LONDON, ON – Over the past decade, there has been a steady stream of information promoting the health benefits of fish oil capsules. According to Dr. Louise Moist, a Scientist at Lawson Health Research Institute, fish oil may also improve outcomes for kidney patients undergoing hemodialysis. Hemodialysis can be delivered through arteriovenous (AV) grafts, artificial vessels created to join an artery to a vein. Unfortunately, AV grafts are prone to congestion and clotting, causing disruptions to treatment and a need for surgical correction. Research suggests fish oil ...

New Rochelle, NY, May 1, 2012—Herbal, dietary, and energy or nutritional supplements may offer specific health benefits, but they can also have harmful and even life-threatening effects when combined with commonly used medications. Clinicians need to be aware of and educate their patients about the potential risks of mixing supplements and therapeutic agents, since their interaction can diminish or increase drug levels. This timely topic is explored in a provocative article in Alternative and Complementary Therapies, published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The article is available ...

Simple Pastimes, one of the country's largest online distributors of online jigsaw puzzles, has relocated from Washington state to a warehouse doubled in size in Central California in order to accommodate a soaring rise in sales. Simple Pastimes, founded in 2004, has completed its relocation from Port Townsend, Washington to San Luis Obispo, CA and now occupies a 5,000 square foot warehouse, double the size of its former location of 7 years. The move, says co-founder Mary O'Brien, will accommodate the company's plans for expected continued inventory growth that she ...

The world's leading independent publisher of celebrity and branded GPS voices, NavTones, announces today the release of the world's least-confident navigation voice, Nervous Nancy. From the company that brought you the celebrity GPS voices of Mr. T, Gary Busey, and Flavor Flav, comes this hilarious and familiar character with a universal story. Be it a mother, grandmother, great aunt, sister, girlfriend, or wife, just about everyone has a Nervous Nancy in their life, and now drivers all over the world can bring her with them wherever they go. Like all NavTones GPS voices, ...

Dr. Jack Fisher is discussing the recent revealing of the first patient to have breast augmentation with implants. Esteemed among plastic surgeons in Nashville, Dr. Fisher says it's interesting to see how this woman's procedure in 1962 positively affected her life. MailOnline.com recently published an article on Timmie Jean Lindsey, an 80-year-old woman who was the first patient to have breast implants, taking her from a B to a C cup. "It's fascinating to see how breast augmentation has evolved since Timmy Jean's first procedure," says Dr. Fisher. "While ...

New Rochelle, NY, May 1, 2012—Passage of the America Invents Act into law led to the most dramatic changes in the U.S. patent system in 60 years. These reforms will have a significant impact on technology innovators such as biotechnology-based businesses, as detailed in two articles in Industrial Biotechnology, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The articles are available free online on the Industrial Biotechnology website. "Industrial biotechnology companies rely heavily on their patents to attract investment to fund the research and development necessary ...

Dr. Michelle Spring of Marina Plastic Surgery says a recent study published in the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery offers insights into how rhinoplasty in Los Angeles can help her patients appear more youthful. "My Los Angeles rhinoplasty patients usually share one key goal: They want a nose that is more attractively shaped and proportioned," Dr. Spring says. "As the study noted, for many people, rhinoplasty can also help them look younger. Although they might not initially choose nose surgery specifically to look younger, my older patients often are ...

Badbeat.com sponsored and mentored player Alan Davie continues his winning streak. Davie started the week finishing 2nd in the $200,000 Guaranteed Sunday Blast on Poker Encore, winning an incredible $24,000 (EUR18,158) , and ended it with winning the EUR20,000 Guaranteed on Poker Time taking home the first place prize of EUR5,378. This is the second time Davie has won this tournament since he became a Badbeat.com sponsored player. "Joining Badbeat.com gave me the resources to play a lot more volume and bigger games, which of course helps me improve as a player," ...

Koi Market, the leading koi fish supplier on the east coast, announced the revamp of its website. "Countless hours were spent on the redesign," said Shawn Rosen, owner of Koi Market. "We value our customers and wanted to improve their overall shopping experience." Koi Market focused the redesign on enabling its customers to easily navigate the website and find what they needed. "Our customer loyalty program Koi Cash Rewards is one of the main reasons customers enjoy shopping online with us," said Rosen. "They receive instant cash ...

CHICAGO (May 1, 2012)—A recent study published in the May/June 2012 issue of General Dentistry, the peer-reviewed clinical journal of the Academy of General Dentistry, found that an alarming increase in the consumption of sports and energy drinks, especially among adolescents, is causing irreversible damage to teeth—specifically, the high acidity levels in the drinks erode tooth enamel, the glossy outer layer of the tooth. "Young adults consume these drinks assuming that they will improve their sports performance and energy levels and that they are 'better' for them ...

Circle Line Poker and Global Gaming Events have come together for a three month series of tournaments with over 10,000Eur in the player prize pools. The first month of events offers 2,000Eur Freeroll taking place on Saturday, May 5th at 19:00GMT. On Sunday, May 6th at 19:00GMT, 1,000Eur will be added to the player prize pool in this 5.00 + .50Eur buy-in event. Registration opens on Friday, May 4th. The second month of this event series offers 1,000Eur Freeroll on June 2nd as well as 2,000Eur Cash added to the buy-in event on June 3rd. Players that make a deposit ...

Reducing youth exposure to alcohol advertising and marketing is a missed opportunity for states to improve public health, according to a new review of state alcohol advertising laws from the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The report examines the extent to which states' alcohol advertising laws incorporate eight different best practices to reduce youth exposure to alcohol advertising and marketing, and finds only eleven states use more than one of the eight and no state uses more than five. The report ...

