On Saturday, March 16, the University of Miami- Nova Southeastern University Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (UM-NSU CARD) is teaming up with Andrea Travaglia of VITACARE and Lee & Marie's Cakery and Stefan Wechslberger of Global Sports Management to host the second annual CARD Tennis Clinic for individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) at Key Biscayne Tennis Association (KBTA). Clinic participants will have the opportunity to learn to play tennis with professional tennis athletes from the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) who will be in town ...

Last week an American priest and Catholic Church historian Father Thomas Reese summed up what the cardinals were looking for in the next pope with the phrase "Jesus Christ with an MBA." His idea was that the job requires deep personal spirituality combined with acute organizational skills. With the elevation of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aries to the position of pope, the Catholic Church has elected a strong administrator with a spirit of effective, yet humble service. Brad Smith, President of Bakke Graduate University responded, "The fact ...

BRAVE Day (Breast Restoration AdVocacy Education Day) is Thursday March 21st, 2013 and is the official national day to emphasize the importance of Breast Reconstruction Rights through a series of educational and advocacy events in Oregon and Washington State. Brave Day is about you and your rights. Did you know 1 out of every 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and 1 in 6 if you count DCIS (the earliest stage of the disease)? The 5-year survival rate for early-stage, localized breast cancer is 98 percent. Survival is only the first part of the healing process. ...

With this year's St Patrick's Day falling on a Sunday, Londoners are given the perfect excuse to party for the entire weekend. The capital embraces the holiday with the official parade in Trafalgar Square, a number of Irish themed activities and a generous serving of Guinness and stew. Visitors arriving from outside London can conveniently book their accommodation on LondonTown.com, where a wide range of London hotels are available. Born on 14th March 1933, Sir Michael Caine's 80th birthday will be celebrated in London with a photography exhibition at the Museum of London. ...

MaCorr Research has recently conducted a study to better understand perceptions of email users toward personal and work email accounts. The survey was conducted online among geographically representative sample of 1,002 US adults 18-65 years of age, who regularly use home and work e-mail accounts. Among other finding, when asked to define their own "e-mail personality", 55% of regular work and home email users thought they are "Deleters", 30% - "Filers", 10% - "Hoarders" and 10% - "Printers". Deleter - 55%: You ...

MinistryResource today announced its 36,000 customers now have access to discounted credit/debit, automated clearinghouse (ACH), and check payment solutions, including a mobile payment product, through the Association Partner Program for Sage Payment Solutions, the payments division for Sage North America. MinistryResource customers can choose from a range of Sage Payment Solutions products, including mobile and web-based solutions to help them process all payment types, in all environments, within Sage Exchange, a highly secure, integrated, Payment Card Industry (PCI) ...

As Leica Camera announced the release of its latest DSLR camera, the Leica M Digital Rangefinder Camera, HdvTools proudly offers the first and exclusive hands-on introductory preview of this impressive addition to the professional photography market. An HdvTools report on the Leica M Digital Rangefinder Camera by a staff expert examines the fine points of this feature-laden DSLR camera, and visitors to the website are treated to a front-seat view, as an informative video takes them through all the details of this exciting new offering by Leica Camera. The most notable ...

Kendall Hunt Publishing announces the release of Officer Down! A Practical Tactical Guide to Surviving Injury in the Street. Written by Dr. Andrew Dennis, who combines his trauma & burn surgery background with his police officer/SWAT team and educational experience, Officer Down! is a must-have resource for any law enforcement official. Affordably priced ($32), the publication can be purchased direct through Kendall Hunt Publishing at www.kendallhunt.com/officer_down (800.228.0810) or Amazon. About Officer Down! A Practical Tactical Guide to Surviving Injury in ...

Midwest Aronia Association will hold their 2013 conference, open to both members and non-members, in Des Moines, Ia, April 4th, 5th, and 6th. This annual Midwest event is the largest gathering of aronia growers in the nation, drawing speakers and attendees from across the United States, as well as internationally, to network, learn and share about the aronia berry. Aronia has been introduced in recent years as a value-added sustainably grown crop, and researchers are discovering numerous health benefits in the dark purple berry. The MAA is excited to announce the schedule ...

Three new product liability lawsuits were filed last week in Texas against Bumbo International Trust and Target for children who fell from the Bumbo Baby Sitter and suffered significant head injuries. According to the lawsuit, the Bumbo Baby Sitters, which were sold prior to the August 2012 recall, did not include any type of safety restraint and were being used in manners which were completely consistent with Bumbo's marketing. Adam Pulaski, a partner at Pulaski & Middleman, a Houston-based, products liability law firm that handles Bumbo Baby Seat Lawsuits stated, ...

Npower's Bridge House call centre in Hull is delighted to announce its support for Comic Relief's Red Nose Day 2013 as the selected regional call centre for the night. On Friday 15 March, Red Nose Day takes over the UK and, in true npower form, staff from the call centre in Hull will be throwing themselves wholeheartedly into the day with various fundraising activities and will have 70 phone lines open until midnight. More than 120 npower staff from all over the business will be giving up their Friday nights as volunteers manning the phone lines. As well as receiving ...

Sound Physicians, a leading hospitalist organization focused on driving improvements in quality, satisfaction and financial performance of inpatient healthcare delivery, recorded a strong year of recruiting success, hiring 212 physician colleagues in 2012. The average recruitment time was 102 days from the start of the search to hire, well ahead of the industry benchmark of 180 days for internal medicine physicians. Today, with more than 600 hospitalist colleagues, Sound Physicians employs approximately one out of every 50 hospitalists practicing in U.S. hospitals. "Our ...

