Dentist In Miami Celebrates 35 Years In Dentistry
2013-05-12
Since 1978, Dr. Jeffrey Nullman, dentist in Miami, has been providing superior dental health care for his patients. His conservative approach for caring for his patients blends with his passion for painless dentistry. Dr. Nullman maintains enthusiasm and is sincere while he explains all recommended procedures. His goal is to make sure his patients have the best experience at Nullman Family Dentistry as possible.
"I love dentistry, my patients and my staff. It is my pleasure to continue to provide quality dentistry for more than 30 years. I look forward to continuing ...
Peoria Cosmetic Dentist Improves Patient Interaction With Social Network
2013-05-12
All Smiles Dental Care's Dr. Phuong Nguyen, Peoria cosmetic dentist, has recently announced the launch of her practice's Facebook, and Twitter accounts. The practice's new presence on these leading social media platforms has enabled the practice to communicate with existing and prospective patients more effectively and efficiently.
Patients can now become a "fan" or "friend" of the All Smiles Dental Care's Facebook, and Twitter pages for updates on office happenings. To easily access and join Dr. Phuong Nguyen's social network, patients can visit ...
Dentist In Pompano Beach Celebrates More Than A Decade In Dentistry
2013-05-12
For more than a decade, Dr. Natalia Stadler, dentist in Pompano Beach, has been providing her patients with the best in quality dental health care. Dr. Stadler received her doctorate in dental medicine at the University of Florida College of Dentistry in 2000. With her high achievement and exceptional academic and clinical studies, Dr. Stadler was honored on the Dean's list in dental school and college. After graduation in 2000, she returned to her hometown to practice dentistry.
"Being able to provide my patients with superior dental health care is very rewarding. ...
Dentist In Naperville Offers Online Appointment Requests For Improved Dental Care
2013-05-12
Leading dentists in Naperville, Drs. Paul Singh, Pradeep Khurana, Cathrine Rhim, Hazel Santiago-Macinap, Julio Escobar, Sharada Upputuri, Oussama Founas, Vishal Gandhi, and John Micaletti, have released a new, convenient website feature - online appointment requesting. Patients can now easily schedule individual and family appointments at Valley View Dental online with just the click of a mouse.
Patients can simply visit the practice's innovative website to access the online appointment requesting feature. By entering a desired date, time and reason, patients can make ...
Cosmetic Dentist In Ellicott City Is An Invisalign Preferred Provider
2013-05-12
Experienced cosmetic dentist in Ellicott City, Dr. Ray Becker, is highly qualified to provide Invisalign's clear aligners for his patients. He earned Invisalign Preferred Provider status, a national recognition that can only be achieved by completing continuing education and a proven level of case experience with Invisalign products.
The pioneer in invisible braces, Invisalign carefully selects which dentists will be their Preferred Providers every year. Dr. Ray Becker earned this status based on his successful history of Invisalign treatment and commitment to continually ...
Dentist In Columbus Offers Online Appointment Requests
2013-05-12
Notable dentist in Columbus, Dr. Edward Smith, is making it easy for patients to achieve their best dental health with his recently added online appointment setting feature. Patients can now conveniently make an appointment at all hours of the day via the practice's educational and all-encompassing website.
"There's no excuse to put off making an appointment with our new and easy to use appointment requesting feature," said Dr. Edward Smith, Columbus dentist. "Visit our site, fill out the appropriate information, and we'll get back to you as quickly as ...
Cosmetic Dentist In Atlanta Offers State-of-the-art Technology For Improved Dental Care
2013-05-12
Leading family and cosmetic dentist in Atlanta, Dr. Thomas Kauffman, is pleased to introduce the practice's newest piece of dental technology- the Galileos 3D Cone Beam. The new dental diagnostic system is helping the practice continue bringing patients the most efficient, comfortable and effective dentistry possible.
The new Galileos 3D diagnostic system allows Dr. Kauffman and his team to create a precise 3D image of a patient's entire jaw in a matter of seconds- in significantly less time than traditional x-rays. The Galileo's advanced technology gets patients in ...
The New Mighty Pizza Oven, Launching Soon on Kickstarter, Will Let Home Chefs Bake Pro-Quality Pizzas in 3-5 Minutes on Their Backyard Grill
2013-05-12
Why is it so hard to bake professional-quality pizza in a regular home oven? This is the question that has troubled Texas engineer and entrepreneur Bert Touma for years as he enjoyed his hobby of baking pizza at home. Now, he not only has the answer, but is getting ready to bring delicious homemade pizza within everyone's reach with the upcoming launch of the Mighty Pizza Oven he designed. The Mighty Pizza Oven is an affordable stainless steel oven insert that uses a standard gas grill as a powerful heat source. It is designed to replicate the baking conditions inside professional ...
