Hospitalito Atitlan (HA) a small, private nonprofit hospital in the highlands of Guatemala has launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise $7,000 for an ambulance that will allow it to save lives -- bringing patients to the hospital for treatment and/or transporting them to intensive care. HA serves 43,000 Maya in the Lake Atitlan area. The campaign (http://www.indiegogo.com/hospitalitoambulance) runs through October 15, 2012. "We are proud of our 24/7 medical services," said Juan Manuel Chuc, Ajanel, MD, Hospitalito Atitlan Medical Director. "However, too ...

Elite Appliance, one of the nation's largest online luxury appliance retailers, is hosting a fall sale on its website and in its Dallas showroom October 8th through 12th with significant savings on a large selection of luxury appliances. The discounted high end appliances will include all types of products, including ranges, refrigerators, freezers, specialty refrigeration, outdoor grills, outdoor cooking accessories, wall ovens and warming drawers. Customers who make purchases during the fall sale will benefit from having plenty of time to get their appliances installed ...

Are you looking to invest in property or sell property on? To ensure maximum profit on an investment, it is vital you know how to prepare property in order to sell a house quickly. Investment properties, especially 'below market value' properties from repossessions etc, may have a lot of clutter or require maintenance, repairs or decorating to bring them up to resale standards. Ensure you have a structured plan of action in order to tackle each job quickly and effectively in order to sell property fast. Yorkshire Property Deals.com has the following advice for anyone ...

The team behind the newly launched online bingo site www.kittybingo.com keeps on throwing surprises, as brand new slot games are available on players lobby account. A member of Daub Alderney Limited mentioned that 'new games created and promoted by the company will be added gradually in order for players to have an even greater choice and better entertainment experience'. The first two slot games that we witnessed are Jazz Cat Slot and The Lost Slot Of Riches, both 25 payline games. Jazz Cat Slot is a pleasant slot machine with a smooth game play and fancy cat characters. ...

The 'Where in the World?' map allows viewers to look up concise information on different animals globally, and also find out which times seasonally they are more likely to spot them. Younger travellers will be able to find out animal facts such as appearance, eating habits, weight and size, and filter animal types by 'air', 'land' and 'sea'. Following on from the success of First Choice's Eco-traveller programme (http://www.holidaysforever.co.uk/pages/ecotraveller.html), which teaches children about the importance of sustainable tourism, the interactive map helps to ...

Many times, moving your loved one into a nursing home is not their decision, but yours. It's a hard decision, but you believe you made it in their best interest, trying to make sure they got the care and attention they needed to be not only healthy, but happy. Now, though, you are worried because your loved one is suffering from changes in behavior. Fearfulness, withdrawal, and depression have made your loved one seem very unhappy at their new nursing home. Here are some tips for dealing with this new development. Give It Time First, it would be unrealistic to ...

Whiplash can be the excruciatingly painful outcome of a car accident. Over the years, jokes and misconceptions have surrounded this injury and it has been wrongly represented as a fake injury used by lawyers to deceptively win compensation for their clients. In fact, whiplash is a very serious injury that can cause a great deal of harm. Whiplash can permanently damage the soft tissues of your neck and back, leading to a lifetime of discomfort and pain. If you have suffered this type of injury, you should seek medical attention immediately. Prompt treatment and diagnosis ...

To explore the option of dental veneers, you should ask your cosmetic dentist some questions about what to expect. Your cosmetic dentist can help you decide if veneers are the right treatment for you. Some of the questions you may want to ask your cosmetic dentist include: Am I a candidate for veneers? Veneers are best suited to cosmetic tooth issues. If your teeth are cosmetically flawed because of decay, severe wear, deep fractures or other problems, those underlying causes may have to be addressed before veneers are appropriate. What issues do veneers address? Your ...

Every year, traumatic brain injury (TBI) results in hundreds of thousands of trips to the emergency room for children infants up to 14-years-old. Of these, over 30,000 result in hospitalization, and nearly 3000 result in death. TBI is not an injury a child is born with, but is sustained when the head is hit with an object or when a child is shaken violently. However, acts of violence are not the only cause of TBI in children. Many children sustain TBI in car accidents or accidents at school, during sporting events, or even while playing at neighborhood parks and pools. The ...

In many personal injury cases, the biggest challenge is proving the full extent of a client's injuries to ensure that he or she receives sufficient damages. When the resulting harm is a brain injury caused by a car accident, truck accident or other crash, that process often requires expert medical opinion and thorough assessment of the injury victim's injuries and progress since the accident. Medical understanding of how the brain works has advanced steadily in recent decades, helping doctors better understand the long-term effects of head trauma. A recent study from ...

Commercial trucks are an invaluable part of the American economy. In many cases, they are the most efficient and cost-effective way of transporting consumer goods across the country. Despite this benefit, large trucks also come with a lot of risks. Because of the vehicles' sheer size, a motor vehicle accident involving a semi-truck has the potential to cause catastrophic damage. This is especially true when trucks jackknife. What is Jackknifing? Jackknifing occurs when the tractor and trailer components of a semi-truck get out of synch with each other. The trailer ...

If you are going to make an omelet, you have to break some eggs. But what if the omelet is record oil and gas industry profits, and the eggs are the South Texas oilfield workers who practically work their fingers to the bone making it happen? Number of Commercial Truck Accidents Grows Exponentially Thousands of feet below the scrub grass and the sand, the sun-bleached flats of South Texas harbor untold riches. The Eagle Ford Shale is home to one of the most lucrative deposits of oil and natural gas in Texas history, and energy companies are desperate to extract as ...

