America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses is pleased to announce that the company now carries new novelty contact lenses, just in time for Halloween. The national eyewear retailer is pleased to offer Orion Vision's Gothika Theatrical, Gothika Custom, and Rave contact lenses. Available in over 47 styles, the Gothika lenses from Orion Vision feature designs such as cat and wolf eyes, vibrant solid colors, patterns such as flower petals and snowflakes, and even lenses that glow in black light. Whether you plan to celebrate Halloween dressed as an mischievous fairy or a devilish ...

Express Oil Change & Service Center realizes that many people start coming there because of their oil changes, but figures some may not realize that their auto mechanics do more than just oil changes. In fact, they worry that people might not know they can have all their car repair needs taken care of by the same mechanic who changes their oil. The Atlanta auto repair shop recommends that car owners consider the benefits of having a single car service take care of all their automotive maintenance needs. With a single Atlanta mechanic doing all your car repairs, there ...

McCart Insurance, a Georgia health insurance provider and broker of Coventry One health insurance, wishes to explain the differences between a health insurance co-pay and co-insurance. With so much insurance verbiage to learn, it can be difficult to understand the subtle differences between them. It can leave clients frustrated, but McCart insurance is here to ease that pain. If you have Georgia health insurance, chances are good that it does not cover every single healthcare expense 100%, which means that you have to pay any expenses the insurance doesn't cover out ...

Atlanta caterers A Legendary Event were recently featured on the 11Alive show Atlanta & Company to display some of the talented event planning team's creations and give viewers an inside look on how some truly impressive pieces come together. The July 11th segment invited Robyn Spizman, Vice President of Communications and Business and Development, and Jeanna Graham, Floral Director, to represent the Atlanta catering company. Spizman and Graham were enthusiastic to be able to showcase some of the gorgeous creations designed by the A Legendary Event Team. These included ...

Nurturing Tales, creator of story apps with a message, has released its second interactive story for the iPad, the Three "Little" Pigs: A Summer to Remember. This classic tale has been reimagined with positive messages and teachable moments to help parents talk with their children about teasing and bullying. As the pigs match wits with the Big Bad Wolf, parents can reference special tips designed to encourage a conversation around empathy and compassion. "Pigs aren't little and that always struck me as odd," said Kevin Horn, the app's creator. "So ...

Recent headlines and empty store shelves underscore a recurring theme in the natural bar industry - massive product recalls due to contamination issues. Widespread complaints about mold and salmonella found in peanut butter is forcing a few of the top bar brands to pull their bars off the shelf. When the bar industry goes nuts like this, what's safe and healthy for the bar consumer to eat? Turn to The Good Bean Fruit & No-Nut Bar! Made with whole roasted chickpeas, and 100% gluten-free and non-GMO ingredients, the bars are free of nuts, making them not just a safe ...

Southwest Media Group, the Southwest's premier media services company, will host its fourth-annual digital summit, "Immersion 2013: Explore Your Digital Soul," Feb. 6-7, 2013, at The House of Blues in Dallas. The event's condensed educational platform exposes attendees to a wide variety of emerging technologies, services and thought leaders in one setting. It combines speaker presentations, hands-on technology immersion sessions and fireside chats, as well as panel discussions and "ignite" mini presentations. "Explore Your Digital Soul is ...

ABC News delivered a realistic look at the body ad tattoo phenomenon, a trend that grew in popularity with the internet boom, but did not bust along with many of the dotcoms that still appear on Mr. Gibby (watch the ABC's video clip about online pawn shop tattoo here). Despite what many people think, body billboard advertising is still going strong, and PawnUp.com online pawn shop is in good company on Mr. Gibby's body, with websites such as GoldenPalace.com, who many say pioneered the ad tattoo craze when they tattooed champion boxer Bernard Hopkins in 2001. By doing ...

October is National Dental Hygiene Month, and in keeping with this year's theme "Keep them healthy. Keep them clean.", Plackers, a leading provider of oral care products, surveyed Americans about their oral hygiene habits and asked why they don't floss as often as they should. The American Dental Hygienists' Association recommends that people floss daily as part of their oral health routine, but studies have shown only about one in five people do so. In Plackers' latest national survey of adults, 40 percent say it is because they forget and 30 percent indicate ...

SGI Group Inc. today announced that its DMS Collaborative Documents solution version 1.0 has achieved SAP certification as powered by the SAP NetWeaver technology platform. The solution has been proven to integrate with SAP solutions and provides highly flexible workflow processes for managing the lifecycle of document management system (DMS) documents. The SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC) has certified that DMS Collaborative Documents 1.0 integrates with SAP NetWeaver 700 as an add-on to the ABAP programming language for the SAP ERP 6.0 application ...

NEW ORLEANS — New studies presented today offer vivid examples of how advances in basic brain research help reduce the trauma and suffering of innocent landmine victims, amateur and professional athletes, and members of the military. The research was presented today at Neuroscience 2012, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health. From the playing field to the battlefield, neuroscientists are gaining better understanding of what happens to the brain when it suffers traumatic injury ...

Rapamycin, a drug used to prevent rejection in transplants, could delay the onset of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. This is the main conclusion of a study published in the Nature in which has collaborated the researcher Isidro Ferrer, head of the group of Neuropathology at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) and the Bellvitge University Hospital and Full Professor of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Barcelona. The research was led by researchers from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste ...

