Digital Learning Now! (DLN), a national campaign under ExcelinEd, today released the seventh white paper in the DLN Smart Series -- "Improving Conditions & Careers: How Blended Learning Can Improve the Teaching Profession." In honor of National Teacher Day, DLN launches "Conditions and Careers" to acknowledge the important role teachers play in the shifting educational landscape and aims to improve the lives of teachers everywhere. The paper brings together top thinkers on the future of education from Digital Learning Now!, Getting Smart, and ...

Corcentric, a leading provider of Accounts Payable automation and electronic invoicing solutions, uses its blog this weed to explore the difference between dealing with providers who produce workflow solutions for multiple purposes vs. providers who specialize in AP workflow automation solutions. The Corcentric blog is a knowledge center for accounts payable professionals to explore automation best practices along with the latest trends and news in financial process automation. This week, Corcentric explains why companies that are looking to implement a workflow solution ...

People empowering others towards a better life through self-reliance have been invited to submit a short video about their work in the BillionsRising.com Self-Reliance Video Contest. The contest allows for the simplest forms of raw video footage to be easily uploaded and shared by anyone following this simple instruction: "Go out into your world and find someone doing remarkable things to help others become self-reliant in some way." Winners will be selected and included in the Billions Rising Documentary and promoted to a worldwide audience. The contest ...

Clearview National Partners today announced a key addition to its leadership team with the hiring of Tina Wright as Partner. With over 25 years of extensive experience in the Employee Benefits industry, Ms. Wright will help Clearview National Partners continue its explosive growth. Ronald Morrison, Managing Partner Clearview National Partners, said, TBR Associates, led by Tina Wright, has a long history of providing outstanding service to its clients. We are delighted to welcome Tina and her clients to Clearview National Partners." "As a proven industry ...

Stonebrook Manor, a popular site for weddings in north Denver with a growing reputation for the quality of its brunches and afternoon teas, has announced a special brunch for Mother's Day. Stonebrook Manor is an elegantly furnished 24,000 square foot manor with gardens. The brunch will be held in the grand ballroom, but the gardens will be open. Tables in the ballroom can be set up for mother-daughter get-togethers as well as a brunch for the entire family. The gardens are bursting with flowers as well as natural rock formations, waterfalls, bridges, arbors, and gazebos. "Brunch ...

Cameleon Software (FR0000074247), the global leader in multi-channel, multi-device product configurator, quotes, proposals and eCommerce software, today announced its provisional revenue for Q1 2013. (EUR Millions) Q1 2013 Q1 2012 % Change Software revenue 1.29 1.27 2% Services revenue 1.27 0.66 92% Total Q1 Revenue 2.56 1.93 33% (Provisional - unaudited) Provisional consolidated revenue totals EUR2.56M for Q1 2013, vs. EUR1.93M for Q1 2012, representing +33% growth. Activity is on a positive trend in the U.S, with a 41% growth rate over the period. The order ...

Precision Eye Care announced today that it has installed a TearLab Osmolarity System and its staff has been fully trained on the use of this breakthrough technology. The center is one of the first in the Suffolk County, Long Island area to be able to offer TearLab testing for Dry Eye Disease ("DED"). DED is a common condition in which the eye does not produce enough tears to keep the surface of the eye sufficiently lubricated. It affects approximately 40 million people in the U.S. and 100 million people worldwide. In the U.S., less than 5% of the Dry Eye Disease ...

Hot new country rock artist, The Jersey Outlaw, Jimmie Lee, releases his hot new CD, American Rebel, due to hit the stands right now!! The Outlaws raising up the stakes with this new album, that includes hot new single, Spanish Girl, Title Cut, American Rebel, Bringin' Big Country Back, along with two brand new killer poker songs, Card Shark and How The Cards Fall ! Jimmies brand new hit single, Spanish Girl, is a beautiful ballad, Springsteen style, about the guy who gambles and gets his senorita! The song showcases the intimate side of the Jersey Outlaw. Title Cut, ...

Becoming a BBB-accredited business is another step PawnUp.com has made to further increase the popularity of their online pawn shop. "Although the idea of getting cash for valuables online is not new, being a trustworthy cash provider is all that really matters. Despite the buzz that the online pawnshop industry has gotten during the last two years, some people are still reluctant to send their items for evaluation because they are not very familiar with pawning online" said Jay Martin, a spokesperson for PawnUp.com pawn shop online. In order to get the ...

Sound Physicians, a leading hospitalist organization focused on driving improvements in quality, satisfaction and financial performance of inpatient healthcare delivery, announced that Rana Tan, MD, Chief Hospitalist at Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, Wash., is the recipient of Sound Physicians' 2013 Summit Award, which honors hospitalists who display exemplary performance of Sound Physicians' organizational values. Trained as an intensivist, Dr. Tan has been a Sound Physicians hospitalist since 2005. In 2010, she was named Chief Hospitalist at Harrison Medical ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Kansas State University scientists helped discover new details about an intricate process in cells. Their finding may advance treatments for cancer and neurological diseases. Kansas State University researchers Jeroen Roelofs, assistant professor, and Chingakham Ranjit Singh, research assistant professor -- both in the Division of Biology -- led part of the study. Both also are research affiliates with the university's Johnson Cancer Research Center. They worked with colleagues at Harvard Medical School, the University of California-San Francisco and ...

TORONTO and OTTAWA, May 6, 2013 – Influenza immunization rates in children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are low despite its safety according to a new study by researchers at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI), and the University of Ottawa. Yearly influenza immunization is recommended in patients with IBD, including sub-types of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. However, concern about vaccine-related adverse events may limit uptake. Given that ...

