'In her book 'Torn Between Two Masters: Encouraging Teens to Live Authentically in a Celebrity-Obsessed World', Kimberly Davidson raises important questions about the religion of celebrity and its effect on adolescents today. These important issues include teenage pregnancy and single motherhood. "Many female celebrities," stated Ms. Davidson, "glamorize single parenthood. Their message to young girls is women don't need a guy to start a family and to be good mothers. This is a destructive message. Considerable scientific and sociological research points ...

The book is the first novel in the Salvation Series, and features a group of vibrant young people from an innocent future society in a race against the clock to save their beloved friend and mystic Omigali, struck down by dark influences emanating from a distant galaxy and infecting humanity. Graham was most famous for his role in the band Van Der Graaf Generator in the 1960's and '70s, whose hits include Theme One and Killer. In a recent interview, Graham describes how writing had always been an important part of his life: "I'd always wanted to write novels and ...

Christopher's Adventures: Chris Visits the Hospital is a new book produced for sick kids. It came about as a result of the author watching a St. Jude's Hospital special in which a little girl asked the question: "Does God hate me?" The book can be previewed at the Christopher's Adventures website. Author Susan Sherwood Parr is the president of Life to the World Ministries, Inc. She is a Harvest Show and Sky Angel television guest and radio guest. A national Bridge-Logos author also has over 13 books of her own on prayer, a prayer book given out by the Pentagon ...

Indiana eye surgeon Scott Buck, M.D. of Northwest Indiana Eye & Laser Center shared that, "The most recent Prevent Blindness America Vision Problems in the U.S. report indicated that diabetes related eye problems, including diabetic retinopathy, are the leading cause of new cases of blindness in adults 20-74 years of age." "Further, according to the Centers for Disease Control, diabetes affects 25.8 million people in the United States with some 8 million people ages 40 and older who have diabetic retinopathy. This represents an 89 percent increase between ...

Dr. Michael Young, Sterling Heights dentist, is pleased to be providing an easy to use appointment request form on his practice's website. He is offering this service to make it as simple as possible for patients to schedule appointments at his practice when they are in need of dental service. "I am glad that our practice is able to provide this service to our patients. We always strive to make dealing with our practice as easy as possible for our patients and this is a great example of that effort. I encourage out patients to use our website to request appointments ...

Drs. Alan Rosen and Brian Schultz, podiatrists in New York, are providing laser treatment to treat their patients that are suffering from fungal toenail infections. The PinPointe laser is an extremely effective and non-invasive way to treat toenail fungus. "We are happy to be providing this service at our practice. The PinPointe laser lets us effectively treat toenail fungus for our patients quickly and effectively with no pain. I look forward to continuing to treat our patients with this treatment in the future," said Dr. Rosen, New York podiatrist. The ...

A few select Attorneys are changing their online strategy, and winning over more clients because of it. The brainchild of Los Angeles personal injury lawyer, Michael P. Ehline, Esq., the Circle of Legal Trust (C.O.L.T.), has a multi tiered approach in helping lawyers of all types to reach their goal of online audience attraction and retention. First, an attorney who wants to join gets their site reviewed by their panel of experts to see if it has duplicate content, keyword stuffing, or violates Google, Bing, or Yahoo! quality guidelines. This new attorney is called ...

KingIce.com, a popular online hip hop jewelry retailer, will be holding both Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. Traditionally, online retailers rely on Cyber Monday, the Monday following Black Friday, for an increase in sales to kick off the holiday shopping season. In a bold move, KingIce.com will offer two unique sales to attract customers on both shopping days. Camping out at big-box retailers has been a custom for many Americans the day after Thanksgiving. In recent years however, Black Friday sales have been creeping towards Black Thursday. In 2011 Retailers ...

MKA Capital Group announces the for sale listing of the Elkhorn Golf Resort property. With 463 acres of developable residential land and an operational 18-hole golf course, this property in Lyons, OR has tentative tract map plans of 15 single family houses, 46 cottage/condominiums (resort amenities included) and a hotel pad. The map has been currently approved by the board of commissioners. Along with the home sites, a scenic 18-hole golf course is next to and part of the property. Elkhorn Golf Resort is situated 30 minutes east from Salem and an hour and a half southeast ...

Despite the pressure from the Humane Society of the United States, Sheriff Lutz of Zanesville, Ohio , and many other animal rights groups, the exotic animal community from all around the Nation united and said they have had enough of the laws being pushed through to take their rights away from them in regards to owning exotic animals. On November 2, 2012, a federal suit was filed along with filing for a temporary injunction in the United States District Court For The Southern District Of Ohio, Eastern Division. (See full suit here http://www.usza.us/Downloads/Complaint_Exotic_Animal_Ban.pdf) ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Contrary to popular perception, stressors don't cause health problems -- it's people's reactions to the stressors that determine whether they will suffer health consequences, according to researchers at Penn State. "Our research shows that how you react to what happens in your life today predicts your chronic health conditions and 10 years in the future, independent of your current health and your future stress," said David Almeida, professor of human development and family studies. "For example, if you have a lot of work to do today and you are ...

Three late-breaking studies presented during the American Society of Nephrology's Annual Kidney Week provide new information on drugs being tested in patients with diabetes or kidney disease. Hans-Henrik Parving, MD (University of Copenhagen, in Denmark) and his colleagues investigated whether the drug aliskiren might improve the prognosis of patients with type 2 diabetes who are at high risk for developing heart and kidney problems. The randomized double-blind ALTITUDE trial included 8561 individuals who received aliskiren (300 mg once daily) or placebo on top of a drug ...

