The residential and commercial electricians at Pat Murphy Electric, Inc., understand that your electronics are an investment that you both enjoy and want to protect. In that vein, the company recommends that you seek out the proper surge protector to keep your devices safe from power surges. To start with, you need to be sure that you are buying a surge protector and not just a power strip. Both allow you to plug in multiple devices, but only a surge protector will keep your devices safe from power surges and other interference from your power line. Look for the words ...

Varicose veins are a problem that many individuals begin to face as they age. The vein treatment doctors at Medicus Veincare want to encourage their patients to take steps towards preventing the formation of varicose veins. What Causes Varicose Veins? Veins within the legs are able to pump blood back to the heart and lungs thanks to your leg muscles. This is normally a one-way trip for the blood, but if the valves inside your veins fail, blood can pool within a vein, creating a varicose vein. These veins can bulge out of the skin and look unpleasant. Women are ...

The future of varicose vein treatment has arrived at Medicus Veincare, a vein treatment center in Florida. ClariVein is an FDA-approved procedure that removes many of the risks traditionally associated with treating varicose veins. What Is ClariVein? ClariVein is an endovenous ablation therapy that helps to reduce the appearance of varicose veins. The doctors at Medicus Veincare have found that it offers significant advantages over more traditional treatment methods. Patients have found the ClariVein treatment to be a very effective and safe technique. They like ...

If you have been putting off your routine Florida plumbing maintenance, winter is the perfect time to have Choice Plumbing take care of it. The company wishes to emphasize the importance of having regular maintenance and encourages you to schedule an appointment today. Much like your car, your plumbing needs to have regular inspections and maintenance to ensure that it continues operating as it should. This is especially important in Florida, where extremely hard water can lead to mineral deposits building up in pipes, eventually forcing homeowners to repair or re-pipe ...

onShore Networks, a leading provider of Network Management services in the Chicago area, has announced an established presence within Equinix's 350 East Cermak location. The partnership between onShore and Equinix joins their bandwidth infrastructure and enhances the quality of onShore's ISP and colocation service delivery. Furthermore, this partnership grants onShore the ability to connect to additional public and private networks, providing a new selection of private transports for their customers. With the addition of the new connection at 350 East Cermak, onShore ...

CIC, a nationwide leader in tenant screening for the multifamily housing industry and wholesale data market announced today that February 16, 2014 marked 28 years of industry excellence, delivering innovative solutions to protect its clients' properties and investments. Founded by William Bower, originally as a mortgage credit reporting agency, the firm shifted focus to tenant screening when it became incorporated and renamed Contemporary Information Corporation in 1988. Since then, CIC has remained on the leading edge of applicant screening for the multifamily housing ...

Santa Luz, the gated portion of the 3,000-acre Gateway master-planned community in Fort Myers, is gearing up for grand opening festivities set for February 28 through March 2, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. Food and refreshments will be offered during the grand opening events. The events will mark the completion of a new custom heated pool and cabana with a covered outdoor picnic area, bathrooms and fitness center as well as the fourth building consisting of four additional coach homes available for purchase. Those buying a coach home between February 1 and March ...

3DFAITH is a newly-launched, Faith-Inspired fitness apparel brand designed to inspire & motivate. The collection is the creation of designer T. Strong, who has left the realm of graphic design and brought that mind-set to the fashion market. Founded in January-2014, it was conceived as a modern, high-quality active-wear line with Faith as the focus. All shirt styles are trendy, soft, light-weight fabric with a contemporary fit. 3DFAITH'S mission is to make everyone better at fitness through Faith....The 3 Dimensions of Faith- Believing, Doing & Entrusting. FIRST ...

Sherlock Digital (www.sherlockdigital.net), a new digital communications consultancy, officially launches today in London and Sao Paulo, offering a full-scope of digital marketing and communications services to both Brazilian and international brands. Heading up the new venture are Alasdair Townsend and Leonel de Oliveira, respectively the former Business Strategy Director (and shortlisted Young PR Professional of the Year 2012) and Finance Director of 2013 PRCA Agency of the Year Eulogy!. The Anglo-Brazilian pair is joined by partner Vivianne Cordeiro, ex-Ecommerce ...

Screening men with a family history of prostate cancer for a range of gene mutations can identify those who are at high risk of aggressive forms of the disease and in need of lifelong monitoring, a new study has shown. Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, found screening of men who had multiple relatives with prostate cancer was able to pick up 14 mutations in known cancer genes that predicted the development of the disease. The research was mainly funded by Prostate Cancer UK with additional support from Cancer Research UK, and is published in the ...

Greece's health crisis is worsening as a result of continued healthcare budget cuts, says a new study published in the medical journal, The Lancet. Researchers say the harmful effects of austerity are linked to the increasing inability of patients to access the health system, large rises in the incidence of infectious disease, and a deterioration in the overall mental health of Greek people. The authors from the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine find that Greece has had the largest cutbacks to the ...

A new study has found that 42 countries or territories around the world permit the harvest of marine turtles – and estimates that more than 42,000 turtles are caught each year by these fisheries. The research, carried out by Blue Ventures Conservation and staff at the University of Exeter's Centre for Ecology and Conservation, is the first to comprehensively review the number of turtles currently taken within the law and assess how this compares to other global threats to the creatures. All seven marine turtle species are currently listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened ...

