When it comes to pregnancy and birth, it is important for expectant moms to take all precautions necessary to ensure the health of their baby. As a midwife serving Bergen County, NJ and surrounding areas, Donna Tabas believes in the natural and physiological birthing. The field of midwifery is the belief that pregnancy and birth are normal events that should occur without major medical complications. Donna Tabas is a midwife in Hudson County, NJ, Bergen County, NJ, and Rockland County, NJ. She works with each expectant mother by actively engaging women to play a dynamic ...

Brought on by the same varicella-zoster virus that causes chicken pox, shingles is an infection that occurs mostly in people age 60 or older. It usually begins with an itchiness or tingling sensation on the skin. It progresses into a rash that soon becomes a fluid-filled blister that will dry out and crust over a period of several days. At its peak, shingles pain can range from a mildly annoying itch to intense pain. According to Georgia pain clinic Atlanta Spine & Alternative Pain Management Center (ASAP), there are a number of viable treatments for shingles pain, ...

There are several reasons why your dentist may recommend a crown for your tooth. Crowns can help protect a weak tooth from further decay, cover a dental implant, hold a dental bridge in place or restore a broken or severely worn-down tooth. The experienced Atlanta cosmetic dentists at Downtown Atlanta Dentistry note that patients have several options when it comes to choosing the right material for their dental crown. For out-of-sight molars, metal crowns can be used because they are extremely sturdy and long-lasting. Some crowns are made up of porcelain that is fused ...

It's a thrill you will never forget; soaring through the air as you zip over the Blue Ridge Mountains at top speeds of up to 40 miles an hour. To ensure nothing distracts you from breathtaking views of the Cherokee National Forest and the rest of the world as you zip on by, the Raft One Ocoee zip line canopy tour takes several safety precautions. You can glide through the air between treetop sky towers, suspension bridges and cargo nets with the greatest of ease and confidence in a full body harness, helmet, gloves, safety lanyards and a guide. Concerns about your security ...

Divorce can be a nasty business and can be overwhelming. Having an attorney can change the very dynamic of your divorce and change the stakes. Splitting everything down the middle is not the law in every state, and Georgia is one of the states where division of assets is more complicated. Having an experienced divorce attorney greatly increases the chances of you getting exactly what you are entitled to as a result of a divorce. Less Stressful Although many people know how to file for divorce, divorces can also be very strenuous, complex and, at times, catastrophic ...

Stucco is an incredibly special material that needs special care throughout its lifetime. Part of that special care, according to The Painting Penguin, is using stucco-specific paint whenever you want to refresh its color. Unlike most exterior paints, acrylic-based stucco paints are actually designed to protect stucco without it losing any of its breathability. This breathability keeps stucco from cracking, splitting and peeling, which is why it is so essential to use stucco-specific paint. Stucco paint also is designed for easy use on stucco's naturally rough texture. The ...

Process Excellence Network has selected a business transformation article written by Larry McManis, President & CEO of ThinkWay Strategies, as this week's Editor's Choice. The article, Is It Time to Transform Business Transformation?, identifies three key areas where leaders and team members of strategic initiatives need to transform their own thinking in order to increase the odds of successful business transformation. Research indicates the failure rates for major strategic initiatives of all types ranges from 60-80%. "The truth is, we "experts" need a new mindset ...

When Tim and Kit Kemp's Firmdale Hotel group opens its eighth London property, Ham Yard Hotel, on 1st June 2014, it will be the group's most ambitious project to date. The recently announced date means the Ham Yard Hotel will open just one month after the Shangri-La Hotel welcomes its first guests at the Shard on 6th May 2014. Other hotly anticipated hotels opening in London in 2014 are the 8-storey Dorsett Shepherds Bush, taking over the Grade II listed Pavilion building overlooking Shepherds Bush Green, which is set to launch in May. The Mondrian London, part of the ...

Gather the family and join us at Chef Sage's Restaurant for a joyous Easter celebration, Sunday, April 20. Chef Sage will mark the holiday with special menu offerings, music, flowers and a visit from Chef Sage himself, for a truly unforgettable dining experience. Among Chef Sage's holiday offerings will be a menu of specialty selections, available from 10 a.m. until 2pm CST. Priced at $11 for children and $35 for adults, the menu will feature Black Cod, Ham, Leg of Lamb, Eggs Benedict over Crab Cakes, Seared Chicken Breast, Lobster Ravioli and more. In addition, ...

Getting Smart, with support from the Deeper Learning Student Assessment Initiative (DLSAI), comprised of Envision Education, the Asia Society, ConnectEd, and New Tech Network, released the "Assessing Deeper Learning: A Survey of Performance Assessment and Mastery Tracking Tools" report. This report reviews, evaluates, and identifies tools and technologies that make Deeper Learning student assessment systems efficient and effective for networks, districts, schools, and teachers. Assessing Deeper Learning features the expertise of Tom Vander Ark and Dr. Carri Schneider of ...

You may have read this before but it remains true nonetheless; your website is not for you or your company, it's for your readers - and potential customers. Never lose sight of this! You should always have a picture of your ideal customer in mind when writing any marketing materials; this is especially true of your website. This is not the place to tell the history of your company or extol the virtues of your product. Yes, the history may be fascinating and your product little short of miraculous but - guess what - your readers don't care! That's right, sorry, but ...

PHILADELPHIA — The presence of chronic inflammation in benign prostate tissue was associated with high-grade, or aggressive, prostate cancer, and this association was found even in those with low prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. An analysis of prostate tissue biopsies collected from some participants of the placebo arm of the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT) found that those whose benign prostate tissue had chronic inflammation ...

