Norma Wooley checked into Loyola University Hospital on a recent Monday morning for brain surgery to repair a life-threatening aneurism (also: aneurysm).  She went home on Tuesday, cured of the slurred speech, drooping face and worst headache of her life.

Wooley had a cerebral aneurism, a weak spot in a blood vessel that balloons out and fills with blood. About six million Americans -- 1 in 50 people -- have brain aneurisms that could rupture. Each year, aneurisms burst in about 25,000 people, and most die or suffer permanent disabilities, according to the Brain Aneurysm Foundation.

You may soon be able to say goodbye to batteries for your Blackberry or cell phone.  Instead, they will get power from just a wave of your hand.

In research presented at the ACS meeting in Salt Lake City, scientists describe technology that converts mechanical energy from body movements or even the flow of blood in the body into electric energy that can be used to power a broad range of electronic devices without using batteries.

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

Thus spoke Sir Winston Churchill, in the company of President Harry S. Truman, on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri.

But this Iron Curtain was not a single boundary, but two fences (mostly) separated by a furlong or so (5 furlongs = 1 kilometre) with a no-man’s-land in between.

PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

The Healthcare and Science business of Thomson Reuters today announced that Egyptian Universities Libraries (EUL) has selected Thomson Reuters to provide research solutions to their consortium of university libraries. EUL signed a multi-year contract with Thomson Reuters to provide Egypt's researcher's access to ISI Web of Knowledge(SM).

PARIS, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

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The investor meeting relating to the 2008 earnings and 2009 outlook has been webcasted. The presentation is available in English from the following link:

http://www.thomson-webcast.net/uk/dispatching/?event_id=2ef87b3007af7a71...

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PHILADELPHIA, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Global Intellectual Property Analysis Finds Foreign Companies Dominate List of Top Ten U.S. Innovators While Chinese, European, Japanese and Korean Rankings Showcase Homegrown Technologies

The IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters released the results of its 2008 Global Innovation Study today, analyzing the leading innovators by key region over the last year. The study, which tracked the top ten innovators in China, Europe, Japan, Korea and the U.S. on the basis of total number of unique inventions issued in granted patents and published patent applications, found that 70 percent of top ten innovators in the U.S. were non-U.S. companies. In contrast, home region innovators dominate the Asian and European top ten lists.

DUBLIN, March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announces that its Annual Report and Accounts in respect of the year ended December 31, 2008 has been published on its website. Shire has previously announced unaudited full year 2008 results, prepared in accordance with US generally accepted accounting principles, in its full year earnings announcement on February 19, 2009.

Copies of the Annual Report and Accounts, Notice of Annual General Meeting and Proxy Card will be submitted to the UK Listing Authority on or about March 27, 2009 and will shortly thereafter be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Innovative Trading Communications System Brings Secure Global Network, Trading Platform to Smaller Trading Floors

IPC Systems, Inc., a leading provider of indispensable trading communications solutions to the world's leading financial services firms and global enterprises, today launched Alliance Express(TM), an innovative, cost-effective solution that delivers a new, streamlined trading floor communications system for small and mid-sized firms.

BOZEN, Italy, March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Robotics today announced the early release in the second half of 2009 of its i.v.STATION Profile option with a presentation [P13] at the Dubai International Pharmaceuticals and Technologies Conference and Exhibition (DUPHAT) http://www.duphat.ae/parallelSession.php on March 31, 2009 by Gaspar DeViedma, along with related booth exhibitions.

BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --

InNexus Biotechnology Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: IXSBF; TSX VENTURE: IXS; http://www.ixsbio.com), a drug development company commercializing the next generation of monoclonal antibodies based on its Dynamic Cross Linking (DXL) technology, is pleased to announce that the Company has entered into a loan facility with a group of investors for an aggregate amount of up to USD$2.5 million.