Dr. Michael Grasso, dentist in Chesterfield, is excited to be jumping into the world of social media with his practice's Facebook page. He hopes the Facebook page will help him effectively communicate with his patients on the Internet. "I am glad that our practice is able to use Facebook as a communication tool. I know that many of our patients utilize this service on a daily basis and I am excited that our practice is becoming accessible on Facebook. I hope that many of our patients will take a minute to 'like' our Facebook page," said Dr. Grasso, cosmetic ...

Dr. Rick Brar, dentist from South Elgin, is excited to be providing a variety of educational material on his practice's website. He hopes the educational material will help provide his patients with enough information to effectively be able to maintain the health of their teeth and gums. "I am very glad that we are able to provide helpful education material on our website. I strongly believe that the more educated a patient is, the better chance they will have of keeping their teeth and gums healthy. I hope that all of our patients will take a few minutes to look ...

Dr. Pirooz Zomorrodi, dentist in Naperville, is excited to be jumping into the world of social media with his practice's Facebook and Twitter pages. He hopes these social media tools will allow him to better interact with his patients on the Internet. "I am very glad that our practice is able to use social media to promote our practice online. I know that many of our patients use these services on a daily basis and I am excited that we are able to use these tools to communicate online with our patients. I would like to invite all of our patients to take a few minutes ...

Home Design Outlet Center, an established online retailer of bathroom vanities, invites homeowners to participate in the grand opening of Houston, TX showroom. Grand opening date: Jan 12th 2013 Address: 8017 Pinemont Dr Suite 200 Houston, TX 77040 Being closer to homeowners Home Design Outlet Center started as an online retailer of bathroom related products such as bathroom vanities and bathroom vanity cabinets. The Company believes firmly in offering high quality products at competitive prices. This is achieved by offering modern bathroom vanities at warehouse ...

Dr. Aaron Galbraith, Jackson dentist, is happy to be providing an online appointment request form on his practice's comprehensive dental website. By using this tool, patients are able to schedule an appointment with Dr. Galbraith without ever having to even pick up the phone. "I am very glad that our practice is able to offer online appointment requesting on our website. We are always looking for ways to make our practice more patient-friendly and this is a great example of that. I hope that our patients will take advantage of this service in the future," ...

Visix, Inc. is honored to have ranked first in the digital signage software category of a recent survey by Commercial Integrator magazine. The survey of both large and small integration firms in the industry shows the top three manufacturers in 34 product categories. "It's thrilling to achieve this recognition from our integration partners," says Sean Matthews, President of Visix. "We've embraced the channel from the beginning, and know that these partnerships are essential for the successful adoption of our technologies in higher education, corporate, ...

There are many different types of personal injury, but the value of making a claim rests with whether you, as a person, were injured as a result of someone else's negligence. Personal injury can be distinguished from property damage, in which something you own is damaged. Personal injury refers to damage to your body, mind or emotions. Common Types of Personal Injury Anytime you are injured by the negligent actions of others, you may have a personal injury claim. Some common types of personal injury include: - Traumatic brain injury - Spinal cord injury - Amputation - ...

The days after you suffer a significant personal injury are likely to be some of the lowest points in your life. Suffering from the physical pain of your injury, angry at the person or organization responsible for it and rightly anxious for the justice and compensation you deserve, you are then faced with an exceptionally important decision: which personal injury lawyer will represent you at trial and in negotiations. When making this decision, you should not be afraid to ask pointed and difficult questions of those personal injury lawyers vying for your case. Fortunately, ...

One of the most commonly overlooked causes for a wide range of oral and systemic health issues is temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD.) Detecting and treating this disorder is the primary focus of neuromuscular dentistry. TMD may be asymptomatic, but can often be identified through symptoms such as limited jaw mobility, clicking or popping in the jaw, and pain and swelling around the jaw joint. However, TMD also has a number of other, less obvious symptoms. Symptoms of TMD Symptoms of TMD that may seem unrelated include: - Chronic headaches - Ear aches without ...

An epidemic of the giggles has been traced to free personalized Santa Letters from a popular Santa Claus website. According to the CGC (Centers for Giggle Control), these Letters From Santa primarily affect children who believe in Santa Claus, but there are reports of parents also getting the giggles. A CGC spokesperson said, "The letters carry a rare strain of fun known as Laughalottus sillyitis. The effects from one letter are strong, but temporary. However, because these letters are FREE, multiple exposures are common and lead to serious giggling. Also, since ...

Toronto based Authentic Cuba Travel has already published almost forty tour departures for 2013 and counting. The Canadian company offers North American travelers the chance to get an up close and personal look inside the authentic Cuba through meaningful people to people exchanges and the exploration of Cuba's most unique destinations and attractions. While travel to Cuba is still restricted for Americans, in 2011 some travel restrictions were lifted and new categories of USA Cuba Travel included allowing a larger number of US citizens to travel to Cuba legally as General ...

SALT LAKE CITY— People who reside in rural areas of Utah are less likely to follow colorectal cancer (CRC) screening recommendations than their urban counterparts, according to researchers from Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah. This geographic disparity is evident across all risk groups, including those who have a family history of the disease. "Our hypothesis was that geography matters," said Anita Kinney, Ph.D., R.N., who leads HCI's Cancer Control and Populations Sciences Research Program and is principal investigator of the study. "And what ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. --- Researchers have found the first proof that a chemical in the brain called glutamate is linked to suicidal behavior, offering new hope for efforts to prevent people from taking their own lives. Writing in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, Michigan State University's Lena Brundin and an international team of co-investigators present the first evidence that glutamate is more active in the brains of people who attempt suicide. Glutamate is an amino acid that sends signals between nerve cells and has long been a suspect in the search for chemical ...

