It is estimated that about 86 million American adults suffer from chronic pain to some degree. Pain is a complex medical problem that can have profound effects on the physical and mental well-being of an individual and their family. To help those suffering from pain, Spine Joint & Pain Center offers superior pain management services for Murfreesboro, TN area patients. With the availability of pain management services, patients can find relief from their pain so they can complete their day-to-day tasks. "Pain is the enemy and can cause us to avoid some of our daily ...

People are excited to watch the ice thaw and the mounds of snow melt. With the snow gone it can only mean one thing--spring is here. In reality, the first day of spring has already passed, and everyone is excited about it, especially Illinois residents. "The warm weather and sunshine is wonderful to see after the winter we had. It was rough, especially on the skin. And patients are ready to soak up the sun, but that is also not beneficial to the appearance of skin. It may get more tan, but people can also accelerate the aging process, damaging the collagen," explains ...

If a patient is unsure about orthodontic treatment, it's much more likely that he/she won't receive treatment. If malocclusion isn't treated, other problems could arise as his/her oral health declines. To help patients feel more confident about their dental decisions and smiles, Dr. Javed Bhojani is offering a free orthodontic consultation appointment at his Villa Park general dentistry office. Not every dentist office does free consultations, especially for braces. Orthodontic treatment can't be done in days or weeks. The treatment process can run as long as a year ...

Many people desire straighter teeth, but they often avoid treatment because they do not want to deal with bulky, metal braces. With advancements in dentistry, Warren Family Dental is pleased to offer Invisalign for Madison patients. The availability of Invisalign allows patients to straighten their teeth discretely with clear aligners. Invisalign is a clear solution for straighter teeth without the need for bulky braces, but how does a patient know if he or she is a candidate? At Warren Family Dental, Madison, WI dentist, Dr. Robb Warren works with each patient to determine ...

What kind of dentist does a patient look for? One that understands the patients dental needs and offers comfortable, quality care. In the case of Southdale Dental Associates, there are five dentists that are committed to their patients' satisfaction. Recently, the dental group was awarded the "Best Dental Clinic" by Edina Magazine as a part of "The 2014 Best of Edina: Top Shops, Restaurants, People and More." "With our years of combined experience and the best dental technology available, it's easy for us to deliver the best dental procedures and treatment for our patients. ...

For over 30 years, Dr. Peter Cooper has been a periodontist in Pasadena. He works with his team of dental professionals to offer helpful oral health care tips for improved oral health. Through the practice's website, patients can gain useful periodontal information around the clock. "It is important that our patients have numerous resources available at their every need to help them better understand their oral and periodontal health care. Through our website and in-office education, we can provide our patients with the knowledge they need to make well-informed decisions ...

CIC, the nation's premier tenant screening firm is pleased to announce a major product enhancement this week to ApplyConnect, a revolutionary tenant screening solution that delivers comprehensive reports at no cost to landlords and real estate agents, while empowering the applicant through a consumer-initiated process. ApplyConnect is the only product of its kind to empower renters by allowing them to initiate the process, select who they would like to share the report with, and view the report before opting to share it with a landlord or real estate agent. Through CIC's ...

Grammar is not always a precise science, no matter what grammarians may tell you. Grammar rules do evolve and experts often disagree; the Oxford comma is a great example of this. When I had to write essays in French - a second language for me - I would sometimes come to a grinding halt as I realized I couldn't remember the correct form of a verb or wasn't sure of the grammar rule - should I use subjunctive or not? My solution? I would think of a way to rephrase it, hence avoiding the issue. This type of evasive action is always a possibility if you're unsure about ...

"Amish-made" stands for quality craftsmanship you can trust. That's why long-time Sauder furniture dealer Express Furniture, of Akron, has expanded its offering to add handcrafted, Amish furniture to its portfolio of home entertainment and office furniture. The furniture retailer has added two lines of YT Woodcraft entertainment furniture to its website - the Express Series and Economy Series - but also offers the complete YT Woodcraft catalog of products through its store. The solid oak and brown maple furniture offered on the Express Furniture website is manufactured ...

heat's coming up as Appublica launches their second title Dragorena specially designed for iPad. The main idea of this game is 'casual' fantasy RPG to be played like nothing else before on the App Store. There are plenty of small MOBAs on iOS these days. But are they truly mobile-centric? Dragorena real-time PvP game is the answer. Unique gameplay, super easy controls, cartoonish but yet fairly detailed 3D graphics make Dragorena really comfortable and addictive mobile game. Now, Appublica, an independent developer of mobile games, announced that Dragorena 1.0 is ...

NationaLease, the North American organization of full service truck leasing companies, has named Joe Puff as Vice President of Truck Technology and Maintenance, reporting to Dean Vicha, President of NationaLease. "We welcome Joe to our organization," said Vicha. "With more than 35 years of experience in complex sales and fleet operations, including extensive experience in commercial vehicle maintenance, Joe will be a valuable resource for our members and our National Account team. He will be our go-to person when it comes to new technologies and trends in the trucking ...

Having recently changed their business model, and having introduced their new lower interest rates, TurboTitleLoan.com has added two new features to their website allowing consumers to gain valuable information regarding the company's online auto title loan product. These features are an interactive map and a new, state-specific "loan calculator". TurboTitleLoan.com has always featured a "loan calculator" on its home page giving customers an estimate of their potential monthly payment. The improved, state-specific loan calculator allows customers to get an accurate ...

