For many patients, the thought of going under anesthesia is as worrisome as the thought of undergoing a surgical procedure. While there are certainly risks associated with all types of anesthesia, Dr. Elizabeth Fox explains that it is important for patients to understand their options. She describes the three different types of anesthesia that are available and addresses concerns regarding the risks associated with sedatives. According to The Wall Street Journal, patient misinformation pertaining to anesthesia and its risks is a common issue. This is a major problem, ...

Smart Software, Inc., provider of industry-leading demand forecasting, planning, and inventory optimization solutions, today announced that Tom Willemain, vice president for research, will have two roles at this year's INFORMS 2012 Annual Meeting, in Phoenix, Arizona, October 14-17. Dr. Willemain, who is also a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will present a tutorial on managing spare parts on October 16, 8:00 - 9:30 am. He will also chair a session on "Methods Supporting Military Logistics and Testing" where ...

A Jackpot Capital Casino player won $125,172 the other day turning a $200 deposit into a "blessing from heaven". Jane G. from Colorado was ready to quit when she suddenly hit the massive jackpot playing Let 'em Ride. Known as shreddedtweet6 in the casino, she almost called it a night when her balance dropped to $16. And then she hit the jackpot. "Chills went up and down my back," said the jackpot winner. "At first, I thought it was a mistake. I showed my husband and we were both in awe. It wouldn't give me anything at all. I was just about to ...

The newly renovated Comfort Inn & Conference Center Northeast, a leading north Atlanta hotels, offers convenient accommodations to football fans attending upcoming 2012 Atlanta Falcons season games at Georgia Dome in downtown Atlanta. Upcoming home games include: - Atlanta verses Oakland Raiders on Sunday, October 10 - Atlanta verses Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, November 4 - Atlanta verses Arizona Cardinals on Sunday, November 18 - Atlanta verses New Orleans Saints on Sunday, November 29 "Under Head Coach Mike Smith and Quarterback Matt Ryan, the Falcons ...

The newly renovated Comfort Inn & Conference Center Northeast, a leading north Atlanta hotel, announces a special promotion for guests attending the Atlanta Pride Festival. Taking place October 13-14, 2012 at Piedmont Park, the festival is the largest Pride event in the southeast. Festivities will include a parade, marches, festival market, and live entertainment featuring Indigo Girls and Amy Ray. The Pride Weekend package at this Comfort Inn Atlanta includes: - Rates from $59 per night (plus tax) - As always, hot breakfast for two Some restrictions may apply; ...

Hampton Inn Atlanta-Southlake / Morrow Hotel offers nearby lodging to guests attending Scott Antique Market Shows at Atlanta Expo Center. Providing over 3300 exhibit booths, the event is the world's largest monthly indoor antique show. Visitors will find anything from furniture, paintings, silver, instruments, and much more at this "treasure hunter's paradise". Upcoming 2012 Atlanta show dates include: - October 11-14 - November 8-11 - December 6-9 Admission to Scott Antique Markets is $5 per person; parking is free. As an added perk, Scott Antique Market ...

The Atlanta mechanics at Express Oil Change & Service Center highly recommend that all drivers have a tune-up to ensure that their engine won't overheat, no matter the time of year. Engines that are not properly maintained can overheat a car quickly, even if it's freezing outside. Drivers can avoid facing this nightmare by getting a tune-up. The Atlanta auto mechanics at Express Oil Change & Service Center encourage drivers to bring their automobiles into their local center for a tune-up to ensure their engine is working properly. "The last thing a driver ...

McCart Insurance, a leading Georgia health insurance provider and broker for Coventry One health insurance, wishes to explain the differences between health maintenance organizations (HMO), preferred provider organizations (PPO), and point-of-service plans (POS). With the differences between these Georgia health insurance plans, which one you choose will depend heavily on your situation. HMO health insurance restricts clients to the physicians they can choose. They must chose a physician that is listed with their Georgia health insurance plan. HMO plans are generally ...

Everyone's got hip hop fever in Cream Jewelry Best's hometown of Atlanta. The stars have been hanging in the ATL to participate in the filming of The BET Hip-Hop Awards. With so many kings and queens of hip hop coming to town, the streets were blinging with fresh and fly hip hop jewelry, like the kind you can find at Cream Jewelry Best. Though we have to wait until the BET Hip-Hop Awards are aired on October 9th, at 8 PM eastern, there's already been quite a stir over the events surrounding the filming. Fights broke out among rival crews, with the most notable fight ...

The brilliant creative team at A Legendary Event, a premier Atlanta catering and special events company, encourages everyone to start their fall party planning with them. Fall is here, and the special event gurus at A Legendary Event know that company parties are being planned, so they want to help. Fall is the perfect time of year for celebrations and get-togethers. With cooler weather rolling in and the leaves turning lovely hues, Atlanta comes alive and people want to celebrate. "Fall can be a perfect time to plan an outdoor wedding or company get together," ...

Commercial laundering can help hospitals and medical groups save money and time, stated medical linen service provider Angelica Corporation. While many organizations handle medical linen cleanup in-house, Angelica Corporation encourages hospitals to utilize the resources a commercial laundering service can provide. "Commercial laundering can help organizations cut back on wasteful water usage and the disposal of hazard chemicals," stated Aly Merritt, Marketing Manager for Angelica Corporation, a hospital linen service provider. "Hospitals can spend too ...

Savannah moving company A.C. White Relocations wishes to remind customers that it offers a wide variety of packing and moving services throughout the Savannah area. A.C. White Relocations was established in 1926 by A.C. White, Sr. Having served the south for over 86 years, it would be difficult to find a more trusted or experienced moving and storage company to assist you with moving to Savannah. As a fourth generation family owned company, A.C. White Relocations has maintained the strong family values that they were founded upon. With many employees having devoted ...