After a motor vehicle crash occurs, the accident scene can be a chaotic and tragic place. When things have calmed down, and it is time to submit claims to an insurance company or seek compensation through a personal injury suit, there is one factor that can help establish an injured person's case quickly and sometimes beyond a doubt. If properly preserved, evidence from the accident scene can show that a particular driver was negligent and caused the crash, proving he or she is liable for the resulting injuries or damages. Accident Scene Investigation and Evidence Every ...

Attorney Maria Harris prepares to deliver over $500 of school supplies donated by the attorneys and staff of Martin Banks to a "Community Day" event held recently in West Philadelphia organized by the Overbrook Monarchs Youth Organization. More than 350 Philadelphia kids ages 5 - 15 benefit from the organization's efforts to encourage participation in sports, mentoring, tutoring and community support.Website: http://www.paworkinjury.com/ ...

Safety Hazards Doesn't it always seem like children are little hazard magnets? When a toddler discovers a sharp edge, he or she immediately beelines to the danger. If an infant spots a choking concern, his or her first notion is to ingest the item. Given a child's innate vulnerability to danger, parents are constantly on the lookout for life's everyday perils. Surprisingly, the worst risks are not the steps or wall outlets. Ironically, the most serious safety threat involves the car seat -- a device indented to protect our loved ones. CBS News reports that in the ...

As part of its GBP5 billion investment programme to make travel more comfortable and convenient for customers, British Airways is trialling a new service which will allow its customers to use an automatic check-in service. The service would change the future of airline check-in, as it is known today. Frank van der Post, British Airways' Managing Director of Brands and Customer Experience, said: "Customers have so much to think about prior to a trip, be that finishing up in the office or getting the kids' suitcases packed. We're aiming to give them one less thing ...

Topman has announced the lucky winner of its recent Generation Chicago competition. The men's clothing giant has revealed that Geoff Moffet, 30, will be jetting off to Chicago for a free holiday as well as receiving a GBP250 personal shopping trip in the city's iconic store. The competition was run in tandem with the release of John Hillcoat's new gangster film 'Lawless', which stars Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Guy Pearce. In order to enter the competition, readers of Topman Generation had to study an interview with actor Tom Hardy in Issue 6 of the brand's own ...

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are core components in every mobile phone, television and computer. PCBs can be thought of as acting like a nervous system, forming a network that links the microchips mounted on the board and supplies them with power. One of the most important methods of fabricating large PCBs involves the precision electroplating of copper onto the PCB panel immersed in an acidic electrolyte bath. However, some of the titanium parts used in the electroplating process suffer substantial wear within a short space of time. Replacing these parts generates significant ...

The increase in anal cancer incidence in the U.S. between 1980 and 2005 was greatly influenced by HIV infections in males, but not females, according to a study published October 5 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Anal cancer in the U.S. is rare, with an estimated 6,230 cases in 2012, but incidence has been steadily increasing in the general population since 1940. HIV infection is significantly associated with an increase in anal cancer risk, and anal cancer is the fourth most common cancer found in HIV-infected people. However, it has been unclear the ...

The HIV protease inhibitor, Nelfinavir, can be used to treat HER2-positive breast cancer in the same capacity and dosage regimen that it is used to treat HIV, according to a study published October 5 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Breast cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer deaths in the U.S. with approximately 39,520 women succumbing to the disease in 2011. HER2-postive breast cancer is known to be more aggressive and less responsive to treatments compared to other types of breast cancer. Nelfinavir has been shown to inhibit the growth ...

Public health 'superheroes' are needed to help tackle the growing challenges posed by obesity, alcohol, smoking and other public health threats, according to new research published today. The research, an international collaboration from the Universities of Leeds, Alberta and Wisconsin, calls for government and policy makers to recognise the role that public health leaders can play in addressing these significant health challenges. It suggests that potential public health 'superheroes' can come from both within public health disciplines, and perhaps more importantly, ...

Hate the Lakers? Do the Celtics make you want to hurl? Whether you like someone can affect how your brain processes their actions, according to new research from the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC. Most of the time, watching someone else move causes a 'mirroring' effect – that is, the parts of our brains responsible for motor skills are activated by watching someone else in action. But a study by USC researchers appearing Oct. 5 in PLOS ONE shows that whether or not you like the person you're watching can actually have an effect on brain activity related to ...

Pop quiz! Tests are good for: (a) Assessing what you've learned; (b) Learning new information; (c) a & b; (d) None of the above. The correct answer? According to research from psychological science, it's both (a) and (b) – while testing can be useful as an assessment tool, the actual process of taking a test can also help us to learn and retain new information over the long term and apply it across different contexts. New research published in journals of the Association for Psychological Science explores the nuanced interactions between testing, memory, and learning ...

Chronic morphine exposure has the opposite effect on the brain compared to cocaine in mice, providing new insight into the basis of opiate addiction, according to Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers. They found that a protein called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which is increased in cocaine addiction, is inhibited in opioid addiction. The research is published in the October 5 issue of Science. "Our study shows that BDNF responds completely differently with opioid administration compared to cocaine," said Ja Wook Koo, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in ...

This press release is available in French. Methadone reduces the risk of HIV transmission in people who inject drugs (PWID), as reported by an international team of researchers in a paper published today in the online edition of the British Medical Journal. This team included Dr. Julie Bruneau from the CHUM Research Centre (CRCHUM) and the Department of Family Medicine at the Université de Montréal. "There is good evidence to suggest that opiate substitution therapies (OST) reduce drug-related mortality, morbidity and some of the injection risk behaviors among PWID. ...