VaporNation, the exclusive online retailer for Vapir products, now carries the Vapir Rise Vaporizer, a state of the art desktop vaporizer that is both versatile and incredibly easy to use right out of the box. The Vapir Rise features a Precise Touch Pad temperature control system which displays temperatures in both Celsius and Fahrenheit. Vapir also made the heating process shorter so users don't need to wait as long to vaporize as with other leading desktop and forced air vaporizers. By employing a high quality ceramic heating element and HEPA air filters, Vapir assures ...

The Environmental Hygienists Association recommends that property owners, managers, and tenants take all ten of these proven steps in the order listed for perfect do-it-yourself or professionally-done toxic mold removal. 1. Proper Containment. Seal off the room or area to be mold remediated with 6 mil thick floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall, clear plastic sheeting so that mold spores released during mold removal do not travel to and mold cross-contaminate other areas. 2. Proper Worker Protection. Mold removal workers should wear a 3M or comparable breathing respirator ...

Fiberlink, the global leader in SaaS (software-as-a-service) solutions for application management and secure mobile device management recently announced a free webinar recording entitled "Curing Healthcare Mobility Management Ailments: Lessons for IT from HiMSS13." This webinar originally aired on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. EST, and can now be viewed on demand. HiMSS 2013 set a clear focus for IT in healthcare: increased access to patient data on mobile devices without any compromise in security. View this complimentary on demand webinar and explore ...

Top Kansas-based provider of promotional products, US Logo, is now offering a wide range of brand marketing services. The current range of services include different promotional solutions for over 400,000 products through embroidery, customized screen printing, digital printing, customized logo design, brand design, graphics, and illustration. US Logo is also offering promotional banners, fleet graphics, and signs along with printing of business cards, envelopes, and letters. Custom screen printing services are being made available in sets of 12 or higher while embroidery ...

"But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die." - Genesis 2:17 This is exactly what happened. The real pure self died and was replaced by a phony self image. Before eating the fruit of knowledge Adam and Eve were totally lost in the moment, unaware of their own self identity; living in wisdom. Their self image all of a sudden made them aware of their own powerlessness; their helplessness and total dependence on God. It introduced greed, jealousy, fear, longing, ambition; in fact all the ...

Since 1994, Dr. Shervin Louie, dentist in Hollywood, has been providing superior dental care for patients of all ages. He received his Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree from the University of Southern California (USC) School of Dentistry in Los Angeles and became licensed to practice dentistry in California. Since graduation, Dr. Louie has pursued additional training in the area of Cosmetic and Implant Reconstruction. Upon his graduation in 1994, Dr. Louie joined the faculty at the University of Southern California as a clinical professor. In 2006, he received an ...

Dr. Darren Elenburg, podiatrist in Oklahoma City, is proud to be offering patient education through Foot & Ankle Center of Oklahoma's comprehensive website. Patients are able to access an extensive library covering an array of educational topics via Dr. Elenburg's website. "We are glad that we can provide this information to our patients. We believe that the more informed a patient is, the better equipped they are to make decisions regarding their health and well-being. I hope our patients use the resources to their advantage," said Dr. Elenburg, Oklahoma ...

Las Cruces dentists, Drs. Ramon and Natalie Ortiz of Painted Skies Dental Center, have taken their practice's online presence to a whole new level. Now patients can access their dentists in Las Cruces on market-leading smartphones and tablets, any place and anytime. The practice's website features pages of informational content about the office, staff, services offered, new patient forms and even the option to request an appointment. Previously, however, none of these great materials were viewable on mobile devices where more and more people are accessing web-based ...

While Ankle & Foot Center of Charlotte's website is not a new feature, Dr. Scott Basinger, podiatrist in Charlotte, NC, encourages his patients to visit his website whenever they have a question or desire further information on important foot and ankle health care information. The practice website is available 24/7/365, which allows patients to easily access important information at any time of the day, from any location. "My website is always available for my patients, which helps in improving their knowledge of various foot and ankle health care topics. While ...

May 04, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Lawmakers in North Carolina are currently considering legislation that would repeal the state's mandatory motorcycle helmet law, making helmet use optional for most adult motorcyclists. Under existing North Carolina law, people of all ages and experience levels are required to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle. If the proposal becomes law, adult motorcyclists in North Carolina would have the option of riding without a helmet if all of the following conditions are met: - The rider is age 21 or older - The rider has had a motorcycle ...

From Friday, April 5 to the early morning hours of Monday, April 8, Minnesota had its deadliest weekend for travel so far this year. There were six separate fatal incidents on Minnesota roadways over the course of the weekend. In one incident, a minivan rolled on I-94 in Minneapolis, costing three people their lives and injuring five others. Another accident on I-94 turned deadly over the weekend when a motorcyclist exited the freeway and shortly thereafter collided with an SUV in Brooklyn Park. Of the other fatal accidents, two were two-vehicle crashes, one involved ...

Today a Brooklyn jury awarded $6.6 Million dollars to a 13 year old 7th Grade student who was severely injured while a passenger in a vehicle which was struck in the rear by a speeding ambulance on April 30, 2006. At the time of the collision the 6 year old Michelle W. sustained open fractures of the hip and left foot which required 2 surgeries, a 6-day hospital admission and has resulted in permanent scarring. The incident occurred while an ambulance, driven by Stuart Freedman and owned by Lifestar Ambulance Response Corp. and Bi-County Ambulance and Ambulette Corp., ...

