JERUSALEM and NEEDHAM, Massachusetts, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Oridion Systems Ltd. - (SWX: ORIDN) Significant findings from numerous medical research projects demonstrating the clinical benefit of end-tidal CO2 (EtCO2) monitoring using Microstream(R) capnography technology, were recently presented at medical congresses in the United States and Europe.

During Digestive Disease Week (DDW) in San Diego, California, Dr. Vargo, of the Cleveland Clinic, presented a blinded study that analyzed 122 randomized patients and showed that Microstream(R) capnography "significantly reduces the proportion of patients with hypoxemia, major hypoxemia, apnea and oxygen requirements during ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography) and EUS (Endoscopic ultrasound).

Meningiomas are tumors of the brain and nervous system and they account for 20% of all brain tumors. Doctors have a problem discriminating between the four different subtypes of meningiomas due to three key problems:

* The work can be painstakingly slow requiring up to two hours of analysis and expert consideration of a full "slide" of information.

* The finest histopathologists (tumor specialists) can at times come up with completely contradictory findings based on slight variations in their method of analysis.

* Currently the slides that specialists examine contain a few million pixels of data and the task of tumour diagnosis is painstakingly slow already. This problem is quite literally growing as medical equipment is coming out that can produce slides with hundreds of millions pixel resolution.

Clearly doctors would welcome any technological support which could speed up this process, use more of the information available and allow them time to diagnose and treat many more patients.

That convergence of media, telecommunication, information technology and consumer electronics you've been hearing about? Mostly hype, says new research from Cass Business School, London, and it's now over.

All that's left is a focus on exploiting the business opportunities created by the digital revolution, they say.

Dr Gianvito Lanzolla, Senior Lecturer in Strategy at Cass, suggests that because the revolutionary conceptual shifts from analogue to digital technology took place in 2003 – 2004, with a focus on first mover advantage and innovations, subsequent developments within digital technologies are adjustments rather than major changes.

A hernia is produced when the content of the abdominal cavity protrudes through a weakened natural orifice of the abdominal wall such as the inguinal canal, the umbilical area, the epigastrium or a previous incision in the abdomen such as from a surgical operation. The hernia manifests itself as a bulging lump since the internal lining of the abdomen protrudes in what is called a hernial sac that shrinks or grows depending on the effort exerted by the affected individual.

Hernias are more frequent in the groin or navel areas and in the area of an old surgical scar, and they never improve or disappear naturally; on the contrary, they tend to grow. Not only painful but unaesthetic too, hernias can produce complications such as bowel obstructions and strangulations.

HONG KONG, June 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- ".Asia" Hot-or-Not Contest First Weekly Prize Winning Domain: resorts.asia GMA2008.Asia Attracts Millions of Hits, Drives ".Asia" Adoption

DotAsia Organisation announced today total registration for ".Asia" domains are expected to exceed a quarter of a million by the end of the first quarter after its public launch. Proceeds from the ".Asia" Sunrise and Landrush auctions have already exceeded US$3M and rising, demonstrating strong demand and growth value for ".Asia" domains.

A new study published today in Annals of Internal Medicine has good news for coffee drinkers: Regular coffee drinking (up to 6 cups per day) is not associated with increased deaths in either men or women. In fact, both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee consumption is associated with a somewhat smaller rate of death from heart disease.

Women consuming two to three cups of caffeinated coffee per day had a 25 percent lower risk of death from heart disease during the follow-up period (which lasted from 1980 to 2004 and involved 84,214 women) as compared with non-consumers, and an 18 percent lower risk of death caused by something other than cancer or heart disease as compared with non-consumers during follow-up. For men, this level of consumption was associated with neither a higher nor a lower risk of death during the follow-up period (which lasted from 1986 to 2004 and involved 41,736 men).

PAVIA, Italy, June 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- New International Design Center to Focus on Analog Semiconductor Devices

Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL), a leader in storage, communications and consumer silicon solutions, announced the official grand opening of its analog semiconductor design center in Pavia, Italy. The grand opening celebration and ceremony was held at the new facility on June 16.

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LONDON, June 17 /PRNewswire/ --

Unite members at the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) are to go on a continuous overtime ban from today (Tuesday 17th June) with a full day of strike action planned for Friday 20th June.

Administrative staff were forced to ballot for strike action when management failed to secure a salary settlement that should have been paid from 1st April 2008.

EIS came back with a final offer of a five-year pay deal which didn't even match the retail price index.

Tony Trench, Unite Regional Official said:

"Unite has tried everything to get EIS to sit down and discuss this situation properly but even with the overtime ban they are still not prepared to talk.

LONDON, June 17 /PRNewswire/ --

Wang and colleagues performed a systematic review of safety studies of medical cannabinoids published over the past 40 years and found that short-term use appeared to increase the risk of non-serious adverse events.

Of all non-serious adverse events, dizziness was the most common (15.5%).

"We found that the rate of non-serious adverse events was 1.86 times higher among medical cannabinoid users than among controls," state the authors. "However, we did not find a higher incidence rate of serious adverse events associated with medical cannabinoid use." The authors note that 99% of the serious adverse events from randomized controlled trials were reported in only 2 trials, a fact the authors say suggests that more studies are required to further characterize safety issues.

SYDNEY, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Manthan Systems, a leading provider of decision-making solutions, today announced its entry into the Australia/New Zealand (ANZ) market. Manthan will bring its cutting-edge decision-making solution ARC, a comprehensive retail performance management suite, to retailers in the ANZ region.

Manthan also specializes in providing tool-based technology services in the area of business intelligence, data warehousing and enterprise information integration. To addresses the needs of the business user community in to retail and consumer goods industries, Manthan provides a host of 'Analytics' and 'Data Mining' services that complement its end-to-end solution strategy in the decision-making domain.