Spring is in full swing across Alabama. The sun is bright, flowers are blooming, grass is growing and planning has begun for summer vacations. While there is obvious joy at seeing the end of a dismal winter season, warmer temperatures also mean more people traveling on already busy roadways, and an increased chance for truck accidents. Even though semi-truck traffic remains fairly constant throughout the year, the spring and summer months bring with them a sharp uptick in the number of cars, light trucks, motorcycles and bicyclists hitting the road, all of which can ...

In many areas of business, efficiency is a laudable goal. However, the same cannot always be said in healthcare, where a person's life is potentially at stake. Despite this, many doctors are under pressure from insurance companies to see as many patients in a day as possible, which severely limits the amount of time a doctor can devote to each patient. According to a recent study, this limitation puts patients at risk, as it increases the risk of a physician error in the diagnosis. In the study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers looked at medical records ...

For better or worse, it is a familiar goal in business today to do more with less. According to a recent study, when it comes to healthcare, such an attitude is definitely worse. The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, found that primary care doctors often do not have enough time to spend enough time with their patients. As a result, this raises the probability of a misdiagnosis and causes overall patient care to suffer. Researchers in the study reviewed medical records of 212,165 office visits over the course of a year to 69 physicians and healthcare professionals ...

The Comfort Inn & Conference Center Northeast, a leading North Atlanta hotel near Doraville, GA, offers affordable lodging to cyclists and guests attending the 6th Annual Global Imports Sandy Springs Cycling Challenge. Part of the USA Southeast Crit Series' Speed Week, the race will take place May 5, 2013 in Sandy Springs, GA. Offering a full day of activities, races will run from 8:45am-6pm. The Sandy Springs Cycling Challenge is the final leg of the USA Southeast Crit Series Speed Week, with 7 races in 9 days. The series pays $150,000 in prize money to professional ...

Hampton Inn Spartanburg Hotel (North I-85) offers convenient lodging to guests and vendors attending the 2013 Spring Fling. Taking place May 3 -5, City of Spartanburg Spring Fling is Upstate's largest outdoor street festival. Located in downtown Spartanburg, festivities will include: - New, 300 ft. zipline - Shopping in the Arts & Crafts Marketplace - Professional cycling race - 3D chalk artists - Over 100 music acts on 5 festival stages - McDonald's Family Fun Zone - Ride and Inflatables are $1 per ticket - Two car shows (antique and import) - Tons of great ...

Hampton Inn & Suites Atlanta Galleria Hotel, by Smyrna, GA, offers close lodging to guests and vendors attending the 2013 Blade Show & International Cutlery Fair. Presented by BLADE Magazine, the event will be held May 31 - June 2, 2013 at Atlanta's Cobb Galleria Centre. BLADE Show is the world's largest knife show and the ultimate event for knife collectors, knife traders, blade buyers, sellers, outdoor enthusiasts, custom knife-makers, and anyone involved in the knife business. The Blade Show and International Cutlery Fair will showcase nearly700 tables and ...

The accident lawyers in Atlanta, McAleer Law, would like to take a moment to discuss the importance of treating back and neck injuries in a timely manner. Unlike other bodily injuries, those that affect these areas should be addressed as soon as possible to prevent further damage from occurring. The reason being that the spine is a core component of the central nervous system; bulged, herniated or torn discs are just a few problems that can lead to paralysis and loss of limb function if untreated. According to Charles McAleer, Founder of McAleer Law, "These are serious ...

Everyone knows that the best place to find great products at heavily reduced prices is usually the clearance section, and that's the way it is at restaurant supply store Kitchen Inspire as well. You can easily find the high quality products Kitchen Inspire is known for at clearance rates on the company's clearance page, located at http://www.kitcheninspire.com/clearance. You may be surprised at the variety of products available for deep discounts on the Kitchen Inspire clearance page. The company is well known for its melamine dinnerware and professional restaurant equipment, ...

