With summer just around the bend, the time to start a pool renovation project is now. Noted Orlando pool specialists, All Seasons Pools, points out that there are many reasons why you should consider updating your pool. The systems that maintain your pool, such as the filter or the pump, may have deteriorated over time and therefore need to be replaced by more efficient models. Another reason to update would be if you leave your pool empty for long stretches of time. Sometimes the pool shell shifts or floats up. This has to be checked before it leads to bigger problems ...

Hand and wrist injuries can encompass anything from tendonitis resulting from repetitive actions to fractures caused by acute trauma. In terms of acute injuries, these are most commonly observed in athletes involved in contact sports, such as football or hockey, or in sports where certain movements are exaggerated, such as in tennis. Of course, they can also occur during other types of activities like by falling and landing on your hands while running. Acute injuries include strains, dislocations, tears, inflammation and fractures with the single most common site of ...

The Holiday Inn Express & Suites Atlanta Perimeter Hotel (North), located near Perimeter Mall in Sandy Springs, offers comfortable and convenient lodging to guests attending Spring 2014 Commencement exercises at Georgia Tech. All graduates and their families are invited to attend the President's Graduation Celebration on May 2. The event will be held from 3-5pm at Tech Green. The Ph.D. and Master's Commencement ceremony will take place on May 2 from 7-9pm at McCamish Pavilion. Bachelor's ceremonies will be held on May 3, according to major. The morning Commencement ...

The coffee espresso experts, J. Martinez, discuss the cognitive enhancing benefits a cup of coffee can provide. Not only does this favorite morning drink give us improved alertness, but numerous studies have also shown that it can also bolster one's memory, which is good news for those of us who live hectic lifestyles. In a recent research test, 73 participants were chosen to partake in a study that would determine whether coffee can indeed improve brain functioning, namely with regards to memory recall. Of the individuals, all of which reported not being a casual drinker ...

You worked hard to craft a dynamic business plan for your company for this coming year, now how can you be sure it gets implemented effectively? You need the services of a professional facilitator to assist you in communicating and executing your company goals and objectives as fully and efficiently as possible. From their extensive roster of experienced and highly-trained facilitation experts, FindaFacilitator can help you land the ideal facilitator who can best help you achieve the goals you have set for your company this new year. Ensure the effective implementation ...

Earth grounding is one of the most important safety considerations to remember when creating an electrical system. The residential electrical contractors at Pat Murphy Electric, Inc., wish to explain some basic information about earth grounding. Earth grounding is used to give power surges caused by lightning strikes, static charges and other types of electrical interference an easy and controlled way to dissipate. Atlanta electrical contractors most commonly create an earth grounding system by attaching a ground wire to a metal rod, pipe or plate, which they then bury ...

On May 3rd, 2014 in Ontario, California. Join us at MLM giant Gano Excel's Bigger Than Life event, Saturday, May 3, 2014 at the Ontario Convention Center in Ontario, California. Doors open at 10am. The most unique event in MLM History. It's a celebration of wellness, business, education and success from internationally known speakers and life coaches to the Hollywood elite. Attendees will learn the tools and skills necessary to succeed and grow their business. "Bigger Than Life" is put on by MLM giant Gano Excel USA. Can you imagine an MLM company offering anything ...

The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia has signed a contract with Columbia Artists Management Inc. (CAMI) and will join Grammy Award-winning and Tony Award nominated saxophonist and composer Branford Marsalis on his national "Well-Tempered" tour, featuring Baroque masterpieces by Albinoni, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi and more. With nearly twenty performances across the United States, the tour begins Saturday, October 4, 2014 in Seattle, Washington and ends Sunday, November 2, 2014 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. "It is an honor for our orchestra to tour with an artist as talented ...

EHC, Inc., a construction company that provides pre-construction, earthwork and infrastructure services, announces the expansion of talent and equipment as well as technology advancements in response to market improvement. Over the past year, EHC has more than doubled its resources hiring numerous new employees across departments, increasing its equipment fleet significantly and upgrading a variety of technical systems. EHC attributes the recent expansion to its reputation, relationships and experience providing the company with the opportunity to ramp up quickly and ...

OAK BROOK, Ill. – Type 2 diabetes may be associated with brain degeneration, according to a new multicenter study published online in the journal Radiology. The study also found that, contrary to common clinical belief, diabetes may not be directly associated with small vessel ischemic disease, where the brain does not receive enough oxygenated blood. "We found that patients having more severe diabetes had less brain tissue, suggesting brain atrophy," said lead author R. Nick Bryan, M.D., Ph.D., professor of radiology at the Perleman School of Medicine at the University ...

New oral anticoagulant drugs that treat and prevent clots offer a much-needed alternative to warfarin, which has been used for more than 6 decades and has serious shortcomings. A new article published in BJS (British Journal of Surgery) gives an overview of the major clinical trials and recommendations related to these new agents and will serve as a practical guide for their use in patients who require planned or emergency surgery. Warfarin has been the drug of choice to control blood clots in a variety of patients, including people with certain types of irregular heartbeats, ...

There is new, more definitive evidence implicating camels in the ongoing outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS. Scientists at the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, King Saud University, and EcoHealth Alliance extracted a complete, live, infectious sample of MERS coronavirus from two camels in Saudi Arabia. The sample matched MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) found in humans, indicating that the virus in camels is capable of infecting humans and that camels are a likely source of the outbreak. Results ...

