PHILADELPHIA, April 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Shire plc today announced positive results from a signal-finding study of Vyvanse(R) (lisdexamfetamine dimesylate) Capsules (CII) assessing its effect in a prospective examination of adults with negative symptom predominant schizophrenia. This study met its pre-defined primary end points. Vyvanse is a prescription medicine currently approved in the US, Canada, and Brazil for the treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Vyvanse should only be used to treat ADHD. 

CLEVELAND, April 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Simbionix USA Corporation has announced its new training simulator for pelvic floor repair, to be exposed for the first time at the ACOG 59th Annual Clinical Meeting in Washington, DC, April 30- May 4, 2011. 

CRAWLEY, England, April 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- As image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) techniques have enhanced radiotherapy precision, Elekta continues working to decrease treatment session times through automated IGRT tools. Odense University Hospital (OUH, Odense, Denmark) clinicians are the first in the world to use a 3D seed matching feature of Elekta's Intuity(TM) IGRT package. The software quickly and automatically pinpoints the position of gold seeds that doctors implant in the prostate to confirm the organ's position before each treatment.

3D detection provides boost to proven gold seed method

Little is known of the ancestry of Africans captured and transported by Europeans and Arabs during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.   A new website launched at Emory University this week,  African-Origins, provides some of the identities of Africans aboard early nineteenth-century slaving vessels.  This information might make it possible to trace the the origins of Africans forcibly transported to North America before President Thomas Jefferson signed the law banning importation of slaves in 1807, and to other countries well after that.   Public participation will be critical to piecing together the missing history.   

BNK Petroleum announced today that the Lebork S-1 well, on the Slupsk concession in Poland has been drilled, cased and cemented to its total depth of 3,590 meters. The well was originally drilled to 3,517 meters and 223 meters of whole core were recovered. At that time a full suite of logs were run. After evaluation of the logs it was decided to deepen the well to its final depth of 3,590 meters, after which another full suite of logs were run and 113 sidewall cores were taken over the additional interval drilled. 

According to 2010 World Health Organization data, almost 1 billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water. Diarrheal disease is the second leading cause of death in children under five years old, and is responsible for killing 1.5 million children every year. Children who are malnourished or have impaired immunity are most at risk of life-threatening diarrhea.