It has been revealed that 1 in 3 people in the UK are still struggling to find an NHS dentist, according to new research from Simplyhealth.

Simplyhealth's Annual Dental Survey has revealed that alarmingly just over a third of Brits (35%) struggled to find an NHS dentist over the last year, which has increased from 23% at the same time in 2008.

Perhaps more shocking is the fact that this figure soars in certain areas of the UK, with over half of the people in Plymouth finding it difficult to get an NHS dentist, closely followed by those in Southampton and Manchester, where 45% and 43% have struggled.

The severity of the situation this year has been heightened by the economic downturn, as almost half of people across the UK have put off visiting the dentist becaus

SAN FRANCISCO, March 31 /PRNewswire/ --

nCircle, the leader in automated security and configuration auditing solutions, today made available checks that will immediately and definitively identify systems that have been infected by the Conficker worm. These new checks follow those released by nCircle last October that identified the existence of the vulnerability itself. Together, the checks ensure that nCircle customers can easily and automatically identify any vulnerable systems as well as any system that is already compromised by the Conficker worm.

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DUBLIN, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Adopting standards at the very beginning pays dividends through whole life of building

Sustainability, reduced running costs and increased long term building value are among the reasons that Digital Realty Trust, the world's largest wholesale datacentre provider, is adopting the newly announced BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) Bespoke datacentre standards for the future construction of its datacentres.

BREEAM Bespoke was first developed in 2000 to cover buildings not included in the mainstream environmental assessment schemes for offices, retail, healthcare and education.

DENVER, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --

In the news release, FARO Introduces New Generation of Best-in-Class 3D Laser Scanners and Software, issued March 30, 2009 by FARO over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the first paragraph, second sentence, should read Two new models, the FARO Laser Scanner Photon 120 and 20, both feature measuring rates of up to 976,000 points-per-second rather than 960,000 points-per-second as originally issued inadvertently. The complete, corrected release follows:

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NEW YORK, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Global Laboratory's Technology Transfer Expertise to Support Biomarker Translational Research -

REDMOND, Washington, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Microsoft Corp. and TomTom N.V. today announced that they have settled the patent infringement cases brought by Microsoft before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington and the International Trade Commission (ITC) and by TomTom in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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SAN JOSE, California, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Windows Embedded software-plus-services platform with developer services provides simplified access to the latest tools, resources and help available from Microsoft and its global partner ecosystem.

SAN JOSE, California, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Windows Embedded Server added to Microsoft's portfolio of embedded platforms and technologies to enable end-to-end system connectivity and intelligent device management.

Tuesday, during an industry address at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Silicon Valley 2009, Microsoft Corp. will demonstrate the expansion of the Windows Embedded software-plus-services platform through the addition of Windows Embedded Server to the comprehensive Microsoft portfolio of embedded platforms and technologies.

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LONDON, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The health visiting crisis can still be measured in hours, according to Unite, the largest union in the country.

The latest NHS workforce statistics, based on September 2008 figures, reveal that a full-time health visitor job is being lost every 30 hours - a slight improvement on the previous year's figure which showed that every 27 hours a health visitor post disappeared.

Unite, which embraces the Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association, said this was 'the final wake-up call' for government to recruit a new generation of health visitors to replace the ageing workforce - as 20% are over 55 and could retire tomorrow.

IRVINE, California, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Hagiwara Sys-Com Co., Ltd., the industry leader in semiconductor application products for industrial/embedded computing -- today announced the introduction of the evaluation kit for the CFast(TM) -- the evolution of the CompactFlash(R) interface utilizing SATA interface.

The default storage interface of common Single Board Computers (SBC) is migrating from the Parallel ATA (PATA) interface to the SerialATA (SATA) interface. With this transition comes a change to storage solution options. The CompactFlash utilizes PATA and will find it harder to find a home in newer SBC systems.