Dr. Andrew Johns, Springfield dentist, and Dr. Thomas Meyer are excited that their practice's comprehensive dental website is featuring a page specifically designed to offer new services to patients. The page is designed to make it easy for patients to find and learn about the Springfield, MO dentist's practice. Dr. Johns would like to invite any new patients to visit the new patient page on his website. "I am very excited that we are offering online new patient services. I believe that our dental service is second to none and any new patients that come in to see ...

Dr. Sachin Mehta, Bloomington, MN dentist, and his associates at Southdale Dental Associates are very happy to now be offering a mobile version of their practice's dental website. The mobile site is optimized to be viewed on both smartphone and tablet devices. "I'm glad that our practice is able to offer a mobile version of our website. It will allow our patients to easily and quickly view our website from their mobile phones even when they are not at home or by a computer. I encourage all of our patients that have smartphones or tablets to log on to our site and ...

Just as your physical strength tends to diminish with age, your eyes will also start to decline in their overall performance - especially when you reach age 60 and beyond. Some age-related changes in your eyes are completely normal and do not indicate any kind of disease process. For example, presbyopia is a normal development once you pass the age of 40. As your lens begins to harden and lose its natural focusing ability, you will notice that it's harder to focus on nearby objects. Most people compensate for this change by holding reading material further away from ...

There is no reason your porcelain veneers should interfere with your dental hygiene routine. However, the way in which you care for your veneers will impact both their appearance and longevity, making proper dental hygiene just as important after you have had veneers placed. Caring for Your Veneers Porcelain veneers are thin shells placed over the front of your teeth to correct cosmetic imperfections such as chips, cracks, spaces, discoloration, and irregularly shaped teeth. Once placed over your teeth, veneers look and feel like real tooth enamel, allowing them to ...

There are many causes of dementia, but one of the most debilitating, studied, and documented is Alzheimer's disease. With about 5 million Alzheimer's sufferers over the age of 65, and many of them placed in a nursing home, many of them are likely to suffer some type of nursing home injury due to abuse. In addition, many Alzheimer's sufferers can become violent and may put other nursing home residents at risk for injury. Dementia Sufferers Subjected to Abuse Unfortunately, there are many people who will take advantage of dementia sufferers by abusing them physically. ...

Research shows that seatbelts routinely save lives during car accidents. In over a half of all fatal car accidents, the victims are not wearing seatbelts - or else not wearing them correctly. When a seatbelt is properly worn, it reduces the front passenger's risk of fatal injury by 45%, and their risk of serious injury by 50%. Meanwhile, passengers riding in the back seat of a van or SUV during a car accident can reduce their risk of injury by 73%. Putting Seatbelts into Perspective When an obstacle looms ahead of you before a collision, your car may stop in the first ...

Liposuction is one of the most commonly performed plastic surgery procedures in the United States today. While generally considered a safe procedure, it is important that you know the risks of liposuction prior to committing to surgery, and that you know how to minimize your risks. Risks of Liposuction The largest risk of liposuction is contour irregularities. When a plastic surgeon over or under corrects an area, the end results can be lumpy, uneven, and dimpled skin. Poor liposuction techniques may also fail to encourage your skin to full firm to your newly toned ...

Gov. Rick Scott recently signed into a law a bill that proponents see as a victory for Florida drivers, as it is expected to reduce accident fraud and high auto insurance premiums. However, the bill is not without controversy. The law, HB 119, affects personal injury protection (PIP) benefits for Florida motorists. Florida requires its residents to carry PIP coverage, which covers the driver's medical bills up to $10,000 regardless of who is at fault for the car accident. The new law aims to fight insurance fraud by banning drivers from using their PIP benefits to ...

The latest statistics regarding international aviation accidents suggest that global airline operations continue to present many hazards to travellers. Fatal aviation accident statistics from 2011 show an increase in the overall number of plane crashes. According to Flightglobal, which provides analysis and research to aerospace and aviation professionals in the air transport industry, the total number of fatal airline accidents rose from 26 to 32 between 2010 and 2011. The latest figure exceeds the ten-year average of 31 world airline fatal accidents. However, the ...

While acute back pain is common and typically heals with time and physical therapy, it can lead to chronic back pain for some people, according to a recent study. For people who deal with chronic back pain on a daily basis, performing simple tasks and normal work functions can become difficult and sometimes unbearable. Even with surgical intervention, the pain may prove too burdensome for a patient. When this occurs, sufferers of chronic back pain may need to consider applying for Social Security Disability benefits. Back Pain Study An Australian study recently followed ...

If you are the parent of a teenager, you are well aware of the amount of time that teens spend sending text messages to each other. In fact, the Pew Research Center reports that on any given day, the average teenager will send and receive approximately 100 text messages. Unfortunately, this does not stop when teens get behind the wheel of a car. A recent survey released by the Centers for Disease Control indicates that 58 percent of high school seniors read and send text messages, as well as emails, while driving. Additionally, nearly 43 percent of high school juniors ...

The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects all Americans against unreasonable searches and seizures of their property. What is an unreasonable search? Who decides if a search or seizure is unreasonable? Does a valid search have to be executed pursuant to a warrant? These questions and more will be answered in this article. The Amendment Itself The drafters of the Constitution took great pains to protect personal freedoms. They truly believed in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and they wrote the Constitution in such a way as to prevent ...

Whether you're in New York or another part of the country, odds are that at some point you've been on the road driving behind a car that appears to be crawling along. When you are finally able to pass the slow moving vehicle you notice that behind the wheel is an older driver. You briefly ask yourself, "If drivers can't keep up with the flow of traffic should they even be driving? Elderly drivers are not restricted from driving, but that does not stop many people from wondering about their ability to do so. While age alone is not a determining factor in someone's ...

