67 percent in Athens tradingoutperforming the 2

The European Commission has been trying to let foreigncompanies compete on an equal footing with local monopolies thatbring large sums of money into national treasuries. It has launched an infringement procedure against Greece ongaming restrictions. Stanleybet offers sports bets, mainly on soccer events, inCyprus, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Croatia, Romania and Polandthrough more than 1,500 outlets. OPAP has about 5,500 outlets in Greece and Cyprus, withsales of 5 billion euros in 2007, including 2.5 billion onfixed-odds sports bets. Its shares lost 1.67 percent in Athens trading,outperforming the 2.37 percent general index fall. (Reporting by Angeliki Koutantou; Editing by Andrew Macdonald).

(Updates with company comment) Stocks NEW YORK, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Entergy Corp (ETR.N) reduced the852-megawatt FitzPatrick nuclear power station in New York from full powerto about 55 percent power by early Thursday planned post refuelingmaintenance, a spokeswoman for the plant said. She said the company usually reduced about three months after arefueling outage It last shut for refueling in September and October. FitzPatrick, which entered service in 1976, is located on Lake Ontarioin Scriba in Oswego County about 90 miles east of Rochester, New York. Entergy, of New Orleans, owns and operates about 30,000 MW ofgenerating capacity, markets energy commodities, and transmits anddistributes power to 2.7 million customers in Arkansas, Louisiana,Mississippi and Texas. (Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Editing by John Picinich) Stocks. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a year-long study conducted in Dallas County, Texas, women who called 911 for suspected heart-related symptoms had a 52 percent greater likelihood of experiencing delays in emergency medical services (EMS) compared with their male counterparts, even after adjusting for a number of factors. HealthDelays in EMS care "could lead to harm for a patient with serious heart disease," Dr Thomas W.

Concannon, who led the study, noted in a statement issued by the American Heart Association.The data stem from an analysis of 5,887 calls made to 911 from January 1 to December 31, 2004, by people with suspected cardiac symptoms, half of whom were women. The area studied is covered by 98 EMS stations and 29 hospitals.There were no serious delays in elapsed time from the 911 call to paramedics' arrival at the scene. Delay in EMS care was defined as greater than 15 minutes beyond median elapsed time; thus, anyone in EMS care for 49 minutes or longer was considered to be delayed.According to Concannon and colleagues, women arrived at the hospital on average just over 2.3 minutes later than men, "not long enough to be clinically meaningful."However, approximately 11 percent of callers, or 647 patients, were delayed 15 minutes or more, which could cause harm, Concannon noted. And, compared with men, women were more than twice as likely to be in the delayed EMS care group."We looked at the influence of several patient- and neighborhood-level factors on delays in EMS and the patient's gender stood out," noted Concannon, who is assistant professor of medicine at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. "We need to find out why women are delayed and reduce or eliminate the disparity," he added.The study is published in the medical journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes In an editorial published with the study, Dr Joseph P.

Ornato, chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, say possible factors leading to the delay in EMS care for women include a longer time to perform an on-site electrocardiogram (EKG), and gender differences in accepting EMS care and transport or in choice of destination hospital.The issue of possible existence of gender delay in EMS care is an important one that "deserves follow-up study for a definitive answer," Ornato wrote.SOURCE: Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, January 13, 2009. Health. SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jan 15 (MARKET WIRE) Exigen Insurance Solutions, the IT 2.0 provider specializing in rapidimplementation of new business initiatives and products for insurance,today announced it is one of seven vendors named to Forrester Research's"Hot Insurance Tech Companies to Watch in 2009" report. A copy of thereport can be viewed at "As the insurance industry transforms itself, Forrester has seen newsolutions emerge to address the changing needs of insurance technologistsand business leaders," stated report author and Forrester senior analystEllen Carney. "These companies are noteworthy because of their inventiveapproaches and solutions that address new models for insurance IToperations; they offer a solution for an overlooked segment, or they offertechnology innovations that drive insurer profitability.""Along with accelerating time to market (and revenue), Exigen's agile SOAplatform and forthcoming Insurance Technology Utility (ITU) also increasesthe efficiency of the insurer's people and technology resources. Insuranceemployees and agents get a unified, role-based workspace that leveragesall that data residing in multiple insurance silos," wrote Carney."The Exigen Insurance team is very pleased to be named to Forrester's 2009Hot Insurance Tech Companies list because it recognizes our commitment tocontinuous product development using the most up-to-date technologyinnovation," said Gwen Spertell, chief executive officer, Exigen InsuranceSolutions. "This approach assures our customers that they havebest-of-breed tools to reduce overall IT costs, get products rapidly tomarket and deliver market-differentiating levels of customer and brokerservice."About Exigen Insurance SolutionsExigen Insurance Solutions, Inc., (), headquarteredin San Francisco, specializes in rapidly implementing new businessinitiatives and products for insurance. Exigen Insurance Solutions' agileSOA platform and suite of P&C business lifecycle systems for policyadministration, claims, billing and account management allow clients torapidly introduce modern, service-oriented solutions and accelerateinsurance product innovation.