The NEI Awards $2.03 Million Commercialization SBIR Grant to Aciont
2013-05-12
The National Eye Institute (NEI), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $2.03 million phase IIB grant to Aciont Inc. to fund the clinical development of a non-invasive, passive diffusion-based treatment for uveitis (referred to as DSP-Visulex-TM). The NEI special emphasis peer review panel that reviewed Aciont's proposal stated, "Overall, this is a novel, exciting approach that has potential to make a broad impact in the clinical ophthalmology field and thus is recommended with a high level of enthusiasm."
Aciont's Visulex treatment ...
King Ice Lion Pendant Becomes a Hit with Celebrities
2013-05-12
KingIce.com, an online hip hop jewelry retailer, has garnered national attention with its newest pendant. The piece, named Magnus, features an outline of a lion's face and mane adorned with a slanted crown. The King of the Jungle lion necklace has appeared on BET's 106 & Park, Piers Morgan Live, CONAN, Real Time with Bill Maher, the Late Show with David Letterman, and several online videos. The lion pendant has been seen on various hip hop artists and celebrities. According to a King Ice representative, the company has been pleasantly surprised by the pendant's success. ...
Affordable Roar and Explore Adventure Getaway Offers Trio of Top Experiences
2013-05-12
Columbus is home to the nation's No. 1 zoo and No. 1 science center, making it the perfect place for unforgettable family fun this summer. Just in time for spring and summer travel, Experience Columbus today launched its Roar and Explore Adventure Getaway, featuring both of these top-ranked experiences and packed with family fun. This affordable package allows guests to experience a trio of top Columbus adventures at a surprisingly low cost. Families can book their Roar and Explore Adventure Getaway online at www.ColumbusFamilyFun.com or by calling (888) 795-3709.
Starting ...
Extremely low 90-day cardiac device infection rates with TYRX antibacterial envelope use
2013-05-11
Denver, CO (May 11, 2013): Use of TYRX, Inc.'s AIGISRx® Antibacterial Envelope reduced major infection rates by more than 90% in patients undergoing Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device (CIED) replacement procedures compared to similar high-risk cohorts, according to the CITADEL & CENTURION clinical study results presented on Saturday at the Late Breaking Clinical Trials session at Heart Rhythm 2013, the Heart Rhythm Society's 34th Annual Scientific Sessions.
CITADEL / CENTURION is a prospective, multicenter clinical study to evaluate the major device infection ...
Study shows lower rate of inappropriate shocks in patients with Sorin dual chamber ICD devices
2013-05-11
Denver, Colorado, USA, May 11, 2013 –Sorin Group, (Reuters Code: SORN.MI), a global medical company and a leader in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, announced findings from the landmark OPTION study1 demonstrating that patients with Sorin dual-chamber implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) experienced a significantly lower incidence of inappropriate shocks compared with patients with standard single-chamber devices (4.3% vs.10.3%, p=0.015).The study also found that there was no difference in all-cause mortality between the two groups.
The OPTION study ...
UCLA stem cell researchers move toward treatment for rare genetic nerve disease
2013-05-11
Led by Dr. Peiyee Lee and Dr. Richard Gatti, researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have used induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to advance disease-in-a-dish modeling of a rare genetic disorder, ataxia telangiectasia (A-T).
Their discovery shows the positive effects of drugs that may lead to effective new treatments for the neurodegenerative disease. iPS cells are made from patients' skin cells, rather than from embryos, and they can become any type of cells, including brain cells, in the laboratory. ...
Private insurers' Medicare Advantage plans cost Medicare an extra $34.1 billion in 2012
2013-05-11
A study published online today finds that the private insurance companies that participate in Medicare under the Medicare Advantage program and its predecessors have cost the publicly funded program for the elderly and disabled an extra $282.6 billion since 1985, most of it over the past eight years. In 2012 alone, private insurers were overpaid $34.1 billion.
That's wasted money that should have been spent on improving patient care, shoring up Medicare's trust fund or reducing the federal deficit, the researchers say.
The findings appear in an article published in ...
Cocaine vaccine passes key testing hurdle
2013-05-11
NEW YORK (May 10, 2013) -- Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have successfully tested their novel anti-cocaine vaccine in primates, bringing them closer to launching human clinical trials.
Their study, published online by the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, used a radiological technique to demonstrate that the anti-cocaine vaccine prevented the drug from reaching the brain and producing a dopamine-induced high.