A new study has found a link between the activity levels of elderly people who have just been released from the hospital and the risk that they will require readmission within 30 days. The investigation draws on data collected from 111 patients aged 65 and older, each of whom was fitted with a "step activity monitor" during his or her hospital stay. Worn on the patient's ankle, the pager-sized device counted every step the person took during hospitalization and for a week after discharge. "We're using activity here as a biomarker, similar to the way you might use blood ...

Early HIV treatment can save lives as well as have profound prevention benefits. But those infected with the virus first must be identified before they can be helped. In a new study, two Northwestern University researchers report that current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) HIV screening guidelines are too conservative and that more frequent testing would be cost-effective in the long run for both high- and low-risk groups. The Northwestern team performed a mathematical modeling study to assess "optimal testing frequencies" for HIV screening in different ...

Engineers at Stanford have demonstrated a high-resolution endoscope that is as thin as a human hair with a resolution four times better than previous devices of similar design. The so-called micro-endoscope is a significant step forward in high-resolution, minimally invasive bio-imaging with potential applications in research and clinical practice. Micro-endoscopy could enable new methods in diverse fields ranging from study of the brain to early cancer detection. The new endoscope was developed by a team under the direction of Joseph Kahn, professor of electrical engineering ...

Religious affiliation in the United States is at its lowest point since it began to be tracked in the 1930s, according to analysis of newly released survey data by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Duke University. Last year, one in five Americans claimed they had no religious preference, more than double the number reported in 1990. UC Berkeley sociologists Mike Hout and Claude Fischer , along with Mark Chaves of Duke University, analyzed data on religious attitudes as part of the General Social Survey, a highly cited biannual poll conducted ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Millions of Americans take aspirin or other drugs every day to reduce their risk of heart attacks or other problems caused by blood clots. But when one of them suffers a stroke caused by a clot in their brain, some emergency teams might hesitate to give a powerful clot-busting medication called tPA -- for fear that the combination of drugs might cause dangerous brain bleeding. Now, a University of Michigan Stroke Program study suggests this fear may be unfounded, at least for most patients taking common clot-preventing therapies. The study is ...

Female doctors' patients do not use health-care services more or die less frequently than patients treated by male doctors, a prospective, observational study by researchers at UC Davis Health System has found. The study, published in the March-April issue of The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, is the first large, nationwide evaluation of the association between provider gender and patients' use of health-care services and mortality. "Our findings suggest that if the goal is to contain costs and the risk of death, there is no reason to differentially ...

March 13, 2013, Shenzhen, China - In a collaborative study published online today in Nature Communications, researchers from Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, BGI-Shenzhen, and University of Arizona have completed the genome sequencing of wild rice Oryza brachyantha. This work provides new insights for researchers to understand the function and evolution of Oryza genomes. The genus Oryza is an idea model system for studying plant comparative genomics, evolutionary biology and functional biology. There are two cultivated rice ...

VIDEO: Researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology and Cardiff University in Wales (UK) have discovered a previously unknown cellular mechanism that could prove critical in creating a... Click here for more information. SAN DIEGO – (March 13, 2013) A virus most people probably have never heard of, but that the majority of us carry, is the No. 1 infectious cause of congenital birth defects in the U.S. today. Because of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection during ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating stronger, lightweight magnesium alloys that have potential structural applications in the automobile and aerospace industries. Engineers constantly seek strong, lightweight materials for use in cars and planes to improve fuel efficiency. Their goal is to develop structural materials with a high "specific strength," which is defined as a material's strength divided by its density. In other words, specific strength measures how much load it can carry per unit of weight. Researchers ...

Polycystic ovary syndrome, a condition affecting about 10 percent of women and characterized by excess male hormone and increased risk of diabetes and heart disease, appears to cause a sort of double jeopardy for those struggling the hardest to control blood sugar levels, researchers report. Humans use insulin and other non-insulin mechanisms to convert blood sugar, or glucose, into energy and control levels in the blood, where it becomes a destructive force. A new study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism comparing 28 healthy women to 28 women with ...

The widespread introduction of a chicken pox vaccine in Australia in 2006 has prevented thousands of children from being hospitalized with severe chicken pox and saved lives, according to new research. In a national study of chicken pox admissions at four participating Australian children's hospitals, researchers found the number of children hospitalized with chicken pox or shingles had dropped by 68% since 2006. The research was led by Associate Professor Helen Marshall from the University of Adelaide and Women's and Children's Hospital, and researchers of the Paediatric ...

Philadelphia, PA, March 13, 2013 – Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) deficits have been implicated in schizophrenia and depression. In schizophrenia, deficits have been particularly well-described for a subtype of GABA neuron, the parvalbumin fast-spiking interneurons. The activity of these neurons is critical for proper cognitive and emotional functioning. It now appears that parvalbumin neurons are particularly vulnerable to oxidative stress, a factor that may emerge commonly in development, particularly in the context of psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia or bipolar ...

TORONTO -- What can sports teams learn from the manufacturing industry? Plenty, according to Timothy Chan of the University of Toronto (U of T) and Douglas Fearing of the Harvard Business School. Using statistics from the 2012 Major League Baseball season, Chan and Fearing found that positional flexibility – the ability of a player to play multiple positions – is valuable, responsible for up to 15 per cent of the team's runs, as was the case with the Chicago Cubs. Other teams like the Washington Nationals and the Tampa Bay Rays were less robust to injuries. "Flexibility ...