Xtra Mile specializes in consulting, design and implementation of marketing and business-development programs. From establishment through creating a strategic marketing infrastructure to hands-on assistance in all marketing activities, business development, partnerships and sales, Xtra Mile serves small and medium-sized companies that cannot justify the expenses involved in building their own marketing organization. Startups must take into consideration unique matters that affect significant milestones in their lifecycle. The following are just some examples: When should ...

Behavioral Tech's Fall 2012 training season will feature the most experienced and outstanding trainers in the field of DBT at training locations throughout the United States. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), developed by Marsha M. Linehan, Ph.D., ABPP, at the University of Washington, is a comprehensive cognitive-behavioral treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD). DBT is especially effective for those with chronic suicidal or other severe, dysfunctional behaviors. Research has shown DBT to be effective in reducing suicidal behavior, psychiatric hospitalization, ...

As many of us know who have barely survived multiple misdiagnoses, our current lab and imaging tests are frequently insufficient when it becomes critical to pinpoint elusive illnesses and diseases. Sadly, doctors often give up once they've chosen one diagnosis, even when symptoms clearly indicate that other diagnostic labels may be more accurate. Cerebral Palsy and the Beery Twins of California This is the type of quandary that the Beery family of Encinitas, California, began facing once twins Alexis and Noah were born 14 years ago. When the twins began moving ...

With offices in Paw Paw, Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids, the criminal defense law firm Aggressive Criminal Defense Law Firm- a division of Willis Law achieves for another of their clients. Originally, their client faced a misdemeanor for a logbook violation. With the help of an aggressive defense, the client's charge was reduced and a harsher punishment was avoided. False information on logbooks is treated as a serious crime. The truck driver is not only lying to his employer, but also the federal government. Lying on logbooks is an easy crime to target. Skilled lawyers ...

We have figured out the fundamental causes of the current economic and emotional mess in the world and what actions we need to take to put the world back on the right track. It is now up to our leaders if they really want real progress. Our education system in the current form educates the mind and neglects educating and even miseducates the brain. This creates emotionally challenged brains on a mass scale that results in all these massive problems that seem beyond fixing... 1) What is wisdom? Wisdom is the cover word for its attributes. Wisdom cannot be acquired ...

Sound Physicians, a leading hospitalist organization focused on driving improvements in quality, satisfaction and financial performance of inpatient healthcare delivery, announced today an agreement to provide hospitalist services at Southern Regional Medical Center in Riverdale, Ga., a suburban community of Atlanta. Sound Physicians will provide comprehensive hospitalist services to Southern Regional. "Southern Regional has a long-standing tradition of high-quality patient care to the Atlanta area," said Robert Bessler M.D., chief executive officer of ...

GbBIS, a leading resource for geography-based business information solutions, announced today the release of ZIP+4 demographic data. Using advanced proprietary technology, GbBIS most accurately projects demographic data into ZIP+4 geographies created to the CASS Certification standards. Annual, quarterly, and monthly updates are available. ZIP+4 demographics help businesses target neighborhoods for direct mail, as well as organize mailings to maximize postal discounts. GbBIS's proprietary process projects demographic data from Nielsen, AGS, and the US Census Bureau, ...

We are living in the world of startups, where hundreds of new companies are formed every day. They are working on their startups day & night, and attending events like Startup Weekend. But just few startups of them get it to the finish line. Just few of them get some media coverage and have a chance to meet with angel investors. With Startuppers.org coming on stage, all of that will change. Startuppers.org is a new way of startup communication. It is a hybrid between social network and blogger. It is like joining Facebook, Techcrunch and Mashable all together, taking ...

Time to Sign Sports, through its advisory services, assists high school baseball players navigate through the college baseball recruiting process. The successes they have enjoyed are incredible. Those successes continued this past week. "Paul Balestrieri (2013 RHP) is one of those special young men," says Gary Cohn, co-founder of Time to Sign Sports. He continues, "Getting drafted in the early rounds or eventually becoming the President of the United States would come as no surprise to anyone that knows Paul." Cornell, in a very competitive recruiting ...

From zero nicotine to high, My7's grape flavor has been a huge hit among users of the popular brand. Now the company releases its pre-filled cartomizers for the public. The company has been aggressively adding a plethora of flavors to meet the demand of smokers across the country and is expected to explode sales of the already popular brand. Flavors offer smokers more options when it comes to the new smoking alternative that is taking the nation and world by storm. While there are some naysayers, most agree that flavors add a new and refreshing change for smokers ...

After announcing massive expansion plans across all 5 continents last year, with the number of offices now totalling 69, of which 13 branches were opened in this year alone, deVere CEO Nigel Green is delighted to announce that the efforts have paid off with very successful results. As of June 2012, year-to-date figures have increased by 15% from 2011. Notably, its new currency service deVere Foreign Exchange is growing rapidly, by a staggering 434% since last year. The deVere Fund Platform, the industry-leading interactive hub which holds a 5,000+ fund selection, is ...

Black gay couples tend to practice safe sex but don't talk about it, while white gay couples discuss safety but are less likely to use condoms, according to new findings presented at the 19th International AIDS Conference. Gay men, particularly white and black men, account for the majority of new HIV cases in the United States. One source of HIV infection could be men's primary relationship partners. To explore this aspect of risk, San Francisco State University researchers studied how black, white and interracial male couples make decisions about using condoms. In ...