Papillomaviruses (linked to cervical cancer when they infect the mucosal tissue in the female reproductive tract) can also infect normal skin, where they cause warts and possibly non-melanoma skin cancer, mostly in immune-suppressed organ transplant patients. An article published on February 20th in PLOS Pathogens suggests that vaccination might prevent virus-associated benign and malignant skin tumors. Transplant recipients need to take immunosuppressive drugs for the rest of their lives to prevent rejection of the transplanted organ. Among the side effects of these ...

Washington, DC (February 20, 2014) — In addition to experiencing negative health effects from their disease, patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are also at risk of experiencing hazardous events potentially related to medical treatments they receive. A study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN) finds that low blood sugar and high blood potassium being common complications of their medical care. Patients with CKD are susceptible to experiencing harm related to the care they receive due to their impaired kidney ...

Highlights from two studies Biopsy-detected injury in donated kidneys was modestly associated with a delay in organ function in the first week after transplantation, but only for donor kidneys already known to be at high risk. Donor kidney biopsies frequently underreported kidney injury with substantial variability. There was a large degree of overlap between the results of biopsies from kidneys that were deemed unsuitable for transplantation and kidneys that were approved for transplantation. The quality of biopsies used in acceptance decisions was low. Nearly 100,000 ...

Analysis carried out by an academic at Royal Holloway, University of London has revealed that younger people, men and those without children are more likely to stop attending clinics for HIV treatment in South Africa. Dr Michael Evangeli, from the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, worked alongside colleagues at the University of Southampton and the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. The academics used data collected in a study, which is published in the journal PLOS ONE, that followed the progress of 380 HIV positive people eligible for HIV treatment ...

Epidemiological studies demonstrate that diseases of the central nervous system such as Alzheimer, Parkinson and schizophrenia protect against cancer. The most remarkable example is Alzheimer's disease, which can reduce the risk of suffering from cancer by up to 50%. Various theories have been put forward in an attempt to explain this relationship between diseases at a first glance seem to be so different from the pharmacological, genetic and environmental perspectives. However, the available results were not consistent enough to confirm these models. Alfonso Valencia, ...

Researchers recently discovered that a common space weather phenomenon on the outskirts of Earth's magnetic bubble, the magnetosphere, has much larger repercussions for Venus. The giant explosions, called hot flow anomalies, can be so large at Venus that they're bigger than the entire planet and they can happen multiple times a day. "Not only are they gigantic," said Glyn Collinson, a space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "But as Venus doesn't have a magnetic field to protect itself, the hot flow anomalies happen right on top of the planet. ...

PHILADELPHIA – Two new smart phone applications may help people detect epileptic seizures and get better stroke treatment, according to two studies released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 66th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, April 26 to May 3, 2014. In the first study, an epilepsy app was designed to help non-doctors determine if a person is having an epileptic seizure. "It can often be difficult to determine whether someone is having an epileptic seizure," said study author Victor Patterson, MD, a neurologist from Belfast, UK. ...

Lemurs, the most endangered mammal group on Earth, represent more than 20 per cent of the world's primates. Native only to Madagascar, more than 90 percent of the species are threatened with extinction. A Western University primatologist has teamed with 18 lemur conservationists and researchers, many of whom are from Madagascar or have been working there for decades, to devise an action plan to save Madagascar's 101 lemur species. The action plan contains strategies for 30 different priority sites for lemur conservation and aims to help raise funds for individual projects. ...

MADISON — A multi-university team of engineers has developed what could be a promising solution for charging smartphone batteries on the go — without the need for an electrical cord. Incorporated directly into a cell phone housing, the team's nanogenerator could harvest and convert vibration energy from a surface, such as the passenger seat of a moving vehicle, into power for the phone. "We believe this development could be a new solution for creating self-charged personal electronics," says Xudong Wang, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Chronic stress that produces inflammation and anxiety in mice appears to prime their immune systems for a prolonged fight, causing the animals to have an excessive reaction to a single acute stressor weeks later, new research suggests. After the mice recovered from the effects of chronic stress, a single stressful event 24 days later quickly returned them to a chronically stressed state in biological and behavioral terms. Mice that had not experienced the chronic stress were unaffected by the single acute stressor. The study further showed that immune ...

University of Colorado Boulder scientists have found a creative way to radically improve thermoelectric materials, a finding that could one day lead to the development of improved solar panels, more energy-efficient cooling equipment, and even the creation of new devices that could turn the vast amounts of heat wasted at power plants into more electricity. The technique—building an array of tiny pillars on top of a sheet of thermoelectric material—represents an entirely new way of attacking a century-old problem, said Mahmoud Hussein, an assistant professor of aerospace ...

(Garrison, NY) Chronic illness, already a major and expensive problem in developed countries, is rapidly increasing in developing countries, adding to the longstanding burden caused by high rates of infectious diseases. However, poor countries will not be able to afford the costly medical technologies that wealthy countries use to treat chronic conditions, including heart disease, stroke, cancer, pulmonary disease, and diabetes, writes Daniel Callahan, cofounder of The Hastings Center. Callahan examines this trend and concludes that it calls for a new, more economically ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Feb. 20, 2014 – Long-term daily multivitamin supplement use may lower cataract risk in men, according to a study of nearly 15,000 male physicians published this month in Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Past observational studies have indicated a relationship between nutritional supplement use and eye health. However, randomized trial data on the effects of long-term multivitamin supplement use and risk of eye diseases are limited and, in some cases, non-existent. To address this, researchers based at Brigham and Women's ...