Since 2004, Virginia Medical Acute Care (VMAC), a Springfield, VA urgent care clinic, has been serving the community with reliable medical care through the help of warmth and professional staff with years of experience. Dr. Mark Davis opened VMAC to help the community with their need for urgent, walk-in medical care, and is joined by Dr. Monica Zink to provide exceptional care. Through the launch of VMAC's technologically advanced website, patients can search the Internet for a variety of medical information they might need, in particular medical information related to ...

With the help of Kevin Bales (Manager of Charter Sales at Stratos Jet Charters, Inc.) and Charlie Bravo Aviation, Stratos Jet Charters, Inc. has sold a Lear 60. Bales represented one of his long-term charter clients in the transaction. After 5 months of negotiations with the bank who owned the aircraft, the final test flight was flown this week and title was transferred to the new owner. The aircraft, a Lear 60, was purchased at a price of just over 2.1million. Stratos Jet Charters, Inc. developed its aircraft sales division in the Summer of '12 by hiring Bruce Ronning ...

Knowing how to market and sell is the name of the game for mobile marketers working to sell their mobile marketing services to local business. Designed with precisely that goal in mind, Kim Dushinski's 6-week The Mobile Marketing Sales System BOOTCAMP is a high-octane series of live seminars that will help mobile marketing consultants: - identify businesses that are good client prospects - create a marketing strategy that's actionable and compatible with their unique business style - cultivate a pricing strategy - increase their ability to close sales and get more ...

He was recently showcased in the October 2012 issue of Orlando Home & Leisure. The magazine highlights local attorneys that uphold the highest standard of professional ethics. It is a significant honor to be named to this list, because it highlights those attorneys whose work is both exemplary and ethically sound. William Umansky is the managing partner of the Umansky Law Firm. He directs a team of established lawyers that work hard for their clients. William handles all types of cases, ranging from car accidents and premise liability matters to traffic offenses ...

Another tragic health epidemic has been found in Tennessee due to the use of a contaminated steroid medication made by a Massachusetts pharmaceutical company that has been used as steroid epidural injections for a variety of medical problems, including chronic back pain. The traditional television marketers in the legal profession have already started their glitzy campaigns soliciting victims of this tragic catastrophe that may have affected thousands who were administered this potentially bad drug. Respected local retired physician Dr. Clif Cleveland has written ...

Autoglass, the UK's leading vehicle glass repair and replacement specialist, has announced it has served over 30 million customers and replaced 17 million windscreens as it celebrates 40 years of serving UK motorists. The company is celebrating its 40th birthday with the launch of a stop-motion video highlighting 40 years of automotive innovation, featuring its staff from across the UK. Matthew Mycock, Autoglass Managing Director commented: "The company and industry has undergone enormous change over the last 40 years. Our focus on innovation and customer service ...

As well as a poor service history, lack of MOT and high mileage, motorists may be surprised to learn everyday spills and stains, dog smells and cigarette burns could affect the value of their car. New research by car insurance specialist, elephant.co.uk has revealed small steps such as taking time to thoroughly mop up spills, putting a blanket down for pets and making small repairs to the interior will help ensure motorists get maximum value when they come to sell their car. elephant.co.uk talked to its network of approved repair garages to ask what they consider ...

Since 1966, the legal team from Shea & Shea has been dedicated to providing their clients with high-quality representation in all types of complex personal injury accidents. Recently, they have begun to offer their legal services to the victims of passenger bus crashes. At their firm, they recognize the dangers of riding in motor coaches with accidents being caused by everything from improper maintenance to mechanical failure, tire blowout and even driver error. As these vehicles are difficult to drive, it can be not only dangerous, but life-threatening if the driver ...

Combating obesity in minorities, looking at improvements in perinatal health in Ohio, and treating rare testicular cancer in adolescents are among the presentations physicians from University Hospitals (UH) Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital will give at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) 2012 National Conference in New Orleans Oct. 20 to 23. Susanna Briskin, MD, pediatric sports medicine physician at UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, will present "Overcoming Barriers to Physical Fitness in Minority Populations;" Michele Walsh, MD, Chief, Division of Neonatology, ...

San Diego, CA (October 19, 2012) – New data being presented at IDWeek 2012TM shows the fatal risk that influenza poses even for children without underlying health conditions and the effectiveness of school-based vaccination programs in protecting student populations. Together, these findings support the crucial public health message that families should take the flu virus seriously every year. One study viewed influenza from an epidemiological perspective, analyzing U.S. pediatric influenza-associated deaths over an eight-year period and finding that 43 percent of the ...

Istanbul, Turkey – 20 October 2012: Women are more likely to die from a myocardial infarction than men, according to research presented at the Acute Cardiac Care Congress 2012. The gender gap in mortality was independent of patient characteristics, revascularisation delays and revascularisation modalities. Women also had longer treatment delays, less aggressive treatment, more complications and longer hospital stays. The study was presented by Dr Guillaume Leurent from the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire in Rennes, France. The Acute Cardiac Care Congress 2012 is the ...

Istanbul, Turkey – 20 October 2012: The Acute Cardiac Care Congress 2012 is the first annual meeting of the newly launched Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (ACCA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). It takes place from 20 to 22 October in Istanbul, Turkey, at the Istanbul Lufti Kirdar Convention and Exhibition Centre (ICEC). Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI), also called balloon treatment, opens the coronary vessel and is preferred over intravenous (IV) medicine (called thrombolysis) to dissolve blood clots in patients with heart attacks. ...

