Prudential research shows that one in four (25 per cent) people would be interested in an online or telephone financial advice service if it reduced costs. The research also shows that one in five are more willing to pay for financial advice now than they were before the global financial crisis. Two out of five (39 per cent) people would be willing to complete online fact-finds before meeting with an adviser if that would reduce the cost of advice, according to independent research from Prudential.* The nationwide research was conducted to gauge people's attitudes ...

Confused.com has highlighted that 69% of motorists avoid areas due to the cost of parking, however it has come up with a solution: the 'Confused.com Parking' app. Confused.com Parking is the new easy-to-use parking app that gives drivers directions to car parks, finds out how much they charge, and choose the closest and cheapest location via their current location using the GPS on their mobile phone or by typing in an area or postcode. Car insurance expert Confused.com tackles the tricky problem of parking prices with the latest addition to their growing app portfolio. ...

Insulite Laboratories, leaders in the natural treatment for polycystic ovarian syndrome, age management and nutrition is excited to announce its sponsorship of the Sexy, Younger You event. The event, which begins Monday, September 17th and runs through Friday, October 19th, 2012 brings together well-known sexual health experts to present incredible information to change the lives of women around the world. "Insulite Labs is proud to be a sponsor of this 'free' event. The health tips alone will add years to your life and overall health and well being. We are excited ...

Chico Bidwell Associates, LP announces the grand-opening of Bidwell Park Apartments, the City's newest affordable housing community located at 1197 E 8th Street. A ribbon cutting ceremony will take place on Thursday, October 11th at 12:00pm at the Bidwell Park Apartments Community Center. Scheduled speakers include Honorable Mayor Ann Schwab and Gregg Stone, Director of Development for Stone Building Corporation. The opening of Bidwell Park Apartments follows a 6-year collaborative effort between Pacific West Communities, Inc, Stone Building Corporation, Central Valley ...

BlueBird Strategies, an advanced lead generation firm that maximizes marketing automation platforms, today announced new hires, new offices and new client relationships. BlueBird now spans the nation with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Pacific Northwest and the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina. New staff additions have helped the company grow to 12, while the client base now covers Boston, Northern and Southern California, Chicago, New York City, North Carolina, Paris and the Washington D.C. area. BlueBird works with clients to optimize their ...

The Food and Drug Administration recently issued a Class 1 Product Recall for Granuflo dialysis solution. Granuflo is manufactured by Fresenius, and has been linked to serious medical side effects including cardiac arrest, heart attack, and stroke. A Class 1 recall is only issued by the FDA when the agency finds a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death. Why Did the FDA Recall Granuflo? Earlier this year, the FDA concluded an investigation into Granuflo dialysis solution by recalling the product. ...

Fast becoming known for offering some of North America's most stunning fall foliage, southeast Ohio's Hocking Hills now offers a trio of elevated ways for visitors to experience breathtaking autumn views from the best seat in the house: the sky. But there are plenty of other unforgettable ways to experience the beauty of 10,000 acres of unbroken forests, spectacular waterfalls, caves and soaring rock faces and blackhand sandstone formations. The varied mix of tree species creates a blazing tapestry of color, including Maple's fiery red and orange, Aspen's bright yellow ...

Polaris Financial Technology Ltd., a leading global Financial Technology Company, recently presented its IntellectTM Customer Onboarding Hub (ICOH). ICOH is a comprehensive solution for managing the entire customer onboarding lifecycle, cross-channel account opening and 360 degree view of customers for all banking lines of business, product groups and customer segments. The solution was showcased during an invitation-only event in New York, as part of Polaris' FT (Financial Technology) Innovation Series. Intellect Customer Onboarding Hub offers banks the ability to ...

Chicago Mesothelomia Cancer Lawyers is launching a new website dedicated to informing and helping patients of mesothelioma cancer. Over 730,000 families across the U.S. have been affected by the deadly consequences of asbestos exposure in the form of mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases. For decades, companies who used asbestos or created products containing the lethal material were aware of the negative health affects yet did nothing to protect their employees from exposure. This new site, www.chicago-mesothelioma-cancer-lawyers.com, will be a resource ...

Imagine you're an astronaut exploring the surface of Mars, when suddenly you fall ill or injure yourself. As your team struggles to get you safely back to base, you become seriously dehydrated. With their trusty -- and ingenious -- kit, the medical officer hooks into the drinking water supply, using it to create a saline solution that they can inject directly into your blood stream for quick and safe rehydration. That's the idea behind the Intravenous Fluid Generation for Exploration Missions, or IVGEN, investigation that was conducted on the space station over five ...

Firelight Fusion announced that they are now offering free shipping on all orders to help cut costs for smokers looking to make the jump from tobacco cigarette to the electronic cigarette. Firelight Fusion's e cigarette starter kits are the most popular and highly trusted model in the U.S. The KR808D1 model is small so it mimics the look and feel of a tobacco cigarette while giving a cartomizer size that holds plenty of e liquid and produces a massive vapor by powering up with 280 mAh rechargable batteries. The parts are fairly low cost and available online from other ...

Goldman Sachs Asset Management will provide deVere with access to a comprehensive range of global investment strategies and investment research across all major asset classes. In addition, Goldman Sachs Asset Management will offer sales support to deVere Financial Advisers worldwide. The deVere Group CEO Nigel Green said, "deVere is proud with the relationship it has forged with Goldman Sachs Asset Management. As we continue to expand globally, amongst others, we aim to keep nurturing our services through Goldman Sachs Asset Management. We now look forward to start ...