During high school the parents of teenagers' friends can have as much effect on the teens' substance use as their own parents, according to prevention researchers. "Among friendship groups with 'good parents' there's a synergistic effect -- if your parents are consistent and aware of your whereabouts, and your friends' parents are also consistent and aware of their (children's) whereabouts, then you are less likely to use substances," said Michael J. Cleveland, research assistant professor at the Prevention Research Center and the Methodology Center, Penn State. "But ...

Fort Lauderdale personal injury attorney Bradley Winston of Winston, Clark & Wigand announces an appeal of a $10,510 assessment levied April 19, 2012 by Miami Dade County against Jesus Jimenez for posting a protest sign on his property. Jimenez posted the protest sign after a lien was placed on his property and the home was demolished by the County in June, 2011, while he was still a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant on active duty in Afghanistan. In protest of the demolition, Jimenez posted this sign: This is how the U.S. Government thanks the service of an active Army soldier ...

Abdominal tumors involving both roots of the celiac and superior mesenteric artery (SMA) are deemed unresectable by conventional surgical methods, as removal would cause necrosis of the organs that are supplied by those blood vessels. A case report published in the journal American Journal of Transplantation presents a novel surgical technique that enables surgeons to remove tumors that are unresectable by the usual surgical techniques. Led by Tomoaki Kato, MD, FACS, of Columbia University, surgeons removed tumors in 3 patients involving both the celiac artery and SMA ...

In this day and age, implementing social marketing technology is integral for any company to truly succeed. Large corporations have entire teams of people devoted to social marketing, but using Facebook, Twitter, and blogging technology for business purposes is something that many smaller business owners struggle with. Social marketing takes time, and it also involves a great deal of strategy, yet many small business owners have too many other responsibilities to truly embrace social media technology. A company called Logix9.com is seeking to change that, however. The ...

Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced that it has received the first Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer badge in all four APIs, which include Insights, Ads, Pages, and Apps. This new program is designed to help marketing professionals connect with brands in need of their services. Brianna Ladapo, a communications expert who has a great deal of experience in the marketing industry, is not sure that this rating is beneficial to the general public. As a result, she is urging marketing professionals--and their clients--to consider the nature of the companies they support. The ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—It's a message no one wants to hear: To slow down global warming, we'll either have to put the brakes on economic growth or transform the way the world's economies work. That's the implication of an innovative University of Michigan study examining the evolution of atmospheric CO2, the most likely cause of global climate change. The study, conducted by José Tapia Granados and Edward Ionides of U-M and Óscar Carpintero of the University of Valladolid in Spain, was published online in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science and Policy. It is the ...

The Los Angeles Times has reported the poisoning of veterinarians by phosphine gas after they induced vomiting in dogs that had ingested poison. According to the article, written by Thomas Maugh II, at least eight veterinary professionals have been harmed in this manner. Tall Tails Doggie Day Care is urging pet owners to quit using rodent poison, as it is the most common source of this lethal problem. Rodent poisons are often made with zinc phosphide, which turns into a gas after mixing with stomach acid and water. When vomiting is induced in animals that have ingested ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--- Portable gas sensors can allow you to search for explosives, diagnose medical conditions through a patient's breath, and decide whether it's safe to stay in a mine. These devices do all this by identifying and measuring airborne chemicals, and a new, more sensitive, smart model is under development at the University of Michigan. The smart sensor could detect chemical weapon vapors or indicators of disease better than the current design. It also consumes less power, crucial for stretching battery life down a mineshaft or in isolated clinics. In the ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– What might happen if droughts were predicted months ahead of time? Food aid and other humanitarian efforts could be put together sooner and executed better, say UC Santa Barbara geographers Chris Funk, Greg Husak, and Joel Michaelsen. After over a decade of gathering and analyzing climate and vegetation data from East Africa, the researchers, who are part of the U.S. Agency for International Development's Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET), say there is enough evidence to associate climate conditions in the region with projected rainfall ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In the last 10 years, cryptography researchers have demonstrated that even the most secure-seeming computer is shockingly vulnerable to attack. The time it takes a computer to store data in memory, fluctuations in its power consumption and even the noises it emits can betray information to a savvy assailant. Attacks that use such indirect sources of information are called side-channel attacks, and the increasing popularity of cloud computing makes them an even greater threat. An attacker would have to be pretty motivated to install a device in your ...

Clarksburg, MD—This week, the second-year results of an important clinical trial on age-related macular degeneration (AMD), known as the Comparison of AMD Treatments Trials (or CATT), were published in the journal Ophthalmology. Researchers found that two drugs known as Avastin (bevacizumab) and Lucentis (ranibizumab), commonly used to treat the wet form of AMD, were similarly effective in maintaining vision. In this clinical trial funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI) of the National Institutes of Health, CATT researchers found that two years into the study, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - New research suggests that there could be health hazards associated with consuming excessive amounts of beta-carotene. This antioxidant is a naturally occurring pigment that gives color to foods such as carrots, sweet potatoes and certain greens. It also converts to vitamin A, and foods and supplements are the only sources for this essential nutrient. But scientists at Ohio State University have found that certain molecules that derive from beta-carotene have an opposite effect in the body: They actually block some actions of vitamin A, which is critical ...

To further increase patients' awareness of dental health care and his practice, Dr. Donald Rozema, Atlanta family dentist, is happy to announce the launch of a mobile website for his practice. The new mobile website was created to offer smartphone and tablet users a quick, and easy way to access important information about Dr. Rozema, his practice and dental health care information. "More and more people are using smartphones and tablet devices to look up information they need. From restaurants to daily news articles, we are always on the go," said Dr. Donald ...