A September traffic fatality in the dark early morning hours on U.S. 441 near a rural intersection north of Ocala marked the most recent fatal pedestrian accident in the region. The 71-year-old victim was struck while in the middle road and pronounced dead on the scene, becoming the 48th fatal car accident victim in Marion County in 2012. Pedestrian accidents have increased in some parts of the country in recent decades due to factors such as distracted driving and difficulties for walkers, joggers and bicyclists to find safe places to cross busy suburban intersections ...

The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released final rule changes that should streamline its complaint process for employees. Employees are protected from workplace discrimination by federal law and can pursue a discrimination complaint through the EEOC when they feel their rights have been violated. The EEOC is a federal agency that enforces the country's equal opportunity employment laws. These laws prohibit employers from discriminating against employees or job applicants in hiring, firing, promotion, benefits and other employment decisions. ...

The full economic impact of Hurricane Sandy probably won't be felt for many months or even years. But it is possible to speculate. Time will tell whether these guesses are correct. Public employees who receive overtime will certainly benefit. Law enforcement, sanitation crews, transit workers and others will find themselves working 12-hour shifts for the foreseeable future and being paid accordingly. And workers in the construction industry will probably see an uptick in work as people begin to rebuild. However, other employees may not be so lucky. People in hard-hit ...

With the national election just days away, Pennsylvania employees should know that their employer cannot take action to stop them from voting or frighten them into voting for a candidate of the employer's choice, a prominent labor and employment lawyer said. "Under Pennsylvania law, an employer cannot use either scheduling practices or other threats of actions to dissuade its workers from voting, said Attorney Samuel J. Cordes a downtown Pittsburgh labor and employment lawyer who has represented employees for more than 25 years. Moreover, Pennsylvania employers ...

Cream Jewelry Best is giving away a men's diamond watch with purchases over $120. The watch features ten diamonds providing a total .10 carat weight and a stainless steel back. To qualify to receive the watch free, orders for premium hip hop jewellery must be over $120, not including shipping fees. Getting a free watch with your iced out jewelry purchases is a great way to give yourself or someone you love a gift. While shopping at Cream Jewelry Best, you can pick out the iced out watches you want to give as gifts or the custom chains that you want for yourself. With ...

URBAN enoteca, announces new winter hours and increased venue rental accessibility, beginning Thursday, November 8, 2012. The restaurant will be open for happy hour and dinner during the following hours: Thursday from 4:00 - 9:00 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 4:00 - 11:00 p.m. The 'Farm-to-Table Sunday Brunch' will not be offered during winter hours (the last brunch service will be Sunday, November 11th from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.). As before, URBAN enoteca offer guests free and covered parking, after 4:00 p.m. Noting the need to increase venue rental accessibility, ...

The Danish producer and owner of the intellectual properties of Asonor anti snoring solution, TannerMedico A/S, announced its unique product to the German market together with the German sales organization Skills in healthcare. Asonor is a unique solution to avoid snoring or reducing the sound during the night. This will affect more than 40 million German people - either because they are snoring today or because they are affected as partner. The promotion of Asonor has started in October by having the product tested by the consumer group called "Konsumgotinnen". ...

Polaris Financial Technology Ltd (POLS.BO), a leading global Financial Technology Company, today announced the launch of IntellectTM Algorithmic Liquidity Solution at SIBOS 2012 in Osaka, Japan. Polaris' Intellect Algorithmic Liquidity Solution is a financial technology innovation that utilizes advanced mathematical models for making transaction decisions in liquidity management, thereby erasing transaction costs and allowing treasury managers to take control of their global liquidity. The rules built into liquidity models attempt to determine the optimal amount of ...

Momosa Publishing LLC is pleased to announce the release of The Mommy MD Guide to the Toddler Years, the third in the Mommy MD Guides book series filled with tips that Mommy MD Guides, doctors who are also mothers, use for their own families. The 900+ reassuring, trusted, and often even humorous tips in this book are presented in the Mommy MD Guides' own words, and each tip is clearly attributed to the doctor who lived it. To bring this book to life, coauthors Rallie McAllister, MD, MPH, and Jennifer Bright Reich interviewed 62 Mommy MD Guides. Combined, these physicians ...

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) investigated the men following complaints from consumers, and has put an additional eight companies on notice that they face action, including fines if it is proved they are sending out unwanted marketing texts. The two men under investigation now have 28 days to prove they were not sending out unsolicited marketing messages otherwise the fine will be imposed under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations. Legislation is in place to stop landlines and mobile phones from being spammed unless they have granted permission ...

Ireland's mortgage crisis has become significantly worse over the last few months. With 19bn of the bank's business being mortgage debt and the average mortgage being around GBP200,000, it is estimated around 12,500 customers are probably now in mortgage arrears. Ulster Bank, which is owned by Royal Bank of Scotland and also has a subsidiary, First Active, intends to take on 200 new staff to deal with it, of which 150 will be Scotland-based. However, the move has caused controversy. Ulster Bank has an ongoing restructuring programme in place, and intends to continue ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– UC Santa Barbara has reported an important discovery in the interdisciplinary study of split-brain research. The findings uncover dynamic changes in brain coordination patterns between left and right hemispheres. Split-brain research has been conducted for decades, and scientists have long ago shown that language processing is largely located in the left side of the brain. When words appear only in the left visual field –– an area processed by the right side of the brain –– the right brain must transfer that information to the left brain, in ...