Men who show signs of chronic inflammation in non-cancerous prostate tissue may have nearly twice the risk of actually having prostate cancer than those with no inflammation, according to results of a new study led by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. The link between persistent inflammation and cancer was even stronger for men with so-called high-grade prostate cancer — those with a Gleason score between 7 and 10 — indicating the presence of the most aggressive and rapidly growing prostate cancers. "What we've shown in this observational study ...

According to a study published today in PLOS Pathogens, children who live in regions of the world where malaria is common can mount an immune response to infection with malaria parasites that may enable them to avoid repeated bouts of high fever and illness and partially control the growth of malaria parasites in their bloodstream. The findings may help researchers develop future interventions that prevent or mitigate the disease caused by the malaria parasite. Each year, approximately 200 million cases of malaria occur worldwide, resulting in roughly 627,000 deaths (mostly ...

Sulfur left over from refining fossil fuels can be transformed into cheap, lightweight, plastic lenses for infrared devices, including night-vision goggles, a University of Arizona-led international team has found. The team successfully took thermal images of a person through a piece of the new plastic. By contrast, taking a picture taken through the plastic often used for ordinary lenses does not show a person's body heat. "We have for the first time a polymer material that can be used for quality thermal imaging – and that's a big deal," said senior co-author Jeffrey ...

Double-stapled peptide inhibits RSV infection Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of lower respiratory tract infections, generating life-threating illness in very young and elderly populations. Despite great effort, preventive therapies are limited. RSV enters host cells through the fusion protein RSV F, which forms a six-helix fusogenic bundle. Small interfering peptides that prevent bundle formation limit RSV infection in vitro; however, these peptides are highly susceptible to degradation. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Loren ...

Suddenly there was a word for chili peppers. Information about archaeological remains of ancient chili peppers in Mexico along with a study of the appearance of words for chili peppers in ancient dialects helped researchers to understand where jalapeños were domesticated and highlight the value of multi-proxy data analysis. Their results are from one (Kraig Kraft et al.) of nine papers presented in a special feature issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on plant and animal domestication edited by Dolores Piperno, staff scientist emerita at the Smithsonian ...

New Rochelle, NY, April 17, 2014—The development of stem cell therapies to cure a variety of diseases depends on the ability to characterize stem cell populations based on cell surface markers. Researchers from the Finnish Red Cross have discovered a new marker that is highly expressed in a type of stem cells derived from human umbilical cord blood, which they describe in an article in BioResearch Open Access, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the BioResearch Open Access website. Heli Suila and colleagues, ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. April 17 – In the most densely forested and most densely populated quadrant of the United States, forests reflect two centuries of human needs, values and practices. Disturbances associated with those needs, such as logging and clearing forests for agriculture and development, have set the stage for management issues of considerable concern today, a U.S. Forest Service study reports. The report – Five anthropogenic factors that will radically alter forest conditions and management needs in the Northern United States – was published recently by the journal ...

AURORA, Colo. (April 17, 2014) – Two recent papers by a University of Colorado School of Medicine researcher and colleagues may help scientists develop treatments or vaccines for Dengue fever, West Nile virus, Yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis and other disease-causing flaviviruses. Jeffrey S. Kieft, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at the School of Medicine and an early career scientist with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and colleagues recently published articles in the scholarly journals eLife and Science that explain how flaviviruses ...

Ancient Earth might have had an extraterrestrial supply of vitamin B3 delivered by carbon-rich meteorites, according to a new analysis by NASA-funded researchers. The result supports a theory that the origin of life may have been assisted by a supply of key molecules created in space and brought to Earth by comet and meteor impacts. "It is always difficult to put a value on the connection between meteorites and the origin of life; for example, earlier work has shown that vitamin B3 could have been produced non-biologically on ancient Earth, but it's possible that an added ...

Like a balloon bobbing along in the air while tied to a child's hand, a tracer has been found in the sun's atmosphere to help track the flow of material coursing underneath the sun's surface. New research that uses data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, to track bright points in the solar atmosphere and magnetic signatures on the sun's surface offers a way to probe the star's depths faster than ever before. The technique opens the door for near real-time mapping of the sun's roiling interior – movement that affects a wide range of events on the sun from ...

At one point in history, Greenland was actually green and not a country covered in ice. An international team of researchers, including a scientist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has discovered that ancient dirt in Greenland was cryogenically frozen for millions of years under nearly two miles of ice. More than 2.5 million years ago. Greenland looked like the green Alaskan tundra, before it was covered by the second largest body of ice on Earth. The ancient dirt under the Greenland ice sheet helps to unravel an important mystery surrounding climate change: ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A drug under clinical trials to treat tuberculosis could be the basis for a class of broad-spectrum drugs that act against various bacteria, fungal infections and parasites, yet evade resistance, according to a study by University of Illinois chemists and collaborators. Led by U. of I. chemistry professor Eric Oldfield, the team determined the different ways the drug SQ109 attacks the tuberculosis bacterium, how the drug can be tweaked to target other pathogens from yeast to malaria – and how targeting multiple pathways reduces the probability of pathogens ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — One of the most popular vaccine brands for children may not be the most cost-effective choice. And doctors may be overlooking some cost factors when choosing vaccines, driving the market toward what is actually a more expensive option, according to a new study by University of Illinois researchers. "The choice of vaccines to administer can be driven by numerous factors," says Sheldon H. Jacobson, a co-author of the study and a professor of computer science and of mathematics at the U. of I. "In an environment where vaccines are under growing public scrutiny, ...