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What Every Parent Should Know About School Phobia

2011-08-27
The back to school craziness has started, and while children may be excited about all the cool new supplies, fear and nervousness about what school is going to bring this year may be eating away at your child, and could have deep consequences if not addressed early. Children, especially those that have been uprooted and have to start in a new school might not show immediately they are fearful of their new situation. That's where the role of the parent needs to be supportive and communicative. Beate Epp, a Saskatchewan author of the best selling children's book The ...

EMS Goes For Double Business Award Success

2011-08-27
Event Marketing Solutions (EMS) is going for double after being shortlisted for another prestigious business award in the region. The company, which specialises in promotional marketing using exhibition trailers, is in line to win Most Entrepreneurial Company at the 2011 North West Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, run by Excel Publishing & Events in conjunction with EN Magazine. The announcement comes just a week after EMS was shortlisted for Medium Business of the Year in the Trinity Mirror Cheshire Business Awards. The EN Awards, now in their tenth year, ...

Campbell University Law Faculty Member Appointed To Governor's Crime Commission

2011-08-27
Melissa Essary, dean of the Campbell University Norman A. Wiggins School of Law (http://law.campbell.edu), has announced that Professor Jon Powell has been appointed to the juvenile planning committee of the Governor's crime commission. As a committee member, Powell will be responsible for advising Gov. Bev Perdue on all issues of juvenile crime across the state as well as determining where federal dollars should go to sponsor programs to address these issues. Powell was recommended to the governor for the committee by Linda Hayes, secretary of the N.C. Department of Juvenile ...

Methods Introduces Nakamura WT-150 II High-Speed Multitasking Turning Center

2011-08-27
Today, Methods Machine Tools, Inc., a leading supplier of innovative precision machine tools, has introduced the Nakamura-Tome WT-150 II 8-Axis, Multitasking Turning Center. The WT-150 II, which features numerous upgrades from the base WT-150 design, has opposed twin-spindle, 2-turret construction, offering high-speed and high rigidity in a compact machine. http://www.methodsmachine.com/machines/region/21/products/5/19 The new WT-150 II will make its U.S. debut at imX in Las Vegas, September 12-14, 2011. http://www.methodsmachine.com/imx/ "With the introduction ...

UCSF study shows greater impact of chemotherapy on fertility

UCSF study shows greater impact of chemotherapy on fertility
2011-08-27
Current estimates of the impact of chemotherapy on women's reproductive health are too low, according to a University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) study. The researchers say their analysis of the age-specific, long-term effects of chemotherapy provides new insights that will help patients and clinicians make more informed decisions about future reproductive options, such as egg harvesting. Previous studies largely have focused on amenorrhea, or the lack of menstruation shortly after treatment, as the primary reproductive side effect of chemotherapy. In this analysis, ...

Fort Myers Daycare Supports USDA Change from Pyramid to Myplate

2011-08-27
Fort Myers Daycare, Child Care of Southwest Florida, announces its support of the recently released icon by the U.S. Department of Agriculture called "MyPlate". This icon is a new visual which represents the agreed upon standard of a healthy diet. "MyPlate" will replace the previously used "food pyramid", which has served as the icon to represent a healthy diet for nearly the past 20 years. First lady Michelle Obama, Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack unveiled the new icon this past June. It's called ...

North Raleigh Florist Welcomes New Lead Designer

2011-08-27
Janice Cutler, president and owner of North Raleigh Florist (http://www.northraleighfloristinc.com), has announced that Brandi R. Dennison, a North Carolina Certified Professional Florist and Wake County Designer of the Year 2009, has joined the staff as a lead designer and a weddings and events consultant. In her new position, Dennison will apply her decade of experience in the floral industry to serve the North Raleigh Florist client base with design recommendations, as well as expert wedding consultation and event advice. Her passion for creating floral arrangements ...

Identifying correlations in electronic patient records

2011-08-27
A new study demonstrates how text mining of electronic health records can be used to create medical term profiles of patients, which can be used both to identify co-occurrence of diseases and to cluster patients into groups with highly similar clinical features. The study, carried out in Denmark by a multi-disciplinary group of bioinformaticians, systems biologists and clinicians, will be published in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology on 25th August 2011. Health records contain detailed phenotypic information on the clinical profile of each individual ...

