When a child has a medical problem, doctors see the child and parent together. It would be unusual to have a clinician meet alone with a minor with an illness or injury or a regular check-up. But this situation is reversed in child psychology. Parents are often asked to wait outside while a child is evaluated, and young patients are assured that nothing they say has to be discussed with mom and dad. This safeguard is meant to make children feel safe, and allow safe disclosure of abuse, but parents unfamiliar with this convention in psychological treatment often report feeling uncomfortable and even judged as bad parents.

CRANBURY, New Jersey, May 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Belgium office further enhances support and deployment of customers' packaging operations

Systech International, the innovator of packaging execution systems (PES) for the pharmaceutical industry, today announced the opening of its international headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. The new office compliments its U.K.-based operations and will further enable its sales and professional services teams to readily oversee in-region deployments.

On May 21st and 22nd, Systech will host an open house for all of its customers to tour the state-of-the-art facility.

LONDON, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Staff at the National Blood Service in Colindale and Edgware are ready to take industrial action to defend their jobs and to stop the fragmentation of clinical services.

The National Health Service Blood and Transplant services (NHSBT) in Colindale intend to make all its clinical scientists and highly specialist scientists working in the histocompatibility and immunogenetics department redundant. 450 people are employed at that site.

The NHSBT intend to move the histocompatability and immunogenic department along with the cord blood bank to Bristol. Unite members say there is no business case to support the management's proposals.

An obese oddball of a star has left astronomers wondering how it could have formed.

Found with the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, the star is a pulsar – a compact, rapidly spinning star – called J1903+0327. It lies 20,000 light-years away spinning at a rate of 465 revolutions per second – the fifth fastest-spinning pulsar known in our Galaxy.

Astronomers believe such super-fast pulsars started life as the more common, sedate pulsars that spin only a few times a second, but were later ’reborn‘ in their present hyperactive state. This re-birthing or recycling can take place, astronomers think, if the pulsar has a nearby companion that it orbits. At a certain point in its life cycle, the companion pours its own matter onto the pulsar and this extra material ‘spins-up‘ the pulsar.

HONG KONG, May 16 /PRNewswire/ --

One of the leading game developers and operators in the PRC, NetDragon Websoft Inc. ("NetDragon" or the "Company", with its subsidiaries collectively the "Group"; Stock Code: 8288.HK) is donating a total value of RMB1.5 million in cash and goods to support recovery work in Sichuan following the recent earthquake.

The donation includes a cash donation of RMB1 million and a total value of RMB500,000 in terms of transportation vehicles, drinking water, food, lighting equipments and power generators. The goods will soon be leaving for the disaster areas to help earthquake victims rebuild their lives.

TOKYO, May 16 /PRNewswire/ --

On Thursday May 15, the Soka Gakkai made a donation to the Chinese Government in response to Monday's devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province which officials say may eventually claim more than 50,000 lives.

Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada visited the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo to inform Ambassador Cui Tiankai of the donation of 30 million yen (US$287,000) to support relief and rescue efforts. He also conveyed Honorary President Daisaku Ikeda's message of condolence and concern.

Ambassador Cui responded "We would like to thank everyone in the Soka Gakkai for this kind gesture." He added that the donation would serve as great encouragement to the disaster victims.

EDMONTON, Canada, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Globex Foreign Exchange Corporation, an international leader in corporate and large-scale personal foreign currency exchange transactions, believes it is important that we recognize and take responsibility for the effects of our business on the environment. Globex has released a new Environmental Policy, enhancing our existing environmental practices and placing Globex competitively in today's climate of environmental awareness.

SAN DIEGO and LONDON, May 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Spectrum Acquisition Broadens Opportunity to Develop, Test and Explore Innovative Wireless Services and Technologies in the United Kingdom -

Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, today announced that it has acquired 40 MHz (1452-1492 MHz) of L-Band radio spectrum recently auctioned by UK communications regulator Ofcom, at a cost of GPB 8,334,000. This acquisition will allow Qualcomm, in collaboration with its partners, to bring a variety of innovative wireless technologies to the UK market.

LONDON, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- It's official - British women are obsessed with gossip and celebrity hidden dirt, reveals a new survey* commissioned by New Daz Liquitabs, specially designed to remove the hidden dirt you can't see.

While women's fascination with being the first to know the hottest gossip comes as no surprise (70%), British men have also shamelessly admitted to craving the inside scoop on the gossip surrounding friends, family and colleagues (57%).

The social kudos that comes with 'being in the know' is a key driver for many British people (50%), while others are attracted to the feeling of power that comes with knowing people's hidden dirt (25%). Above all though, 70% believe that gossiping brings them closer to people at home and at work.

LUTON, England, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- To meet the growing demand for Linux Systems Support Engineers, Administrators and Developers, Europe's largest blended learning IT company, SkillsTrain, has introduced a new Linux+ course, encompassing the CompTIA Linux+ examination and enabling existing IT professionals to study and qualify around existing work and personal commitments. With over three quarters of supercomputers using Linux as an operating system, demand for Linux Systems Support Engineers, Administrators and Developers is at an all time high.

77.8% of supercomputers now use Linux as an operating system, the Linux market is growing rapidly and holds around 12.7% if the overall server market.