Most of us want to take a swim in our Tampa swimming pools whenever we can. Sadly, the weather in central Florida does not always allow for a midnight swim or a few laps in the wintertime. Fortunately, the plumbers in Tampa, Fla., at The Pampering Plumber have an economical solution to keeping your pool warm. Solar pool heating systems heat your pool with the power of the Florida sunshine, decreasing operation costs over the life of the system. In addition to greatly extending your available swimming season, solar pool heating systems are able to basically pay for ...

Comprised of a set of tendons and muscles in the shoulder, the rotator cuff connects the upper arm to the shoulder blade. Rotator cuff muscles make it possible for the shoulder to rotate, and rotator cuff tendons provide shoulder stability. According to Atlanta Spine & Pain Management Center (ASAP), a noted spine center in Atlanta, pain from a rotator cuff tear can be felt over the outside of the shoulder and upper arm. Someone with a rotator cuff tear exhibits difficulty and feels pain raising their arms above their head or reaching behind their back. They have ...

The summer is one of the best times of the year to perform regular maintenance on your home, including your garage door. Overhead Door Tampa's technicians have several tips on how to properly maintain your garage this summer. Your first step in tending to your Tampa overhead doors should be to wash away the grime that has accumulated on the door itself and its windows. Springtime in central Florida comes with heavy pollen counts, and your garage will inevitably be covered with seasonal gunk by the time summer rolls around. Simply use a mild household soap and water to ...

You know you need the assistance of a professional facilitator for your company's next strategic planning session, but how do you choose the right one? FindaFacilitator has more than 500 meeting experts in their extensive database with varying degrees of experience and training in business facilitation. Simply fill out their "FindaFacilitator Fast" form to receive quick and reliable assistance from any one of their client relationship managers. You can be sure to find a certified facilitator that knows the nature of your business, is highly-trained, experienced, resourceful, ...

In an effort to provide improved service to its customers, Atlanta electrical contractor Pat Murphy Electric, Inc., has moved to a new location in Tucker, Ga. For almost 20 years, Pat Murphy Electric, Inc., was located off of Mell Avenue in Atlanta. However, that space proved limited, and the residential electrical contractors realized that they would need more space in order to provide the best possible service to their customers. Their new location, located on Montreal Road in Tucker, offers twice the space of their former Mell Avenue location. The new Pat Murphy ...

Frozen foods company Windsor Foods is pleased to announce the release of the new Windsor Wheelhouse smartphone application aimed at delivering information on Windsor Foods products, specifications, and promotional materials directly to Apple and Android devices. Available for download from Apple's App Store or Google Play, this free app gives users the ability to access a complete suite of product brochures, sell sheets, product and nutritional information, product specifications, coupons and much more. All of these components are instantly able to be viewed within ...

ATP Nutritionals LLC, the makers of the revolutionary performance enhancing supplement ATP Extreme announced that elite track and field sprinter Curtis Mitchell recently joined their roster of Sponsored Athletes. Curtis Mitchell is currently the top ranked 200m sprinter in the USA and recently brought home the 2013 World Championship Broze Medal from Moscow. Mitchell turned pro after his junior year of college at Texas A&M and never looked back. According to Mitchell, "ATP Extreme has really taken my training to a new level. From my first day on the product, I ...

NationaLease is pleased to announce the regional winners of the fourth annual NationaLease Tech Challenge exam. This first step on the road to becoming the NationaLease Top Tech is a written exam which member company technicians completed in March. The regional winners go on to represent their member company in the next round of competition. Each of the nine regional winners will participate in the hands-on competition, which will take place during the NationaLease Maintenance Managers Meeting this May, in Dallas, TX. The top three finalists in the competition will also ...

Race-Connection.com, The world's only developer of Dirt Track Race Schedule Apps, are pleased to announce the launch of their IOS 7 based App on the Apple App Store. An example of this ground-breaking App can be downloaded to your iPhone today! The Race Connection App is a powerful tool for any race event with Heats. It displays everything a race track or events needs to connect the guests to the action. This Reusable, Customizable, Revenue Generating App is easily updated to highlight your Track/Event Schedule, Drivers, Heat Participants, Heat Winners, Sponsors, Concession/Souvenir ...

Nouvola Inc., developer of cloud-based performance testing and predictive analytics solutions for mid-sized enterprises, today was named the most promising startup in Oregon by a panel of angel investors at the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network Angel Oregon 2014. Nouvola was awarded a cash prize of $250,000, chosen from 15 competing companies and an initial applicant pool of nearly 60 companies. In October, Nouvola won the Bend Venture Conference grand prize of $250,000, which the company has used to advance its solution and deploy with a series of customers in various phases ...

Kona Coffee Purveyors announced today the launch of their e-commerce website purveying single-estate, high-elevation, artisan roasted Kona coffee for consumers worldwide. "At Kona Coffee Purveyors, we seek out the most extraordinary crops of single-estate Kona coffee, and artisan roast each individual harvest to bring out its own unique characteristics," says Raymond Suiter, Founder and Master Roaster of Kona Coffee Purveyors. "Now discriminating coffee drinkers can, for the first time, experience the purity and beauty of Kona coffee from a company that is built upon ...

Telling someone to "act your age" is another way of asking him or her to behave better. Age, however, does not always bring improvements. Certain cells of the immune system tend to misbehave with age, leaving the elderly more vulnerable to illness. Because these cells are known to misbehave similarly during spaceflight, researchers are studying the effects of microgravity on immune cells to better understand how our immune systems change as we age. NASA and the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, have teamed up to support research ...

