DALLAS -- UT Southwestern Medical Center cardiologists have uncovered how a specific protein's previously unsuspected role contributes to the deterioration of heart muscle in patients with diabetes. Investigators in the mouse study also have found a way to reverse the damage caused by this protein. The new research, available online and published in the March 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, was carried out in the laboratory of Dr. Joseph Hill, director of the Harry S. Moss Heart Center at UT Southwestern. "If we can protect the heart of diabetic patients, ...

The Improv Comedy Club's "Up Yours" Comedy Contest picks Don Barnhart for a spot in the finals in search for America's Next Great Comedian. Barnhart took second place in the Improv Comedy Club's "Up Yours" online contest battling it out with the front-runner in fan votes earing him a spot in the live finals. The contest was open to everyone and votes came from fans around the world using social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter. The top three vote leaders have secured spots in finals with the judges picking 3 wild-card entries for the ...

VIDEO: This movie was created using GOES-13 visible and infrared satellite imagery from Feb. 28 at 1245 UTC (7:45 am. EST) through March 1, and shows the progression of the cold... Click here for more information. A satellite animation of NOAA's GOES-13 satellite imagery showed the movement of the front that triggered severe storms and tornadoes in several states on February 29, 2012. Today, NASA released a GOES satellite animation of that weather system that triggered at ...

Join the excitement as the Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central Texas host their sixth annual Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central Texas Golf Tournament on Thursday, April 26, 2012 at Lantana Golf Club in Lantana, Texas. The event will help provide continued support for North central Texas youth being served by the Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central Texas. The four-person scramble tournament will kick-off at 1:30pm with a chance to play 18-holes of golf with local celebrities. It will feature a post-tournament awards dinner, live auction, raffles, and numerous ...

http://www.everydayslipcovers.com Furniture Slipcovers For All Types of Furniture. To celebrate the opening of the web site EverydaySlipcovers is offering a 10% discount on all its inventory for orders over $100 for the month of March and in addition free shipping on all orders over $300. EverydaySlipcovers has two goals for the company and both are centered around the customers. The first goal of EverydaySlipcovers.com is to meet the needs of people looking for quality slipcovers at reasonable prices. The site carries slipcovers for the everyday needs as well as the ...

If someone has trouble remembering where the car keys or the cheese grater are, new research shows that a memory training strategy can help. Memory training can even re-engage the hippocampus, part of the brain critical for memory formation, the results suggest. Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine and Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center have been investigating memory-building strategies for people with MCI (mild cognitive impairment). The techniques used in the study were known to be effective for healthy people, but it has been uncertain how they could ...

Satellite imagery from NASA's Terra satellite today, March 1, shows Tropical Storm Irina is slow to leave the coastline of Madagascar. When NASA's Terra satellite passed over Tropical Storm Irina on March 1 at 0715 UTC (2:15 a.m. EST), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard captured a visible image of the cyclone. At that time the center of the storm was still over the waters of the Mozambique Channel, but just off the central west coast of Madagascar. The storm's center was near 19.7 South and 43.7 East. Clouds from the outer reaches of the storm ...

Spring is a time of year for change, and DefySupply.com has showcased this fact with its excellent new line of modern patio furniture sets. Releasing nearly 100 outdoor sofa sets and patio dining sets, defysupply.com has continued its strategy of vast product selection. Unveiling nearly 100 new patio sofa sets and patio dining sets, Defy Supply has continued their mission of giving customers as many options as possible. Defy Supply is one of the web's leading discount furniture e-retailers, and has long been a destination for home furniture and outdoor furniture ...

The American Cancer Society estimates that 44,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer will be diagnosed this year and that 37,000 people will die from the disease. These are not strong odds. A new drug, rigosertib, allows pancreatic cancer cells to rush through replication – and then stops them cold, killing them in in the middle of a step called M phase. Healthy cells that don't rush are unharmed. Data from a phase I clinical trial of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer and additional solid tumors recently published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research shows the strategy ...

The fundamentals of financial planning are the same for men and women, so why do women need custom-tailored financial advice? "Not only do women earn less, live longer, and take an average of 11 years out of the workforce, studies show women are also less confident about financial planning," said Julie Riddell of Riddell Financial, who will present a free financial seminar for women titled "Keeping Your Money Safe in These Turbulent Times." The seminar is scheduled for Tuesday, March 20, at Riddell Financial in the SunTrust Bank building, 3400 ...

Almost three years ago a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) was performing an experiment in which layers of gold mere nanometers (billionths of a meter) thick were being heated on a flat silicon surface and then allowed to cool. They watched in surprise as peculiar features expanded and changed on the screen of their electron microscope, finally settling into circles surrounded by irregular blisters. The circles varied in diameter up to a few millionths of a meter, and in the center of each was a ...

Xena Vallone Realty, a Sarasota, Florida-based residential and commercial real estate firm, has opened a Pinellas County office at 13575 58th Street N., Suite 200, Clearwater, FL 33760. The brokerage that opened three years ago with the belief that boutique firms offering personalized service would be the ones to emerge from the ruins of the housing collapse, is ahead of the curve once again with a solution to the declining inventory of affordable waterfront properties in the Sarasota area. "Buyers who cannot find what they are looking for in Sarasota and Bradenton ...

PULLMAN, Wash.—A Washington State University researcher has demonstrated that a variety of environmental toxicants can have negative effects on not just an exposed animal but the next three generations of its offspring. The animal's DNA sequence remains unchanged, but the compounds change the way genes turn on and off—the epigenetic effect studied at length by WSU molecular biologist Michael Skinner and expanded on in the current issue of the online journal PLoS ONE. While Skinner's earlier research has shown similar effects from a pesticide and fungicide, this is the ...