A lot of parents want to see their children succeed in school. However, this is often easier said than done. Today, many teachers are educating children with different learning styles and abilities. This makes it hard for teachers to gauge if their students have understood their lessons. This is the problem that TutorNerds wants to solve. TutorNerds is an in-home tutoring company based in Irvine, CA, that is committed to making a difference by providing one-on-one tutoring at very affordable costs. TutorNerds' flexible scheduling and at-home tutoring prove to be popular ...

Corcentric, a leading provider of accounts payable automation and electronic invoicing solutions, today announced they will be hosting a free 60-minute educational Webinar for AP professionals titled "AP Automation Buyer's Guide." This Webinar, hosted by Rob DeVincent, Corcentric's Vice President of Product Marketing, will take place on Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 2:00 PM ET/11:00 AM PT. AP automation is on the rise--companies are realizing that automation not only offers significant potential for generating bottom line improvements, but also provides greater ...

Leaving the house in the morning may seem simple, but with every move we make, our brains are working feverishly to create maps of the outside world that allow us to navigate and to remember where we are. Take one step out the front door, and an individual brain cell fires. Pass by your rose bush on the way to the car, another specific neuron fires. And so it goes. Ultimately, the brain constructs its own pinpoint geographical chart that is far more precise than anything you'd find on Google Maps. But just how neurons make these maps of space has fascinated scientists ...

May 3, 2013 – Wind turbine noise, virtual concert halls, and buzzing cicadas will feature alongside bio-inspired microphones, sound-enhanced biofuel production, and acoustic oil spill detection next month at a major international meeting on the science of sound, in Montreal. The 21st International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2013 Montreal), to be held June 2-7, 2013, at the Palais des congrès in downtown Montreal, joins together the 165th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and the 52nd meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association (CAA) under the auspices ...

A University of Iowa undergraduate student has discovered that a process occurring in Saturn's magnetosphere is linked to the planet's seasons and changes with them, a finding that helps clarify the length of a Saturn day and could alter our understanding of the Earth's magnetosphere. Saturn's magnetosphere is the third largest structure in the solar system, eclipsed only by the magnetic fields of the sun and Jupiter. Unlike Earth, which has a visible rocky surface and rotates once every 24 hours, Saturn is composed mostly of clouds and liquid gas layers, each rotating ...

A map of avian influenza (H7N9) risk is presented in Biomed Central's open access journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty today. The map is comprised of bird migration patterns, and adding in estimations of poultry production and consumption, which are used to infer future risk and to advise on ways to prevent infection. As of today, there have been 127 confirmed cases of H7N9 in mainland China with 27 deaths. A lack of information about the virus and its mode of transmission has led to public concerns that H7N9 could be a pandemic waiting to happen. To quantify the ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new mouse model that answers the question of what actually happens in the body when type 2 diabetes develops and how the body responds to drug treatment. Long-term studies of the middle-aged mouse model will be better than previous studies at confirming how drugs for type 2 diabetes function in humans. "The animal models for type 2 diabetes studies that have previously existed have not been optimal because they use young mice. Our idea was to create a model that resembles the situation in the development of type ...

VIDEO: This video shows opening and closing mechanisms. Click here for more information. This news release is available in German. Every cell of our body is separated from its environment by a lipid bilayer. In order to maintain their biological function and to transduce signals, special proteins, so called ion channels, are embedded in the membrane. Anna Stary-Weinzinger and Tobias Linder from the University of Vienna and Bert de Groot from the Max Planck Institute ...

This news release is available in German. The Research Group headed by molecular biologist Andrea Pichler from the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg has made an important discovery in meiosis research. Pichler and her group have identified a new mechanism that plays an important role in meiosis. Meiosis, also called reductional division, is a key process in sexual reproduction. It shuffles parental genetic material and thus guarantees genetic variety. In order to control various biological processes, cells are able to selectively alter ...

Using regional anesthesia instead of general anesthesia in patients with sleep apnea undergoing total joint replacement decreases major complications by 17%, according to a study published online, ahead of print, in the journal Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. The Hospital for Special Surgery study is the first to provide evidence that an intervention during surgery can improve outcomes in patients with sleep apnea who often fare worse than patients without this condition. Currently, up to 25% of patients presenting for surgery in the United States have sleep apnea. "This ...

In a promising development for diabetes treatment, researchers have developed a network of nanoscale particles that can be injected into the body and release insulin when blood-sugar levels rise, maintaining normal blood sugar levels for more than a week in animal-based laboratory tests. The work was done by researchers at North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Children's Hospital Boston. "We've created a 'smart' system that is injected into the body and responds to changes in blood ...

A Rice University laboratory's cagey strategy turns negatively charged carbon nanotubes into liquid crystals that could enhance the creation of fibers and films. The latest step toward making macro materials out of microscopic nanotubes depends on cage-like crown ethers that capture potassium cations. Negatively charged carbon nanotubes associate with potassium cations to maintain their electrical neutrality. In effect, the ethers help strip these cations from the surface of the nanotubes, resulting into a net charge that helps counterbalance the electrical van der Waals ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's warning that high doses of the antidepressant citalopram can cause potentially serious abnormal heart rhythms might be doing more harm than good. In 2011, the FDA attached a warning to the drug, also known as Celexa, based on data linking higher doses of the drug to potentially fatal abnormal changes in the electrical activity of the heart. The new Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System and University of Michigan study, however, calls into question the FDA's warning after finding no increased risk for abnormal heart ...