JK Harris Helps Pennsylvania Couples Save Nearly $30,000 With Offer In Compromise

2011-08-27
Owing back taxes is a stressful event. It takes a toll on health, bank accounts and marriages. Luckily Randy and Ethel Fay Thieme of Titusville, Pennsylvania, sought help dealing with their back tax debt. The Thiemes' tax problems started with not having enough taxes withheld from their business income. Not filing their federal tax returns on time contributed to the problem. They were uncertain of how to fix their tax problem when they turned to JK Harris & Company, the nation's largest tax representation firm. According to the IRS, the Thiemes owed approximately ...

School-based mental health screening for teens results in connection to care

2011-08-27
NEW YORK – A new study involving nearly 2,500 high school students demonstrates the value of routine mental health screening in school to identify adolescents at-risk for mental illness, and to connect those adolescents with recommended follow-up care. The largest school-based study conducted to-date by the TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups at Columbia University, findings are published in the Sept. 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Conducted between 2005 and 2009 at six public high schools in suburban ...

Violence remains in top 10 causes of death

2011-08-27
Los Angeles, CA (AUGUST 25, 2011) Suicide, child abuse, playground fights, gang violence, sexual assault, and domestic violence are just a few examples of violence that touch people in all walks of life and communities everywhere. Homicide and suicide remain in the top ten leading causes of death for people from birth to age 64. How do you combat an issue that takes so many forms and has so many causes? The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine (published ...

MMI Public Relations Wins 2011 Videographer Award For Wake School Choice Video

2011-08-27
Patty Briguglio, president of MMI Public Relations (http://www.mmipublicrelations.com), a Raleigh-based full-service public relations firm, has announced that the firm has received a 2011 Videographer Award for "Four Guiding Principles," a video produced for Wake School Choice. Wake School Choice was created by The Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce and Wake Education Partnership in response to a request for input on growing student enrollment by the Wake County Board of Education. The initiative was designed by these organizations to address the tremendous ...

Researchers find wide gap in immune responses of people exposed to the flu

2011-08-27
ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Why do some folks who take every precaution still get the flu, while others never even get the sniffles? It comes down to a person's immune system response to the flu virus, says Alfred Hero, professor at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. In one of the first known studies of its kind, Hero and colleagues from Duke University Medical Center and the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, used genomics to begin to unravel what in our complex genomic data accounts for why some get sick while others don't. The study findings will appear ...

Breakthrough in genetics of fibroids

2011-08-27
Uterine leiomyomas, also called fibroids, cause a very significant burden to women's health. They are benign tumors that occur in 60% of women by the age of 45 years and cause symptoms such as abdominal pain and discomfort, and abnormal bleeding, in about half of the cases. Fibroids are also an important cause of infertility. These tumors are the most common medical reason for hysterectomy. Considering the clinical importance of fibroids, relatively little has been known about the mechanisms of tumorigenesis involved. A research team at the University of Helsinki, ...

Personal Injury Attorney John M. Dodig Named to SJ Magazine's Top Attorneys 2011 List

2011-08-27
Personal injury law firm Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig LLP is pleased to announce that SJ Magazine has named personal injury lawyer John M. Dodig to its 2011 Top Attorneys list for the second consecutive year. SJ Magazine's list of Southern New Jersey's best lawyers is the result of comprehensive polling of members of the Southern New Jersey legal community. With a readership of approximately 180,000, SJ Magazine is widely read by residents and business professionals throughout New Jersey's Burlington, Camden and Gloucester counties. SJ ...

NASA study refutes claims of drought-driven declines in plant productivity, global food security

2011-08-27
A new, comprehensive study by an international team of scientists, including scientists at Boston University in the US and the Universities of Viçosa and Campinas in Brazil, has been published in the current issue of Science (August 26, 2011) refuting earlier alarmist claims that drought has induced a decline in global plant productivity during the past decade and posed a threat to global food security. Those earlier findings published by Zhao and Running in the August 2010 issue of Science (Vol. 329, p. 940) also warned of potentially serious consequences for biofuel ...

Earth-bound asteroids come from stony asteroids, new studies confirm

Earth-bound asteroids come from stony asteroids, new studies confirm
2011-08-27
Researchers got their first up-close look at dust from the surface of a small, stony asteroid after the Hayabusa spacecraft scooped some up and brought it back to Earth. Analysis of these dust particles, detailed in a special issue of the journal Science this week, confirms a long-standing suspicion: that the most common meteorites found here on Earth, known as ordinary chondrites, are born from these stony, or S-type, asteroids. And since chondrites are among the most primitive objects in the solar system, the discovery also means that these asteroids have been recording ...

