ST. LOUIS, Missouri, November 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Online Skills and Procedures, Aided by Multimedia Features, are Designed to Help Healthcare Institutions Improve the Quality of Nursing Care

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, November 20 /PRNewswire/ --

Mosby's Nursing Skills(TM) (MNS), the online nursing skills and procedures reference and competency management system from Elsevier, today announced the launch of its Maternal-Newborn Collection for healthcare institutions seeking to improve the quality of their nurses who work with adult, pediatric, and maternal-newborn populations.

SANTA ANA, California, November 20 /PRNewswire/ --

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SANTA ANA, California, November 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- BMR Solutions, Inc. is Re-Named Balqon Corporation and is Eligible for Trading on the OTC Bulletin Board Under the Symbol 'BLQN'

CAMBRIDGE, England, November 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Stem Cell Sciences plc (AIM:STEM, ASX:STC), a company focused on the commercialisation of stem cells and stem cell technologies, has signed a Master Service Agreement of up to five years with Pfizer Limited, the UK operating unit of the global research-based pharmaceutical company Pfizer, Inc. (NYSE: PFE). Under the terms of the agreement, SCS will provide research services, cell lines, media and reagents to support Pfizer's RD efforts in this important field.

CAMBRIDGE, England, November 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Socle Technology Corp, One of the World's Leading-Edge Providers of SoC Design, is First Member of ARM's IP Portfolio Program Which Enables Fabless Design Houses to Exploit the Widest Range of ARM Technology as Part of a Full Turnkey Service

CAMBRIDGE, England, November 20 /PRNewswire/ --

LIVERPOOL, England, November 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Unite the union is holding urgent talks with managers at BP/Castrol after the company announced its plan to close its site at Ellesmere Port.

Nearly 100 jobs at the BP/Castrol lubricant plant, which blends and fills oil for Castrol GTX, GTX Magnetec and Duckhams, will be lost if the closure goes ahead. The company plans to transfer the work to other plants in Europe. Those plants will then provide lubricants for the UK market.

Unite the Union, who represent the workforce, will meet BP/Castrol managers again on Monday 1st December. Unite says it and the workers will do everything possible to keep these jobs in Ellesmere Port.

LONDON, November 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Intel(R) Health Guide is the First Product in a Series Designed to Enable More Personalised Care Management for Chronic and Age-related Conditions

Intel Corporation today announced the Intel(R) Health Guide, a care management tool designed for healthcare professionals who treat patients with chronic conditions, for the UK. The Intel Health Guide represents Intel's entry into a new category of personal health systems that go beyond the simple remote patient monitoring systems available today.

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CORK, Ireland, November 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Telaprevir Data Presented at AASLD

CORK, Ireland, November 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Nearly 90 Percent of Patients Achieve Undetectable Viral Load in Phase IIa Trial Within 28 Days of Combined Treatment With Standard of Care

New clinical data demonstrate the safety and antiviral activity of TMC435, an investigational protease inhibitor (PI) being developed by Tibotec BVBA for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Tibotec presented findings recently from three TMC435 studies, including a late-breaker poster on the proof-of-principle phase IIa trial, OPERA-1 (TMC435-C201), at the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease's (AASLD) Liver Meeting 2008 in San Francisco, California.

OTTAWA, November 20 /PRNewswire/ --

In the U.S. alone, more than 20 million children are growing up in single-parent homes with the overwhelming majority of them being father-absent homes.

Children in father-absent homes are five times more likely to be living in poverty, are at greater risk for drug and alcohol abuse and more likely to get pregnant as teenagers than their peers who are growing up with two parents.

On November 20th, a new website called WithoutaFather.com will launch to coincide with the United Nations Universal Children's Day. This day is meant to actively promote the welfare of the world's children.

Neuroscientists at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center have discovered a direct link between eye motions and the perception of illusory motion that solves a 200-year-old debate. 

Stephen Macknik, PhD, director of the Laboratory of Behavioral Neurophysiology; Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD, director of the Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience; Xoana G. Troncoso, PhD; and Jorge Otero-Millan; conducted a study based on the Enigma painting, a visual illusion in which rotational motion is seen within a stationary image. The artwork has been at the center of a debate over whether the brain or the eye is behind the perception of illusory motion.