Kettering family dentists Dr. William Almoney and Dr. Gerald Brown are happy to be using the Diagnodent Laser to help them and their staff find decay that can be hidden in teeth. Locating hidden decay before it destroys the tooth structure from the inside out is a major goal of modern dentistry. "I am very happy that our practice is able to offer this state-of-the-art equipment for our patients. We know they value healthy and attractive teeth as much as we do. In order to maintain healthy teeth, the earlier we catch any sign of decay the better. This means less ...

Dr. Brent R. Browning, dentist in Houston, is proud to offer Zoom! Teeth whitening at his practice, Browning Smile Design. Zoom! Whitening System is safe, effective and works in less than an hour. "I am very glad we offer this teeth whitening service to our patients. We are always trying to be more patient-friendly and this service aligns with that. We value our patient's time and realize that they have busy lives. With Zoom! patients can get noticeable results in less than an hour. I hope they consider Zoom! when looking for teeth whitening in Houston," said ...

Dr. Stephanie Busch-Abbate, dentist in Kalamazoo, MI, and her staff are glad they can offer printable forms online for new patients to fill out prior to their first appointment. The forms can be found under the "new patients" tab on Gentle Dentistry's comprehensive website. "I am very glad that our practice is able to offer these forms online for new patients. If they fill out the forms prior to their appointment, there is more time for us to have a more efficient appointment and work on everything that needs to be addressed," said Dr. Busch-Abbate, ...

Susan Berman, President of Berman Travel has received recognition from Travel Impressions and the Excellence Group for her "excellence" in the field of travel, passion for customer service, loyalty to Travel Impressions and knowledge of the Excellence Group Luxury Hotels and Resorts. Susan accepted the invitation from Travel Impression to be a TI ambassador for The Excellence Resort Group whose resorts include, Excellence Playa Mujeres, Excellence Riviera Cancun, Excellence Punta Cana and the Beloved. All Excellence Resorts are Berman Travel preferred because ...

Over the years, Cat machines have been very popular for their latest technology and advanced engines. Acert engines are efficient and make sure a truck drives much more efficiently every day. This technology comes equipped in many different models. However, Caterpillar C7 Acert engines have always been the best. Finally, National Power Supply has started selling Caterpillar C7 Acert engines. Cat C7 Acert engines comply with United States EPA Tier 3 regulations. These regulations govern off-road machines, for all engines between 300 to 750 HP. National Power Supply has stock ...

Rotorcraft Services Group, Inc. (RSG), an industry leader in aircraft services and product development, announced the successful development of a Universal Gimbal Mount system for the AgustaWestland AW139 helicopter. The lightweight mount design was completed to satisfy the requirements of Nippon Housou Kyoukai (NHK), Japanese National Broadcasting Corporation for Electronic News Gathering (ENG) and digital data link operations. All Nippon Helicopter (ANH) has delivered two AW139 ENG helicopters and recently signed a contract for a third AW139 helicopter to be configured ...

How do you create an innovation and growth strategy? What methods, techniques and people do you need to make innovation more predictable and manageable? And how will you organize, govern and manage the system to realize the results you seek? Find out the answers in one of BMGI's three upcoming Leading Innovation Courses. What: Leading Innovation Course When: June 18-19, Aug. 27-28 or Oct. 15-16 Where: Denver, CO Cost: $1,895 Registration: Online This course is designed for executives charged with leading innovation initiatives or seeking a sustainable innovation ...

Too many excellent initiatives fail because people don't know how to manage the process of change effectively. With the Change Pro Simulation, you can improve your rate of success. To become a certified facilitator of the Change Pro Simulation, join BMGI in this two-day course coming up in June: Change Pro Certification Course June 18-19 in Denver What Is the Change Pro Simulation? It's a proven method for organizations to develop the knowledge and experience their managers need to effectively manage change. Participants must convince 24 managers in a division to ...

Washington, D.C. – (April 6, 2013) — Researchers from Tel Aviv University describe experiments that could lead to a new approach for treating Parkinson's disease (PD) using a common sweetener, mannitol. This research is presented today at the Genetics Society of America's 54th Annual Drosophila Research Conference in Washington D.C., April 3-7, 2013. Mannitol is a sugar alcohol familiar as a component of sugar-free gum and candies. Originally isolated from flowering ash, mannitol is believed to have been the "manna" that rained down from the heavens in biblical times. ...

(Phoenix, AZ April 4, 2013) -- Brain researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute have discovered that we explore the world with our eyes in a different way than previously thought. Their results advance our understanding of how healthy observers and neurological patients interact and glean critical information from the world around them. The research team was led by Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde, Director of the Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience at Barrow, in collaboration with fellow Barrow Neurological Institute researchers Jorge Otero-Millan, Rachel Langston, and Dr. ...

By screening a library of a billion llama antibodies on live Ebola viruses in the Texas Biomedical Research Institute's highest biocontainment laboratory, scientists in San Antonio have identified a potential weakness in the make-up of these deadly agents that can immediately yield a sensitive test. "Detecting single viral protein components can be challenging, especially at very low levels. However, most viruses are repetitive assemblies of a few components, called antigens, with some existing as polymers which present highly 'avid' targets for antibodies," said Texas ...

DURHAM, NC – Research for diabetes is far more focused on drug therapies than preventive measures, and tends to exclude children and older people who have much to gain from better disease management, according to a Duke Medicine study. By analyzing nearly 2,500 diabetes-related trials registered in ClinicalTrials.gov from 2007-10, the authors provide a broad overview of the research landscape for diabetes. The effort is part of the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative, a public-private partnership founded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Duke University ...

