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CHICAGO --- A hike in your blood pressure during middle age significantly raises the risk of having a heart attack or a stroke during your lifetime, according to new Northwestern Medicine research. The study offers a new understanding on the importance of maintaining low blood pressure early in middle age to prevent heart disease later in life. Men and women who developed high blood pressure in middle age or who started out with high blood pressure had an estimated 30 percent increased risk of having a heart attack or stroke compared to those who kept their blood pressure ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A new study co-authored by University of Florida researchers on the endangered Ozark Hellbender giant salamander is the first to detail its skin microbes, the bacteria and fungi that defend against pathogens. Published today in the online journal PLoS One, the study details changes in the salamander's declining health and habitat, and could provide a baseline for how changing ecosystems are affecting the rapid decline of amphibians worldwide. "Scientists and biologists view amphibians as kind of a 'canary in the coal mine' and their health is often ...

Mobilefilmworks signs Brazilian Filmmaker Jose Joffilly of Coevos Filmes to a wireless distribution agreement. Joffilly's more recent works include producing and directing the fictional feature film Blue Eyes (2007), and directing the documentary "Passion According to Callado" (2007), produced by Lumen Productions. Jose Joffilly licensed Mobilefilmworks to begin streaming feature films, 2 Perdidos Numa Noite Suja (Two Lost in a Dirty Night), and Achados e Perdidos (Lost and Found), both feature films are currently available at www.mobilefilmworks.com. Other ...

Atomic force microscope cantilever tips with integrated heaters are widely used to characterize polymer films in electronics and optical devices, pharmaceuticals, paints, and coatings. These heated tips are also used in research labs to explore new ideas in nanolithography and data storage, and to study fundamentals of nanometer-scale heat flow. Until now, however, no one has used a heated nano-tip for electronic measurements. "We have developed a new kind of electro-thermal nanoprobe," according to William King, a College of Engineering Bliss Professor in the Department ...

Fifty years ago in 1962 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? offered a new lease on life to the careers of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, as well as numerous other aging actresses. A new brand of horror films offered the stars work, and opportunity to reach their fans, and a much-needed income - Joan Crawford, above all others, welcomed the opportunity. For Crawford it meant a chance to wipe away a mountain of debt that hung over her upon the death of her last husband, Pepsi-Cola executive Alfred Steele. While few biographers detail Crawford's later work, a new book from ...

La Jolla ---- Scientists have discovered a missing link between the body's biological clock and sugar metabolism system, a finding that may help avoid the serious side effects of drugs used for treating asthma, allergies and arthritis. In a paper published last week in Nature, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report finding that proteins that control the body's biological rhythms, known as cryptochromes, also interact with metabolic switches that are targeted by certain anti-inflammatory drugs. The finding suggests that side effects of current ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – When evaluating early kidney injuries in people, doctors monitor blood level increases of creatinine, a waste product of muscle breakdown, to understand the severity of the injury. Creatinine is filtered by the kidneys, and small increases are an indication of early damage to vital kidney function. For pets suffering critical illness or injury, University of Missouri researchers have found that even tiny increases of creatinine in blood also could indicate acute kidney damage. Using human blood measurement guidelines for acute kidney injuries, the researchers ...

Driver fatigue is a problem that affects a significant number of commercial truck drivers. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has tried to address this problem by requiring medical exams to identify drivers with sleep problems, such as sleep apnea, and by establishing hours-of-service rules to limit the number of consecutive hours a trucker can drive. Unfortunately, when limits on work hours reduces profit, some drivers are motivated to falsify their logbooks and break the rules. Last year, the FMCSA had issued a new rule that required repeat ...

On I-44 in August of 2010, a massive collision involving a tractor, a pickup truck and two school buses heading to Six Flags killed two people and injured 35 others. An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board[1] concluded that the driver of the pickup truck had been texting at the time of the collision. His distraction, coupled with inattention on the part of the drivers of both school buses, were the primary causes of the fatal pileup. On December 14, 2011, the NTSB issued a series of recommendations, including: - All 50 states ban all "non-emergency ...

Lead was used in a wide range of consumer and commercial products over the last century. Unfortunately, lead is also a highly toxic metal that is known to cause serious health problems and even death. The most common source of lead poisoning today is lead-based paint. While lead paint has been removed from buildings in the past few decades, lead paint chips and lead dust are still a common sight in many apartment buildings. These problems are especially bad in low-rent buildings, most of which have not been rehabbed. Children have the greatest risk of developing lead ...

Atlanta tree services company Yellow Ribbon Tree Experts is reminding homeowners and property managers of the importance of properly preparing trees for winter. Although Atlanta winters are generally mild compared to many other regions of the country, freezing temperatures are not uncommon, especially at night, and winter can mean death for a tree that has not been sufficiently prepared. Winter air is known to dry out the skin, and it can have a similar effect on trees as well. To ensure that trees have enough water, it is important to water them thoroughly through the ...

From individual to collective failings are all due to our brains running on false emotional data generated by the selfish self-image. From wars to divorce, from Wall Street greed to the absence of pure happiness, from depression to corruption, from economic deficits to anger and all the other ills of society, the basic cause is our defective emotional intelligence. Scientists are reluctant to take up emotional intelligence education as emotional intelligence is connected to the mind, brain and consciousness; topics that science has not been able to define and understand ...