Highlights Some kidney donors have an increased risk of developing high blood pressure after donation. Individuals with prediabetes can safely donate kidneys without increasing their risk of developing diabetes or kidney failure. Among children with advanced kidney disease, blacks and Hispanics are less likely than whites to receive optimal care. Three studies presented during the American Society of Nephrology's Annual Kidney Week provide new information related to kidney transplantation—specifically, the post-transplant health of kidney donors and the ...

New studies support limiting daily sodium consumption to less than 1,500 milligrams, according to a new American Heart Association presidential advisory. The advisory, published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation, is based on a thorough review of recent laboratory, animal, observational and clinical studies that reaffirm the association's 2011 advisory that limiting sodium (salt) to less than 1,500 mg per day is linked to a decreased risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, including stroke. "Our recommendation is simple in the sense ...

But unsteadiness on the feet, a tendency to fall over, and losing the ability to steer is considerably more of a problem when life is normally spent in trees or in the air. The authors from the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) reveal how they were called to a primary school in Cumbria last summer after the bodies of 12 young blackbirds were found. A further blackbird was discovered alive, but obviously "unwell." And two more dead birds were subsequently found. Foul play was suspected, especially as some of the birds had clearly been injured. ...

NEW YORK -- November 2, 2012 -- For decades, "bigger is better" has been the conventional path to efficiency in industries ranging from transportation to power generation. Food once grown on small family plots now comes overwhelmingly from factory farms. Vessels that carried 2,000 tons of cargo have been replaced by modern container ships that routinely move 150,000 tons. But now, new research shows, we are on the cusp of a radical shift from building big to building small—a change that has profound implications for both established and emerging industries. Many industry ...

The ability of fluorescence microscopy to study labeled structures like cells has now been empowered to deliver greater spatial and temporal resolutions that were not possible before, thanks to a new method developed by University of Illinois researcher Gabriel Popescu and Ru Wang from his lab. Using this method, they were able to study the critical process of cell transport dynamics at multiple spatial and temporal scales and reveal, for the first time, properties of diffusive and directed motion transport in living cells. Popescu leads the Quantitative Light Imaging ...

Income inequality has become a major topic of discussion over the last year and yet consensus on what (if anything) should be done about it seems elusive. New research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests that a simple manipulation of language might be able to influence support for policies aimed at addressing income inequality. Income inequality can be described in two ways: as the rich making more than the poor, or as the poor making less than the rich. The two descriptions convey identical information, ...

Satellite imagery from Nov. 2 showed that Sandy's remnant clouds continue to linger over Canada and the northeastern U.S. The National Weather Service map for Nov. 2, 2012 showed two areas of low pressure over eastern Canada, near Quebec. That's where the remnants of Sandy are located and the storm's massive cloud cover continues to linger over a large area. That low pressure area is associated with Sandy's remnants. A visible image from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite at 1:31 p.m. EDT on Nov. 2, 2012 showed the remnant clouds from Sandy still linger over the Great Lakes east ...

Boulder, CO, USA – In response to the devastation caused last week by Hurricane Sandy, organizers of the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting technical sessions on rapid sea-level rise and its impacts have created a break-out discussion panel consisting of geoscience experts. The idea is to relate early findings and discuss how the changes caused by Hurricane Sandy to the U.S. East Coast tie into the scientific papers already scheduled for presentation. Session organizers George T. Stone of Milwaukee Area Technical College, Michael E. Mann of The Pennsylvania ...

HERSHEY, Pa. -- Extending Medicaid coverage to currently uninsured adults is likely to increase the cost of the program, according to health policy researchers, because those patients are prone to have more expensive health problems than nondisabled adults currently enrolled in Medicaid. The Affordable Care Act gives individual states the option to expand their Medicaid programs to cover many who are uninsured. A study by Penn State and Wake Forest University researchers is among the first to quantify the potential financial impact of this option. "We sought to compare ...

Richmond, Va. – (November 1, 2012) – Men with employment-contingent health insurance (ECHI) who suffer a health shock, such as a cancer diagnosis or hospitalization, are more likely to feel "locked" into remaining at work and are at greater risk for losing their insurance during this critical time as compared to men who are on their spouse's insurance plan or on private insurance plans, according to a new study by Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center. Published in the International Journal of Health Care and Economics, the study was led by Cathy J. Bradley, ...

The brain holds in mind what has just been seen by synchronizing brain waves in a working memory circuit, an animal study supported by the National Institutes of Health suggests. The more in-sync such electrical signals of neurons were in two key hubs of the circuit, the more those cells held the short-term memory of a just-seen object. Charles Gray, Ph.D., of Montana State University, Bozeman, a grantee of NIH's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and colleagues, report their findings Nov. 1, 2012, online, in the journal Science Express. "This work demonstrates, ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Some high mountain meadows in the Pacific Northwest are declining rapidly due to climate change, a study suggests, as reduced snowpacks, longer growing seasons and other factors allow trees to invade these unique ecosystems that once were carpeted with grasses, shrubs and wildflowers. The process appears to have been going on for decades, but was highlighted in one recent analysis of Jefferson Park, a subalpine meadow complex in the central Oregon Cascade Range, in which tree occupation rose from 8 percent in 1950 to 35 percent in 2007. The findings ...

SAN DIEGO -- A drug therapy shows promise for treating an inherited form of kidney disease called autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), Mayo Clinic researchers say. The medication, tolvaptan, slowed the pace of kidney cyst growth over the three years of the study. The phase three clinical trial results were being presented today at the American Society of Nephrology annual meeting and published online in the New England Journal of Medicine. The multicenter study found tolvaptan demonstrated a nearly 50 percent reduction in the rate of increase in total ...