An analysis of diabetes trials worldwide has found they are not addressing key issues relating to the condition with almost two thirds focusing on drug therapy while only one in ten addresses prevention or behavioural therapies. The research is published in Diabetologia, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), and is by Dr Jennifer Green, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA, and colleagues. There are an estimated 371 million people with diabetes in the world. By 2030, there will be some 550 million with diabetes based on current ...

SEATTLE – One in five Americans are completely unaware that they are at risk for the second leading cause of premature death: high blood pressure. In the first ever analysis of awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension for every county, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington revealed significant differences across the US. The study found the largest burden of hypertension in the southeast, the lowest prevalence in Colorado, and differences among genders, ethnic groups and geographies. But despite high prevalence ...

HOUSTON -- (April 5, 2013) -- Rice University physicists on the hunt for the origins of high-temperature superconductivity have published new findings this week about a seemingly contradictory state in which a material simultaneously exhibits the conflicting characteristics of both a metallic conductor and an insulator. In a theoretical analysis this week in Physical Review Letters (PRL), Rice physicists Qimiao Si and Rong Yu offer an explanation for a strange series of observations described earlier this year by researchers at the Stanford Linear Accelerator ...

Scientists have shed light on a common bleeding disorder by growing and analysing stem cells from patients' blood to discover the cause of the disease in individual patients. The technique may enable doctors to prescribe more effective treatments according to the defects identified in patients' cells. In future, this approach could go much further: these same cells could be grown, manipulated, and applied as treatments for diseases of the heart, blood and circulation, including heart attacks and haemophilia. The study focused on von Willebrand disease (vWD), which ...

Chicago (April 5, 2013): Patients faced with the diagnosis of a life-threatening liver disease have to consider the seriousness of having a liver transplant, which can be a definitive cure for many acquired and genetic liver diseases. Among the main considerations are the anxiety of waiting for a donor organ, the risks associated with the transplant operation, and the chance that the transplant procedure will not achieve the desired result. There is also the six-figure cost of the procedure and accompanying patient care, all of which may not be completely covered by health ...

Twenty researchers — more than half of them Simon Fraser University graduates and/or faculty — could become eastern Canada's knights in shining white lab coats. A paper detailing their newly created sequencing of the mountain pine beetle's (MPB) genome will be gold in the hands of scientists trying to stem the beetle's invasion into eastern forests. The journal Genome Biology has published the paper. "We know a lot about how beetle infestations can devastate forests, just as the mountain pine beetle has been doing to B.C.'s lodgepole pines," says Christopher Keeling, ...

One of the most controversial topics in neurology today is the prevalence of serious permanent brain damage after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Long-term studies and a search for genetic risk factors are required in order to predict an individual's risk for serious permanent brain damage, according to a review article published by Sam Gandy, MD, PhD, from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in a special issue of Nature Reviews Neurology dedicated to TBI. About one percent of the population in the developed world has experienced TBI, which can cause serious long-term ...

People in their 20s don't have much on their middle-aged counterparts when it comes to some fine motor movements, researchers from UT Arlington have found. In a simple finger-tapping exercise, study participants' speed declined only slightly with age until a marked drop in ability with participants in their mid-60s. Priscila Caçola, an assistant professor of kinesiology at The University of Texas at Arlington, hopes the new work will help clinicians identify abnormal loss of function in their patients. Though motor ability in older adults has been studied widely, not ...

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY'S HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - While teaching a course on financial information analysis, Asst. Prof. Panos Patatoukas observed that capital market participants and policy makers are increasingly turning to accounting earnings data from corporate financial reports for hints regarding the prospects of the aggregate stock market. This observation indicated that, at the aggregate level, accounting earnings data could be relevant for gauging the value of the entire stock market. Patatoukas, Haas Accounting Group, became so intrigued that he ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A structural biologist at the Florida State University College of Medicine has made discoveries that could lead scientists a step closer to understanding how life first emerged on Earth billions of years ago. Professor Michael Blaber and his team produced data supporting the idea that 10 amino acids believed to exist on Earth around 4 billion years ago were capable of forming foldable proteins in a high-salt (halophile) environment. Such proteins would have been capable of providing metabolic activity for the first living organisms to emerge on the ...

Aluminum salts, or alum, have been injected into billions of people as an adjuvant to make vaccines more effective. No one knows, however, how they boost the immune response. In the March 19, 2013, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences researchers at National Jewish Health continue unraveling the mystery of adjuvants with a report that host DNA coats the alum adjuvant and induces two crucial cells to interact twice as long during the initial stimulation of the adaptive immune system. "Alum makes T cells take a longer look at the antigen, which produces ...

Los Angeles police officers settle sexual harassment claim Article provided by Caskey & Holzman Visit us at http://www.caskeyholzman.com According to the Los Angeles Times, two Los Angeles Police Department officers, one of whom is now retired, accepted a $1.25 million settlement offer in an effort to avoid a trial concerning the officers' claims that they were sexually harassed repeatedly by a supervisor while on the job. The women, who were assigned to the Van Nuys Division at the time of the incidents, claimed that a sergeant who supervised them often ...

What factors can compromise a criminal case? Article provided by Robert J. DeGroot Visit us at http://www.robertjdegrootlaw.com Many defense attorneys often wonder: what makes a criminal case strong? As they uncover the answer to this question with each practicing experience, professionals must also examine the different factors that can hurt a case. Did you know that 10 factors are common to most wrongful criminal convictions? A study, performed by American University in Washington, D.C., identifies the following factors as relevant or common to erroneous convictions: ...