Louisville, Ky.— Some individuals with severe aortic stenosis – also known as narrowing of the aortic valve in the heart – who are not well enough to undergo open heart surgery have a new treatment option thanks to a new procedure now available in Kentucky from University of Louisville physicians at Jewish Hospital. A team that included UofL cardiologists Michael Flaherty, M.D, Ph.D., and Naresh Solankhi, M.D., and UofL cardiothoracic surgeon Matthew Williams, M.D., performed the first transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR) procedure on a 47-year-old male patient ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. – Doctors have known for years that the incidence of deadly liver cancer is on the rise, but what is causing that trend has remained a mystery. Two recent Mayo Clinic studies published in the January issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings offer a clearer picture of the rise of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or liver cancer, which has tripled in the U.S. in the last three decades and has a 10 to 12 percent five-year survival rate when detected in later stages. "The studies illuminate the importance of identifying people with risk factors in certain populations ...

The law firm of Warner Norcross & Judd LLP today announced that seven attorneys have been named partners. The new partners practice in a variety of areas, from patent law to commercial litigation and corporate law. They serve clients across the state and around the world from the law firm's office in Grand Rapids. "We are very pleased to welcome these seven deserving attorneys into the partnership," said Douglas E. Wagner, managing partner of Warner Norcross. "They are exemplary lawyers who have served their clients - and the law firm - well during ...

SAN ANTONIO (Jan. 3, 2012) — Hydrogen sulfide, a gas notorious for its rotten-egg smell, may have redeeming qualities after all. It reduces high glucose-induced production of scarring proteins in kidney cells, researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio report in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The paper is scheduled for print publication in early 2012. Shuts down manufacture of scarring proteins "There is interest in gases being mediators of biological events," said B.S. Kasinath, M.D., professor of medicine and a nephrologist with ...

Colin Saldanha, a biology professor at American University in Washington, D.C., has always been intrigued by the hormone estrogen. Specifically, how the hormone that does so much (for example, it promotes sexual behavior in women but can also increase susceptibility to seizures) does not cause major cross circuit meltdowns. "In the extreme case, once every 28 days, women should be having seizures—and when they do, it's a condition called Catamenial Epilepsy—but that's obviously not the norm and there's the mystery," Saldanha said. "Somehow, the vertebrate body has figured ...

The award winning website developers at Precept Partners today announced a new "all inclusive" package of NetNitrox strategy consulting, website design and online marketing services. "By consolidating all of the critical functions we've been able to significantly lower the cost of the overall process, with improved results", said Stephen Antisdel, the company's manager. Typical features implemented in the website include in the NetNitrox package are demonstrated at the company's own http://www.NetNitrox.com website. These include dynamic page and ...

Web Savvy Marketing, a Michigan-based internet marketing firm, today announced a new website audit service offering. Website audits are available in three different levels. The levels are broken down into a basic, plus and ultimate package. Website audits are performed in-house and completed by Web Savvy Marketing's resident SEO expert, Rebecca Gill. Each website audit covers domain and hosting, website architecture, on-page SEO, off-page SEO, website usability, social media and content tagging. Website Audit Deliverables •Executive summary personalized for your ...

Identifying species, separating out closely related species and managing each type on its own, is an important part of any animal management system. Some species, like the two types of two-toed sloth, are so close in appearance and behavior that differentiation can be challenging. Conservation researchers at San Diego Zoo Global's Institute of Conservation Research have developed a mechanism for identifying these reclusive species from each other. "Species identification of two-toed sloths has always been problematic in the wild and captivity due to their large overlap ...

In a study that investigates the challenges of disseminating clinical research findings in peer-reviewed biomedical journals, Yale School of Medicine researchers have found that fewer than half of a sample of trials primarily or partially funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were published within 30 months of completing the clinical trial. These findings appear in the January issue of the British Medical Journal, which focuses on the topic of unpublished evidence. "When research findings are not disseminated, the scientific process is disrupted and leads ...

Intellectsoft celebrates the New Year 2012 with the launch of a brand new website. Last year the company celebrated their fourth birthday, successfully delivered more than 100 projects and entered Scandinavian mobile development market. Intellectsoft couldn't but commemorate their significant progress with the launch of a new marvellous corporate website. As with any business there is, you eventually outgrow your old website however good it is. Intellectsoft decided to renew the design and content of http://www.intellectsoft.co.uk, so that it corresponds precisely to ...

PITTSBURGH -- The delivery of pharmaceuticals into the human body or the storage of voluminous quantities of gas molecules could now be better controlled, thanks to a study by University of Pittsburgh researchers. In a paper published online today in Nature Communications, a team of chemists and colleagues from Pitt's Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the Pitt School of Medicine and Northwestern and Durham universities have posed an alternative approach toward building porous materials. Working with metal-organic frameworks—crystalline compounds comprising ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – A new guideline issued by the American Academy of Neurology recommends doctors use caution when choosing seizure drugs for people with HIV/AIDS to avoid potential drug interactions. The guideline, which was co-developed with the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), is published in the January 4, 2012, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology and in Epilepsia, the journal of the ILAE. Seizures and seizure disorders are common in people infected with HIV, with more than one in 10 patients experiencing ...

