Your teenager has just been in a multi-car motor vehicle accident. Your mind starts to race. Is my child okay? Were any other people injured or killed? Was my child driving recklessly or under the influence of alcohol or drugs? If the answer is yes to any of the questions above, your child may be facing multiple motor vehicle violations, and even criminal charges, such as death by auto (or vehicular homicide) or assault by auto. Before becoming overwrought with worries and concerns for your child's future, take some comfort in the knowledge that there are defense issues ...

The Hilton Garden Inn Atlanta Airport Hotel North announces the Holidays with Heart promotion. Available now through January 6, 2013 for weekend visits booked by January 4, guests who book the Holidays with Heart offer will receive a complimentary, cooked-to-order breakfast every day of their weekend stay. In celebration of the holiday season, this hotel is helping Feeding America secure 400,000 meals on behalf of local food banks to help fight hunger. It's "Holidays with Heart!" Use Book Plan Code "PBHWH1"; offer valid Thursdays-Saturdays. Guests ...

The Hampton Inn & Suites Atlanta Airport Hotel (North, I-85) offers nearby lodging to college football fans attending the 2012 Chick-fil-A Bowl on Monday, December 31. The event will take place at Georgia Dome in downtown Atlanta and will feature the #8 LSU Tigers verses #14 Clemson Tigers. In addition to the game, Chick-fil-A Bowl events will include: - Fellowship of Christian Athletes Breakfast - Georgia Power Chalk Talk and Football Feud Presented by The AJC - Chick-fil-A Bowl at the World of Coca-Cola - Fan Night - Georgia Aquarium - Chick-fil-A Bowl Parade - ...

The great online store Giftnowonline.com has included some of the best original and unique pieces found to their catalogue, offering its customers the coolest choices of gifts for those special people in their lives, at the best prices. If you are looking for a nice detail to show someone special that you love them this holiday season, you should definitely stop by Giftnowonline.com where you will be able to find one of the largest varieties of awesome gifts and themed decoration items and unique products you can find anywhere online. From gifts for your favorite teacher, ...

One of the coolest online shopping websites right now, 4GiftsNSuch has taken the time to do something nice for those who were too busy during Black Friday sales and were not able to take advantage of the great discounts. 4GiftsNSuch has a wide variety of deals, discounts and promotions ready for those last minute shoppers that need great gifts delivered before the holidays. At 4giftsnsuch.com you will be able to find fun toys and accessories for your kids, the coolest house ware items and top of the line products as well as thought out gifts and cool presents for everyone ...

Barclays is making it easier for customers to manage their statements and log in securely to Online Banking using their Barclays Mobile Banking app. The app now comes with PINsentry - the security feature that customers use with their debit card to log in to Online Banking. It means they don't have to carry their PINsentry card reader around with them. Mobile PINsentry can be used to log in to Online Banking, set up new payees, authenticate international payments and register for other Barclays services. Another new feature allows customers to manage statements ...

Aussie has dropped variable rates by 0.20% with discounted rates starting from 5.49% (comparison rate 5.50%) on the Aussie Select Basic home loan and from 5.59% (comparison rate 5.60%) on its Aussie Optimiser Basic home loan. The change will be effective for new loans from Monday 10th December and for existing loans from Friday 21st December.Website: http://www.aussie.com.au/ ...

EYES IN Magazine releases issue 14 of its innovative digital publication featuring compelling stories of the world's top creators and their masterpieces. A beautiful combination of investigative reporting and photography, the latest issue will dazzle readers with its innovative stance on storytelling. Issue 14 spotlight features include: The Stagger Rats, hailed as Anne Hathaway's favorite band, is taking over the U.K. with their tight and harmonious sound. Based out of Edinburgh, the band is getting ready for world domination. EYES IN Magazine features an in-depth ...

John Lewis style advisors combat classic sale shopping pitfalls. Navigating the January sales can inspire ripples of anxiety, but help is at hand as John Lewis comes to the rescue with a complimentary crash course in successful sales shopping. The department store's expert fashion advisors will host 'Survive the Sale' appointments and be on hand to help customers select the most wearable and desirable sales pieces that will enhance their wardrobes - for a snippet of the price. John Lewis Fashion Advisor, KirstyTye, says: "Sale shopping needs to be strategic - ...

The holiday season traditionally begins in North America with US Thanksgiving in late November and runs through various religious holidays such as Hanukkah and Christmas till we reach the New Year. The sending of good wishes and greetings during this season is an accepted tradition in most western countries and corporate giving can be a huge factor in marketing at this time of year. Christmas marketing can be as simple as sending out a corporate Christmas card to your loyal customers, thanking them for their business. Not only do they appreciate being remembered, but ...

Between the blueprint of the genome and the products of its expression lie microRNAs, which can boost or lower the rate at which genes become stuff. In fact, many cancers use microRNA to magnify the expression of faulty genes or shrink the expression of helpful genes that would otherwise suppress tumors. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the December issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry shows that in medulloblastoma, a malignant brain tumor of children, microRNA-218 is especially low. The article also shows that adding microRNA-218 to neural ...

Tropical montane cloud forest trees use more than their roots to take up water. They also drink water from clouds directly through their leaves, University of California, Berkeley, scientists have discovered. While this is an essential survival strategy in foggy but otherwise dry areas, the scientists say that the clouds the trees depend on are now disappearing due to climate change. "The study highlights the vulnerability of this rare and already endangered ecosystem to climate change," said Todd Dawson, senior author of the study and UC Berkeley professor of integrative ...