PITTSBURGH, April 29, 2014 – People infected with HIV whose immune cells have low cholesterol levels experience much slower disease progression, even without medication, according to University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health research that could lead to new strategies to control infection. The Pitt Public Health researchers found that low cholesterol in certain cells, which is likely an inherited trait, affects the ability of the body to transmit the virus to other cells. The discovery, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is featured in today's ...

Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh have identified why some HIV-infected people experience much slower disease progression, even without medication, and it has to do with cholesterol levels in specific immune cells. They report their findings in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. "A fascinating aspect of the AIDS epidemic is that a small percentage of HIV-1-infected persons, termed nonprogressors or controllers, maintain a relatively normal number of CD4 T cells (Th cells) and low viral load for many years without ...

April 29, 2014 – Friday will mark the third anniversary of Osama bin Laden's assassination, a day when U.S. President Barack Obama famously stated "Justice has been done." But has it? A new study from a team of social psychology researchers led by Mario Gollwitzer of Philipps University of Marburg, has questioned whether this instance of vicarious revenge led to feelings of satisfaction and reestablished justice within the American public, including whether bin Laden's assassination ignited craving for more revenge. Justice achieved Vicarious revenge, where the need ...

When it comes to luxury brands, the ruder the sales staff the better the sales, according to new research from the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business. The forthcoming Journal of Consumer Research study reveals that consumers who get the brush-off at a high-end retailer can become more willing to purchase and wear pricey togs. "It appears that snobbiness might actually be a qualification worth considering for luxury brands like Louis Vuitton or Gucci," says Sauder Marketing Professor Darren Dahl. "Our research indicates they can end up having ...

Global health research and training efforts should focus on combatting the growing epidemic of noncommunicable diseases, better incorporating information technology into research and training, and more effectively converting scientific discoveries into practice in low-resource settings, according to the Fogarty International Center's new strategic plan, released today. Fogarty is the component of the National Institutes of Health solely focused on supporting global health research and training, and coordinating international research partnerships across the agency. As ...

New research looking at the success of clinical trials of stem cell therapy shows that trials appear to be more successful in studies where there are more discrepancies in the trial data. Researchers from Imperial College London conducted a meta-analysis of 49 randomised controlled trials of bone marrow stem cell therapy for heart disease. The study, published today in the British Medical Journal, identified and listed over 600 discrepancies within the trial reports. Discrepancies were defined as two (or more) reported facts that could not both be accurate because ...

1. Viral hepatitis remains a major health concern in the U.S. Experts comment on HHS 2014-2016 Viral Hepatitis Action Plan Untreated chronic viral hepatitis affects between 3.5 and 5.3 million Americans and continues to fuel rising incidences of progressive liver disease, liver failure, and liver cancer. In 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) unveiled the nation's first coordinated national approach to tackling viral hepatitis with the Action Plan for the Prevention, Care and Treatment of Viral Hepatitis in the United States. Priorities set ...

MINNEAPOLIS – A review by the American Academy of Neurology of available scientific research on the use of medical marijuana in brain diseases finds certain forms of medical marijuana can help treat some symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS), but do not appear to be helpful in treating drug-induced (levodopa) movements in Parkinson's disease. Not enough evidence was found to show if medical marijuana is helpful in treating motor problems in Huntington's disease, tics in Tourette syndrome, cervical dystonia and seizures in epilepsy. The review is published in the April 29, ...

Children's exposure to violence and crime declined between 2003 and 2011. Rates of violent crime have declined in the United States since the 1990s. The authors previously completed three national telephone surveys of children and caregivers on children's exposure to violence in 2003, 2008 and 2011. In this study, the authors analyzed the surveys for changes over time from 2003 to 2011. The authors examined 50 specific trends in exposures to violence and crime and found 27 significant declines and no significant increases between 2003 and 2011. There were declines ...

Bottom Line: Children and young adults who start antidepressant therapy at high doses, rather than the "modal" [average or typical] prescribed doses, appear to be at greater risk for suicidal behavior during the first 90 days of treatment. Author: Matthew Miller, M.D., Sc.D., of the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, and colleagues. Background: A previous meta-analysis by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of antidepressant trials suggested that children who received antidepressants had twice the rate of suicidal ideation and behavior than children who ...

Girls who are told by a parent, sibling, friend, classmate or teacher that they are too fat at age 10 are more likely to be obese at age 19, a new study by UCLA psychologists shows. The study looked at 1,213 African-American girls and 1,166 white girls living in Northern California, Cincinnati and Washington, D.C., 58 percent of whom had been told they were too fat at age 10. All the girls had their height and weight measured at the beginning of the study and again after nine years. Overall, the girls labeled fat were 1.66 times more likely than the other girls to be ...

A graduate student in Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, and two of his undergraduate trainees, were selected by the Council on Undergraduate Research to present their original research on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Wesley Kerr, whose graduate studies will be completed in the UCLA Department of Biomathematics, and his trainees, Akash Patel and Sarah Barritt, will present their poster entitled "Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Epilepsy Using Clinical Information" outlining advances in the use of computational machine learning to help clinicians ...

A study led by Michael Worobey at the University of Arizona in Tucson provides the most conclusive answers yet to two of the world's foremost biomedical mysteries of the past century: the origin of the 1918 pandemic flu virus and its unusual severity, which resulted in a death toll of approximately 50 million people. Worobey's paper on the flu, to be published in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on April 28, not only sheds light on the devastating 1918 pandemic, but also suggests that the types of flu viruses to which people ...