Powerhouse Amazon Seller "Life Made Better" debuts their latest offering to the market today, the Soul Mover Exercise Mat. Bolstering an already strong product lineup, Life Made Better is poised to make a huge splash in the exercise community with this product being the most essential tool for anyone looking to have a portable workout area, everywhere they go. Much thicker than most mats in it's price range, the Soul Mover is the perfect exercise workout mat for all on-the-go and at home extreme workouts and is available in four colors, purple, green, black, and ...

With inclusion of more than 500,000 real-time listings from auto dealers nationwide, used car buyers can now search for real time listings of used cars nationwide. Used Cars Exchange is pleased to provide car buyers with complete tool to aid in the car buying process. Buyers looking for great deals have wide range of selections and options to choose from. Car buyers can now compare prices of used cars between auto dealers in their region which could result in amazing savings for the buyer. Searching for used cars is simply and easy. Buyers can search by zip code and other ...

Fleet owners can maximize their fleet's productivity by taking advantage of the variety of resources available to them both before and during the truck specification process. Jim Sweeney, Vice President of Capital Equipment for AmeriQuest Transportation Services says in a blog on the topic that it's essential for owners to turn to manufacturers and other experts when weighing the literally hundreds of decisions that must be made. "When you spend an average $110,000 for a day cab or $115,000 to $130,000 for a sleeper, you need to know how each choice potentially ...

Arc Communications is a Tokyo-based translation agency that specializes in corporate communication services. As part of its CSR, in the summer of 2012 Arc launched UNIV. IN JAPAN, a portal site dedicated to introducing Japanese Universities and their English-taught degree programs. It recently renewed the site in conjunction with the addition of postgraduate programs taught in English. The site offers a user-friendly interface to search and learn about universities and their program details. http://www.univinjapan.com UNIV. IN JAPAN's mission is to increase awareness ...

For over 25 years, DocuVantage's expert engineers and consultants have assisted businesses with their document management and workflow automation needs. But, the team has stumbled upon a familiar theme amongst its clients: Most organizations, from small startups to high-ranking enterprises, don't know the difference between robust document management and "folders in the cloud." Their first job, then, is to drive that difference home for their clients. DOCUMENT SEARCH Locate files easily by using the file metadata, which represents important information about ...

The short, which is gathering financial support through crowdfunding, brings the viewer into the story through the eyes of the protagonist. A first-person experience of the hell many immigrants go through after leaving their countries until they arrive in the hypothetical paradise of Europe. It also describes his experiences after arriving at his destination, which is very different from what he thought he would find in Europe. The proposal is daring in format: a silent short, filmed entirely from the subjective viewpoint, with music connecting the narrative. The idea ...

Lessard Design Inc., an architecture and planning firm based In metropolitan Washington, DC, is pleased to announce the promotion of three team members. These achievements are a reflection of Lessard Design's philosophy of rewarding company leaders within the organization for their outstanding work. Bill Foliaco has been promoted to Associate Principal and has more than 20 years of architectural experience in single family projects. Ulises Montes De Oca has devoted the last 10 years to the firm, and now as Associate Principal of Design, will continue designing mixed-use, ...

DALLAS, March 17, 2014 — Chicken fat, pork fat or beef fat –– none is the cornerstone of a healthful diet –– but animal fats, including those from alligators, could give an economical, ecofriendly boost to the biofuel industry, according to researchers who reported a new method for biofuel production here today. The report, following up on their earlier study on the potential use of gator fat as a source of biodiesel fuel, was part of the 247th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. The meeting, attended by thousands ...

There is "significant" potential for organ donation to be made from among UK newborns, reveals research published online in the Fetal & Neonatal Edition of the Archives of Disease in Childhood. But it is going untapped because of current guidelines on the definition of brainstem death, which run counter to those used by many other developed countries, say the authors. There are fewer children than adults on the waiting list for donated organs, but there are also far fewer potential donors for any child, particularly those of a younger age for whom only small sized organs ...

Young women who are most at risk of developing cervical cancer are the least likely to be offered the protective HPV jab and to complete the full course when they are, reveals research published online in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections. These women need to be better targeted to boost the overall uptake of the vaccination programme, which was well below the 80% required to make a significant difference to cervical cancer rates during its first three years of operation, say the authors. They base their findings on responses to anonymous questionnaires completed ...

A decade of strategic efforts to improve care has had a key role in improving quality of life and added years to predicted survival for people with cystic fibrosis (CF) in the United States, according to the editors of a BMJ Quality & Safety supplement dedicated to the disease. Health outcomes for CF have improved dramatically following implementation of an innovative and aggressive plan to promote quality improvement at CF care centres. This includes benchmarking comparisons of current care with best practice; use of a patient registry to track outcomes; patient ...

Over the last 20 years, China has more than halved its tuberculosis (TB) prevalence, with rates falling from 170 to 59 per 100 000 population. This unrivalled success has been driven by a massive scale-up of the directly observed, short-course (DOTS) strategy, from half the population in the 1990s to the entire country after 2000, according to findings from a 20-year-long analysis of national survey data, published in The Lancet. "One of the key global TB targets set by the Stop TB Partnership aims to reduce tuberculosis prevalence by 50% between 1990 and 2015. This study ...