There are a number of real money gaming sites today, but not all offer the variety of games you can find at King Jackpot UK who specialize in playing bingo games online. The site may not have intense card games like poker, baccarat or video poker, but it does have a range of interesting and stimulating games that can entertain you. The set of games on this site are unique, which makes it refreshing and attractive to the thousands of online bingo players in the UK. King Jackpot offers two bingo variants. One is the 90-ball or the European bingo variant, which is highly ...

[Animal athletes: a performance view Veterinary Record July 28; 171; 87-94] Even Usain Bolt, currently the fastest man in the world, couldn't outpace greyhounds, cheetahs, or the pronghorn antelope, finds a light-hearted comparison of the extraordinary athleticism of humans and animals in the Veterinary Record. As Olympic competition starts in earnest today, Craig Sharp from the Centre for Sports Medicine and Human Performance at Brunel University, highlights a range of animals whose speed and strength easily trumps that of our most elite athletes. Humans can run ...

[Physical activity education in the undergraduate curricula of all UK medical schools. Are tomorrow's doctors equipped to follow clinical guidelines? Online First doi 10.1136/bjsports-2012-091380] UK medical school teaching on physical activity is "sparse or non-existent," finds research published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine today. This knowledge gap will leave tomorrow's doctors ill equipped to promote physical activity effectively to their patients and stem the rising tide of serious disease associated with lack of exercise, say the authors. They ...

Researchers in Newcastle and Singapore have identified a new type of white blood cell which activates a killing immune response to an external source – providing a new potential target for vaccines for conditions such as cancer or Hepatitis B. Publishing in the journal Immunity, the team of researchers from Newcastle University in collaboration with A*STAR's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) describe a new human tissue dendritic cell with cross-presenting function. Dendritic cells (DCs) are a type of white blood cell that orchestrate our body's immune responses to ...

WHAT: Further analyses of the landmark NIH-funded treatment-as-prevention study (HPTN 052) have found that providing antiretroviral treatment to HIV-infected individuals earlier, when their immune systems are healthier, delays AIDS-related health events, such as chronic herpes simplex virus and tuberculosis, as well as death. Additionally, researchers found that earlier HIV treatment is also cost-effective because it increases survival, prevents costly opportunistic infections and averts transmission of the virus to uninfected individuals. The two analyses were presented ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center have identified a compound that could interrupt the chain of events that cause damage to the retina in diabetic retinopathy. The finding is significant because it could lead to a novel therapy that targets two mechanisms at the root of the disease: inflammation and the weakening of the blood barrier that protects the retina. To date, treatments for diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness among working-age Americans, have been aimed largely at one of those mechanisms. In diabetic retinopathy, ...

Using a new assay method to study tumor cells, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center have found evidence of clonal evolution in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). The assay method distinguishes features of leukemia cells that indicate whether the disease will be aggressive or slow-moving, a key factor in when and how patients are treated. The findings are published in the July 26, 2012 First Edition online issue of Blood. The progression of CLL is highly variable, dependent upon the rate and ...

A low pressure system in the western North Pacific has caught the eye of forecasters and several satellites as it continues to organize. NASA's Terra satellite captured a view of System 93W's clouds as they continue to appear more organized. System 93W appears poised to become tropical storm Saola over the next two days if the organization continues. At 1400 UTC (10 a.m. EDT/U.S.; 10 p.m. Asia/Manila local time) System 93W had maximum sustained winds near 20 knots (23 mph/37 kmh). It was located about 395 nautical miles (454.6 miles/731.5 km) east-southeast of Manila, ...

UCLA researchers have come across an unexpected potential use for fluoxetine – commonly known as Prozac – which shows promise as an antiviral agent. The discovery could provide another tool in treating human enteroviruses that sicken and kill people in the U.S. and around the world. Human enteroviruses are members of a genus containing more than 100 distinct RNA viruses responsible for various life threatening infections, such as poliomyelitis and encephalitis. While immunization has all but eliminated the poliovirus, the archetype for the genus, no antiviral drugs ...

Boulder, Colorado, USA - Debate over the origin of large-scale polygons (hundreds of meters to kilometers in diameter) on Mars remains active even after several decades of detailed observations. Similarity in geometric patterns on Mars and Earth has long captured the imagination. In this new article from GSA Today, geologists at The University of Texas at Austin examine these large-scale polygons and compare them to similar features on Earth's seafloor, which they believe may have formed via similar processes. Understanding these processes may in turn fuel support for ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Knock, knock! Who's there? Cows go. Cows go who? No, cows go moo! OK, OK. So it's not a side-slapper — especially if the teller has zero sense of comic timing. But most likely the person sharing the joke over the water cooler thinks he or she is pretty funny. No matter how badly the joke is told, it will sometimes elicit a few polite laughs. Why? Because social norms make us averse to providing negative feedback, says Joyce Ehrlinger, a Florida State University assistant professor of psychology whose latest laboratory research recreated everyday ...

Geneva, 28th July 2012 – Marking World Hepatitis Day, the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) calls on the different organizations which make up the United Nations systems to take action to fight against Viral Hepatitis (Hepatitis B and C), a potentially fatal infection of the liver which affects 500 million people. Viral hepatitis is the cause of death of over one million people a year and, around the world, one in every 3 people has been exposed to either the Hepatitis B virus or the Hepatitis C virus. Even more worrying, those infected do not know ...