As surgical techniques advance, the landscape of breast reconstruction is shifting, according to one of the most renowned plastic surgeons in Orange County, Dr. Andrew Smith. Recent research shows more women at younger ages are opting for mastectomies, either because of a breast cancer diagnosis or as a preventive measure when they are at a heightened risk for cancer. Actress Angelina Jolie recently drew the public eye when she chose a preventive procedure and reconstruction and wrote about it for The New York Times. Dr. Smith, who serves many Orange County breast ...

TechniTrader(R) the Gold Standard in Stock Market Education "CEO Writes Weekly Stock Dicsussion Using FreeStockCharts" Martha Stokes, CMT and CEO of TechniTrader(R) writes a Weekly Stock Discussions using the Worden charting software FreeStockCharts.com for Stock Charts examples. Charts are not included in this announcement but are in the Weekly Discussions. The Weekly Disccussion below is titled "Selling Short Tips Pros Use." "The sell side of the market aka the downside, is not the same as the upside. One of the big reasons is that ...

Jackson Design and Remodeling (JDR), a leading home remodeling and design company in San Diego, announced today that for a seventh consecutive year, the company has earned a Guildmaster Award with Distinction for exceptional customer satisfaction. JDR has also been named a Market Leader, one of the top remodeling firms in California based on annual revenues, by Professional Remodeler Magazine for a fifth consecutive year. JDR is the only company in California to receive both the Market Leader designation and the Guildmaster award. "We continue to strive to be a ...

People working in insurance are the happiest in the UK when it comes to their career progression, according to research by recruiter Randstad Financial & Professional. In a survey of over 2,000 British workers, only 38% of the UK workforce said they were content with their career progression. But 73% of those working in insurance said they were happy with the way they were scaling the corporate ladder. Those working in property, financial services, nursing, IT and telecoms, and education were also above average. At the other end of the spectrum, those working ...

Sometimes picking up the phone and requesting an appointment during business hours can be difficult for patients while working. To help patients easily schedule appointments, Dr. Michael Morris, dentist in Spring, is pleased to offer patients a new way to save time during their busy days - online appointment requesting. Patients can request appointment availability by visiting the practice's website at http://www.michaelmorrisdds.com/ for more information. By visiting the "Appointment Request" page, patients can simply fill out the available form for access ...

Understanding the importance and purpose of a colonoscopy can help patients to eliminate fear that is commonly associated with this procedure. A colonoscopy allows the Bala Cynwyd gastroenterologists at G.I. Specialists to examine the lining of the large intestine (colon) for any abnormalities. It is an outpatient procedure that may be performed to diagnose and treat, when possible, certain diseases of the lower gastrointestinal (GI) tract, which includes the rectum and colon. Colon cancer in Philadelphia, and all over the world, is the third leading cause of cancer ...

Patients can now gain valuable dental health care knowledge by visiting the informative blog by Dr. Carrie Lintner, dentist in Kalamazoo, of Lindenwoods Dental. The information-rich blog can be easily accessed via the practice's website and is updated regularly with new dental information so that patients can continue to remain up-to-date with important dental topics. The blog was created for Lindenwoods Dental in order for Dr. Lintner to actively contribute content related to dental health care. Each post from the practice's blog updates the practice's Facebook page, ...

Dental procedures continue to become easier and more comfortable for patients with the use of laser dentistry. With the advancement of laser dentistry, patients' anxiety can go away. Dr. Netra Dudhbhate, Rocklin, CA dentist, is pleased to offer soft tissue laser treatment to help patients feel more comfortable at their next appointment. A laser uses light energy to perform the dental procedure and cant treat the targeted tissue while leaving the surrounding tissues unaffected. Using laser dentistry allows Dr. Dudhbhate, dentist in Rocklin, CA, to perform some of the ...

The St. Louis dermatologists at Associates in Dermatology are affiliated with the Washington University School of Medicine, are on staff at Barnes Jewish Hospital, and are pleased to announce 50 years of combined clinical experience. With 50 years of combined clinical experience, Associates in Dermatology maintains the ability to properly treat patients of all ages. "With our combined experience, we continue to provide patients with the best available skin care. It is our goal to maintain up-to-date education so that we can all provide quality dermatologic services ...

Patients no longer need to interrupt their busy schedules to make an appointment with Dr. Basel Badawi, dentist in Boston, MA, by calling CITIDental Boston. By maintaining an up-to-date, interactive website, Dr. Badawi is pleased to offer a new way for patients to make their next appointment with his office - online appointment requests. With problems arising at any point of the day, patients can now request appointments online via the practice's website. When symptoms arise, patients can simply submit an appointment request via the practice's website without altering ...

Patients who feel stressed about dental procedures, can now rest easy with sedation dentistry. From Light nitrous oxide to moderate oral and IV sedation, Dr. David Choi, orthodontist in Long Island, offers solutions to help patients receive comfortable, anxiety free dental health care at Come Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry. Sedation dentistry works to help patients forget about needles, shots, tooth extractions, and other unpleasant dental stimuli. If a patient is afraid of a certain procedure or just everything about dentistry, sedation dentistry can help eliminate ...

Dentists who are looking to take a closer look at various dental cases while working with other dentists can now do just that with the help of Rondeau Seminars. While Rondeau Seminars is one of the leaders in dental continuing education, Dr. Brock Rondeau utilizes this as a way for other dentists to work more closely with each other in regards to case evaluations and new techniques. Dr. Rondeau invites dentists to join the Rondeau Seminars online study club to better understand various cases and techniques. The Rondeau Seminars online study club is an online forum where ...