Minneapolis, MN, May 6, 2013 – When a biologic aortic valve prosthesis fails, the patient often faces a high risk valve replacement through repeat open heart surgery. A new technique, known as Valve-in-Valve, uses minimally invasive techniques to introduce a collapsible aortic heart valve into the damaged valve in order to restore function. This procedure avoids the need to open the chest or use cardiopulmonary bypass (heart-lung machine), according to Leo Ihlberg, MD, PhD, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the Heart and Lung Center of Helsinki University Hospital, Finland, ...

An estimated 12.5% of Canadians in Canada have evidence of chronic kidney disease, including people without risk factors such as high blood pressure and diabetes, according to a study published in CMAJ. Chronic kidney disease is a risk factor for death, and it places a significant burden on the health care system; dialysis for 1 person alone over 1 year costs about $60 000. Estimates of kidney disease in Canada are based on extrapolations of the prevalence of end-stage renal disease. In this study, researchers looked at blood and urine samples from 3689 participants ...

Minneapolis, MN, May 6, 2013 – Anemia increases operative mortality and morbidity in non-cardiac and cardiac surgical procedures. Anemic surgical patients may require more blood transfusions, raising the risk of transfusion-related complications and increasing costs. For those reasons, optimizing patient readiness by correcting anemia prior to surgery is an important clinical goal. A simple new protocol has been proposed that helps correcting anemia using a single, high dose of recombinant human erythropoietin (HRE) administered only two days prior to surgery. The results ...

Fibromyalgia, now recognized as a true health syndrome with origins in the central nervous system, has seen many recent evolutions regarding its diagnosis and management which should instil new approaches, states a review article published in CMAJ. "The cause of fibromyalgia is unknown, but there is some evidence for a genetic predisposition, abnormalities in the stress response system or hypothalamic–pituitary axis, and possible triggering events," writes Dr. Mary-Ann Fitzcharles, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and McGill University, ...

Minneapolis, MN, May 6, 2013 – Lung cancer is associated with very high mortality, in part because it is hard to detect at early stages, but also because it can recur frequently after surgical removal. The question arises as to what is the best way to follow lung cancer patients after surgery in order to spot problems early enough, before symptoms become obvious, so that patients may still be eligible for new interventions. In this study presented at the 93rd AATS Annual Meeting, investigators from the University of Toronto departments of Thoracic Surgery and Diagnostic ...

Minneapolis, MN, May 6, 2013 – For more than 40 years, patients under 65 years of age requiring heart valve replacement have had to choose between a mechanical valve that offers life-long durability but requires aggressive warfarin anticoagulation or a biological (cow or pig) valve that will wear out in 10-20 years but does not require anticoagulation. Aggressive warfarin anticoagulation is accompanied by significant annual risk of bleeding, while inadequate anticoagulation of a mechanical artificial valve has been associated with high risk of clotting problems that can ...

Cancer is a complex disease, in which cells undergo a series of alterations, including changes in their architecture; an increase in their ability to divide, to survive and to invade new tissues or metastasis. A category of genes, called oncogenes, is critical during cancer progression, as they codify proteins whose activity favours the development of cancer. One of these molecules, Src, is implicated in a large number of human cancers. However, it is still not clear how healthy cells constrain its activity not to become tumorous. In the latest issue of the journal Oncogene*, ...

A mutant protein responsible for Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome (HGPS) bars large proteins from entering the nucleus, according to a study in The Journal of Cell Biology. The culprit in HGPS, a fatal disease that resembles premature aging, is a protein variant called Progerin. This defective protein impairs cells in many ways, including reducing nuclear levels of the RanGTPase. Ran is crucial for nuclear import and export, as it stimulates unloading of cargo that has just entered the nucleus and loading of cargo that's ready to exit. Progerin also impedes the import ...

Researchers have uncovered mutations in the phosphatase Wip1 that enable cancer cells to foil the tumor suppressor p53, according to a study in The Journal of Cell Biology. The results could provide a new target for the treatment of certain cancers. Like a battlefield surgeon who has to decide which casualties can be saved, p53 performs triage on cells with injured DNA. If the damage is serious, p53 spurs the cells to die or stop proliferating. But after milder hits, p53 activates a DNA damage response (DDR) mechanism, which instigates repairs, and temporarily prevent ...

Physicians from the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and the University of Calgary have published a review article in the CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) to help family doctors diagnose and treat fibromyalgia. The article represents the first time researchers have published Canadian guidelines to help manage the condition. Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that affects the central nervous system causing pain throughout the body. It is often accompanied by fatigue, depression and sleep problems. It affects mostly women and their multiple symptoms ...

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- A consortium of scientists from across the country has found that breathing ultrafine particles from a large family of materials that increasingly are found in a host of household and commercial products, from sunscreens to the ink in copy machines to super-strong but lightweight sporting equipment, can cause lung inflammation and damage. The research on two of the most common types of engineered nanomaterials is published online today in Environmental Health Perspectives, the journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). ...

Luxembourg, 6 May 2013 – Scientists from the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg have discovered that immune cells in the brain can produce a substance that prevents bacterial growth: namely itaconic acid. Until now, biologists had assumed that only certain fungi produced itaconic acid. A team working with Dr. Karsten Hiller, head of the Metabolomics Group at LCSB, and Dr. Alessandro Michelucci has now shown that even so-called microglial cells in mammals are also capable of producing this acid. "This is a ground breaking result," ...

Washington D.C., May 6, 2013 – A study published in the May 2013 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that mental health resources provided by schools are significantly associated with whether adolescents with mental disorders receive needed mental health services. In particular, adolescents with disorders attending schools that engage in early identification of emotional problems, are significantly more likely to receive mental health services. Using data from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement ...