Dr. Paul Rocke, Littleton orthodontist, is happy to be using social media to help communicate with his patients online. By using his practice's Twitter and Facebook accounts and a practice blog, he hopes to increase his practice's online presence and make it easier for his patients to interact with his practice on the Internet. "I am very happy that our practice is utilizing social media to communicate with patients on the Internet. I know that many of our patients use these services on a daily basis and I am glad our practice is now available on social media. ...

Dr. Harvey Reiter, dentist in Las Cruces, is excited to be featuring a simple appointment request form as a part of his practice's website. By using this tool, patients are able to schedule an appointment at the practice without having to pick up the phone. "I am very glad that our practice is making it simple for patients to request appointments on our website. We are always looking for ways to make our practice more patient-friendly and this is a great example of that. I hope that many of our patients will use this tool in the future to schedule appointments ...

Dr. Kurt Barnes, dentist in Appleton, is excited to be featuring a variety of helpful educational information on his practice's website. He hopes the educational material will help to give his patients the knowledge necessary to maintain the health of their teeth and gums. "I am very glad that our practice is providing some educational material on our website. I strongly believe that the more educated a patient is, the better chance they have of having healthy teeth and gums. I hope that many of our patients will take a few minutes to explore the educational material ...

In recent years, residents in several U.S. states have pushed to add marijuana legalization initiatives to election ballots. While no such initiative has reached the ballot here in New York state, proponents continue to push for legalization at least for medical use. New York state Sen. Diane Savino recently said she hopes to make New York the 18th state to legalize medical marijuana, noting "there is a huge amount of revenue" available to the state if it does so. While marijuana for medicinal use has steadily gained favor in many states, legalizing pot for ...

Recently, at an American Bar Association sponsored Criminal Tax Conference in Las Vegas, John McDougal, special trial attorney and division counsel for the IRS, stated, "You are going to hear more from us on that, it just hasn't hit the press yet." At this conference McDougal and others outlined for attendees the Service's plans and steps taken to address the continual problem of unreported foreign income. It has always been the goal of such efforts to encourage people to come into compliance, primarily through the different reincarnations of the Offshore Voluntary ...

Ear Consultants of Central New York is a specialty practice focused on the diagnosis and treatment of hearing and balance disorders in children and adults. Under the direction of Hayes H. Wanamaker, M.D., a Board certified and fellowship trained ear surgeon with more than twenty years of experience, they serve a broad geographic area around Syracuse, NY. With the most experienced staff in the area, including a specialized Nurse Practitioner and our Audiologists, as well as close working relationships with Balance therapists, Neurologists, and other medical professionals, ...

Smokers Utopia, known as the most brutal e cigarette review site in the world announces their Volcano e cigarette review. Volcano has been in the business since 2009 and has a long history of great products, but as Smokers Utopia states, they all have something that is lacking. Their Vapor Couture review is more proof of their brutal honesty and dedication to providing information that that helps protect smokers from spending money on products that do not fit their lifestyle. "We want all smokers to give the e cig a shot if they have failed at quitting cigarettes ...

Going against the flow is always a challenge, but some waterfall-climbing fish have adapted to their extreme lifestyle by using the same set of muscles for both climbing and eating, according to research published January 4 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Richard Blob and colleagues from Clemson University. The Nopili rock-climbing goby is known to inch its way up waterfalls as tall as 100 meters by using a combination of two suckers; one of these is an oral sucker also used for feeding on algae. In this study, the researchers filmed jaw muscle movement in these ...

A person's style of speech — not just the pitch of his or her voice — may help determine whether the listener perceives the speaker to be male or female, according to a University of Colorado Boulder researcher who studied transgender people transitioning from female to male. The way people pronounce their "s" sounds and the amount of resonance they use when speaking contributes to the perception of gender, according to Lal Zimman, whose findings are based on research he completed while earning his doctoral degree from CU-Boulder's linguistics department. Zimman, who ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– While legions of medical researchers have been looking to understand the genetic basis of disease and how mutations may affect human health, a group of biomedical researchers at UC Santa Barbara is studying the metabolism of cells and their surrounding tissue, to ferret out ways in which certain diseases begin. This approach, which includes computer modeling, can be applied to Type 2 diabetes, autoimmune diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases, among others. Scientists at UCSB have published groundbreaking results of a study of Type 2 diabetes ...

The most comprehensive retrospective study ever conducted comparing how the major types of prostate cancer treatments stack up to each other in terms of saving lives and cost effectiveness is reported this week by a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Appearing in the British Journal of Urology International, the work analyzed 232 papers published in the last decade that report results from clinical studies following patients with low-, intermediate- and high-risk forms of prostate cancer who were treated with one or more of the ...

LA JOLLA, Calif., January 4, 2013 – In many cases, obesity is caused by more than just overeating and a lack of exercise. Something in the body goes haywire, causing it to store more fat and burn less energy. But what is it? Researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute have a new theory—a protein called p62. According to a study the team published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, when p62 is missing in fat tissue, the body's metabolic balance shifts—inhibiting "good" brown fat, while favoring "bad" white fat. These findings indicate that p62 might ...

CYBER SECURITY -- Thwarting threats . . . Many of the nation's foremost authorities on cyber security will gather in Oak Ridge Jan. 8-12 for the inaugural Cyber Sciences Laboratory workshop. The event will feature 10 plenary keynotes, including Richard Clarke, author of "CYBER WAR: The Next Threat to National Security and What to do About it." Also on the agenda are four plenary panels, 44 research talks and 20 research posters. Researchers from nine Department of Energy laboratories will focus on emerging strategies for cost-effective deterrents to cyber attacks. "The ...