According to the Mayra Salinas, President of the Nicaraguan Tourism Board (INTUR, for its acronym in Spanish), the tourism sector in Nicaragua jumped from 140,000 to 168,000 employees in the past 12 months. Last year Nicaragua generated US$421 million in tourism revenue and in 2013 the figure could reach US$480 million. Salinas explained that the increase in the generation of employment in this sector is mainly due to the existence of new hotel projects which include a new Hyatt Place, a Holiday Inn and a hotel from the Wyndham Hotel Group, among others. According ...

Aftermath Inc., the country's leading biohazard remediation company, announced today that it is outfitting each of its national remediation teams with Charm Nova-Link portable adenosine triphosphate (ATP) fluorescence testing units, adding a new level of cutting edge technology, measurability and accountability to its cleaning operations. Aftermath, which provides cleaning and remediation services for unattended deaths, violent crime, suicide and hoarding, integrated this technology into each service call in May, providing customers with readings before and after service ...

WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J., June 22, 2013 – Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced results from a post-hoc pooled analysis showing patients with type 2 diabetes and mild renal impairment treated with JANUVIA® (sitagliptin) 100 mg once-daily achieved similar blood sugar reductions as those treated with the sulfonylureas glipizide or glimepiride, with significantly fewer events of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), and with weight loss instead of weight gain. Results were presented at the American Diabetes Association 73rd Scientific ...

WEST CHESTER, Pa., June 21, 2013 – Animas Corporation announced today further promising results from the second phase of human clinical trials of a first-generation closed-loop insulin delivery system in development. Data investigating the predictive Hypoglycemia-Hyperglycemia Minimizer (HHM) System* demonstrated that the system is capable of maintaining safe glucose levels overnight. The data was presented at the 73rd Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in Chicago, Illinois. The feasibility study of the predictive glucose control system in ...

Irvine, Calif. – UC Irvine and Mayo Clinic researchers have found that vitamin D levels in the U.S. population peak in August and bottom out in February. The essential vitamin – necessary for healthy bones – is produced in the skin upon exposure to ultraviolet B rays from the sun. Vitamin D helps bones absorb calcium and can protect against osteoporosis. It's also thought to play a role in seasonal illnesses, such as the flu. Low levels of vitamin D are believed to impair "innate immunity" i.e., the body's first line of defense against pathogens. To further study this ...

Synchrotron imaging reveals odd couple - 250 million years ago, a mammal forerunner and an amphibian shared a burrow. Scientists from South Africa, Australia and France have discovered a world first association while scanning a 250 million year old fossilized burrow from the Karoo Basin of South Africa. The burrow revealed two unrelated vertebrate animals nestled together and fossilized after being trapped by a flash flood event. Facing harsh climatic conditions subsequent to the Permo-Triassic (P-T) mass extinction, the amphibian Broomistega and the mammal forerunner ...

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. – June 21, 2013 – A new study reports that the use of a quarterly report card is associated with improved colonoscopy quality indicators. Endoscopists at the Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Indianapolis, Ind., who participated in the study showed an overall adjusted adenoma (precancerous polyp) detection rate increase from 44.7 percent to 53.9 percent, and a cecal intubation rate increase from 95.6 percent to 98.1 percent. These two metrics are validated measures of colonoscopy performance quality. The study appears in the June issue of ...

A new study by a team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame provides an important new insight into how cancer cells are able to avoid the cell death process. The findings may suggest a chemotherapeutic approach to prevent the spread of cancers. Metastasis, the spread of cancer from one organ to other parts of the body, relies on cancer cells ability to evade a cell death process called anoikis, according to Zachary T. Schafer, Coleman Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology at Notre Dame. Metalizing cancer cells are able to survive anoikis, which normally results ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from UCLA and India has found that a new type of intervention program, in which lay women in the rural Indian province of Andra Pradesh were trained as social health activists to assist women who have HIV/AIDS, significantly improved patients' adherence to antiretroviral therapy and boosted their immune-cell counts and nutrition levels. The lay women were trained by the research team to serve as accredited social health activists, or ASHA, and their work was overseen by rural nurses and physicians. These ASHA then provided counseling ...

Surrounding Earth is a dynamic region called the magnetosphere. The region is governed by magnetic and electric forces, incoming energy and material from the sun, and a vast zoo of waves and processes unlike what is normally experienced in Earth-bound physics. Nestled inside this constantly changing magnetic bubble lies a donut of charged particles generally aligned with Earth's equator. Known as the ring current, its waxing and waning is a crucial part of the space weather surrounding our planet, able to induce magnetic fluctuations on the ground as well as to transmit ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this image of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 61, also known as NGC 4303. The galaxy, located only 55 million light-years away from Earth, is roughly the size of the Milky Way, with a diameter of around 100 000 light-years. The galaxy is notable for one particular reason — six supernovae have been observed within Messier 61, a total that places it in the top handful of galaxies alongside Messier 83, also with six, and NGC 6946, with a grand total of nine observed supernovae. In this Hubble image the galaxy is seen face-on ...

On June 19, 2013, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of smoke from wildfires burning in western Alaska. The smoke was moving west over Norton Sound. (The center of the image is roughly 163° West and 62° North.) Red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fire. According to an advisory released by the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center, record heat and dry fuels have produced record-setting fire potential across boreal spruce forests and tundra ...

On June 20, 2013, at 11:24 p.m., the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of particles into space that can reach Earth one to three days later. These particles cannot travel through the atmosphere to harm humans on Earth, but they can affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground. Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory and ESA/NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory show that the CME left the sun at speeds of ...