PASADENA, Calif.—Humans have a tendency to spontaneously synchronize their movements. For example, the footsteps of two friends walking together may synchronize, although neither individual is consciously aware that it is happening. Similarly, the clapping hands of an audience will naturally fall into synch. Although this type of synchronous body movement has been observed widely, its neurological mechanism and its role in social interactions remain obscure. In a new study, led by cognitive neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), researchers ...

1. Singapore scientists have identified FAIM, a molecule that typically prevents cell death, as a potential biomarker to identify an incurable form of cancer in the bone marrow. Patients with this form of cancer usually do not get cured with current standard treatments such as chemotherapy and stem cell transplantation, with an average survival of only about four years. FAIM could thus be a therapeutic target in these patients, as drugs developed to target the molecule could destroy multiple myeloma cells and hence eradicate the cancer. 2. Multiple myeloma is an incurable ...

One major cause of illness from food-borne diseases is the parasite Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii). New insights into how the immune system combats T. gondii are provided in a study published by Cell Press December 13th in the journal Immunity. The findings could lead to the development of long-sought vaccines to protect against T. gondii and related parasites. To fight off pathogens, the immune system relies on Toll-like receptors (TLRs)—a class of proteins that recognize microbes and activate immune responses. The important role of TLR11 in recognizing the T. gondii ...

A simple screening test of musculo-skeletal fitness has proved remarkably predictive of all-cause mortality in a study of more than 2000 middle-aged and older men and women. The study, performed in Brazil by Dr Claudio Gil Araújo and colleagues at the Clinimex - Exercise Medicine Clinic in Rio de Janeiro, is reported today in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention.(1,2) The test was a simple assessment of the subjects' ability to sit and then rise unaided from the floor. The assessment was performed in 2002 adults of both sexes and with ages ranging from 51 ...

PHILADELPHIA — A novel approach to identifying potential anticancer drug combinations revealed that pairing cholesterol-reducing drugs called statins with cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors might provide an effective approach to treating intractable melanomas driven by mutations in the NRAS and KRAS gene. David F. Stern, Ph.D., professor of pathology at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., and colleagues reported these data in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. "The identification of gene mutations that ...

Scientists have isolated cancer stem cells that lead to the growth of Wilms' tumours, a type of cancer typically found in the kidneys of young children. The researchers have used these cancer stem cells to test a new therapeutic approach that one day might be used to treat some of the more aggressive types of this disease. The results are published online in EMBO Molecular Medicine. "In earlier studies, cancer stem cells were isolated from adult cancers of the breast, pancreas and brain but so far much less is known about stem cells in paediatric cancers," remarked Professor ...

A type of immune cell found in the small intestine plays a previously unsuspected role in monitoring antigens circulating in the bloodstream. The findings from a team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers clarify how dendritic cells in the intestinal lining collect antigens from both intestinal contents and the circulation, leading to the generation of T cells that suppress inflammation. Disruption of that regulatory system may lead to the development of autoimmune disorders, inflammatory bowel disease or food allergies. "In the circuitry we uncovered, ...

Thursday, December 13, 2012, Cleveland: Cleveland Clinic researchers from the Lerner Research Institute have uncovered two new genes associated with Cowden syndrome (CS) according to a new study, published today in the online version of the American Journal of Human Genetics. Cowden syndrome is a difficult-to-recognize, under-diagnosed condition that carries high risks of breast, thyroid, and other cancers. The discovery of the two new genes – led by Charis Eng, MD, Ph.D., Chair and Founding Director of the Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute's Genomic Medicine ...

LONDON – Globally, health advances present most people with a devastating irony: avoid premature death but live longer and sicker. That's one of the main findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010), a collaborative project led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. The findings are being announced at the Royal Society in London on Dec. 14 and published in The Lancet, the first time the journal has dedicated an entire triple issue to one study. The seven scientific papers and accompanying commentaries ...

Over 9 million people died as a consequence of high blood pressure in 2010, making it the health risk factor with the greatest toll worldwide, say experts. Smoking and alcohol use have also overtaken child hunger in the last two decades to become the second and third leading risks globally, according to a study estimating the disease burden attributable to 43 risk factors in 1990 and 2010. The analysis was undertaken by an international consortium of scientists as part of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010, which is published in The Lancet today. "Overall we're ...

Boston, MA — No matter where they live, how much education they have, or what their incomes are, people have very similar perceptions on the impact of diseases and injuries. This finding – counter to the prevailing belief that people throughout the world view different health conditions in very different ways depending on their culture or individual circumstances – is part of a collaborative project, the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010). GBD 2010, launched by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) ...

Scientists have discovered new evidence about the evolution of viruses, in work that will change our understanding about the control of infectious diseases such as winter flu. Researchers at the University of Exeter's conducted experiments to manipulate a virus to see if it could evolve the ability to switch its behaviour according to how many other viruses infect a host. Previous research has focussed on trying to force harmful microbes to become less threatening to human health as they evolve. But the new research, which was carried out in collaboration with the ...

New York, NY, December 13, 2012— Despite important progress in research and development (R&D) for global health over the past decade, only a small fraction of new medicines developed between 2000 and 2011 were for the treatment of neglected diseases, highlighting the 'fatal imbalance' between global disease burden and drug development for some of the world most devastating illnesses, said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), in an analysis to be presented today at an international conference aimed ...