LONDON, May 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- GBP150,000 Cheque Presented to Great Ormond Street Hospital

Children will be the centre of attention at St Pancras International today as the station marks St Pancras' Day - the patron saint of children and namesake of the station. The station has teamed up with the world renowned children's hospital, Great Ormond Street and today will be donating GBP150,000 towards an Echo Room for the hospital, which will record the electrical activity of kids' hearts. The state-of-the art equipment will dramatically help diagnose children's heart problems and help them through recovery.

PRINCETON, New Jersey, May 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Index Changes Scheduled to Take Effect with the Market Open on Monday, May 19th -

Pharmasset, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRUS), a clinical stage pharmaceutical company committed to discovering, developing and commercializing novel drugs to treat viral infections, is pleased to announce that it has been selected to join the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index effective with the market open on May 19, 2008.

SAN DIEGO, and BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Presence at the EuroPCR08 will highlight choice of different modalities available on single integrated imaging platform.

TEL AVIV, Israel, May 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Provides the Optimal Combination of Scaffolding, Deliverability and Conformability

Medinol is proud to announce that it has received CE Mark for its Presillion(TM) CoCr Coronary Stent, enabling physicians to treat coronary artery lesions with a technologically innovative flexible closed cell design stent.

A University of Leicester space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones works out to be far more expensive than downloading data from the Hubble Space Telescope. Dr. Nigel Bannister’s calculations were used for the Channel 4 Dispatches program “The Mobile Phone Rip-Off.”

He worked out the cost of obtaining a megabyte of data from Hubble – and compared that with the 5p cost of sending a text.

NERYUNGRI, Russia, May 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Mechel OAO (NYSE: MTL), one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces that its Yakutugol OAO coal mining subsidiary has acquired new equipment for its Neryungri Coal Processing Plant in line with its capital expenditure program.

The acquisition of the U.S.-manufactured Artrita coal mill will be used for crushing and coal dust preparation in the processing plant's drying units. The Artrita coal mill will replace the plant's depreciated equipment and is the third coal mill purchased by Yakutugol OAO. Two new Artrita coal mills were previously installed replacing the obsolete mills in 2007.

PLANO, Texas, May 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Ireland-based acquisition adds to Perot Systems' global applications delivery capabilities

Perot Systems Corporation (NYSE: PER) announced today that it has acquired Original Solutions Limited (Original Solutions), a professional IT services firm providing applications development and management services to clients in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

SAN JOSE, California, May 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Embedded Crypto Evaluation Studio Offers Menu-driven Security Configuration and Evaluation

In the Cerrado region of Brazil, four dogs trained to detect animal feces by scent are helping researchers monitor rare and threatened wildlife such as jaguar, tapir, giant anteater and maned wolf in and around Emas National Park, a protected area with the largest concentration of threatened species in Brazil.

The researchers analyze feces found by the dogs to learn about where and how the threatened mammals live. Data such as numbers, range, diet, hormonal stress, parasites and even genetic identity contribute to a study of how the mammals use environments inside and outside the park, especially on privately owned lands of the region.

The information helps develop conservation and development strategies that meet the needs of both the animals and local farmers. The dogs are rewarded for their good work with tennis balls to chase and chomp.

DUBLIN and GIBRALTAR, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Ethoca, the leader in collaborative fraud management, announced today that Mansion.com - sponsors of Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur - has become part of Ethoca's global community of companies intent on reducing fraud and increasing revenues.

Rated as one of the internet's best sites for online poker by Poquer777.com, Mansion.com offers premium gaming entertainment that promises the very best value online. One of the best-known online gaming brands thanks to their sponsorship of Tottenham Hotspur, Mansion.com joins a list of leading e-gaming companies already collaborating through the Ethoca Community.