Former Arizona Cardinals NFL player, and Pro-Player Health Alliance Sleep Apnea Awareness Advocate, Mark Walczak, undergoes a live public sleep study presented by the American Sleep and Breathing Academy to help raise awareness for sleep disorder treatment and education. ASBA's first public sleep study will be webcast alongside a clinical rotation for sleep health professionals and will be open for observation by registered attendees of the American Sleep & Breathing Academy's Sleep and Wellness 2014: A Conference for Healthcare Professionals, held at the Radisson Ft. ...

OAK BROOK, Ill. – Imaging of the coronary arteries with computed tomography (CT) angiography provides an accurate assessment of arterial plaque and could have a dramatic impact on the management of diabetic patients who face a high risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular events, according to a new multicenter study published online in the journal Radiology. Plaque that forms in the arterial walls can restrict blood flow and, in some cases, rupture, leading to potentially fatal heart attacks. There is considerable evidence that calcified, or stable, plaque, is less ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Acute respiratory distress syndrome is a leading cause of respiratory failure after surgery. Patients who develop the lung disorder postoperatively are at higher risk of dying in the hospital, and those who survive the syndrome may still bear its physical effects years later. A Mayo Clinic-led study is helping physicians better identify patients most at risk, the first step toward preventing this dangerous and costly surgical complication. They found nine independent risk factors, including sepsis, high-risk aortic vascular surgery, high-risk cardiac ...

Manure from dairy cows, which is commonly used as a farm soil fertilizer, contains a surprising number of newly identified antibiotic resistance genes from the cows' gut bacteria. The findings, reported in mBio® the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, hints that cow manure is a potential source of new types of antibiotic resistance genes that transfer to bacteria in the soils where food is grown. Thousands of antibiotic resistance (AR) genes have already been identified, but the vast majority of them don't pose a problem when found in ...

1. Health care leaders and advocates call for patient-centered 'revolution' in medical education Patients and families should be included in the training environment not only as the recipients of care, but also as teachers and evaluators of residents and students, according to a new commentary being published in Annals of Internal Medicine. “Patients and families can provide invaluable insights and perspectives for changing and improving physician training programs,” says lead author Steven E. Weinberger, MD, FACP, executive vice president and chief executive officer ...

PHILADELPHIA – For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that narrowing of the carotid artery in the neck without any symptoms may be linked to problems in learning, memory, thinking and decision-making, compared to people with similar risk factors but no narrowing in the neck artery, according to a study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 66th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, April 26 to May 3, 2014. "To date, the focus of diagnosis and management of carotid artery blockages has been prevention of stroke since that was ...

Bottom Line: A third of Medicare beneficiaries assigned to accountable care organizations (ACOs) in 2010 or 2011 were not assigned to the same ACO in both years and much of the specialty care received was provided outside the patients' assigned ACO, suggesting challenges to achieving organizational accountability in Medicare. Author: J. Michael McWilliams, M.D., Ph.D., of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, and colleagues. Background: ACOs are intended to foster greater accountability in the traditional fee-for-service Medicare program by ...

Bottom Line: Mammograms with false-positive results were associated with increased short-term anxiety for women, and more women with false-positive results reported that they were more likely to undergo future breast cancer screening. Author: Anna N.A. Tosteson, Sc.D., of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, N.H., and colleagues. Background: A portion of women who undergo routine mammogram screening will experience false-positive results and require further evaluation to rule out breast cancer. How the Study Was Conducted: The ...

There appears to be an increased prevalence of celiac disease among children with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Recurrent abdominal pain affects 10 percent to 15 percent of school-aged children. The prevalence of celiac disease is as high as 1 percent in European countries and patients can present with a wide spectrum of symptoms, including abdominal pain, although the disease is often asymptomatic. The authors assessed the prevalence of celiac disease in 992 children with abdominal pain-related disorders: IBS, functional dyspepsia (indigestion) and functional abdominal ...

Parts of ancient Antarctica were as warm as today's California coast, and polar regions of the southern Pacific Ocean registered 21st-century Florida heat, according to scientists using a new way to measure past temperatures. The findings, published the week of April 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, underscore the potential for increased warmth at Earth's poles and the associated risk of melting polar ice and rising sea levels, the researchers said. Led by scientists at Yale, the study focused on Antarctica during the Eocene epoch, 40-50 million ...

PHILADELPHIA - When we get sick it feels natural to try to hasten our recovery by getting some extra shuteye. Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that this response has a definite purpose, in fruitflies: enhancing immune system response and recovery to infection. Their findings appear online in two related papers in the journal Sleep, in advance of print editions in May and June. "It's an intuitive response to want to sleep when you get sick," notes Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology research associate Julie ...

What looked at first like a sort of upside-down planet has instead revealed a new method for studying binary star systems, discovered by a University of Washington student astronomer. Working with UW astronomer Eric Agol, doctoral student Ethan Kruse has confirmed the first "self-lensing" binary star system — one in which the mass of the closer star can be measured by how powerfully it magnifies light from its more distant companion star. Though our sun stands alone, about 40 percent of similar stars are in binary (two-star) or multi-star systems, orbiting their companions ...

PHILADELPHIA - Nonsteroidal antinflamatory drugs (NSAIDs) that block an enzyme called COX-2 relieve pain and inflammation but can cause heart attacks, stroke, heart failure, and even sudden cardiac death. This has prompted a decade-plus search for safer, but still effective, alternatives to these commonly prescribed, pain-relieving drugs. Building on previous work that showed that deleting an enzyme in the COX-2 pathway in a mouse model of heart disease slowed the development of atherosclerosis, a team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania ...