By recognizing the shift from a volume-based to value-based health care economy, Cejka Search identifies measurable recruitment outcomes for critical physician recruitment success factors in the accountable care era. Key metrics form the basis for a 15:1 client return on investment (ROI) through stronger candidate engagement and sustainable recruitment process improvements. "Solutions must deliver measurable value," said Lori Schutte, MBA, president of Cejka Search. "In the process of recruiting highly qualified clinicians who are a good fit for our clients, ...

Coats and Bennett, PLLC (http://www.coatsandbennett.com), an intellectual property law firm, has announced that litigation paralegal Martha L. Blackman-Hughes has been appointed co-chair of the publications committee for the paralegal division of the North Carolina Bar Association for the 2013-2014 term. Blackman-Hughes, who primarily provides paralegal support for intellectual property litigation and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings, will help lead this committee whose function is to plan content and the editorial calendar for the division's publication, Paralegal ...

The Kroger Co. (http://www.kroger.com/), the nation's largest traditional grocery retailer with 14 stores throughout the Triangle and North Carolina, has announced that it will host the inaugural "Celebrate Your Health" event in partnership with Duke Heart Center, Duke University Medical Center and the American Heart Association. The free event will take place at the Kroger store located at 3825 S. Roxboro St. in Durham on Friday, June 7, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Local DJ personality, Brian Dawson, will provide musical entertainment while Kroger pharmacists and dieticians, ...

Robert Buhler, president of MMI Public Relations (http://www.mmipublicrelations.com), a full-service public relations firm, has announced that the firm received the Steady Growth and Profitability Master Award from the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce for its continued success over the last several years. The award was presented at the 29th Annual Pinnacle Business Awards luncheon on May 29 at the Raleigh Convention Center. More than 500 guests representing the top businesses and enterprises from Raleigh and Wake County attended the event. This is the firm's third consecutive ...

As part of its continued commitment to honey bee health, today Bayer CropScience broke ground on its North American Bee Care Center, a recognition of the importance of these pollinators to agriculture. Senior company managers, bee health experts and representatives from the community were on hand to begin work on the new facility, approximately a 6,000-square-foot state-of-the-art building which will complement an existing Bee Care Center that was established last year at the company's global headquarters in Monheim, Germany. Housed in the Bee Care Center will be a ...

Calloway's Nursery was recently voted Best Landscaping and Garden Center in the "McKinney Courier Gazette's" 2013 Readers Choice Awards. The award, voted on by the newspaper's readers, recognizes the Calloway's location at 4050 W. El Dorado Parkway in McKinney. "Calloway's appreciates being recognized for the extra work we put into providing the freshest, healthiest plants for our customers," says Kimberly Bird, Calloway's vice president of marketing. "But we don't just focus on high-quality plants. We focus on high-quality customer service too. ...

Soft4Boost, a group of like-minded programmers from different countries recently released a wizard-style utility that provides an easier way for PC users to burn video files directly from a personal PC to disc. The new software application is known as Easy Disc Burner and is available as a free download from the Soft4Boost website. The application allows PC users to burn personal computer files to CD, DVD, and Blu-ray. When you use Easy Disc Burner the application can perform the following functions: 1). Burn Files from Windows Explorer: The Easy Disc Burner utility ...

As the President of the Realtor Association of Greater Fort Lauderdale Charitable Foundation Tacher is in the best position to contribute funds via a reputable source. "There's so much hardship and devastation in Oklahoma we just didn't feel like we could look away from people who need us the most right now." said Tacher. "We thought it especially fitting as our expertise is in the representation of homes and the lives of people living within them. This is our field so we want to be a part of people rebuilding those lives in any way we can." Since ...

Exposed Envy Bra Accessories already has over 100 styles of decorative bra straps. However, the company keeps adding new styles to remain the leader in fashion bra accessories. The newest line of rhinestone bra straps adds a stylish and glamorous strap for those more dressy occasions. Rhinestone bra straps have been added to the line to compliment glamorous looks. There are straps made from four rows of rhinestones, with a total of over 500 stones in the entire strap. These certainly offer the most sparkle in the rhinestone line. However, if this is too much, there are ...

French Fusion Holidays was founded in 2003 by husband and wife Benn and Amy Coley. "We created a new genre of family holiday back then," said Benn, sitting poolside at their impressive hillside house that has become a home-from-home for hundreds of British families seeking holidays in France with a difference. "No Going Back certainly was the springboard we needed," remarked Amy. "We were delighted when Channel 4 decided to feature us in a follow-up series." These family activity holidays are ideally suited to one big family or two smaller ...

Popular among Atlanta area renters and homeowners because of its completely wireless system and advanced technology, LifeShield Atlanta announced today that it has reached 10,000 customers and continues to show rapid growth. According to SpotCrime for LifeShield Atlanta, the city has approximately 8,231 burglaries that occur every year. "There has been a decrease in crime in Atlanta GA over the past ten years," said Evan Kramer, SVP, Interactive, LifeShield. "This is likely due to the fact that more and more residents are installing home security systems ...

Beautiful smiles can boost confidence, improve feelings of self-worth, facilitate social interactions and even improve dental health. Los Angeles dentist, Dr. Poneh Ghasri, offers comprehensive cosmetic dental solutions to help her patients put their best smiles forward. When patients feel good about their smiles, they are more likely to maintain the dental habits that can help them preserve their dental health. Twice-daily brushing and flossing can be easier to perform, and regular dental checkups can keep teeth and gums their healthiest. Dr. Ghasri, Los Angeles cosmetic ...