MERCED, Calif. — California isn't going to face a superstorm like Hurricane Sandy because the Pacific Ocean is too cold to feed that kind of weather system. But that doesn't mean California won't see extreme weather, say researchers from the University of California, Merced. "We can see very big storms, and there are a couple of issues related to climate change to think about," said Roger Bales, director of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. "Most of our biggest storms are snow storms, which builds up snowpack in the mountains. The snowpack is a reservoir, storing ...

PASADENA, Calif.—During the early developmental stages of vertebrates—animals that have a backbone and spinal column, including humans—cells undergo extensive rearrangements, and some cells migrate over large distances to populate particular areas and assume novel roles as differentiated cell types. Understanding how and when such cells switch their purpose in an embryo is an important and complex goal for developmental biologists. A recent study, led by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), provides new clues about this process—at least in the ...

NEW YORK (Nov. 01, 2012) -- Weill Cornell Medical College announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Researchers at Weill Cornell have been awarded three research grants totaling more than $1.5 million. Weill Cornell's Dr. Juan R. Cubillos-Ruiz, a postdoctoral research associate in medicine in the laboratory of Dean Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project titled, "Tailored Nanodevices to Understand Resistance Against HIV," Dr. Carl ...

PHILADELPHIA – An international effort led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has resulted in positive phase 3 clinical trial results for a new medicine to treat patients suffering from a rare and deadly cholesterol disorder. Penn researchers report in The Lancet that lomitapide, a first-in-class microsomal triglyceride transfer protein (MTP) inhibitor, substantially and stably reduced LDL cholesterol (the "bad" cholesterol) in patients with the orphan disease homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH). Lomitapide ...

Belmont, MA— In a column appearing in the current issue of the journal Nature, McLean Hospital biostatistician Nicholas Lange, ScD, cautions against heralding the use of brain imaging scans to diagnose autism and urges greater focus on conducting large, long-term multicenter studies to identify the biological basis of the disorder. "Several studies in the past two years have claimed that brain scans can diagnose autism, but this assertion is deeply flawed," said Lange, an associate professor of Psychiatry and Biostatistics at Harvard Medical School. "To diagnose autism ...

Bariatric surgery, which significantly curtails the amount of food a person can eat, is the most effective treatment against obesity and is being recognized as a potentially valuable tool in the fight against diabetes related to obesity. It is being performed on increasing numbers of people worldwide, including teenagers. Unfortunately, some types of bariatric surgery may also cause bone loss, a cause for concern, particularly when carried out on young people who have not yet reached their peak bone mass, say endocrinologists from Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI CEC) and the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have found through spectroscopic investigations on a hydrogen-producing enzyme that the environment of the catalytic site acts as an electron reservoir in the enzyme. Thus, it can very efficiently produce hydrogen, which has great potential as a renewable energy source. The research team describes their results in the journal "Angewandte Chemie". Producing hydrogen with enzymes The system analysed constitutes an enzyme that catalyses the formation and ...

Infant mortality has fallen by half, and the number of women who died from complications during pregnancy and childbirth by three-quarters. This is the result of a four-year health care project in one of India's poorest districts. "We're overjoyed that mortality could be reduced with relatively simple means like mobile health care centres. It was successful because pregnant women and new mothers got the opportunity to actively seek care." So says Siw Alehagen who, together with AnnaKarin Johansson, Orvar Finnström and Göran Hermansson – all of Linköping University ...

World-leading experts in Magnetic Resonance Imaging from The University of Nottingham's Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre have made a key discovery which could give the medical world a new tool for the improved diagnosis and monitoring of brain diseases like multiple sclerosis. The new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, reveals why images of the brain produced using the latest MRI techniques are so sensitive to the direction in which nerve fibres run. The white matter of the brain is made up of billions of microscopic ...

CINCINNATI—A University of Cincinnati (UC) cancer biology team reports breakthrough findings about specific cellular mechanisms that may help overcome endocrine (hormone) therapy-resistance in patients with estrogen-positive breast cancers, combating a widespread problem in effective medical management of the disease. Xiaoting Zhang, PhD, and his colleagues have identified a specific estrogen receptor co-activator—known as MED1—as playing a central role in mediating tamoxifen resistance in human breast cancer. The team reports its findings in the Nov. 1, 2012, issue of ...

With active surveillance many men with prostate cancer could dispense with radiation treatment and surgery, and thus avoid adverse effects such as incontinence and impotence. This is the outcome of a study of almost 1,000 men diagnosed with prostate cancer conducted at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The introduction of PSA tests, which are used to screen for prostate cancer, offers early tumour detection, reducing mortality rates. At the same time, prostate cancer is in many cases a slow-growing form of cancer. Many men may never develop symptoms ...

Couples about to tie the knot shouldn't ignore nagging doubts about getting married, warns a University of Alberta researcher. "If you are having doubts about the relationship, just ignoring them may make a difference years down the road," said Matthew Johnson who co-authored the study while at Kansas State University. Johnson is now an assistant professor in the University of Alberta Department of Human Ecology. The study, published recently in the journal Family Process, found that couples who were more confident as they exchanged vows also spent more time together ...

Researchers at the University of Bergen in Norway have found new support for their theory that cannabis use causes a temporary cognitive breakdown in non-psychotic individuals, leading to long-term psychosis. In an fMRI study published this week in Frontiers in Psychiatry, researchers found a different brain activity pattern in schizophrenia patients with previous cannabis use than in schizophrenic patients without prior cannabis use. The results reinforce the researchers' model where cannabis users suffering from schizophrenia actually may have higher cognitive abilities ...