What does pulling a radar-equipped sled across the Arctic tundra have to do with improving our understanding of climate change? It's part of a new way to explore the little-known world of permafrost soils, which store almost as much carbon as the rest of the world's soils and about twice as much as is in the atmosphere. The new approach combines several remote-sensing tools to study the Arctic landscape—above and below ground—in high resolution and over large spatial scales. It was developed by a group of researchers that includes scientists from the U.S. Department of ...

Cyclone Dumile is on a solo journey in a southeasterly direction over the open waters of the Southern Indian Ocean over the weekend of Jan. 5 and 6. NASA's Aqua satellite captured a stunning visible image of Dumile as it left La Reunion and Mauritius behind. The MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer)instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a stunning visible image of Tropical Cyclone Dumile on Jan. 4, 2013 at 1020 UTC (5:20 a.m. EST) as it moved away from La Reunion Island and Mauritius. The MODIS image showed a tight swirl of clouds around Dumile's ...

Sonamu has left the Philippines and Palawan behind and NASA satellite imagery showed the storm intensified into a tropical storm while moving through the easternmost South China Sea. At Jan. 4, 2013 at 0535 UTC (12:35 a.m. EST), a visible image of Tropical Storm Sonamu was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) noted that some animated infrared satellite imagery shows central convection persisting over the low level circulation center and some fragmented ...

NEW YORK (Jan. 4, 2013) -- A cocktail of three specific genes can reprogram cells in the scars caused by heart attacks into functioning muscle cells, and the addition of a gene that stimulates the growth of blood vessels enhances that effect, said researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College, Baylor College of Medicine and Stony Brook University Medical Center in a report that appears online in the Journal of the American Heart Association. "The idea of reprogramming scar tissue in the heart into functioning heart muscle was exciting," said Dr. Todd K. Rosengart, chair ...

TAMPA, Fla. (Jan. 4, 2013) – Researchers from the University of South Florida and colleagues at the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital studying the long-term consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI) using rat models, have found that, overtime, TBI results in progressive brain deterioration characterized by elevated inflammation and suppressed cell regeneration. However, therapeutic intervention, even in the chronic stage of TBI, may still help prevent cell death. Their study is published in the current issue of the journal PLOS ONE. "In the U.S., an estimated 1.7 ...

Pennsylvania Court Denies Disability Benefits in Misconduct Case A Pennsylvania court ruled recently that a worker who had been injured on the job was not entitled to receive total disability benefits after she was later terminated for alcohol-related misconduct. The court's decision in BJ Wholesale Club v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board could affect the ability of other injured Pennsylvania workers to receive workers' compensation benefits when they are terminated for misconduct unrelated to an injury that would otherwise entitle them to benefits. Workers' Compensation ...

The Importance of Parenting Plans When a couple is splitting up, emotions run high and it is easy to get wrapped up in the heat of the moment. But when it comes to what is best for a child, cooler heads should always prevail. In order to ensure that their children's needs always take precedence over parents' emotions, many divorced parents create parenting plans that outline their child custody rights and responsibilities. What Should Be Included in a Parenting Plan? -Custody issues: One of the most important aspects of a parenting plan is outlining who will get ...

Creation of Postnuptial Agreements on the Rise While prenuptial agreements are fairly common, many people are not aware that they may be able to create a postnuptial agreement, which can include a lot of the same information that you would find in a prenuptial agreement, but it is done after the couple has gotten married. In fact, according to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, from 2002 to 2007, attorneys reported a dramatic increase in the number of postnuptial agreements drafted for their clients. In many cases, couples will have a postnuptial agreement ...

Rebuilding Credit: Getting a Mortgage after Bankruptcy Bankruptcy is a way for struggling borrowers to get a fresh start. Qualifying borrowers can have debt forgiven (discharged), reduced or consolidated into affordable payments. Despite the negative impact a bankruptcy can have on a credit score, there are things that can be done to assist with purchasing a home and getting a mortgage after a bankruptcy. Most borrowers find that they may be eligible to apply for a mortgage within one to four years depending on the type of bankruptcy that is filed. FHA or VA loans ...

California beginning to bounce back from housing crisis For those facing foreclosure in California there is hope. According to RealtyTrac, California has some of the highest rates of foreclosure in the country, but cities in the state are seeing substantial declines in the number of foreclosures. The California legislature changed the laws in July and provided more protections for struggling homeowners. California hit hard by housing crisis California was hit hard by the foreclosure crisis and the state is still struggling with very high rates even though the rates ...

How Social Security Disability's compassionate allowances work Over the last few years, the Social Security Administration has taken steps to fast-track the application process for Social Security Disability Insurance for individuals whose conditions are obviously disabling. The decision to fast-track an application is known as a compassionate allowance and can provide disability benefits more quickly to those who are clearly in need. Compassionate allowances provided for those with certain conditions To be eligible for a compassionate allowance, applicants must ...

Social Security benefits may improve life after disability Social Security Disability Insurance, or SSDI, can provide additional income to those permanently disabled and no longer able to work and who are receiving workers' compensation, private insurance or other disability benefits. In fact, SSDI benefits have numerous advantages over other disability benefits and can be a good addition to a disabled worker's financial support. SSDI may extend health care coverage One of the most important benefits SSDI may provide is an extension of COBRA health care insurance ...