Recording artist Kristinia DeBarge announces the completion of her latest single pick, "Cry Wolf", scheduled to arrive in the marketplace on Thursday, September 27th. The "Cry Wolf" video, directed by Cameron Alexander and Patrick Lawler, will premiere with a red carpet release party on September 27th at The Belasco Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, CA. Kristinia DeBarge will be available for press interviews, coverage or questions that day starting at 6:30 PM. Doors will open at 7 PM and show time is at 8:30 PM. General admission is free. "Cry ...

Athens, Ga. – The study of an oxygen-sensing bacterial regulatory protein by chemistry researchers at the University of Georgia has provided molecular insight into the oxygen sensing mechanism, which could ultimately lead to a better understanding of the ageing process and new treatments for human diseases such cancer, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Michael Johnson, a distinguished research professor of chemistry in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and Bo Zhang, a UGA chemistry doctoral candidate, have discovered that the fumarate and nitrate reduction regulatory ...

Cross a crow and it'll remember you for years. Crows and humans share the ability to recognize faces and associate them with negative, as well as positive, feelings. The way the brain activates during that process is something the two species also appear to share, according to new research being published this week. "The regions of the crow brain that work together are not unlike those that work together in mammals, including humans," said John Marzluff, University of Washington professor of environmental and forest sciences. "These regions were suspected to work in ...

As temperatures rise and droughts become more severe in the Southwest, trees are increasingly up against extremely stressful growing conditions, especially in low to middle elevations, University of Arizona researchers report in a study soon to be published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. Lead author Jeremy Weiss, a senior research specialist in the UA department of geosciences, said: "We know the climate in the Southwest is getting warmer, but we wanted to investigate how the higher temperatures might interact with the highly variable precipitation ...

Immigrant parents' education before migrating is more strongly tied to their children's achievement in the United States than any other social, economic, or linguistic parental attribute, either before or after migration. That's the conclusion of a new study in a special section of the September/October 2012 issue of Child Development on the children of immigrants. The study was carried out by researchers at the Pennsylvania State University. Immigrants come to the United States with different socioeconomic backgrounds and levels of proficiency in English. Past research ...

WASHINGTON, DC —Researchers from Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center demonstrate, in animals, that maternal exposure to a high-fat diet or excess estrogen during pregnancy can increase breast cancer risk in multiple generations of female offspring — daughters, granddaughters and even great-granddaughters. This study, published online today in Nature Communications, shows for the first time that the risk of some "familial" breast cancers originate from biological alterations caused by maternal diet during pregnancy that not only affect the directly exposed ...

Researchers have demonstrated that a refined gene therapy approach safely restores the immune systems of some children with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). The rare condition blocks the normal development of a newborn's immune system, leaving the child susceptible to every passing microbe. Children with SCID experience chronic infections, which usually triggers the diagnosis. Their lifespan is two years if doctors cannot restore their immunity. The findings from facilities including the National Institutes of Health, the University of California, Los Angeles ...

UCLA stem cell researchers have found that a gene therapy regimen can safely restore immune systems to children with so-called "Bubble Boy" disease, a life threatening condition that if left untreated can be fatal within one to two years. In the 11-year study, researchers were able to test two therapy regimens for 10 children with ADA-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). During the study, they refined their approach to include a light dose of chemotherapy to help remove many of the blood stem cells in the bone marrow that are not creating an enzyme called ...

There is now strong evidence that some interventions can prevent falls in people over the age of 65 who are living in their own homes. However, the researchers who reached this conclusion say that care is needed when choosing interventions, as some have no effect. The full details are published this month in The Cochrane Library. This is an update of a previous report that contains data from 51 additional trials, enabling the authors to reach many more conclusions. As people get older they may fall more often. The reasons vary, including problems with balance, vision ...

Inhaled pain relief appears to be effective in reducing pain intensity and in giving pain relief in the first stage of labour, say Cochrane researchers. These conclusions came from a systematic review that drew data from twenty-six separate studies that involved a total of 2,959 women, and are published in The Cochrane Library. Many women would like to have a choice in pain relief during labour and would also like to avoid invasive methods of pain management. Inhaling a mixture of oxygen and either a flurane derivative or nitrous oxide reduces pain, but enable the mother ...

LOS ANGELES – Latinos are more likely to store fat in the pancreas and are less able to compensate by excreting additional insulin, a Cedars-Sinai study shows. The research examining overweight, prediabetic patients, published online by Diabetes Care, is part of a focus by Cedars-Sinai's Heart Institute, Biomedical Imaging Research Institute and Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, to identify biological measures that could help predict which patients are likely to develop type 2 diabetes. "Prevention of diabetes is our goal," said Richard Bergman, PhD, director ...

Boston – One third of American women of childbearing age are battling obesity, a condition that affects their health and their chances of getting pregnant. Obese women often have poor reproductive outcomes, but the reasons why have not been clearly identified. Now, a novel study led by Catherine Racowsky, PhD, director of the Assisted Reproductive Technologies Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), and performed by Ronit Machtinger, M.D., of BWH, in collaboration with Catherine Combelles, PhD, of Middlebury College, gains further insight into the underlying ...

September 10, 2012-- Issued by the UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Under strict embargo by Nature Communications until Tuesday, September 11, 11 a.m. EST An international team led by University of Toronto physicists has developed a simple new technique using Scotch poster tape that has enabled them to induce high-temperature superconductivity in a semiconductor for the first time. The method paves the way for novel new devices that could be used in quantum computing and to improve energy efficiency. "Who would have thought simply sticking things together can generate entirely ...