Dr. Ed Corboy had no idea what was afflicting his 80-year-old mother, Joan Corboy. All he knew for certain was that since being treated for what was a routine diarrheal infection, she seemed to be wasting away and none of her doctors or other health specialists could explain why.

Afraid that his mother was running out of time, Corboy called the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta for advice. Dr. Clifford McDonald told him the infection his mother probably had was of the NAP1 type of the bacteria Clostridium difficile, a virulent strain of a common intestinal bacteria currently plaguing hospitals that now rivals the superbug Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as one of the top emerging disease threats to humans.

HATBORO, Pennsylvania, September 15 /PRNewswire/ --

The Sports Network announced its continued burgeoning expansion of mobile product usage today in concert and partnership with Contec Innovations (TSX Venture: BUZ) and Acme Mobile, Southeast Asia's leading distributor of mobile entertainment content, by launching Amob:FC, a BUZmob(tm) powered English Premier League football (soccer) product inclusive of, but not limited to, real-time updates, news, statistics, player profiles, team histories and much more to mobile audiences across the region.

The inventor of a revolutionary new forensic fingerprinting technique claims criminals who eat processed foods are more likely to be discovered by police through their fingerprint sweat corroding metal.

Dr John Bond, a researcher at the University of Leicester and scientific support officer at Northamptonshire Police, said processed food fans are more likely to leave tell-tale signs at a crime scene.

Speaking before a conference on forensic science at the University of Leicester, Dr Bond said sweaty fingerprint marks made more of a corrosive impression on metal if they had a high salt content.

To activists in cozy offices, the solution to over-hunting is easy; ban it. But unless we put a McDonalds in the forests of Africa, that isn't really an answer. But we need to find one.

A new report from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CDB) and partners warns that an upsurge in hunting bushmeat—including mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians — in tropical forests is unsustainable and that it poses serious threats to food security for poor inhabitants of forests in Africa, who rely largely on bushmeat for protein.

The authors of the report call on policymakers in the region to develop policies protecting endangered species, while allowing sustainable hunting of "common" game, since there is no clear substitute available if common wild meat sources were to be depleted.

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, September 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Innovative Thin Client Platforms Add an Important Component to its Extensive Support of Desktop Virtualization Environments

At VMworld 2008, Chip PC Technologies, a global technology leader in desktop virtualization and server-centric solutions, today announced it had certified its range of innovative thin client devices for VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Virtual Desktop Manager. VMware Virtual Desktop Manager allows customers deploying VMware VDI to deliver an enhanced user experience, simplify desktop management, and reduce costs.

MILTON KEYNES, England, September 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Ceravision Ltd, the company behind the ultra energy-efficient Ecolumination lighting range, recently partnered with leading motor racing team, West Surrey Racing, to demonstrate its automotive lighting system. A set of headlights was fitted to a BMW race car and tested at Silverstone, the home of the British F1 Grand Prix.

Ceravision's Ecolumination technology is a revolutionary, high quality, low-cost, energy-efficient lighting system, which uses microwave technology to power electrode-less bulbs. The bulbs are simple to adapt to existing designs and are mercury-free. Ecolumination is leading innovation in the global lighting industry, bringing new levels of efficiency and quality to both indoor and outdoor lighting.

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, September 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Interviewed Experts Lack Confidence in Malignant Melanoma Cancer Vaccines as a Result of Recently Published Data, According to a New Report from Decision Resources

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that the malignant melanoma drug market, driven by the launch of emerging agents, will experience robust annual 12 percent growth through 2012 in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Japan.

NEW YORK, September 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Comprehensive solution offers integration and payments management features

Powering finance with data management innovations, Volante today unveiled Volante Payments Bridge, its comprehensive solution for corporate treasuries implementing SWIFT messaging and SWIFTNet connectivity. Designed for the challenges of complex legacy environments, extensive banking relationships, high-volume and high-value payment traffic, Payments Bridge provides a cost-effective and quick-to-implement solution for managing payment communications.

Payments Bridge is being demonstrated this week at SWIFT's Sibos conference in Vienna at the Volante Stand B203.

VIENNA, Austria, September 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Microsoft renews commitment to SWIFT and achieves SWIFTReady Financial EAI Label for 2008.

Microsoft Corp. today announced at Sibos 2008 that it is signing a global partnership agreement with the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Transactions (SWIFT). The announcement signifies a new, higher level of close cooperation between the organizations, under which they will work together to deliver deep industry value and simplify SWIFTNet implementation for customers using Microsoft technology. It is a mutual, commercially based agreement between the organizations and will open further opportunities for financial service providers and midsize to large corporations to quickly and easily connect to SWIFT.

NEW YORK, September 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Support for C# code generation from Volante data models now enables SWIFT data movement in and out of Microsoft business solutions

Powering finance with data management innovations, Volante today released its new .NET implementation of SWIFT messaging to provide built-in compatibility with models, applications and development activities based on Microsoft .Net Framework and BizTalk solutions. The core of this offering is the C# code generator, a platform option offered with Volante Composer.

SWIFT implementation on .NET, as well as the full range of Volante integration capabilities for SWIFT messaging, is being demonstrated this week at the Volante Stand B203 at SWIFT's Sibos conference in Vienna.