We're excited to announce that Jewels for Hope, in association with The Artisan Group, will be featured on January 13 and 14, 2012, at a luxury gift lounge event hosted by GBK Productions at L'Ermitage Beverly Hills (California) Hotel in honor of The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards Nominees and Presenters. Jewels For Hope will be displaying a specialty Swarovski Crystal & Vintage Pendant Necklace, featured on The Artisan Group's exhibit. Each celebrity attending will receive a Swarovski Crystal & Pearl Necklace, color-coded to represent one of the 8 organizations ...

H. Ross Ford, president and CEO of TCN Worldwide, is pleased to announce that CRA Realty Inc. has joined the international real estate services organization. As the organization's newest member, CRA Realty will represent TCN Worldwide as the retail affiliate serving the greater Long Island area of Nassau and Suffolk Counties. CRA Realty/TCN Worldwide is a full-service real estate firm offering a wide array of commercial real estate brokerage services focusing on the specific needs of the retail sector. "Our company is extremely pleased to be joining TCN Worldwide, ...

Accelerated partial breast irradiation using brachytherapy (APBIb) for the treatment of breast cancer has been rapidly increasing over the last several years in the U.S. as an alternative to standard whole-breast irradiation (WBI), according to a study published December 16th in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Various types of APBI recurrence (external beam radiation, intraoperative radiotherapy, brachytherapy using multiple interstitial catheters, or intracavitary brachytherapy using a balloon catheter) deliver radiation to breast tissue at the highest ...

Among people recently infected with HIV, immediate antiretroviral therapy (ART) appears preferable to deferring treatment, according to a new study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases and now available online. Although the benefits of ART during early HIV-1 infection remain unproven, the findings support growing evidence favoring earlier ART initiation. Christine Hogan, MD, of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, led a team of researchers from various institutions to investigate the effects of ART on individuals infected with HIV-1 within the previous ...

A team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame have demonstrated a novel DNA detection method that could prove suitable for many real-world applications. Physicists Carol Tanner and Steven Ruggiero led the team in the application of a new technique called laser transmission spectroscopy (LTS). LTS is capable of rapidly determining the size, shape and number of nanoparticles in suspension. In a new paper appearing in the international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication PLoS ONE, the team describes how they applied LTS as a novel method for detecting ...

December 16, 2011, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Shenzhen, China - A group of scientists from United Kingdom (UK), China and United Arab Emirates (UAE) jointly announced the complete sequencing of peregrine and saker falcons genomes at the 2nd International Festival of Falconry held in Al Ain, UAE. The study is a part of Falcon Genome Project, launched and funded by the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) in this January. The results will enable biologists to better study the basic biology and genetics of falcons and provide new insights into understanding the origin and populations ...

This press release is available in Spanish.In this meeting of the JWG - the work group made up of European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) - the last revision of the text was carried out that will make up norm EN 45545, which affects the entire railroad industry, the operators, fire-testing laboratories and standardization entities. This meeting took place on the Leganés campus of the UC3M, under the auspices of the Master's in Fire Safety Engineering Program, from the Pedro Juan de Lastanosa ...

Are wage differences between men and women decreasing as more women attain managerial positions? A new Swedish report from the Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS) at Uppsala University and the Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU) concludes that they are not. Manager gender is tied to neither wages nor, accordingly, wage differences on the labour market. Women held approximately 36 per cent of managerial positions within the Swedish employment market in 2008. That female managers are a minority is sometimes advanced as an explanation for the fact that ...

This press release is available in German.Chicago/Leipzig. Large forest regions in Canada are apparently about to experience rapid change. Based on models, scientists can now show that there are threshold values for wildfires just like there are for epidemics. Large areas of Canada are apparently approaching this threshold value and may in future exceed it due to climate change. As a result both the area burnt down annually and the average size of the fires would increase, write the researchers of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the University ...

Although the temperate climates of central Europe provide plentiful food in summer, finding enough to eat is much more problematic in winter. Many small mammals avoid the problem by hibernating but this survival strategy is generally not practised by larger animals. With the exception of some bears, large mammals remain fully awake throughout the year, yet they too must reduce their metabolism to cope with the comparative scarcity of food. Red deer, for example, are known to lower their heart rate and to allow their extremities to cool substantially during winter. These ...

Shenzhen, China – BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, started the trail operation of "BGI-BOX", its first cloud computing terminal server, in China Agricultural University on December 8. BGI-BOX is designed for users without bioinformatics background and it allows users to access bioinformatics analysis and genomic data in their own laboratories with the advantages of easy to use, high flexibility and user-friendly interface. With the rapid development of high-throughput sequencing technology over the past ten years, the cost of DNA sequencing is decreasing ...

MicroRNAs or miRNAs are tiny RNA molecules that have only about 20 nucleotides and do not code for proteins. They regulate many important processes in cells by binding to target messenger RNAs – the instructions for protein production –, thus blocking production of the respective protein. In cancer, the production of some miRNAs is often reduced or amplified. This particularly affects miRNAs that regulate the activity of cancer-promoting genes. A key molecule in the development of cancer is a transcription factor called NFkappaB, which is an important switch for many ...