The medical malpractice attorneys, Ballard & Feagle, LLP, would like to take a moment to remind residents that their firm serves the entire Atlanta-metro region as well as the State of Georgia. If you are involved in a case of medical malpractice in Atlanta or surrounding cities, be sure to contact the Atlanta medical malpractice lawyers today. They will help you get the just compensation you deserve for your injury. No one expects to be injured by a medical professional. After all, it is their job to do whatever they can to try to heal you. Although most health ...

LearnKey, a global provider of information technology (IT) and Career Ready self-paced online training, today announced a strategic partnership with Hope for U.S. Veterans and their world-class, instructor-led accredited IT training programs. This partnership enables the companies to provide the nation's veterans with the "best of the best" in online and classroom IT certification and Career Ready programs. "We are absolutely thrilled to partner with Hope for U.S. Veterans," says Jeff Coruccini, CEO of LearnKey. "The partnership enables us to ...

Declaring that American media coverage has become too partisan and promoting the need for more in-depth reporting, keynote speaker Bob Woodward kicked off the opening of the 10th annual AmeriQuest Symposium, which brings together industry experts and thought leaders to share business-building ideas and gain a new perspective on their industry. The Symposium took place in Orlando April 17-19. "We believe the AmeriQuest Symposium is the premier platform for industry leaders to explore the issues impacting their businesses," said Doug Clark, President and CEO ...

Newton Research Labs and Buckeye Shapeform, a manufacturer of custom enclosures and precision metal deep drawn parts, have partnered to design and fabricate a specialized enclosure solution that could be easily modified to fit the needs of three recently developed nuclear industry products. Newton Research Labs develops and manufactures precision, non-contact inspection and measurement solutions based on proven machine vision technology and innovative software applications. Its powerful, easy-to-use and industrially rugged systems serve a wide range of industries with ...

Sound Physicians, a leading hospitalist organization focused on driving improvements in quality, satisfaction and financial performance of inpatient healthcare delivery, will be presenting at the Hospital Association of Southern California's 2013 Annual Meeting. Gary Wilde, president and CEO of Community Memorial Health System, will join Sound Physicians' Mark Rudolph, MD, VP of patient experience and physician development, for the session, entitled, "Engaging Physicians to Lead Patient Experience Improvement." They will discuss the importance of engaging physicians ...

Bruegger's Bagels kicks off National Egg Month today by highlighting the chain's second-favorite menu item (after fresh-baked New York-style bagels, of course) with an eggs-traordinary happy hour and the return of an eggs-tra special bagel. Starting May 8 for a limited run, the bagel bakery will bring back its fan-favorite Egg Bagel, voted out of retirement to celebrate the brand's 30th anniversary. Like all of Bruegger's 15-plus varieties, the Egg Bagel is baked fresh all day in each of the chain's more than 300 bakeries. Guests who prefer their eggs served in one ...

With the successful retrieval of a string of instruments from deep beneath the seafloor, an international team of scientists has completed an unprecedented series of operations to obtain crucial temperature measurements of the fault that caused the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. Emily Brodsky, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, helped organize the Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST), which successfully drilled across the Tohoku earthquake fault last year and installed a borehole observatory nearly 7 kilometers ...

Australian scientists are much closer to developing a screening test for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease. They identified blood-based biological markers that are associated with the build up of a toxic protein in the brain which occurs years before symptoms appear and irreversible brain damage has occurred. "Early detection is critical if we are to make any real difference in the battle against Alzheimer's, giving those at risk a much better chance of receiving treatment earlier, before it's too late to do much about it," said Dr Samantha Burnham from CSIRO's ...

Bethesda, MD -- In its April issue, Health Affairs examines how all high-income countries are struggling to achieve the so-called "Triple Aim" - better health and better health care at lower cost. The articles in this issue find that the United States and other high-income countries have much to learn with the "trade" in strategies and tactics likely to flow both ways. Support for the April issue was made possible by The Commonwealth Fund, Britain's Nuffield Trust, and the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London. DRUG PAYMENT AND PRICING--HOW ...

