PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Tuesday, July 3, 2007

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Tuesday, July 3, 2007

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Scientists Discover Key to Manipulating Fat

In what they call a "stunning research advance," investigators at Georgetown University Medical Center have been able to use non-toxic chemical injections to add and remove fat in targeted areas on the bodies of laboratory animals. They say the discovery, published online in Nature Medicine, could revolutionize human cosmetic surgery and treatment of diseases associated with human obesity.

Investigators say these findings may also, over the long-term, lead to better control of metabolic syndrome, which is a collection of risk factors that increase a patient's chances of developing heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.

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The Police Rank #1 as Nation's 'Most Requested Event' During First Half of 2007

Ticketmaster says The Police, whose current concert tour kicked off in May with North American performances scheduled though November of this year, was the nation's "Most Requested Event" in the first half of 2007. The Police topped the mid-year chart, ranked by online page views, information requests, and ticket sales during the first half of the year, followed by Disney on Ice at number two and Wicked at number three following the Wicked's run at the top of the chart for the past two quarters.

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Nielsen Reports That Romney Campaign Ads Outpacing All Other Presidential Candidates

The Nielsen Company says Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney placed more local T-V advertisements than all other candidates combined, with 45-hundred ads, mostly on local broadcast television, through June tenth. Nielsen Monitor Plus reported that traditional media started early this presidential campaign and that the local T-V ad trend is anticipated to increase. Since the two weeks beginning June eleventh, both Chris Dodd and John Edwards have run half of their reported T-V advertisements to date and Barack Obama began running T-V ads in Iowa on June 27th.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3506979

Justice Department Launches National Missing and Unidentified Persons Initiative (NamUs)

The Department of Justice has announced the launch of the National Missing and Unidentified Persons Initiative. NamUs (name-us) will provide the nation's medical examiners, coroners, victim advocates, law enforcement agencies and the general public with the ability to simultaneously search the records of missing persons and unidentified human remains in an effort to solve cases.

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