VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Oct. 18, 2007) - Meridian Co., Ltd. (OTCBB:MRDAF) - Results from a Louisiana State University study in which the LAPEX 2000 LipoLaser was used to reduce girth around study participants’ waistlines is scheduled to be presented at the North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO) Annual Scientific Meeting, Oct. 20, in New Orleans. Study leaders will reveal that within the study group the new LAPEX 2000 LipoLaser, manufactured by Meridian Co., Ltd., provided “significant girth loss that is sustained over repeated treatments”. The forty study participants (both men and women between the ages of 18 and 65) experienced an average girth loss of one inch over the course of the study.