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Never before has such an innovative and outside the box program been dreamed up by a boring tax company. Blue Tax has always been known for their creative, animated marketing approach in their commercial, print and radio advertisements. Love it or hate it, you remember it. Blue Tax has now gone over the top with their new tax program that they have entitled "SUCKS." An acronym for "So U Can Kick Start," the program identifies with tax payers who have found themselves in a debilitating tax situation. The program offers a free phone analysis to every delinquent ...

Research teams led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center investigators are publishing two important studies regarding use of the targeted cancer drug crizotinib for treatment of advanced lung cancer driven by specific genetic mutations. The first reports the final results of a global, phase 3 trial showing that crizotinib is superior to standard chemotherapy for treatment of advanced ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The second paper describes the first report of resistance to crizotinib treatment in a patient with ROS1-positive NSCLC and ...

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai researchers will present several landmark studies at the 2013 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting May 31-June 4, 2013 in Chicago, including data on the likelihood of spousal human papillomavirus (HPV) oral infection, new gene signatures in melanoma, and issues with high readmission rates after cancer surgery. Highlights of Mount Sinai research at ASCO: Oral HPV Not Prevalent in Spouses of People with HPV-Positive Throat Cancer (Under Embargo Until 6:30 AM CDT on Saturday, June 1, 2013) In the first study of its ...

BOSTON––Thousands of patients with an advanced form of lung cancer that carries a specific dysfunctional gene are likely to fare better if treated with a targeted therapy than with traditional chemotherapy, report Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers and a team of international collaborators. In a trial involving patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumor cells harbored an abnormal ALK gene, those who received the oral drug crizotinib, which acts directly on ALK, went a median time of 7.7 months before their disease began to worsen, compared to 3 ...

CHICAGO, JUNE 1, 2013 — The experimental drug selumetinib is the first targeted therapy to demonstrate significant clinical benefit for patients with metastatic uveal melanoma, according to new Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center research presented on Saturday, June 1, at the 49th annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). The findings are potentially practice-changing for a historically "untreatable disease." Though uveal melanoma is rare — there are only 2,500 cases diagnosed in the United States each year — about half of patients will develop ...

Spouses and long-term partners of patients with mouth and throat cancers related to infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV) appear to have no increased prevalence of oral HPV infections, according to results of a multicenter, pilot study led by Johns Hopkins investigators. The study's results suggest that long-term couples need not change their sexual practices, say the scientists. "While we can't guarantee that the partners of patients will not develop oral HPV infections or cancers, we can reassure them that our study found they had no increased prevalence of ...

Acidifying oceans could dramatically impact the world's squid species, according to a new study led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) researchers and soon to be published in the journal PLOS ONE. Because squid are both ecologically and commercially important, that impact may have far-reaching effects on the ocean environment and coastal economies, the researchers report. "Squid are at the center of the ocean ecosystem—nearly all animals are eating or eaten by squid," says WHOI biologist T. Aran Mooney, a co-author of the study. "So if anything happens to ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Peripheral arterial disease is a common circulation problem in which reduced blood flow can lead to complications that jeopardize the limbs, possibly even requiring amputation. Procedures known as revascularization have reduced the need for amputations 40 percent over two decades, Mayo Clinic research shows. The findings were among several studies presented at the Society for Vascular Surgery annual meeting in San Francisco. In the amputation study, Mayo researchers analyzed patients in the Rochester Epidemiology Project, a National Institutes of ...

Exposure to general anaesthesia increases the risk of dementia in the elderly by 35%, says new research presented at Euroanaesthesia, the annual congress of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA). The research is by Dr Francois Sztark, INSERM and University of Bordeaux, France, and colleagues. Postoperative cognitive dysfunction, or POCD, could be associated with dementia several years later. POCD is a common complication in elderly patients after major surgery. It has been proposed that there is an association between POCD and the development of dementia due ...

Marine conservationists from Plymouth University, and the Universidad Federal da Bahia in Brazil, have spent more than 17 years analysing the diversity and density of coral colonies off the coast of South America. That coincided with the catastrophic El Niño event of 1997-98, creating an opportunity for the first detailed assessment of the long-term impact a major environmental incident of this nature can have on coral assemblages. Professor Martin Attrill, Director of Plymouth University's Marine Institute, said: "Coral reefs are perhaps the most diverse marine ecosystem ...

An international team of researchers – led by principal investigator Paul S. Mischel, MD, a member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine – has found that a singular gene mutation helps brain cancer cells to not just survive, but grow tumors rapidly by altering the splicing of genes that control cellular metabolism. The findings are published online in the journal Cell Metabolism. Mischel, who heads the Ludwig Institute's molecular pathology laboratory based ...

Researchers at the University of Georgia, Athens, have identified a strong link between the prevalence and load of certain food-borne pathogens on poultry farms, and later downstream at the processing plant. They report their findings in a manuscript published ahead of print in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. "This study suggests that reducing foodborne pathogen loads on broiler chicken farms would help to reduce pathogen loads at processing, and may ultimately help to reduce the risk of foodborne illness," says Roy Berghaus, an author on the study. ...