The makers of the natural weight loss supplement Healthe Trim would like to know: Did you meet your mid-year weight loss goals? Or, did you even have any? Many people create very broad weight loss goals, neglecting to plan smaller markers. To keep on track with your weight loss plans, it is absolutely critical to define some small, easier-to-reach goals as marking points for your grander scheme. Any natural weight loss plan has two critical components: a healthy diet and regular exercise. However, once you have committed yourself to proper nutrition and the right amount ...

Atlanta bus transport company Samson Trailways would like to inform customers that unlike most companies offering school bus rentals and services, they air-condition their school buses. If you live in or around the Atlanta area, you know just how uncomfortable it can truly be to ride in a crowded bus with no air conditioning. To most, this sounds absolutely miserable. We understand that the comfort of the kids and their chaperones is important, so despite the small extra cost, we have invested in this feature. Having an air condition bus can be essential for longer ...

Anyone who has ever had to set up or configure a Cisco router knows first-hand the challenge of understanding the strange command syntax and quirkiness of the Cisco Internetwork Operating System. As powerful as it is, its commands are unusual and its help is limited. A veteran Seattle, WA based IT author and speaker is doing his best to simplify the process of Cisco router configuration. Don R. Crawley has just released the latest in the Accidental Administrator series, The Accidental Administrator : Cisco Router Step-by-Step Configuration Guide. The series title refers ...

The third quarter of 2012 saw the largest number of NYC commercial transactions in the past 4 years, accounting for 914 recorded sales. The number of transactions is up by 9% Q-o-Q and up by 25% compared with the same quarter of last year. The total commercial sales volume, amounting to $6.06 billion, increased by 4% compared to the previous quarter and is down by 36% Y-o-Y. The office market, which makes up for 60% of all New York City commercial real estate transactions, accounted for $3.66 billion, up 22% Q-o-Q and down 40% Y-o-Y. Manhattan continues to be ...

CiCi's Pizza, home of the custom pizza buffet, continues implementing its 10-year "Build the Brand" growth strategy with key executive changes, including a new vice president of national brand excellence and a vice president of franchise development. Geoff Goodman, a nearly five-year veteran at CiCi's, steps into the role of vice president of national brand excellence. Previously, he served as director of brand excellence, with responsibility for supporting franchisees with strategies that enable strong operations. Former CiCi's franchisee Quinn Newhall takes ...

More than 220,000 people have switched their current accounts to Halifax this year, a 54 per cent increase on the same period last year, reports Halifax.(i) Of those that have switched: - The average age of a switcher was 41 years old - 52% were men, 48% were women - Switchers were most active in South Wales and the South West of the UK. Anthony Warrington, director of personal current accounts said: "Thousands of customers have moved their current account to Halifax over the last nine months - approximately one customer every two minutes - nearly 54% more ...

Lanlard, who has previously made cakes for Her Majesty the Queen Mother, David Beckham and Claudia Schiffer, amongst others, made a bespoke cake for P&O Cruises celebrations of 175 years of heritage, which was cut by HRH The Princess Royal on July 3. Lanlard will give passengers an insight into some of his techniques and designs in baking, patisserie, chocolate and desserts, and will travel on two cruises in 2013: - A 14-night Western Mediterranean on board Azura (A310N), departing April 27, joining Atul Kochhar and Olly Smith on board. Vantage Fares from GBP1,069pp ...

Today's children and teens have grown up with video games, open Internet access and more text messages in a day than their parents received in a lifetime. Criminals have exploited the door opened by families who do not practice cyber security. Author Paul Nourigat, Senior Wealth Strategist for U.S. Bank, has delivered seven financial literacy books for youth over the past year, with three of the books attacking cyber crime and financial fraud. Using fictional stories fused with original illustrations on each page, Nourigat is tapping the hot graphic novel format to appeal ...

Sound Physicians Chairman Edward G. Murphy, MD will share key opportunities and challenges for providers and hospitals considering forming an ACO and the role of hospitalists in that delivery model at the 3rd National Accountable Care Organization Congress on Oct. 31. "For an ACO to be financially-viable, a strong framework and system for performance management must be in place on day one," said Dr. Edward G. Murphy. "Otherwise early losses will put the ACO behind from the beginning." Dr. Murphy led the conversion of Carilion Health System to an ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Over the past few decades, cheerleading has evolved from leading the crowd in cheers at football games to a competitive, year-round sport featuring complex acrobatic stunts performed by a growing number of athletes – and as a result the number and severity of injuries from cheerleading has also surged. In a new policy statement, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) urges coaches, parents and school officials to follow injury-prevention guidelines, develop emergency plans and ensure cheerleading programs have access to the same level of qualified coaches, ...

A new inhibitor helps previously nicotine-addicted rats stay on the wagon, according to a study published on October 22nd in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. Kicking the cigarette habit is difficult enough, but resisting the urge to light up in situations previously associated with smoking can be a quitter's downfall. But help may be at hand. A new inhibitor developed by Fang Liu and colleagues at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto helped ex-smoker rats resist that urge. Liu and colleagues found that long-term nicotine exposure caused two neurotransmitter ...

Mothers and newborns who are both admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) after delivery are significantly more likely to die compared with mom–baby pairs not needing ICU admission, found a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). As well, when both mother and baby require admission to an ICU, they are much more likely to be managed at different hospitals, thereby negatively impacting maternal–infant bonding. Researchers completed a population-based study of all 1.02 million live born singleton deliveries in Ontario between 2002 and 2010. They found that ...