"The vaccine eats up the cocaine in the blood like a little Pac-man before it can reach the brain," says the study's lead investigator, Dr. Ronald ...
Research reveals possible reason for cholesterol-drug side effects
2013-05-11
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and physicians continue to document that some patients experience fuzzy thinking and memory loss while taking statins, a class of global top-selling cholesterol-lowering drugs.
A University of Arizona research team has made a novel discovery in brain cells being treated with statin drugs: unusual swellings within neurons, which the team has termed the "beads-on-a-string" effect.
The team is not entirely sure why the beads form, said UA neuroscientist Linda L. Restifo, who leads the investigation. However, the team believes that ...
NASA sees 2 tropical cyclones competing in the Indian Ocean
2013-05-11
The Indian Ocean is alive with tropical activity today, May 10, as there's a tropical storm in both the northern and southern oceans. Tropical Cyclone Jamala (formerly 24S) and newborn Tropical Cyclone 01B were both captured on one image from NASA's Terra satellite today.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured this visible image of compact Tropical Cyclone Jamala in the southern Indian Ocean and the much larger Tropical Cyclone One B (01B) in the Northern Indian Ocean on May 10 at 04:25 UTC ...
Wildfires in Siberia
2013-05-11
The Aqua satellite provided this satellite image showing a series of hotspots found in the Siberian region of Russia. These hotspots have been categorized as wildfires rather than agricultural fires by the website: http://fires.kosmosnimki.ru/ The popular Kosmosnimki.Ru web resource introduces the "hybrid" view option – map layers over satellite-based image. MODIS fire hotspots have been layered over the satellite image and provide clickable areas to see exactly how many hotspots are being detected and what type they are. Because we are getting into the hot, dry time of ...
Potential flu pandemic lurks
2013-05-11
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- In the summer of 1968, a new strain of influenza appeared in Hong Kong. This strain, known as H3N2, spread around the globe and eventually killed an estimated 1 million people.
A new study from MIT reveals that there are many strains of H3N2 circulating in birds and pigs that are genetically similar to the 1968 strain and have the potential to generate a pandemic if they leap to humans. The researchers, led by Ram Sasisekharan, the Alfred H. Caspary Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT, also found that current flu vaccines might not offer protection ...
Sacred lotus genome sequence enlightens scientists
2013-05-11
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) is a symbol of spiritual purity and longevity. Its seeds can survive up to 1,300 years, its petals and leaves repel grime and water, and its flowers generate heat to attract pollinators.
Now researchers report in the journal Genome Biology that they have sequenced the lotus genome, and the results offer insight into the heart of some of its mysteries. The sequence reveals that of all the plants sequenced so far – and there are dozens – sacred lotus bears the closest resemblance to the ancestor of all eudicots, a broad ...
Intermountain Medical Center reseachers develop new 3-D technology to treat atrial fibrillation
2013-05-11
SALT LAKE CITY – Researchers at the Intermountain Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center have developed a new 3-D technology that for the first time allows cardiologists the ability to see the precise source of atrial fibrillation in the heart – a breakthrough for a condition that affects nearly three million Americans.
This new technology that maps the electronic signals of the heart three dimensionally significantly improves the chances of successfully eliminating the heart rhythm disorder with a catheter ablation procedure, according to a new study presented ...
Appealing the SSDI decision
2013-05-11
Appealing the SSDI decision
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According to the Social Security Administration, approximately 53 percent of Social Security Disability benefits applicants were denied benefits between 2001 and 2010. Some SSDI applicants do not understand their right to appeal a denial and either reapply for benefits without understanding the process or abandon the effort altogether. This could delay benefits to which they are entitled. An understanding of the appeals process increases the applicant's chances ...
No more paper SSDI checks as of March
2013-05-11
No more paper SSDI checks as of March
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March is over, and Social Security Disability is going entirely paperless. If you or a loved one has been getting SSD benefits by paper checks in the mail, you will need to make changes to continue receiving your disability income. Paper checks stopped being sent out on March 1, 2013.
As of January 2013, 5 million individuals still received SSDI checks in the mail. All of these individuals must now either sign up for direct deposit into a bank ...
Nevada casinos and enforcement agents take a dim view of fraud
2013-05-11
Nevada casinos and enforcement agents take a dim view of fraud
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Las Vegas has seen its share of schemes designed to defraud the city's gambling casinos. Rules governing gambling are enforced by the Nevada Gaming Control Board, or NGCB, whose agents work in plainclothes and observe casino activities.
The Gaming Control Board
About 90 agents of the NGCB work in the Enforcement Division, in five offices in the state. Their training is comparable to that of police officers, and ...
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