Golnesa "GG" Gharachedaghi, the self-proclaimed Persian princess of Bravo's upcoming "Shah's of Sunset," is excited to be partnering with Hair Solutions by M.E., Inc., to form a new corporation, GMLD LLC, in promoting, GG's Extensions by Effortless Extensions. Born and raised in Los Angeles, , GG has spent most of her 29 years concentrating on beauty and fashion. GG started out in the industry as an assistant to a celebrity stylist. She then worked as a stylist on the set of "The Simple Life" with Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie and has worked ...

Millions of people suffer from Parkinson's disease, a disorder of the nervous system that affects movement and worsens over time. As the world's population ages, it's estimated that the number of people with the disease will rise sharply. Yet despite several effective therapies that treat Parkinson's symptoms, nothing slows its progression. While it's not known what exactly causes the disease, evidence points to one particular culprit: a protein called α-synuclein. The protein, which has been found to be common to all patients with Parkinson's, is thought to be ...

Rochester, MN, March 1, 2012 – Many health care professionals (HCPs) have easy access to controlled medications and the diversion and abuse of drugs among this group may be as high as 10%. Controversy surrounds the safety of allowing addicted HCPs to return to clinical practice while undergoing medical treatment with opioid substitution therapy such as buprenorphine. In the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Heather Hamza, CRNA, MS, of the Department of Anesthesiology, Los Angeles County Medical Center at the University of Southern California, and Ethan O. Bryson, ...

Philadelphia, PA, March 2, 2012 – When making decisions and counseling about risk and management options for deliveries between 22 and 26 weeks (periviable deliveries), obstetricians are heavily influenced by family preferences, particularly by the impression that parents consistently prefer to have everything possible done to prolong a pregnancy or "save the baby" through interventions such as cesarean section. The results of a University of Pennsylvania study are published in the March issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Periviable neonates ...

YipDeals.com announces the extension of its service to the Charlottesville, Virginia community. YipDeals.com is a unique local deal service that offers deep discounts on local goods and services while supporting local schools and charities. YipDeals.com donates 12% of each deal purchased to the organization of the buyer's choice. With its home base in Northern Virginia, YipDeals.com has helped local schools and charities raise thousands of dollars easily by tapping into the popular group discount buying market. Schools, charities, sports teams, and other organizations ...

Philadelphia, PA -- An initiative in St. Louis targeted the homes of pregnant women to receive inspection and remediation of lead hazards before the birth of a child. According to a study just published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology this measure prevented childhood lead poisoning and reduced the overall burden of lead toxicity in children. Historically, the city had used an approach that waited until a child tested positive for lead poisoning, and then addressed home lead hazards to prevent future harm. "Our data provide evidence that a program ...

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) —The winter sun feels welcome, but not so a summer sunburn. Research over the past 20 years has shown that proteins on the surface of nerve cells enable the body to sense several different temperatures. Now scientists have discovered how just a few of these proteins, called ion channels, distinguish perhaps dozens of discrete temperatures, from mildly warm to very hot. Researchers showed that the building blocks, or subunits, of heat-sensitive ion channels can assemble in many different combinations, yielding new types of channels, each capable of ...

PITTSBURGH -- A powerful new imaging technique called High Definition Fiber Tracking (HDFT) will allow doctors to clearly see for the first time neural connections broken by traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other disorders, much like X-rays show a fractured bone, according to researchers from the University of Pittsburgh in a report published online today in the Journal of Neurosurgery. In the report, the researchers describe the case of a 32-year-old man who wasn't wearing a helmet when his all-terrain vehicle crashed. Initially, his CT scans showed bleeding and swelling ...

the University of Zagreb, the biggest Croatian University and the oldest continuously operating university in the South East Europe, has adopted AxSTREAM for teaching and research in the field of Axial Turbine Design. The University and SoftInWay Inc. signed a software license agreement to incorporate the Educational Version of AxSTREAM (AEV) into the university curriculum. The students will have an opportunity to use the Turbomachinery Design Software AxSTREAM for their final year projects to design flow path of small Axial Gas Turbines and get a better and real-life understanding ...

Chimpanzee populations living in relatively close proximity are substantially more different genetically than humans living on different continents, according to a study published today in PLoS Genetics. The study suggests that genomics can provide a valuable new tool for use in chimpanzee conservation, with the potential to identify the population of origin of an individual chimpanzee or the provenance of a sample of bush meat. Common chimpanzees in equatorial Africa have long been recognized as falling into three distinct populations, or sub-species: western, central ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Five years ago, San Francisco State researcher Andisheh Mahdavi and his colleagues observed an unexpected dark core at the center of Abell 520, a cosmic "train wreck" of galaxy clusters. With new space-based telescope observations, they have confirmed that the core really does exist. But they are no closer to explaining why it is there. When galaxy clusters crash into each other, the bright matter of galaxies sticks together with the mysterious substance called dark matter, leaving behind hot gases. Or at least that is what astronomers have observed in ...

Payroll and check printing software provider halfpricesoft.com released the new version of ezPaycheck payroll software, which can simplifies the time-consuming payroll tasks and helps small business do first thing first. This new version is customized for small businesses with less than 20 employees with straight-forward user interface design and form level help buttons. Main updates in the new edition paycheck software include: - the latest tax changes on the federal and state tax tables - the new W2 and W3 forms for Year 2012 tax season - the new Form 940 for ...