Now 285 years later, for true coffee lovers like Chadwick Conte, sipping a cup of well-brewed specialty coffee can be the highpoint of his day. His love of coffee led him to do research into the best coffee the world has to offer, which in turn led him to Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee and Kona Coffee from Hawaii. After more years of research he opened an Internet-based coffee business called C&C Specialty Coffee. C&C Specialty Coffee specializes in importing and selling 100 percent Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee. U.S. demand is such that the Jamaica Blue Mountain ...

'World of Dance' is the theme for this year's St Patrick's Day parade in London, one of 134 top events beginning in London this March previewed by LondonTown.com and for visitors who want to stay in the city to enjoy one of the many great events starting this month there's a wide range of London hotels to choose from. Theatre highlights in London in March 2014 include a star-studded production of classic 1987 film, 'Fatal Attraction' with Natascha McElhone as femme fatale Alex Forrest and Sex and the City's Kristin Davis as the woman betrayed in Trevor Nunn's brand new ...

As police and military organizations around the world grapple ineffectively with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Sergeant Kindle of the Alberta Police Force, in the thrilling new release FIREWALLS, pulls out all stops to give his officers every chance to heal. Canadian author, Eileen Schuh, is pleased to announce the release of the third novel in her BackTracker series--FIREWALLS. With the young heroine of the series, Katrina, now on the cusp of adulthood and pitting her brains and bravado against a challenging police career, this action-packed thriller is even ...

PISCATAWAY, NJ – Although some advocates want to lower the legal drinking age from 21, research continues to show that the law saves lives. That's the finding of a new review published in a special supplemental issue to the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. Researchers found that studies done since 2006—when a new debate over age-21 laws flared up—have continued to demonstrate that the mandates work. The laws, studies show, are associated with lower rates of drunk-driving crashes among young people. And it seems they also curb other hazards of heavy drinking—including ...

A new analysis has found that adolescents and young adults who develop thyroid cancer as a secondary cancer have a significantly greater risk of dying than those with primary thyroid cancer. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings stress the importance of screening young cancer survivors to detect early signs of a potentially life-threatening thyroid malignancy. Thyroid cancer is one of the five most common malignancies in adolescent and young adult patients (ages 15 to 39 years). It can develop as an initial ...

STANFORD, Calif. - A computerized safety checklist that automatically pulls information from patients' electronic medical records was associated with a threefold drop in rates of one serious type of hospital-acquired infection, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. The study, conducted in the hospital's pediatric intensive care unit, targeted bloodstream infections that begin in central lines - catheters inserted into major veins. The infections are a preventable cause of illness ...

KANSAS CITY, MO – February 24, 2014 – With less than half of medications including specific labeling for children, Kathleen Neville, MD, MS, a physician at Children's Mercy Hospital, recently led an American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) committee in updating the policy with new recommendations guiding the off-label use of drugs in pediatric patients. The policy statement, "Off-Label Use of Drugs in Children," was published online today in the March 2014 issue of Pediatrics. Dr. Neville is chair of the AAP Committee on Drugs and Director of Experimental Therapeutics in ...

In a study to be published in Psychological Science, researchers from Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen demonstrate that brain cells in what is called the mirror system help people make sense of the actions they see other people perform in everyday life. Using magnetic stimulation to temporarily disrupt normal processing of the areas of the human brain involved in the production of actions of human participants, it is demonstrated that these areas are also involved in the understanding of actions. The study is the first to demonstrate a clear causal ...

A team of UConn chemists has discovered a new way of making a class of porous materials that allows for greater manufacturing controls and has significantly broader applications than the longtime industry standard. The process, more than three years in the making, has resulted in the creation of more than 60 new families of materials so far, with the potential for many more. The key catalyst in the process is recyclable, making it a 'green' technology. "This is definitely the most exciting project I've been involved in over the past 30 years," says Board of Trustees ...

Mark Puttick and colleagues investigated the rates of evolution of the two key characteristics that preceded flight: body size and forelimb length. In order to fly, hulking meat-eating dinosaurs had to shrink in size and grow much longer arms to support their feathered wings. "We were really surprised to discover that the key size shifts happened at the same time, at the origin of Paraves," said Mr Puttick of Bristol's School of Earth Sciences. "This was at least 20 million years before the first bird, the famous Archaeopteryx, and it shows that flight in birds arose ...

The UK urgently needs a green economic strategy to move towards low-carbon prosperity, resource security and environmental quality, says a new report published today by UCL's Green Economy Policy Commission. The Commission – drawn from a range of academic disciplines across UCL – argues that the UK's current situation of climate instability and increasing resource constraints mean that decisive action is urgently needed by the UK government to green the economy. Greening the Recovery argues that there is a window of opportunity for policies that acknowledge future ...

PHILADELPHIA – Researchers have identified a polio-like syndrome in a cluster of children from California over a one-year period, according to a case report released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 66th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, April 26 to May 3, 2014. "Although poliovirus has been eradicated from most of the globe, other viruses can also injure the spine, leading to a polio-like syndrome," said case report author Keith Van Haren, MD, with Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., and a member of the American Academy of Neurology. ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—February 23, 2014—The power of regenerative medicine now allows scientists to transform skin cells into cells that closely resemble heart cells, pancreas cells and even neurons. However, a method to generate cells that are fully mature—a crucial prerequisite for life-saving therapies—has proven far more difficult. But now, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), have made an important breakthrough: they have discovered a way to transform skin cells into mature, fully functioning liver cells that flourish ...