Mazda Bumper Recycling Program Making More Eco-Friendly Cars According to Bright Bay Mazda in Long Island

2011-08-27
Bright Bay Mazda is excited to announce that Mazda has developed an industry-first recycling technology that takes old bumpers from end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) and recycles them into raw materials for new car bumpers. The innovative technology by Mazda is a major step in reducing waste and building greener vehicles. Mazda's new recycling process is known as thermal recycling. Mazda breaks down the old bumpers into a residue which then gets thrown into an incinerator to recollect the heat energy. The recycled plastic is projected to be 10% of the new bumper. Mazda's ...

Access To The Cloud Gets Easier, With The Launch Of "Standing Cloud Powered By Flexiant"

2011-08-27
Flexiant, a UK-based cloud infrastructure software and services provider - and Europe's original public cloud provider - and Standing Cloud, Inc. a leader in the emerging platform as a service (PaaS) marketplace, have gone live with their "Standing Cloud powered by Flexiant" integration, bringing a vastly simplified method of deploying and managing cloud-hosted applications to European cloud users. "Standing Cloud powered by Flexiant" marries an application layer from Standing Cloud with Flexiant's Extility cloud product. Extility customers will be ...

Scientists create natural Alzheimer's-fighting compound in lab

2011-08-27
Scientists at Yale University have developed the first practical method to create a compound called huperzine A in the lab. The compound, which occurs naturally in a species of moss found in China, is an enzyme inhibitor that has been used to treat Alzheimer's disease in China since the late 1990s and is sold in the U.S. as a dietary supplement to help maintain memory. Scientists believe it could also potentially combat the effects of chemical warfare agents. Until now, researchers have only been able to derive small amounts of the compound directly from the Huperzia ...

Unmarried Fathers Have the Same Rights as Mothers

2011-08-27
Unmarried Fathers Have the Same Rights as Mothers Unwed fathers have the same constitutional rights as unwed mothers to establish a relationship with his child. However, in order to receive the same rights, the unwed father must first show the state he is the biological father. While state laws vary, generally a man is only presumed to be the father at birth under the following circumstances: -The child is born during marriage to the child's mother -He is required to support the child by law -He has signed a declaration of paternity Additionally, the father's ...

Yale researchers use genetic code to engineer a living protein

2011-08-27
Yale University researchers have successfully re-engineered the protein-making machinery in bacteria, a technical tour de force that promises to revolutionize the study and treatment of a variety of diseases. "Essentially, we have expanded the genetic code of E. coli, which allows us synthesize special forms of proteins that can mimic natural or disease states," said Jesse Rinehart of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and co-corresponding author of the research published in the August 26 issue of the journal Science. Since the structure of DNA was revealed ...

Slim down by targeting the hormone uroguanylin

2011-08-27
The number of people who are obese and suffer one or more of its associated health problems (including type 2 diabetes) is escalating dramatically. Researchers are seeking to identify new targets for therapeutics that could limit appetite and thereby obesity. A team of researchers, led by Scott Waldman, at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, has now uncovered one such potential target by studying the molecular control of appetite in mice. In the study, Waldman and colleagues found that nutrient intake by mice caused cells in their gut to secrete the precursor of ...

The "Best Interest" of the Child Determines Custody in Divorce

2011-08-27
The "Best Interest" of the Child Determines Custody in Divorce Courts Have Broad Discretion to Decide a Child's Best Interest Often the biggest concern for parents going through a divorce is who will obtain custody of minor children. It can also be one of the most hotly contested issues in a divorce. In all states, custody is determined by what a judge determines is in a child's best interest. States vary in their definitions of what the "best interest" means. Generally, however, state laws allow judges to have fairly broad discretion in what ...

Linking Parkinson's disease and fat levels in the blood

2011-08-27
Parkinson disease (PD) is a relatively common neurodegenerative disorder, affecting 1-2% of the world's population over the age of 65 years. About 5-10% of PD cases are inherited, and mutations in the Parkin gene are a common cause of familial PD. Michael Sack and colleagues, at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, have now identified a new function for the protein templated by the Parkin gene, it regulates fat uptake from the blood by liver cells and thereby fat levels in the blood. Furthermore, they determine that it does this by regulating the level of expression ...
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