You have a burning chest pain and a doctor looks at a squiggly-lined graph to determine the cause. That graph, an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG), can help the doctor decide whether you're having a heart attack or an acid attack from last night's spaghetti. Correct interpretation may prompt life-saving, emergency measures; incorrect interpretation may delay care with life-threatening consequences. Currently, there is no uniform way to teach doctors in training how to interpret an ECG or assess their competence in the interpretation.

PLEASANTON, California, October 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Improved laboratory efficiencies and standardization to personalize patient care

Roche Molecular Diagnostics today announced that the U.S. Food Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the COBAS(R) AmpliPrep / COBAS(R) TaqMan(R) HCV Test for use in the United States. The test uses Roche's proprietary real-time PCR technology to quantify the amount of Hepatitis C RNA in a patient's blood. Physicians use Hepatitis C viral load testing results to establish a baseline level of hepatitis C infection and to serially monitor viral load levels and treatment effectiveness in patients on therapy.

BOSTON and VALENCIA, Spain, October 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Groundbreaking Oct. 16 for cutting-edge campus created by U.S. Music College and Spanish Performance Rights Organization -

Berklee College of Music President Roger Brown and Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) CEO Eduardo Bautista have announced an unparalleled cultural partnership to build a new college for global, contemporary music education in Valencia, Spain. Berklee Valencia will be the largest offshore U.S. music college in the world. Programs will offer music education that is new to Europe, focusing on contemporary music, international business, and the latest developments in leading-edge music technology.

RESTON, Virginia, October 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Service introduces the first GRP measurement of online ads and offers capabilities for more granular advertising planning and analytics by agencies and publishers

Just last month, Hubble Space Telescope's main instruments were idled by a computer failure, but not to worry, thanks to NASA engineers, who successfully transferred the work of the failed science data downlink computer to a backup system, Hubble is up and running just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online.

BRUSSELS, Belgium, October 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Exhibiting at Booth #159 -

Technical communicators and information managers who face changes in their localization needs can glean best practices for aligning localization strategy with corporate goals during a talk titled Developing a Localization Strategy on November 6 at tcWorld in Germany.

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The talk will be delivered by Ian Butler, vice president of business development for Jonckers Translation Engineering -- Europe, which has a 15-year track record of serving corporate leaders in Europe from its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, and offices in London, England; Dublin, Ireland; and Brno, Czech Republic.

LONDON, October 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- The First Public Private Partnership Signed by the Department of Children, Schools and Families

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Microsoft today signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Department of Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), to better connect parents with their children's education, use technology to re-engage disengaged students and improve teaching standards and career development through innovative teachers and coaching programmes. This is the first Public Private Partnership signed by the DCSF.

MOSCOW, October 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Mechel OAO (NYSE: MTL), one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces the consolidation of its ferroalloy assets on the bases of its Oriel Resources subsidiary.

In the spring of 2008, Mechel OAO purchased Oriel Resources Company, which comprised of Tikhvin Smelting Plant ZAO (St. Petersburg region), Voskhod Chrome Deposit and Shevchenko Nickel Deposit (Kazakhstan). Among the enterprises representing the ferroalloy business at Mechel are Southern Urals Nickel Plant OAO (Orenburg region) and Bratsk Ferroalloy Plant OOO (Irkutsk region).

ELMSHORN, Germany, October 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Faster Yet With the Same Low Power Consumption

Shuttle Inc., the market leader in the Mini-PC segment and the manufacturer of multi-form-factor solutions now presents the successor to the successful market introduction of its first Nettop Barebone. The Shuttle Barebone X27D is the first Shuttle barebone to have an Intel Atom 330 Dual-Core processor working inside.

LONDON, October 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- How a High Technology Company in South India Helps Publishers in 35 Countries Reduce Costs and Increase Revenues in the Current Economic Downturn

LONDON, October 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Newspapers are continuing to feel the pinch of the impending recession with redundancies affecting national, regional, paid-for and free titles. The cost of energy, paper and printing has risen dramatically in the last year, forcing some newspapers to close and save money. Circulation has been shrinking, and advertising sales have fallen greatly in the last year causing many Publishers to re-think their economic models.