Following the tremendous success of the Pets in the Classroom Grant Program to date and numerous requests from teachers of 7th & 8th grade classes to be eligible for funding, the Pet Care Trust Board has agreed to expand the program's reach to those grades beginning in 2012. Established by the Pet Care Trust in 2009, Pets in the Classroom has provided grants to Pre-Kindergarten through Sixth grade teachers to purchase or adopt a new pet and required equipment or to support existing classroom pets. The Pets in the Classroom program has seen over 7,000 grant requests ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. —New guidelines from the American Academy of Neurology will help physicians better choose seizure drugs for people on HIV/AIDS medication, avoiding deadly drug interactions and preventing critical anti-HIV drugs from becoming less effective, possibly leading to a more virulent strain of the disease. Michigan State University's Gretchen Birbeck – who spends several months each year in the sub-Sahara African nation of Zambia researching epilepsy, HIV /AIDS and cerebral malaria – is the lead author of the medical guideline, which was co-developed with ...

William Peace University (http://www.peace.edu), a private four-year university located in downtown Raleigh, has announced that the university will sponsor the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce's Chamber Executive Women's Luncheon on Thursday, Jan. 12 at the Embassy Suites Hotel, located at 201 Harrison Oaks Blvd. in Cary, N.C. from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. The luncheon will cover the topic of "Women in Politics: Heeding the Call of Public Service." A panel of elected female officials will provide personal and professional insights into the political arena ...

Advanced miniature refrigeration and environmental control technology developer and manufacturer Aspen Systems, Inc. has launched a new website designed to help companies and government agencies find specialized cooling solutions for advanced commercial, industrial and military applications. According to Aspen Systems Vice President Glenn Deming, the new website comes as part of an integrated business development effort aimed at expanding further into military and commercial markets, in addition to gaining increased awareness of the companies capabilities as a supplier ...

An exact determination of expected body weight for adolescents based on age, height and gender is critical for diagnosis and management of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia. However, there are no clear guidelines regarding the appropriate method for calculating this weight in children with such disorders. In a study to be published online Jan. 4, 2012, in the journal Pediatrics, researchers from the University of Chicago, the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Rochester Medical Center compared three common methods for calculating ...

Leaping lizards have a message for robots: Get a tail! University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers including undergraduate and graduate students studied how lizards manage to leap successfully even when they slip and stumble, and found that swinging the tail upward is the key to preventing a forward pitch that could send them head-over-heels into a tree. The scientists subsequently added a tail to a robotic car they named Tailbot and discovered that it's not as simple as throwing your tail in the air. Robots and lizards have to adjust the angle of ...

Rachel Kendall, broker and team leader of The Rachel Kendall Team of Keller Williams Realty (http://www.rachelkendall.com), a full-service real estate firm, has announced that Angie Cole has joined the organization as a buyer's specialist. In her position, Cole will assist clients with the home buying process by posting company listings online for review, setting appointments to show properties and conduct home inspections, assisting in completing necessary paperwork during closings, and providing support as needed for an efficient sales process. Cole has more than four ...

Prasad Cosmetic Surgery and Medi-Spa, a boutique medical practice specializing in facial rejuvenation, body enhancements, hair loss solutions and aesthetic skin care, is the first practice in the New York City and Long Island area to offer the Vampire Facelift , a non-surgical facial enhancement treatment that uses the patient's own growth factors in their blood to enhance areas on the face. Unlike a traditional facelift, which requires surgery and a considerable recovery period, the Vampire Facelift improves facial volume and appearance the same day with no downtime. ...

A new image of the Omega Nebula, captured by ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), is one of the sharpest of this object ever taken from the ground. It shows the dusty, rose-coloured central parts of this famous stellar nursery and reveals extraordinary detail in the cosmic landscape of gas clouds, dust and newborn stars. The colourful gas and dark dust in the Omega Nebula serve as the raw materials for creating the next generation of stars. In this particular section of the nebula, the newest stars on the scene — dazzlingly bright and shining blue-white — light up the whole ...

SmallScaleBusiness.com is pleased to announce that they currently have over 660 small business ideas with plans to expand this to 1000 by the end of 2012. More and more people are making the decision to start their own small business due to layoffs and other financial problems. Most of these are looking for ideas for businesses they can start with little up front investment. This website was established in May 2005 with the goal of providing individuals with workable ideas for starting their own small businesses. Most of the ideas can be started as home-based businesses ...

WF Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of the all-new look of their Famous Scientists website (http://www.FamousScientists.org). The resource is the biggest educational resource on the internet about famous scientists, providing comprehensive and premium articles about famous scientists and inventors that revolutionized the world, their detailed biographies, and other details and facts. The resource is interesting and informative for students, researchers, teachers and the general public alike. What makes FamousScientists.org better than other portals is its huge ...

DURHAM, N.C -- Warming in the North Atlantic over the last 32 years has significantly reduced winter sea ice cover in harp seal breeding grounds, resulting in sharply higher death rates among seal pups in recent years, according to a new Duke University-led study. "The kind of mortality we're seeing in eastern Canada is dramatic. Entire year-classes may be disappearing from the population in low ice years – essentially all of the pups die," said David W. Johnston, research scientist at the Duke University Marine Lab. "It calls into question the resilience of the population." The ...

MEDIA AVAILABILITY Experimental vaccine partially protects monkeys from HIV-like Infection: Study reveals factors associated with prevention, control of HIV infection WHAT: New vaccine research in monkeys suggests that scientists are homing in on the critical ingredients of a protective HIV vaccine and identifies new HIV vaccine candidates to test in human clinical trials. The research, which appears online in Nature on Jan. 4, was co-funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. In the study, ...