MADISON, Wis. – With the help of a tiny fragment of zircon extracted from a remote rock outcrop in Australia, the picture of how our planet became habitable to life about 4.4 billion years ago is coming into sharper focus. Writing today (Feb. 23, 2014) in the journal Nature Geoscience, an international team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin-Madison geoscience Professor John Valley reveals data that confirm the Earth's crust first formed at least 4.4 billion years ago, just 160 million years after the formation of our solar system. The work shows, Valley says, ...

Researchers have discovered the presence of a novel subtype of innate lymphoid cells in human spleen essential for the production of antibodies. This discovery, published in the prestigious journal Nature Immunology, clears the path to the identification of novel strategies to develop more efficient vaccines against encapsulated bacteria, considered highly virulent. This work was done by the B cell Biology research group at IMIM (Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mediques) in Barcelona, directed by Dr. Andrea Cerutti, ICREA research professor and leader in the ...

Two teams have independently discovered that a single regulatory protein acts as the master genetic switch that triggers the development of male and female sexual forms (termed gametocytes) of the malaria parasite, solving a long-standing mystery in parasite biology with important implications for human health. The protein, AP2-G, is necessary for activating a set of genes that initiate the development of gametocytes -- the only forms that are infectious to mosquitos. The research also gives important clues for identifying the underlying mechanisms that control this developmental ...

The Andromeda Galaxy is surrounded by a swarm of small satellite galaxies. Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, have detected a stream of stars in one of the Andromeda Galaxy's outer satellite galaxies, a dwarf galaxy called Andromeda II. The movement of the stars tells us that what we are observing is the remnant of a merger between two dwarf galaxies. Mergers between galaxies of such low mass has not been observed before. The results are published in the scientific journal, Nature. The galaxies in the early universe started off small and the theory ...

NEW YORK, NY (February 23, 2014) — Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have determined that a small region of the hippocampus known as CA2 is essential for social memory, the ability of an animal to recognize another of the same species. A better grasp of the function of CA2 could prove useful in understanding and treating disorders characterized by altered social behaviors, such as autism, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. The findings, made in mice, were published today in the online edition of Nature. Scientists have long understood that the hippocampus—a ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed a system for precisely delivering anti-inflammatory drugs to immune cells gone out of control, while sparing their well-behaved counterparts. Their findings were published online Feb. 23 in Nature Nanotechnology. The system uses nanoparticles made of tiny bits of protein designed to bind to unique receptors found only on neutrophils, a type of immune cell engaged in detrimental acute and chronic inflammatory responses. In a normal immune response, neutrophils circulating in the blood respond to signals ...

New research published today (Sunday 23rd February) has found that climate change is unlikely to reduce the UK's excess winter death rate as previously thought. The study is published in the journal Nature Climate Change and debunks the widely held view that warmer winters will cut the number of deaths normally seen at the coldest time of year. Analysing data from the past 60 years, researchers at the University of Exeter and University College London (UCL) looked at how the winter death rate has changed over time, and what factors influenced it. They found that from ...

An international team of researchers have discovered a 'microbial Pompeii' preserved on the teeth of skeletons around 1,000 years old. The key to the discovery is the dental calculus (plaque) which preserves bacteria and microscopic particles of food on the surfaces of teeth, effectively creating a mineral tomb for microbiomes. The research team discovered that the ancient human oral cavity carries numerous opportunistic pathogens and that periodontal disease is caused by the same bacteria today as in the past, despite major changes in human diet and hygiene. The researchers ...

The Sunrise will be performing at this year's Bringing America Back to Life Symposium and Exhibition presented by Cleveland Right to Life on March 7th, 2014 & March 8th, 2014. The event features pro-life speakers including David Barton of WallBuilders, and Pam Tebow, mother of Tim Tebow. This is one of the nation's largest pro-life events of its kind, and the event completely sold out in 2013. Those interested in attending this event can visit the Bringing America Back to Life website at: http://www.bringingamericabacktolife.org/index.html In addition, The ...

The Stroke Association of Florida has announced its Fifth Annual Victory Over Stroke symposium, scheduled for Thursday, March 20, 2014, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at H2U Blake Medical Center, 6670 Cortez Road W. in Bradenton, Florida. Ana M. Guillermo, H2U Program Manager, will emcee the free event, which includes presentations from distinguished local speakers, free stroke risk health screenings and exhibitors. Lunch will be provided. "The goal of Victory Over Stroke is to raise awareness about stroke symptoms and the critical need to call 911, what you can do to minimize ...

LongIslandObamacare.com is the new informational, fact based, non-partisan site for Long Islanders trying to navigate through the new world order of heath insurance, created by local experts in the field. Jason Samel, Founder and spokesperson of LongIslandObamacare.com and Owner/Executive Vice President of JayMar Insurance Agency will be offering solutions and comments on the subject through an exclusive free seminar series, available to any group who is looking for a fact based education on all things the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, happening through the New York City ...

Todd Blue, Chairman and CEO of indiGO Auto Group (IAG), announced today that indiGO Auto Group's Desert European Motorcars dealership located at 71-387 Hwy. 111 in Rancho Mirage, CA, is the Official Automotive Sponsor of the ninth annual Fashion Week El Paseo in Palm Desert, CA from March 16-22, 2014. Held on El Paseo, the heart of Palm Desert's most celebrated shopping district, Fashion Week El Paseo is widely acknowledged as the premier West Coast fashion event of the season. Desert European Motorcars will feature eight world class vehicles throughout the event while ...