanimously to adopt a resolution re-establishing the Monitoring Group for 12 months and to add…

Police today (March 20) appealed for information on a man missing in Wong Tai Sin.

Wong Wan-choi, 78, left an elderly home on Hammer Hill Road yesterday (March 19) and failed to return. The staff of the elderly home made a report to the Police on the same day.

He is about 1.6 metres tall and 50kg in weight. He…