HPV leaves its mark in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas Oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) is a form of cancer that affects the cells lining the middle part of the throat, including the soft palate, the base of the tongue, the tonsils, and the pharynx. High-risk types of human papilloma virus (HPV) are increasingly detected in patients with OPSCC; however, HPV-positive OPSCC is highly curable and patients with HPV have better survival compared to HPV-negative patients, whose cancers are usually associate with alcohol and tobacco use. To understand the ...

Oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) is a form of cancer that affects the cells lining the middle part of the throat, including the soft palate, the base of the tongue, the tonsils, and the pharynx. High-risk types of human papilloma virus (HPV) are increasingly detected in patients with OPSCC; however, HPV-positive OPSCC is highly curable and patients with HPV have better survival compared to HPV-negative patients, whose cancers are usually associate with alcohol and tobacco use. To understand the molecular mechanisms underlying these differences, Jochen Hess ...

Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) is a rare, fatal form of aggressive B-cell lymphoma caused by Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV). The disease most commonly occurs in immunocompromised patients, such as those with HIV and the elderly. Because current treatment options are not effective, there is a great need for new PEL therapies. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Juan Carlos Ramos and colleagues at the University of Miami used an immunocompromised mouse model of PEL to determine the efficacy of Bortezomib/Vorinostat combination therapy, ...

Charlottesville, VA (May 1, 2013). The Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group is pleased to announce publication of two new studies on dabigatran etexilate (Pradaxa®) and intracranial hemorrhage: one in the Journal of Neurosurgery and the other in Neurosurgical Focus. Background Dabigatran is an oral anticoagulant (blood thinner) approved by the US FDA in 2010 to lower the risk of stroke and prevent systemic embolism in persons with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. Unlike warfarin, the most popular drug prescribed for this condition, dabigatran carries a lower risk ...

The researchers, Dr Bellinda Gallardo and Dr David Aldridge from the University of Cambridge, focussed on the 'dirty dozen' – a group of high-risk invasive aquatic plants and animals. Some, like the killer shrimp (Dikerogammarus villosus) and the bloody red mysid (Hemimysis anomala) are already in UK but have yet to spread. Others, such as the Asian clam (Corbicula fluminalis) and the marmokrebs, a crayfish (Procambarus fallax) may not yet have arrived. Working with Species Distribution Models, which are routinely used to predict which regions most suit invasive species, ...

NASA scientists don't often learn that their spacecraft is at risk of crashing into another satellite. But when Julie McEnery, the project scientist for NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, checked her email on March 29, 2012, she found herself facing this precise situation. While Fermi is in fine shape today, continuing its mission to map the highest-energy light in the universe, the story of how it sidestepped a potential disaster offers a glimpse at an underappreciated aspect of managing a space mission: orbital traffic control. As McEnery worked through her ...

SAN FRANCISCO – May 1, 2013 – Two new studies add to the growing evidence that spending time outdoors may help prevent or minimize nearsightedness in children. A study conducted in Taiwan, which is the first to use an educational policy as a public vision health intervention, finds that when children are required to spend recess time outdoors, their risk of nearsightedness is reduced. A separate study in Danish children is the first to show a direct correlation between seasonal fluctuations in daylight, eye growth and the rate of nearsightedness progression. The research ...

A Lund University research team has shed new light on why gastric bypass often sends diabetes into remission rapidly, opening the door to developing treatment with the same effect. 85% of patients with type 2 diabetes who undergo a gastric bypass procedure recover from the disease within a few days, showing a return to normal blood sugar levels - long before any weight loss. Until now, there have been few clues as to why this happens. "Most previous studies have analysed samples taken from patients before and after a gastric bypass, but there is a risk that the results ...