DALLAS, March 17, 2014 — Brain sensors and electronic tags that dissolve. Boosting the potential of renewable energy sources. These are examples of the latest research from two pioneering scientists selected as this year's Kavli lecturers at the 247th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society. The meeting features more than 10,000 presentations from the frontiers of chemical research, and is being held here through Thursday. Two of these talks are supported by The Kavli Foundation, a philanthropic organization ...

1. Evidence does not support guidelines on fatty acid consumption to reduce coronary risk Current evidence does not support nutritional guidelines that advocate high consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids and low consumption of total saturated fats, according to an article being published in Annals of Internal Medicine. For cardiovascular health, nutritional guidelines generally encourage low consumption of saturated fats, high consumption of w-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, and avoidance of trans fats. However, uncertainties in available evidence have contributed ...

Philadelphia (March 17, 2014) – Scientists from the Monell Chemical Senses Center have found that children who most prefer high levels of sweet tastes also most prefer high levels of salt taste and that, in general, children prefer sweeter and saltier tastes than do adults. These preferences relate not only to food intake but also to measures of growth and can have important implications for efforts to change children's diets. Many illnesses of modern society are related to poor food choices. Because children consume far more sugar and salt than recommended, which contributes ...

PHILADELPHIA—A new study led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has found that the risk of hepatitis C-associated serious liver disease persists in HIV patients otherwise benefitting from antiretroviral therapy (ART) to treat HIV. It has been suggested that ART slows hepatitis C-associated liver fibrosis; however, whether rates of severe liver complications in patients co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C receiving ART were similar to those with just hepatitis C remained unclear. The study, published in the March 18 ...

Identifying biomarkers could lead to earlier detection of preeclampsia, which in turn can lead to healthier mothers and children, according to a collaborative study from the Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research (CEMIR) and the MR Cancer Group at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Their findings, "Metabolomic Biomarkers in Serum and Urine in Women with Preeclampsia," will be published in PLOS ONE on 17 March. "We have found that the metabolism in women who experience preeclampsia is clearly different from women with normal pregnancies. The ...

A new study raises questions about current guidelines which generally restrict the consumption of saturated fats and encourage consumption of polyunsaturated fats to prevent heart disease. The research was published today, 18 March, in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. An international research collaboration led by the University of Cambridge analysed existing cohort studies and randomised trials on coronary risk and fatty acid intake. They showed that current evidence does not support guidelines which restrict the consumption of saturated fats in order to prevent ...

DALLAS, March 17, 2014 — A color-coded smart tag could tell consumers whether a carton of milk has turned sour or a can of green beans has spoiled without opening the containers, according to researchers. The tag, which would appear on the packaging, also could be used to determine if medications and other perishable products were still active or fresh, they said. This report on the color-changing food deterioration tags was presented today as part of the 247th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society. ...

Improving the coordination of care for elderly patients with chronic diseases trims costs, reduces use of health services and cuts complications, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Studying a large group of Medicare patients, researchers found that even modest improvements in the continuity of care among patients with diabetes, congestive heart failure or emphysema were associated with sizable reductions in use of hospital emergency departments and hospitalizations. The findings, published online by JAMA Internal Medicine, suggest that improving the coordination ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — One in eight visits to a a doctor for a headache or migraine end up with the patient going for a brain scan, at a total cost of about $1 billion a year, a new University of Michigan Medical School study finds. And many of those MRI and CT scans – and costs – are probably unnecessary, given the very low odds that serious issues lurk in the patients' brains. In fact, several national guidelines for doctors specifically discourage scanning the brains of patients who complain of headache and migraine. But the new study shows the rate of brain scans for ...

A unique 39-year study of wildflower blooms in a Colorado Rocky Mountain meadow shows more than two-thirds of alpine flowers have changed their blooming pattern in response to climate change. Not only are half the flowers beginning to bloom weeks earlier, but more than a third are reaching their peak bloom earlier, and others are producing their last blooms later in the year. The bloom season, which used to run from late May to early September, now lasts from late April to late September, according to University of Maryland Biology Professor David Inouye. The wildflower ...

ANN ARBOR—University of Michigan researchers have learned how to fix a cellular structure called the Golgi that mysteriously becomes fragmented in all Alzheimer's patients and appears to be a major cause of the disease. They say that understanding this mechanism helps decode amyloid plaque formation in the brains of Alzheimer's patients—plaques that kills cells and contributes to memory loss and other Alzheimer's symptoms. The researchers discovered the molecular process behind Golgi fragmentation, and also developed two techniques to 'rescue' the Golgi structure. ...

It's a jungle in there. In the tightly woven ecosystem of the human gut, trillions of bacteria compete with each other on a daily basis while they sense and react to signals from the immune system, ingested food, and other bacteria. Problems arise when bad gut bugs overtake friendly ones, or when the immune system is thrown off balance, as in Crohn's disease, celiac disease, and colorectal cancer. Doctors have struggled to diagnose these conditions early and accurately. But now a new engineered strain of E. coli bacteria could deliver status updates from this complex ...

Using genome sequencing, National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and their colleagues have tracked the evolution of the antibiotic-resistant bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 258 (ST258), an important agent of hospital-acquired infections. While researchers had previously thought that ST258 K. pneumoniae strains spread from a single ancestor, the NIH team showed that the strains arose from at least two different lineages. The investigators also found that the key difference between the two groups lies in the genes involved in production of the bacterium's ...