As the properties and applications of graphene continue to be explored in laboratories all over the world, a growing number of researchers are looking beyond the one-atom-thick layer of carbon for alternative materials that exhibit similarly captivating properties. One of these materials is molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), which is part of a wider group of materials known as transition metal dichalcogenides, and has been put forward by a group of researchers in the US as a potential building block for the next generation of low-cost electrical devices. Due to its impressive ...

The dwindling visibility of tobacco products in prime time US TV drama programs may be linked to a fall in smoking prevalence of up to two packs of cigarettes per adult a year, suggests research published online in the journal Tobacco Control. The impact may be as much as half of that exerted by pricing, say the authors. In the largest study of its kind researchers watched and coded 1838 hours of popular U.S. prime-time dramas broadcast between 1955 and 2010 to gauge the impact of the depiction of tobacco products on smokers. The trends were compared with smoking ...

A new Global Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Atlas, launched by the World Heart Federation in its journal Global Heart, shows that in wealthy countries, the burden of cardiovascular disease is falling both in crude and age-standardised terms, while clusters of low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC) are seeing rises in their CVD burden as their populations continue adapt to demographic and behavioural changes including increased life expectancy, poor diet, continued and in some cases increased tobacco smoking, and a more sedentary lifestyle. The Atlas was prepared by ...

New research published in Global Heart (the journal of the World Heart Federation) shows that deaths from ischaemic stroke (IS) due to tobacco use in China, India, and Russia together are higher than the total for all the world's other countries combined. The research is by Dr Derrick Bennett, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, UK, and colleagues. The research looks at the results relating to IS in the global burden of disease (GBD) study published in 2012, but also provides additional analysis on the effects of tobacco consumption, an important ...

Results of a new trial of treatments for chronic whiplash pain, published in The Lancet, suggest that expensive, intense physiotherapy sessions do not show any additional benefit over a single physiotherapy session of education and advice with phone follow-up. The findings are in line with previous studies on the subject, which have reported minimal additional benefit of longer physiotherapy programmes over briefer physiotherapy programmes for acute whiplash-associated disorders. The current study supports those claims, finding that while intensive physiotherapy has remained ...

When cannibals ate brains of people who died from prion disease, many of them fell ill with the fatal neurodegenerative disease as well. Likewise, when cows were fed protein contaminated with bovine prions, many of them developed mad cow disease. On the other hand, transmission of prions between species, for example from cows, sheep, or deer to humans, is—fortunately—inefficient, and only a small proportion of exposed recipients become sick within their lifetimes. A study published on April 3rd in PLOS Pathogens takes a close look at one exception to this rule: bank ...

Washington, DC (April 3, 2014) — Kidney disease patients with poor quality of life are at increased risk of experiencing progression of their disease and of developing heart problems, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). The findings suggest that quality of life measurements may have important prognostic value in these individuals. Approximately 60 million people globally have chronic kidney disease (CKD). Quality of life has been well-studied in patients with end-stage kidney disease, but not ...

Washington, DC (April 3, 2014) — Just a modest amount of exercise may help reduce kidney disease patients' risks of developing heart disease and infections, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). Heart disease and infection are major complications and the leading causes of death in patients with chronic kidney disease. It is now well established that immune system dysfunction is involved in both of these pathological processes. Specifically, impaired immune function predisposes to infection, while ...

The risk of stroke may be much higher in people with insomnia compared to those who don't have trouble sleeping, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Stroke. The risk also seems to be far greater when insomnia occurs as a young adult compared to those who are older, said researchers who reviewed the randomly-selected health records of more than 21,000 people with insomnia and 64,000 non-insomniacs in Taiwan. They found: Insomnia raised the likelihood of subsequent hospitalization for stroke by 54 percent over four years. The incidence ...

BOSTON (April 4, 2014) — Exfoliation glaucoma (EG), caused by exfoliation syndrome, a condition in which white clumps of fibrillar material form in the eye, is the most common cause of secondary open-angle glaucoma and a leading cause of blindness and visual impairment. Effective strategies for preventing this disease are lacking. Elevated homocysteine, which may enhance exfoliation material formation, is one possible risk factor that has received significant research attention. Research studies demonstrate that high intake of vitamin B6, vitamin B12 and folate ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Wearing a fitness tracker on your wrist or clipped to your belt is so 2013. Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University have demonstrated thin, soft stick-on patches that stretch and move with the skin and incorporate commercial, off-the-shelf chip-based electronics for sophisticated wireless health monitoring. The patches stick to the skin like a temporary tattoo and incorporate a unique microfluidic construction with wires folded like origami to allow the patch to bend and flex without being constrained ...

Boulder, Colo., USA – New Geology studies include a mid-Cretaceous greenhouse world; the Vredefort meteoric impact event and the Vredefort dome, South Africa; shallow creeping faults in Italy; a global sink for immense amounts of water on Mars; the Funeral Mountains, USA; insect-mediated skeletonization of fern leaves in China; first-ever tectonic geomorphology study in Bhutan; the Ethiopian Large Igneous Province; the Central Andean Plateau; the Scandinavian Ice Sheet; the India-Asia collision zone; the Snake River Plain; and northeast Brazil. Highlights are provided ...

MADISON – For Simon Gilroy, sometimes seeing is believing. In this case, it was seeing the wave of calcium sweep root-to-shoot in the plants the University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of botany is studying that made him a believer. Gilroy and colleagues, in a March 24, 2014 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed what long had been suspected but long had eluded scientists: that calcium is involved in rapid plant cell communication. It's a finding that has implications for those interested in how plants adapt to and thrive in changing ...