An ongoing clinical study in rural Uganda, begun in 2011, suggests that many people infected with HIV/AIDS would take antiretroviral drugs if they were available to them—even before they developed symptoms from the disease. Led by doctors at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH) and Makerere University School of Medicine in Kampala, Uganda, the study is the first to address such attitudes among African patients who are in the early stages of the disease and not yet sick. Historically, treatment ...

The elevated risk of cardiovascular disease seen in patients infected with HIV appears to be associated with increased inflammation within the arteries, according to a study that will appear in a special issue of JAMA published in conjunction with the International AIDS Conference. The report from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) found that levels of inflammation within the aortas of HIV-infected individuals with neither known cardiovascular disease nor elevated traditional risk factors were comparable to those of patients with established cardiovascular disease. "Several ...

Tens of thousands of Americans taking potent antiretroviral therapies, or ART, to keep their HIV disease in check may not have as much control over the viral infection as previous estimates have suggested, according to results of a study by AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania. In what is believed to be the largest and longest review of viral load test results in people with HIV disease ever performed in the United States, researchers found that the number of people sustaining viral suppression – consistently, at 400 or less viral copies ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – HIV-infected and uninfected women with normal cervical cytology (Pap test) and a negative test result for oncogenic (tumor inducing) human papillomavirus DNA at study enrollment had a similar risk of cervical precancer and cancer after 5 years of follow-up, according to a study in the July 25 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on HIV/AIDS. Howard D. Strickler, M.D., M.P.H., of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, New York, presented the findings of the study at a JAMA media briefing at the International AIDS Conference. "U.S. ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ending the global HIV/AIDS pandemic may be possible by implementing a multifaceted global effort that expands testing, treatment, and prevention programs, as well as meets the scientific challenges of developing an HIV vaccine and possibly a cure, according to a Viewpoint in the July 25 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on HIV/AIDS. Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Bethesda, Md., presented the article at a JAMA media briefing at the International AIDS Conference. Dr. Fauci and co-author ...

PHILADELPHIA – The percentage of HIV patients taking antiretroviral drugs who experienced the full benefit of the drugs jumped from 45 percent of 72 percent during the past decade, a figure that is lower than previous estimates. The findings, considered important for HIV prevention efforts, since patients whose virus is in tight control are less likely to transmit the infection to others, are published this week in JAMA by a team of researchers led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The issue's ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – An examination of the characteristics of persons born outside the United States diagnosed with HIV while living in the U.S. finds that, compared to U.S.-born persons with HIV, they are more likely to be Hispanic or Asian, and to have a higher percentage of HIV infections attributed to heterosexual contact, according to a study appearing in JAMA being published online. H. Irene Hall, Ph.D., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, presented the findings of the study at a JAMA media briefing at the International AIDS Conference. "Persons ...

Cambridge, Mass. — July 22, 2012 — Using recent advances in marine biomechanics, materials science, and tissue engineering, a team of researchers at Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have turned inanimate silicone and living cardiac muscle cells into a freely swimming "jellyfish." The finding serves as a proof of concept for reverse engineering a variety of muscular organs and simple life forms. It also suggests a broader definition of what counts as synthetic life in an emerging field that has primarily focused on replicating life's ...

A new technique will allow plant breeders to introduce valuable crop traits even without access to the full genome sequence of that crop. The technique, published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, links important agronomic traits in crop plants with active regions of the genome. Instead of requiring knowledge of the crop's complete genome, it identifies only expressed genes. "For many crop plants, markers are still lacking because of the complexity of some plants' genomes and the very high costs involved," said Professor Ian Bancroft, who led the study at the John ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Included in the 2012 International Antiviral Society-USA panel recommendations for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patient care is that all adult patients, regardless of CD4 cell count, should be offered antiretroviral therapy (ART), according to an article in the July 25 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on HIV/AIDS. Other new recommendations include changes in therapeutic options and modifications in the timing and choice of ART for patients with an opportunistic illness such as tuberculosis. Melanie A. Thompson, M.D., of the AIDS Research Consortium ...

PASADENA, Calif.—When one observes a colorful jellyfish pulsating through the ocean, Greek mythology probably doesn't immediately come to mind. But the animal once was known as the medusa, after the snake-haired mythological creature its tentacles resemble. The mythological Medusa's gaze turned people into stone, and now, thanks to recent advances in bio-inspired engineering, a team led by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Harvard University have flipped that fable on its head: turning a solid element—silicon—and muscle cells into a freely ...

July 22, 2012, New York, NY and Stockholm, Sweden – Only by viewing a Seurat painting at close range can you appreciate the hidden complexities of pointillism – small, distinct dots of pure color applied in patterns to form an image from a distance. Similarly, biologists and geneticists have long sought to analyze profiles of genes at the single cell level but technology limitations have only allowed a view from afar until now. Research published in the July 22 issue of Nature Biotechnology, shows for the first time that a novel genomic sequencing method called Smart-Seq ...

VIDEO: Marla Keller, M.D., discusses her new research that indicates HPV testing in HIV-positive women may help reduce the frequent Pap tests, used to screen for cervical cancer, that are... Click here for more information. July 22, 2012 — (BRONX, NY) — Compared to the general population, HIV-positive women have a high risk of cervical cancer and thus are advised to undergo more frequent screening tests. This creates a burden for HIV-positive patients and the health care ...