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have discovered that the commonly used antidepressant drug paroxetine could also become a therapy for the vascular complications of diabetes. The scientists made their discovery after screening 6,766 clinically used drugs and pharmacologically active substances. "We developed this assay and used it to test literally every single existing drug and a good selection of other biologically active compounds," said UTMB professor Csaba Szabo, senior author of a paper on the research published online by Diabetes. ...

Nanocrystals as protective coatings for advanced gas turbine and jet engines are receiving a lot of attention for their many advantageous mechanical properties, including their resistance to stress. However, contrary to computer simulations, the tiny size of nanocrystals apparently does not safeguard them from defects. In a study by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)and collaborators from multiple institutions, nanocrystals of nickel subjected to high pressure continued to suffer dislocation-mediated ...

PHILADELPHIA — Drugs that are used in the clinic to treat some forms of breast and kidney cancer and that work by inhibiting the signaling molecule mTORC1 might have utility in treating some of the more than 15 percent of human cancers driven by alterations in the Myc gene, according to data from a preclinical study published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. "More than 1 million people diagnosed with cancer each year have a tumor driven by alterations in the Myc gene," said Grant A. McArthur, M.D., Ph.D., professor of translational ...

Park Ridge, Ill. (December 14, 2012) – It is estimated that 34% of Americans are affected by an increasingly prevalent condition known as metabolic syndrome which is a combination of at least three of the following risk factors: large waistline, high triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol, high blood pressure and elevated blood sugar.(i) These individuals have a variety of risk factors that increase the likelihood of developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Decades of mixed messaging regarding dietary cholesterol have led to avoidance of certain foods, such as eggs, ...

Statistics have entered the life sciences and they are here to stay. This science emerged in the XVIII century by the hand of the mathematicians Thomas Bayes and Pierre Simon Laplace and was used by Gregor Mendel to demonstrate his theory on genetic inheritance. Since the 90s with the appearance of large genomic studies, statistics has become a fundamental tool for the analysis and interpretation of biomedical data. "Today it is difficult to find a scientific article in the field of biomedicine that does not include statistical methodology" explains David Rossell, who performed ...

Approximately ten per cent of 6 year olds have sleep-disordered breathing, according to a recent Finnish study. The risk is increased among children with enlarged tonsils, crossbite and convex facial profile. Unlike in adults, excess body fat is not associated with sleep-disordered breathing in this age group. The study was part of the Physical Activity and Nutrition in Children (PANIC) Study led by the Institute of Biomedicine at the University of Eastern Finland. The results were published in European Journal of Pediatrics. The symptoms of sleep-disordered breathing ...

Higher rates of schizophrenia in urban areas can be attributed to increased deprivation, increased population density and an increase in inequality within a neighbourhood, new research reveals. The research, led by the University of Cambridge in collaboration with Queen Mary University of London, was published today in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin. Dr James Kirkbride, lead author of the study from the University of Cambridge, said: "Although we already know that schizophrenia tends to be elevated in more urban communities, it was unclear why. Our research suggests ...

An employment contract for NHS consultants introduced in 2003 and including a 27 per cent pay rise over three years failed to increase productivity. The findings emerge from a 10-year study of hospital consultant activity, published today by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, which looked at the levels of consultant clinical activity rates between 1999 and 2009. The researchers found that, despite an expectation by the Department of Health that the contract would result in year-on-year productivity gains of 1.5%, consultant activity levels showed a downward trend. ...

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, demonstrate that an altered gut microbiota in humans is associated with symptomatic atherosclerosis and stroke. These findings are presented in a study published in Nature Communications on December 4. The human body contains ten times more bacterial cells than human cells, most of which are found in the gut. These bacteria contain an enormous number of genes in addition to our host genome, and are collectively known as the gut metagenome. How does the metagenome ...

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 13, 2012 – University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) researchers have identified over 125 genetic components in a chemotherapy-resistant, brain tumor-derived cell line, which could offer new hope for drug treatment to destroy the cancer cells. The results will be reported in the cover story of December's issue of the journal Molecular Cancer Research, to be published Dec. 18 and currently available online. The potential drug targets were identified after testing more than 5,000 genes derived from glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive brain ...

This press release is available in German. Leipzig. Remains of dead bacteria have far greater meaning for soils than previously assumed. Around 40 per cent of the microbial biomass is converted to organic soil components, write researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), the Technische Universität Dresden (Technical University of Dresden) , the University of Stockholm, the Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology) and the Leibniz-Universität Hannover (Leibniz University Hannover) in the ...

This press release is available in German. All a question of timing: When bushcrickets mate, the male attaches a sticky package, the so-called spermatophore, to the female's abdomen. Alongside the sperm themselves, this 'bridal present' consists of a protein-rich mass that the female eats after mating. It then takes several hours for the sperm to find their way into the female's reproductive tract. But, who decides when that will happen? A study by the Bielefeld biologists Professor Dr. Klaus Reinhold and Dr. Steven Ramm suggests that it is the male who determines the ...