At Adler & Manson, our attorneys have over 20 years of experienced assisting clients through the process of filing a petition for or appealing a workers' compensation decision. There are various kinds of benefits available through workers' compensation in Missouri, including medical benefits, temporary disability benefits, permanent disability benefits, and future medical benefits. Medical Benefits In Missouri, there are four (4) major benefits available in a workers' compensation case. The first is medical expenses paid by the employer as long as the employee ...

New Jersey's pedestrians have a disadvantage in an encounter with a motor vehicle. An example of this involved a 29-year-old victim hit by a car as she stepped into a Newark intersection while the light was green. The vehicle turned the corner and struck her, sending her to the hospital for dozens of stitches and a broken jaw that had to be surgically reconstructed. She was fortunate to escape additional injuries and to have not been killed. The driver sped away from the scene, never stopping to see how badly she was hurt. A Link Between Pedestrian Accidents and Income? A ...

Distracted driving is considered by some lawmakers and safety advocates to have reached "epidemic" proportions in America today. Local, state and national media outlets are shining a light on the dangers of driving while distracted by electronic gadgets, heated conversations, personal grooming or eating, but motorists don't seem willing to stop this dangerous behavior. A recent report issued by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) -- called Curbing Distracted Driving: the 2010 Survey of State Safety Programs -- reveals the shocking toll that distracted ...

The Radisson Blu Hotel Hamburg has announced that it has been named to the Expedia Insiders' Select list for 2012, an annual ranking of best-reviewed hotels as determined by the world's leading full-service online travel agency. The Insiders' Select list largely reflects the feedback from more than 500,000 verified Expedia customer reviews received during 2011, combined with a value rating and the local market expertise of more than 650 Expedia employees in local markets worldwide. Insiders' Select is an easy-to-browse list that helps travelers find the perfect hotel using ...

Soberlink, Inc., a technology-based company that develops products to automate the alcohol monitoring process, is seeing momentous success within the treatment community. The company has continuously enhanced the automation and convenience of their remote alcohol monitoring product in response to the needs of a rapidly growing customer base, including some of the most influential treatment centers in the country. The expanding popularity and confidence in this monitoring product has been promoted by the no-risk 30 day free trial that Soberlink, Inc. offers to their new ...

DVDNow Kiosks, the world's largest network of independently owned and operated DVD rental kiosks, is launching Costa Rica's first-ever DVD rental kiosks beginning this month. With Costa Rica, the company now has operations in 15 countries. Scott McInnes, DVDNow Kiosks Founder and CEO, said, "Costa Rica is an untapped opportunity for our self-serve rental kiosks. Instead of going to a video store, Costa Ricans will now be able to rent movies at locations that are part of their everyday routine such as work, major electronics stores and of course, convenience stores. ...

Hamilton Equipment, Inc. - 800-733-0275 - stocks all Westfield Grain augers and parts including the NEW MK Flex series of portable augers. Please see our exciting video, above! The new MK Flex series portable augers are designed to address the harvest needs of today's largest farms. With a hopper that can cover up to 287% more surface area than a conventional swing away and a patented double-joint design to reach and retract further, you're able to unload double hopper bottom trailers without moving the truck. A built in hydraulic hopper mover and swing cylinder ...

Bamboo Group announced that their popular iOS Ringtonium is now available on Android. Ringtonium is a simple and powerful ringtone maker with best class usability and UI, sound effects and super accurate cutting. Ringtonium helps to make a library of unique tones. It is very easy and convenient to cut out the right section of the track with up to 0.01 sec accuracy. The user can record his voice and transform it beyond recognition. It is very easy to save and share ready ringtones. Moreover, there is no such a stylish and thought-out Android ringtone maker as Ringtonium ...

PASADENA, Calif.—Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland, have discovered a new particle that may be the long-sought Higgs boson, the fundamental particle that is thought to endow elementary particles with mass. "This is a momentous time in the history of particle physics and in scientific exploration—the implications are profound," says Harvey Newman, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). "This is experimental science at its best." The international team of scientists and engineers—which includes a large ...

The ability to distinguish and isolate rare cells from among a large population of assorted cells has become increasingly important for the early detection of disease and for monitoring disease treatments. Circulating cancer tumor cells are a perfect example. Typically, there are only a handful of them among a billion healthy cells, yet they are precursors to metastasis, the spread of cancer that causes about 90 percent of cancer mortalities. Such "rogue" cells are not limited to cancer — they also include stem cells used for regenerative medicine and other cell types. ...

Prostate cancer doesn't kill in the prostate — it's the disease's metastasis to other tissues that can be fatal. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published this week in the Journal of Biological Chemistry shows that prostate cancer cells containing the protein SPDEF continue to grow at the same pace as their SPDEF- cousins, but that these SPDEF+ cells are unable to survive at possible sites of metastasis. "It's as if these cancer cells with SPDEF can't chew into distant tissue and so are unable to make new homes," says Hari Koul, PhD, investigator at the CU ...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 6, 2012 -- New to meditation and already thinking about quitting? You may have simply chosen the wrong method. A new study published online July 7 in EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing highlights the importance of ensuring that new meditators select methods with which they are most comfortable, rather than those that are most popular. If they do, they are likely to stick with it, says Adam Burke, the author of the study. If not, there is a higher chance they may abandon meditation altogether, losing out on its myriad personal and medical benefits. ...