Engaging in a combination of healthy behaviours, such as not smoking, moderate alcohol consumption, exercise, and eating fruits and vegetables daily makes it significantly more likely people will stay healthy as they age, according to a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). "Our study shows the cumulative impact of healthy behaviours on successful aging — the greater the number of healthy behaviours, the greater the benefit," writes Dr. Séverine Sabia, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL (University College London), UK, with coauthors. Successful ...

A study in The Journal of Cell Biology identifies a motor protein that ferries HIV to the plasma membrane, helping the virus escape from macrophages. HIV reproduces inside disease-fighting T cells, killing them in the process. But the virus can also replicate in macrophages, which survive infection and serve as reservoirs of HIV. In T cells, new viral particles are formed at the plasma membrane, but in macrophages the viruses assemble inside cytoplasmic containers called virus-containing compartments (VCCs). To break out of a macrophage, a virus particle therefore has ...

Las Vegas, NV (October 22, 2012) – A stay in the hospital may not be the only way to acquire Clostridium difficile diarrhea – but the potentially life-threatening infection may be associated with a number of health complications in hospitalized children, according to the findings from two studies unveiled today at the American College of Gastroenterology's (ACG) 77th Annual Scientific meeting in Las Vegas. In a separate case report also presented today, fecal microbiota transplantation in a 20-month old with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) suggests the therapeutic ...

Las Vegas, NV (October 22, 2012) –Three separate studies presented today at the American College of Gastroenterology's (ACG) 77th Annual Scientific meeting in Las Vegas help to advance understanding of the differences between African American and Caucasian patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and provide clinicians with new insight on how racial disparities involving disease characteristics, infliximab use, and fistulizing Crohn's disease may impact their patients—and their decisions on how best to manage the disease. The incidence of inflammatory bowel disease ...

AUDIO: This audio clip captures the unusual speech-like sounds from white whale NOC. See supplemental information for more data. Click here for more information. For the first time, researchers have been able to show by acoustic analysis that whales—or at least one very special white whale—can imitate the voices of humans. That's a surprise, because whales typically produce sounds in a manner that is wholly different from humans, say researchers who report their findings in the ...

Some African dung beetles roll their feasts of dung away to avoid the hordes of other hungry bugs at the pile. But now researchers who report their findings in the October 23 issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, have discovered that the beetles also use the balls in another, rather clever way: The moist balls keep the bugs cool even as they push a weight up to 50 times heavier than their own bodies across the scorching sand. "Like an air conditioning unit, the moist ball is cooled by evaporative cooling," said Jochen Smolka of Lund University. "The beetles ...

(PHILADELPHIA) – Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have shown that combining distal protection devices with the prophylactic use of the drug nicardipine is more effective at preventing life-threatening complications following a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (angioplasty, stenting) on patients who have undergone previous bypass surgery than distal protection devices alone. Their findings will be presented on Tuesday, October 23rd, at 8 a.m. at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference, at the Miami Beach Convention Center ...

Las Vegas, NV (October 22, 2012) – Many of the world's preeminent gastroenterologists have convened this week for the American College of Gastroenterology's (ACG) 77th Annual Scientific Meeting at The Venetian Resort, Las Vegas, NV to review the latest scientific advances in gastrointestinal research, treatment of digestive diseases and clinical practice management. New technologies for treating conditions like gastroesophageal reflux (GERD), Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and gastroparesis; groundbreaking insights in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that explore racial ...

Dung beetles roll their feasts of dung away to avoid the hoards of other hungry competitors at the dung pile. But now a team of researchers from South Africa and Sweden have discovered that they also use their balls in another, rather clever way. The moist balls keep the beetles cool even as they push a weight up to 50 times heavier than their own bodies across the hot sand. "The beetles climb on top of their moist balls whenever their front legs and heads overheat," said Prof. Marcus Byrne from Wits University. "We stumbled upon this behaviour by accident while watching ...

Las Vegas, NV (October 22, 2012) – Research unveiled today at the American College of Gastroenterology's (ACG) 77th Annual Scientific meeting in Las Vegas suggests a possible overlap of symptoms of two prevalent GI disorders: irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and further suggests a possible link between subtle GI tract inflammation and IBS symptoms—a link that is also the focus of the first systemic review of the literature on this topic and an editorial both published in this month's American Journal of Gastroenterology. One study ...

Las Vegas, NV (October 22, 2012) –-Non-compliance with vitamin and mineral supplementation protocols after bariatric surgery could lead to nutritional deficiencies and related health complications, such as heart damage, according to two separate case reports unveiled today at the American College of Gastroenterology's (ACG) 77th Annual Scientific meeting in Las Vegas. Case Report 1: "Malnutrition Secondary to Non-Compliance with Vitamin and Mineral Supplements after Gastric Bypass Surgery: Complex Problem, Simple Solution" Multivitamin supplementation is considered ...

Las Vegas, NV (October 22, 2012) – Patients with chronic constipation may be at increased risk of developing colorectal cancer and benign neoplasms, according to study findings unveiled today at the American College of Gastroenterology's (ACG) 77th Annual Scientific meeting in Las Vegas. The study, "Risk of Developing Colorectal Cancer and Benign Neoplasm in Patients with Chronic Constipation," investigated the prevalence and incidence of colorectal cancer and benign neoplasms in 28,854 patients with chronic constipation (CC) and 86,562 controls without CC that ...

Las Vegas, NV (October 22, 2012) – Women under age 50 who have been diagnosed with endometrial cancer, and first, second and third degree relatives of patients with colorectal cancer may have an increased risk of developing colorectal cancer (CRC), according to two separate studies unveiled today at the American College of Gastroenterology's (ACG) 77th Annual Scientific meeting in Las Vegas. Two other CRC-related studies presented at ACG 2012 investigated the impact of gender, race and obesity on the incidence of adenoma and advanced adenoma detection rates—suggesting ...