Digital Learning Now! (DLN) today released "Data Backpacks: Portable Records & Learner Profiles," the second in the DLN Smart Series of interactive papers, to create a clear roadmap to the integration of data, portable records, and learner profiles that support the shift to digital learning and Common Core State Standards. This fall, approximately 55 million students and 7 million teachers entered America's Pre-K through 12 classrooms. In most cases, the students showed up on day one knowing little more about their teachers. In most cases, the students ...

For more information: Carlos Nunez, 210-418-6671, cnunez@targetproductions.com 16 years ago a nonprofit, the Asociacion de Empresarios Mexicanos (Association of Mexican Entrepreneurs or AEM), was launched in San Antonio to help existing entrepreneurs as well as newly arrived Mexican entrepreneurs with support to establish a business as well as to expand and strengthen already existing Mexican-owned businesses. Mexican business men and women in the U.S. place great value on entrepreneurship because they often encounter barriers for traditional employment. According ...

The inspiration to Salvatore Robert Froio's latest novel comes from an actual experience he had when he was nine years old. He watched the troop trains go by on the outskirts of Boston, bringing back soldiers from the Second World War. It was exiting to pick up the souvenirs that the troops threw to the kids from the train. Many years later, after serving in the military, he came to a conclusion that there are no winners from wars, only losers. The story begins just before the First World War in Germany. We follow Siegfried immigrating to the U.S. where he starts his ...

It's obvious that there are significant cost savings associated with employees using their own smartphones, tablets and laptops for work. However, the downsides are numerous and worth considering says Dominic Jones of Barton Technology, http://www.barttech.co.uk, "by not having to buy smartphones, laptops and tablets, the hardware costs are significantly reduced and, in this economy, that's a strong incentive for many companies. From a logistics point of view, a multitude of devices are hard to support and manage, as you often can't make the same app work on all platforms." The ...

Want to be a part of International Space Station research? Here's your chance. NASA is offering opportunities for academia, industry and government agencies to develop and carry out research and technology demonstrations on the space station using the newly installed Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Testbed. These opportunities will allow researchers to develop new software according to the Space Telecommunications Radio Standard, or STRS, architecture for radios and reconfigure how radios communicate in space. The SCaN Testbed is a communications, navigation ...

There are 38,500 Redbox machines in this country and then there's Brad Wiescinski - the independent owner of Why Wait DVDs. His locally owned movie rental kiosk in the Main Terminal Food Court of Boston's South Station is an independent business making a go of the same industry that landed Redbox parent company Coinstar (CSTR) at number 15 on this year's Fortune Magazine's 100 Fastest-Growing Companies List. The movie rental business has also been the driving force of the company's profitability, with Redbox revenue surging 26% to $458 million in the second quarter ...

Firelight Fusion, an online retailer of the e cig claims that the smokers who are looking to save money without sacrificing quality will find the best deals on their website. The company's model KR808D-1 Firelight Fusion kit is priced an average of 20% less that competitors and then throws in free shipping, adding another 10% to the already incredible savings everyday. "We want smokers to switch to the e cigarette by making prices so affordable that everyone who smokes can't afford not to take advantage of our kits," states Tiffany Ellis of Firelight Fusion. ...

Of course a nice glass of wine goes well with a hearty steak, and now researchers who study the way food feels in our mouths think they may understand why that is: The astringent wine and fatty meat are like the yin and yang of the food world, sitting on opposite ends of a sensory spectrum. The findings, reported in the October 9th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, offer a whole new definition of the balanced meal. They also offer a new way of thinking about our eating habits, both good and bad. "The mouth is a magnificently sensitive somatosensory ...

Sinusitis: Leaving a bad taste in your mouth The immune system protects the upper respiratory tract from bacterial infections, but the cues that alert the immune system to the presence of bacteria are not known. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers led by Noam Cohen at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrated that the bitter taste receptor T2R38 regulates the immune defense of the human upper airway. Cohen and colleagues found that T2R38 was expressed in the cells that line the upper respiratory tract and could be activated by molecules ...

The immune system protects the upper respiratory tract from bacterial infections, but the cues that alert the immune system to the presence of bacteria are not known. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers led by Noam Cohen at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrated that the bitter taste receptor T2R38 regulates the immune defense of the human upper airway. Cohen and colleagues found that T2R38 was expressed in the cells that line the upper respiratory tract and could be activated by molecules secreted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other ...

Fat cells (adipocytes) surround breast tumors and contribute to tumor growth by expressing factors that aid oncogenesis. Col6 is a protein that is highly expressed in adipocytes and its expression is further increased in both obesity and in breast cancer cells. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Phillip Scherer and Jiyoung Park of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center report that a portion of the Col6 protein, known as endotrophin, alters the tumor environment to promote tumor growth and metastasis in mice. Mice with reduced endotrophin ...

CHICAGO – Among premature, very low-birth-weight infants requiring a transfusion, use of fresh red blood cells (RBCs) compared with standard RBC transfusion practice did not improve clinical outcomes that included rates of complications or death, according to a study in the October 10 issue of JAMA. The study is being published early online to coincide with its presentation at the AABB (formerly the American Association of Blood Banks) Annual Meeting. "Although RBC transfusions are used routinely in acutely ill patients, including those in neonatal intensive care units, ...

October 8, 2012, Ottawa — In a finding that runs counter to commonly held beliefs about fresh being better, a clinical trial published today by the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that acutely ill premature babies who received fresher blood did not fare better than those who received the current standard of care. There was no difference between the two approaches with respect to major organ injury, mortality and infection. "Before now, most of the literature on the subject suggested that fresh red blood cells are better," says lead author Dr. Dean Fergusson, ...