San Diego State University researchers at the Donald P. Shiley BioScience Center may have found the secret to helping the immune system fight off the flu before it gets you sick. A new study published today in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE, finds that EP67, a powerful synthetic protein, is able to activate the innate immune system within just two hours of being administered. Prior to this study, EP67 had been primarily used as an adjuvant for vaccines, something added to the vaccine to help activate the immune response. But Joy Phillips, Ph.D. a lead ...

A staggering 320 tons of gold and more than 7,500 tons of silver are now used annually to make PCs, cell phones, tablet computers and other new electronic and electrical products worldwide, adding more than $21 billion in value each year to the rich fortunes in metals eventually available through "urban mining" of e-waste, experts say. Manufacturing these high-tech products requires more than $16 billion in gold and $5 billion in silver: a total of $21 billion -- equal to the GDP of El Salvador -- locked away annually in e-products. Most of those valuable metals will ...

Washington, D.C. (July 2, 2012)– Forty years into the Title IX era, female athletes have risen to prominence and populate the sports landscape. Female viewership, however, has not witnessed the same rise. What sports are women watching (or not), and why? Of the many events in this summer's Olympics, which will be favored by women viewers? A recent study conducted by Erin Whiteside (University of Tennessee) and Marie Hardin (Pennsylvania State University) explores these questions. The results, published in Communication, Culture & Critique, show that women prefer condensed ...

Women using fertility drugs who did not conceive a 10-plus week pregnancy were at a statistically significant reduced risk of breast cancer compared to nonusers; however, women using the drugs who conceived a 10-plus week pregnancy had a statistically significant increased risk of breast cancer compared to unsuccessfully treated women, but a comparable risk to nonusers, according to a study published July 6 in the Journal of The National Cancer Institute. Ovulation-stimulating fertility drugs temporarily elevate estrogen levels in women, and estrogen is known to play ...

Cambridge, Mass. - July 6, 2012 - Atmospheric scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Nanjing University have produced the first "bottom-up" estimates of China's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, for 2005 to 2009, and the first statistically rigorous estimates of the uncertainties surrounding China's CO2 emissions. The independent estimates, rooted in part in measurements of pollutants both at the sources and in the air, may be the most accurate totals to date. The resulting figures offer an unbiased basis on which China might measure ...

Professor Ian Simmonds from the University of Melbourne's School of Earth Sciences co-authored the study and said the new information showed this combined effect at both ground and atmospheric level played a key role in increasing the rate of warming in the Arctic. "Loss of sea ice contributes to ground level warming while global warming intensifies atmospheric circulation and contributes to increased temperatures higher in the Arctic atmosphere," Professor Simmonds said. Lead author, Dr James Screen of the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne said ...

These kinds of experiments are important as they reveal the interaction strength of the X-rays with the liquids and therefore allow for the structural analysis of substances dissolved in solution. "The method will achieve its absolute apprehension when will be applied to metal ions that are part of chemical catalysts used for clean energy production and biocatalysts (protein enzymes) used in biochemical transformation inside the living cells – the team leader Prof. Aziz stated, which is the next milestone in our research progress. Previously, these types of experiments ...

Research from the University of Southampton and National Oceanography, Southampton has provided new insight into the basic immune response and repair mechanisms of corals to disease and changing environmental conditions. The study, published in the latest issue of the journal Coral Reefs, found that increased growth is the underlying physiological process associated with disease, wounding and stress-related colour changes in reef-building corals. The study investigated distinct green fluorescent protein (GFP)-like pigments responsible for the green, red and purple-blue ...

A team of researchers from the Technical University of Valencia, the University Hospital La Fe, the University of Valencia and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona conducted in vitro studies of cytotoxicity (cellular affection) to assess the optimal concentration level of propolis in which this natural substance extracted from bee resin would offer the maximum protection against ionised radiation and not be toxic for blood cells. According to the results of the research, this optimal concentration level is between 120-500 micrograms/mL. "Within this range can be found ...

The effect of spaceflight on a microscopic worm — Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) — could help it to live longer. The discovery was made by an international group of scientists studying the loss of bone and muscle mass experienced by astronauts after extended flights in space. The results of this research have been published today, July 5 2012, in the online journal Scientific Reports. Dr Nathaniel Szewczyk, from The University of Nottingham, was part of the ICE-FIRST project which involved scientists from Japan, France, the US, and Canada. They discovered that ...

The University of Nottingham has begun the search for a new class of injectable materials that will stimulate stem cells to regenerate damaged tissue in degenerative and age related disorders of the bone, muscle and heart. The work, which is currently at the experimental stage, could lead to treatments for diseases that currently have no cure. The aim is to produce radical new treatments that will reduce the need for invasive surgery, optimise recovery and reduce the risk of undesirable scar tissue. The research, which brings together expertise in The University of ...

Bethesda, MD—A new research report published online in the FASEB Journal reveals a connection among sugar, cancer, and dependence on breathing machines--microRNA-320a. In the report, Stanford scientists show that the molecule microRNA-320a is responsible for helping control glycolysis. Glycolysis is the process of converting sugar into energy, which fuels the growth of some cancers, and contributes to the wasting of unused muscles such as the diaphragm when people are using ventilators. Identifying ways to use microRNA-320a to starve tumors and keep unused muscles strong ...

London (July 05 2012 ) -- European experts in cardiovascular medicine will today gather at a two day symposium to address the national agenda on cardiovascular disease prevention, held at Imperial College London and sponsored by leading independent academic and professional publisher SAGE. One session at the conference, chaired by Professors Joep Perk and David Wood will focus on the new 2012 Joint European Societies' Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice, which will appear in August issue (volume 19, issue 4) of the European Society of ...