Istanbul, Turkey – 20 October 2012: Coronary angioplasty improves survival in all patients with out of hospital cardiac arrest, according to research presented at the Acute Cardiac Care Congress 2012. The study was presented by Dr Annamaria Nicolino from the Santa Corona General Hospital in Pietra Ligure, Italy. The Acute Cardiac Care Congress 2012 is the first annual meeting of the newly launched Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (ACCA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). It takes place during 20-22 October in Istanbul, Turkey, at the Istanbul Lufti Kirdar ...

DETROIT – A novel therapy that uses donated human stool to treat the deadly and contagious C.diff infection is safe and highly effective, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study. Researchers found that 43 of 49 patients recovered swiftly after treatment and had no adverse complications from C.diff three months later. Treatment is performed either through a nasogastric tube or colonscopy on an outpatient or inpatient basis. Mayur Ramesh, M.D., a Henry Ford Infectious Diseases physician and senior author of the study, says the treatment, while appearing unconventional, ...

DETROIT – The national practice guideline for treating MRSA-related pneumonia is seven to 21 days. A Henry Ford Hospital study found that effective treatment can be done in half the time. Researchers found that 40 percent of patients were treated for eight to 13 days on a therapy of the antibiotics vancomycin or linezolid, and had the highest survival rate. The Henry Ford study is believed to be the first to evaluate the length of treatment for MRSA-related pneumonia. The study is being presented Friday at the annual Infectious Diseases Society of America meeting ...

Intervention stopped early in NIH-funded study of weight loss in overweight and obese adults with type 2 diabetes after finding no harm, but no cardiovascular benefits An intensive diet and exercise program resulting in weight loss does not reduce cardiovascular events such as heart attack and stroke in people with longstanding type 2 diabetes, according to a study supported by the National Institutes of Health. The Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) study tested whether a lifestyle intervention resulting in weight loss would reduce rates of heart disease, stroke, ...

In a key step toward creating a working quantum computer, Princeton researchers have developed a method that may allow the quick and reliable transfer of quantum information throughout a computing device The finding, by a team led by Princeton physicist Jason Petta, could eventually allow engineers to build quantum computers consisting of millions of quantum bits, or qubits. So far, quantum researchers have only been able to manipulate small numbers of qubits, not enough for a practical machine. "The whole game at this point in quantum computing is trying to build a ...

Converging scientific evidence – not to mention a great deal of life experience – tells us that self-control is an important ability. It helps us keep our cool, get things done, and resist the things that tempt us. Scientists believe that gaining a clearer understanding of how self-control works could provide critical insights into addressing some of the large-scale problems facing society today, including obesity and addiction. Numerous studies have found evidence for the idea of self-control as a limited resource, but emerging research suggests that this model may not ...

LA JOLLA, CA---- By reprogramming skin cells from Parkinson's disease patients with a known genetic mutation, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified damage to neural stem cells as a powerful player in the disease. The findings, reported online October 17th in Nature, may lead to new ways to diagnose and treat the disease. The scientists found that a common mutation to a gene that produce the enzyme LRRK2, which is responsible for both familial and sporadic cases of Parkinson's disease, deforms the membrane surrounding the nucleus of a ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Daily sessions of whole-body vibration may combat prediabetes in adolescents, dramatically reducing inflammation, average blood glucose levels and symptoms such as frequent urination, researchers report. In mice that mimic over-eating adolescents headed toward diabetes, 20 minutes of daily vibration for eight weeks restored a healthy balance of key pro- and anti-inflammatory mediators and was better than prescription drugs at reducing levels of hemoglobin A1c, the most accurate indicator of average blood glucose levels, said Dr. Jack C. Yu, Chief of the ...

Spectroscopic observations of distant galaxies taken with the 10-meter telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Hawaii, when combined with images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope plus supercomputer simulations to help interpret the observations, together reveal a major surprise: that a standard assumption about the evolution of galaxies is not correct. Astronomers had thought that disk galaxies (like our own Milky Way) had largely finished forming by about 8 billion years ago, as indicated by the rates at which stars are formed in the Universe. Therefore, many astronomers ...

New neuroscience research is confirming an old adage about the power of a handshake: strangers do form a better impression of those who proffer their hand in greeting. A firm, friendly handshake has long been recommended in the business world as a way to make a good first impression, and the greeting is thought to date to ancient times as a way of showing a stranger you had no weapons. Now, a paper published online and for the December print issue of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience on a study of the neural correlates of a handshake is giving insight into just ...

The Who asked "who are you?" but Dartmouth neurobiologist Jeffrey Taube asks "where are you?" and "where are you going?" Taube is not asking philosophical or theological questions. Rather, he is investigating nerve cells in the brain that function in establishing one's location and direction. Taube, a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, is using microelectrodes to record the activity of cells in a rat's brain that make possible spatial navigation—how the rat gets from one place to another—from "here" to "there." But before embarking to go ...

Prapiroon is both extra-large and now extra-tropical in the western North Pacific Ocean. NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of the large storm after Prapiroon became extra-tropical. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible image of Extra-tropical Storm Prapiroon on Oct. 19 at 01:15 UTC (Oct. 18, 9:15 p.m. EDT). The storm appeared on the MODIS image to be as large as the main island of Japan and the strongest thunderstorms and heaviest rainfall appeared north of the center of circulation ...

VIDEO: A study of 544 star-forming galaxies observed by the Keck and Hubble telescopes shows that disk galaxies like our own Milky Way unexpectedly reached their current state long after much... Click here for more information. A comprehensive study of hundreds of galaxies observed by the Keck telescopes in Hawaii and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unexpected pattern of change that extends back 8 billion years, or more than half the age of the universe. "Astronomers ...