DUI Courts in Colorado Offer Alternative to Prison In 2009, select counties in Colorado, including Larimer County, began planning for participation in a start-up program aimed at reassessing the way the criminal justice system deals with repeat DUI offenders. The state established the first DUI courts as an alternative to the cycle of incarceration and release for those who have a long history of drunk driving charges. The courts have strict requirements to keep participants engaged, and not everyone qualifies to be a part of the program. Emphasis on Accountability Colorado's ...

LA JOLLA, CA – May 10, 2012 ¬– Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have found the first chemical compounds that act to block an enzyme that has been linked to inflammatory conditions such as asthma and arthritis, as well as some inflammation-promoted cancers. The new study, published recently by the journal ACS Chemical Biology, describes new compounds that inhibit an important enzyme called PRMT1 (protein arginine methyltransferase 1). The new inhibitors will be useful to scientists who study PRMT1-related biological pathways in cells and who are developing ...

Oil Boom in South Texas May Bring More Truck Accidents Caused by Fatigue The Eagle Ford oil boom in South Texas is creating economic growth in the area, but it is also creating growth of another sort. The oil boom has led to more commercial truck traffic to South Texas. The additional truck traffic has brought more tired truck drivers to the area, and has also damaged and narrowed area roads. The greater number of tired truck drivers and deteriorating roads create a dangerous driving environment conducive to car and truck accidents. Many workers in South Texas face ...

Social Media Is a Growing Factor in Divorce Proceedings As social media becomes more ubiquitous in daily life, people are becoming more accustomed to sharing all aspects of their lives online. With sites such as Facebook, Flickr, MySpace,Twitter, LinkedIn and Tumblr, people can broadcast their thoughts, feelings and pictures to everyone in real time. As posting information on social media sites becomes more natural to people, those going through divorce may share details about their situations online. However, doing so can end up harming them, as evidence gathered from ...

Babies born when labour is induced around their due date may have better survival rates than those whose birth is not induced, a study suggests. Researchers found that stillbirths and new born baby deaths were less likely to occur when labour was induced at 40 weeks compared to births where the pregnancy was allowed to continue. Women whose labour was artificially triggered at 40 weeks were also less likely to need a Caesarean section than those who waited to go into labour. The study from the University of Edinburgh looked at elective inductions – those carried out ...

FAQs About Divorce Psychologists put divorce on par with the death of a loved one, losing a job and relocating as one of the most stressful events that a person can go through in life. In the face of such a dramatic life change, people often have several questions regarding transitioning from married to single with respect to finances, investments and real estate matters. Money One of the most common questions people have after divorce is: How do I handle my finances as a single person, after being part of a couple? Experts suggest beginning by making a list ...

Differences in regional hospital readmission rates for heart failure are more closely tied to the availability of care and socioeconomics than to hospital performance or patients' degree of illness, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care & Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2012. U.S. regional readmission rates for heart failure vary widely ― from 10 percent to 32 percent ― researchers found. Communities with higher rates were likely to have more physicians and hospital beds and their populations were likely to ...

A study conducted at Scripps Health has found that a novel new heart monitoring device helped emergency room patients avoid unnecessary follow-up care. Scripps Health electrophysiologist Steven Higgins, MD, presented findings of the study titled, "Prevalence of Arrhythmias in Emergency Department Patients Discharged Using a Novel Ambulatory Cardiac Monitor", today at the Heart Rhythm Society's 33rd Annual Scientific Sessions in Boston. The study focused on the use of Zio® Patch, a single-use ambulatory cardiac monitor that looks similar to a 2- by 5-inch adhesive bandage ...

Growing Use of Credit Reports in Hiring Decisions There is a growing trend among employers across the country to use credit reports to screen job applicants. While the practice is largely illegal in Maryland, the phenomenon is disturbing given the considerable difficulties already facing many of today's jobseekers. More than ever before, according to USA Today, recruiters say employers are using credit reports to screen potential employees. While small business owners may approve of the strategy, folks who are out of work and down on their luck do not view the policy ...

Barcelona, Spain: Using a concentrated, highly targeted dose of radiation to the breast has equally good results as irradiating the whole area, with no adverse effects on survival and a much better cosmetic outcome, Hungarian researchers have found. Reporting the ten-year results of a randomised trial, Professor Csaba Polgár, MD, Director of the Centre for Radiotherapy, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, will tell the World Congress of Brachytherapy [1 & 2] today (Friday) that he believes that accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) could be offered to many ...

AiNET, an innovator in data centers, cloud services and fiber networks, announced today that its new MicroMetering service will provide all data center colocation customers with cost-savings, power redundancy and better scalability. Frequently data center customers are charged based on the capacity of their electrical service. Metered power has advantages over capacity based offerings and cost savings up to 70%. Until now, metered power was only available for the largest colocation and wholesale customers. AiNET MicroMetering is available now at its Laurel, Maryland ...

Barcelona, Spain: New research showing that almost half of 13,000 patients with head and neck cancers had other health-related problems at the same time is one of the presentations in a special session at the 31st conference of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO 31) [1] today (Friday). The session will highlight the effect of the demographic time bomb caused by an increasingly ageing population. Dr Charlotte Rotbøl Bøje, from the Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, will tell the conference that analysis of co-morbidities – other medical ...