Cyclists who died of a head injury were three times as likely to not be wearing a helmet compared with those who died of other injuries, according to a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). "We saw an association between dying as a result of sustaining head injury and not wearing a helmet," states Dr. Navindra Persaud, Keenan Research Centre and the Department of Family and Community Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, with coauthors. "These results are consistent with a protective effect of helmets on cycling deaths." There is scant evidence ...

A technique called the "mother's kiss" for removing foreign objects from the nasal passages of young children appears to be a safe and effective approach, found a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). "The mother's kiss appears to be a safe and effective technique for first-line treatment in the removal of a foreign body from the nasal cavity," writes Dr. Stephanie Cook, Buxted Medical Centre, Buxted, United Kingdom, with coauthors. "In addition, it may prevent the need for general anesthesia in some cases." The technique, known since the ...

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disorder that affects approximately 2% of the world's population. A group of inflammatory molecules known as interleukins activate an immune response that causes itchy skin, but it is unclear how the skin cells and immune cells communicate. In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers led by Manfred Kopf at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland found that mice lacking interleukin-36 (IL-36) were protected from immune-mediated skin inflammation. These results indicate that IL-36 ...

Scratching the surface of psoriasis Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disorder that affects approximately 2% of the world's population. A group of inflammatory molecules known as interleukins activate an immune response that causes itchy skin, but it is unclear how the skin cells and immune cells communicate. In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers led by Manfred Kopf at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland found that mice lacking interleukin-36 (IL-36) were protected from immune-mediated skin inflammation. ...

A molecule involved in asthma and allergies has now been shown to make mice resistant to skin cancer, according to scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The molecule, called TSLP (thymic stromal lymphopoietin), is produced by damaged skin and activates the immune system. Chronic low levels of TSLP are suspected in making the immune system oversensitive to what should be a harmless environment, leading to the skin rashes and overproduction of mucus common in allergies and asthma. "But at extremely high levels, TSLP appears to train the ...

"Addiction is a brain disease" was the title of an editorial in the renowned journal "Science" 15 years ago. The author argued that recognising addiction as a disorder of the brain can impact society´s overall health and social policy strategies and help diminish the health and social costs associated with drug abuse and addiction (Leshner, 1997). Such a presentation of the complex concept of addiction was revolutionary, as social and psychological aspects were largely considered as the most important, although not the only ones involved. Some years later, clinicians ...

A study by researchers from Emory University and Indiana University found that the beneficial effects daily exercise can have on the regeneration of nerves also require androgens such as testosterone in both males and females. It is the first report of both androgen-dependence of exercise on nerve regeneration and of an androgenic effect of exercise in females. "The findings will provide a basis for the development of future treatment strategies for patients suffering peripheral nerve injuries," said Dale Sengelaub, professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain ...

Three years ago University of Tennessee, Knoxville, researchers helped to discover water on the surface of the moon. Now, they are piecing together the origin of that water: solar wind. A new study confirms solar wind as a source for water embedded in the lunar surface. Solar wind is the continuous flow of charged particles from the sun. Scientists have speculated it to be responsible for water on the surface of the moon. Last year Larry Taylor, distinguished professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, confirmed comets as the source for water ...

LOS ANGELES (Oct. 15, 2012) – Currently, there are approximately 25 million people in the United States who suffer from the lifelong effects of asthma – wheezing, breathlessness, tightness in the chest, coughing – and the numbers are rising each year. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of people in the United States diagnosed with asthma grew by 4.3 million from 2001 to 2009. Approximately 1 in 10 children and 1 in 12 adults suffer from asthma; the numbers are even higher among racial/ethnic groups, with 1 in 6 children in the ...

Contact: Coimbra Sirica csirica@burnesscommunications.com 44-743-538-4915 Burness Communications Annmarie Leadman aleadman@aeras.org 301-332-8252 Aeras Urgent need for tuberculosis vaccines; experts report progress, obstacles in growing drug resistance As World Health Organization prepares to release report on global TB incidence, researchers say UK at forefront of efforts to develop critical medical tools London (October 15, 2012) – Drawing on recent findings of a significant rise in cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the UK and globally, top TB researchers ...

Bochum biophysicists in collaboration with the MPI Dortmund have for the first time measured the orientation of the Ras protein bound to the cell membrane. The RUB team combined the use of three biophysical methods - infrared spectroscopy, computer simulations and fluorescence measurements - and came to the surprising conclusion that two Ras molecules form a pair to take an upright position on the membrane. It was previously assumed, based on computer simulations, that the protein is located horizontally on the membrane as single molecule. Ras is the central "switch" for ...

Researchers from the University of Seville (Spain) have used mathematical tools to assess what has been known for centuries: the temperature inside the typical Mediterranean courtyard is cooler than that of the street. Though seemingly common sense, understanding such information in detail helps to save energy and money, which is the objective of eco-efficient buildings. The inhabitants of Mediterranean regions have known for centuries that during the summer their courtyards are cooler than the street. "Why then put air conditioning extractor units on rooftops or outer ...

An experiment carried out on rodents exposed to fuel similar to that of the Prestige tanker oil spill – which took place nearly a decade ago – shows that inhalation of the fuel causes damage to genetic material. According to the study, led by the University of A Coruña, the results could be used in relation to people who carry out the industrial cleaning of coasts. On 19 November, it will be ten years since the sinking of the Prestige, which caused one of Spain's largest ecological disasters. The oil spill reached the coasts of Galicia and the rest of the Cantabrian coast, ...