For the fourth consecutive year, S&A Cherokee has won multiple InSpire Awards from the North Carolina Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (NCPRSA). NCPRSA launched the awards program in 2009 to honor the region's best efforts in public relations and communications. S&A Cherokee received five Bronze InSpire Awards, recognizing tactics or components of campaigns, and one Silver InSpire Award, recognizing entire campaigns. Four of the company's winning entries also received Best in Category designation. Bronze Award of Excellence and Best in Category, ...

The medical tourism guide Novasans has today launched a revamped Home Page to it's popular online medical travel directory and informational portal. In its quest to bring affordable healthcare and surgery options closer to patients from across the world, Novasans has revised and upgraded its home page, to create a more user-friendly interface and an easier search tool. The new home page is divided into three areas; 1. Explanation to Novasans' features and services 2. Search Functionality to find a hospital, clinic or wellness center across the world, catering to ...

CHICAGO – A new electronic medical record tool that tallies patients' previous radiation exposure from CT scans helps reduce potentially unnecessary use of the tests among emergency room patients with abdominal pain, according to a study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania that will be presented today at the annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. The new study shows that when the tool is in use, patients are 10 percent less likely to undergo a CT scan, without increasing the number of patients who ...

Boomtext announces that it has adopted a new name - Mobivity - and will serve its clients even better. This new brand will hereafter accompany the firm's new product and service launches, as well as give a hand in providing value added services for its clients and increase their customer base by providing extremely intuitive and self-servicing mobile messaging platform. Mobivity began as BoomText in 2007. Today, it is a renowned name in mobile marketing with years of experience in providing cost effective SMS marketing solutions. The company caters to a large number ...

CHICAGO -- Black cardiac arrest victims who are stricken outside hospitals are less likely to receive bystander CPR and defibrillation on the scene than white patients, according to research that will be presented by a research team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania today at the annual meeting of Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. The researchers also found that black patients' hearts were much less likely to have been restarted by the time they arrived at the hospital – a key indicator for whether cardiac arrest victims ultimately ...

Michael Jones, the superintendent of the Illinois Lottery, will be the keynote speaker at the iGaming Super Show due to be held on the 22nd to 25th of May. Jones expertise in the world of lotteries provided the strategic guidance that led to the sale of lottery products over the Internet and led to Illinois becoming the first US state lottery to offer Mega Million and Lotto tickets online. The beginning of sales coincided with the largest lottery prize ever offered in the world. "We are delighted that Michael has agreed to speak at the iGaming Super Show and provide ...

CHICAGO – More than 75 percent of cardiac arrest victims are stricken too far away from an automated external defibrillator for the lifesaving device to be obtained quickly enough to offer the best chance at saving their lives, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania that will be presented today at the annual meeting of Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. The findings may offer an important clue about why, despite CPR and AED awareness campaigns across the United States, cardiac arrest rates remain poor – below ...

Barcelona, Spain: Respiratory movement during radiotherapy makes it difficult to hit the right treatment target and this in turn can lead to an under-dose of radiation to the tumour, or a potentially toxic over-dose to the surrounding healthy tissue. Getting this right is a real challenge for the radiotherapist, but new techniques are helping to deliver the correct dose to the right place, the 31st conference of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO 31) [1] will hear today (Saturday). Dr. Amira Ziouèche, a radiotherapy specialist from the Centre Léon ...

Aerospace heat treatment specialist, Wallwork HT, has achieved new accreditations from Augusta Westland the UK and Italian helicopter company and from USA based, international aerospace components supplier Goodrich Actuation Systems. Wallwork HT already has extensive approvals for its metal hardening processes from Airbus, Bombardier, NADCAP, APPH, BAe, and Rolls Royce. The new Wallwork certifications are for case hardening to vacuum heat treatment. This process is applied to aerospace and engineering components to improve performance and endurance. Typically, these ...

Singapore scientists from Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI) under the Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have for the first time, identified the molecular 'switch' that directly triggers the body's first line of defence against pathogens, more accurately known as the body's "innate immunity". The scientists found that this 'switch' called Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) when turned on, activates the production of interferons - a potent class of virus killers that enables the body to fight harmful pathogens such as dengue and influenza viruses. While ...

BookWhirl.com, one of the industry's leading online service providers, launched the Copyediting service. The introduction of the new service marks the second leg of company's month-long e-Publishing Revo Campaign. The Copyediting service enables self-published authors to access professional copyeditors who reviews and checks their manuscripts for consistency and accurate use of grammar. BookWhirl.com offers this service to raise self-publishing standards, strengthen publishing opportunities, and create inexpensive yet professional copyediting services. "We feel ...

Neuroscientist Patrik Verstreken, associated with VIB and KU Leuven, succeeded in undoing the effect of one of the genetic defects that leads to Parkinson's using vitamin K2. His discovery gives hope to Parkinson's patients. This research was done in collaboration with colleagues from Northern Illinois University (US) and will be published this evening on the website of the authorative journal Science. "It appears from our research that administering vitamin K2 could possibly help patients with Parkinson's. However, more work needs to be done to understand this better," ...

Twelve miles from Atlanta, Georgia is the city of Lithia Springs where an ancient medicine spring has attracted health seekers for countless centuries. In the 1880's this ancient healing spring was named Lithia Springs because of the discovery of lithium carbonate in its water (lithia water). The city of Lithia Springs was incorporated in 1882 and was named after the spring. Dr. Amy Yasko noted microbiologist specializing in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) presented at a recent conference, a breakthrough hypothesis on autism and the lithium connection. She believes that ...