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Study reveals no impact of age on outcome in chronic myeloid leukemia patients treated with imatinib

2011-03-31
(WASHINGTON, March 30, 2011) – While the median age at diagnosis for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is over 60 years old and incidence increases dramatically with age,limited data are available about the long-term outcome for older patients treated with imatinib, the standard first-line therapy used to treat CML. Results from a study published today in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology, reveal that age does not affect response to imatinib and study investigators conclude that overall survival for CML is similar in older and younger patients treated ...

Nursing Home Abuse Doesn't Just Happen to the Elderly

2011-03-31
In January 2011, a Chicago nursing home for disabled children was cited for the death of a 14-month-old girl. According to the Chicago Tribune, this death was the 14th time Chicago care facility Alden Village North has been cited by the state for a child or teen death since 2000. State regulators discovered that Alden Village North staff waited for two days before contacting the girl's doctor, despite signs of a serious staph infection. Once her doctor was reached, the girl was sent to the hospital. She arrived with a high fever (105.4 degrees) and a pulse of 180. A ...

Newly discovered natural arch in Afghanistan one of world's largest

Newly discovered natural arch in Afghanistan one of worlds largest
2011-03-31
Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society have stumbled upon a geological colossus in a remote corner of Afghanistan: a natural stone arch spanning more than 200 feet across its base. Located at the central highlands of Afghanistan, the recently discovered Hazarchishma Natural Bridge is more than 3,000 meters (nearly 10,000 feet) above sea level, making it one of the highest large natural bridges in the world. It also ranks among the largest such structures known. "It's one of the most spectacular discoveries ever made in this region," said Joe Walston, Director ...

Morrow Hotel Offers Close Lodging to Guests Attending Clayton State University's Spring 2011 Open House

2011-03-31
Hampton Inn Atlanta-Southlake Morrow Hotel offers convenient lodging to potential students and guests attending Spring 2011 Open House at Clayton State University (CSU). The event will take place on Saturday, April 16, 2011 from 9:00am - 2:30pm. At the Spring Open House CSU's faculty, staff, and students will share detailed information about: - Academic programs - The admission process - Financial aid - On-campus housing and campus life - Student services Part of the University System of Georgia, Clayton State University is four year school offering both bachelors ...

Lack of motivation, equipment main barriers for exercise for boys

Lack of motivation, equipment main barriers for exercise for boys
2011-03-31
EAST LANSING, Mich. — A lack of equipment and venues – and a lack of motivation even if those were available – are the main barriers to physical activity for adolescent boys, according to recently published research from a Michigan State University nursing researcher. A study of sixth-grade boys' attitudes led by Lorraine Robbins from MSU's College of Nursing suggests an after-school physical activity program could help overcome the decrease in exercise typically seen in this age group. Robbins' research, published in the Journal of School Nursing, identified the benefits ...

Researchers make the leap to whole-cell simulations

Researchers make the leap to whole-cell simulations
2011-03-31
CHAMPAIGN, lll. — Researchers have built a computer model of the crowded interior of a bacterial cell that – in a test of its response to sugar in its environment – accurately simulates the behavior of living cells. The new "in silico cells" are the result of a collaboration between experimental scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Biology in Germany and theoretical scientists at the University of Illinois using the newest GPU (graphics processing unit) computing technology. Their study appears in the journal PLoS Computational Biology. "This is the first time ...

Perimeter Hotel Offers Close Lodging to Fans Attending WestleMania at Georgia Dome

2011-03-31
Sheraton Atlanta Perimeter Hotel North, located near Dunwoody, GA, offers convenient accommodations to fans attending WestleMania XXVII. Hosted by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, the event will take place at 6:30pm on Sunday, April 3 at Georgia Dome. Spectators can witness WWE Superstars, Divas and Legends as they take center stage at this exciting show. WestleMania XXVII match-ups and features include: - The Streak vs. The Game - WWE Championship Match: John Cena vs. The Miz - World Heavyweight Championship Match: Edge vs. Alberto del Rio - The Viper vs. Straight Edge ...

Researchers publish molecular disease model for melanoma

2011-03-31
Cancer Commons, an initiative of CollabRx, a provider of information technology to personalize cancer treatments and accelerate research, announces the publication of a molecular disease model of melanoma (MDMM) which classifies the disease into molecular subtypes, rather than traditional histological or cellular subtypes, and describes treatment guidelines for each subtype, including specific assays, drugs, and clinical trials. The paper, titled "Molecular Disease Model for Melanoma," by Vidwans et al, was published in the March 30th issue of PLoS ONE. Published as a ...

Kepler spacecraft gives Iowa State's Kawaler, astronomers a look inside red giant stars

Kepler spacecraft gives Iowa States Kawaler, astronomers a look inside red giant stars
2011-03-31
AMES, Iowa – NASA's Kepler Mission is giving astronomers such a clear view of changes in star brightness that they can now see clues about what's happening inside red giant stars. "No one anticipated seeing this before the mission launched," said Steve Kawaler, an Iowa State University professor of physics and astronomy and a leader of the Kepler Asteroseismic Investigation. "That we could see so clearly down below a red giant star's surface was unexpected." The astronomers' preliminary findings are published in two papers: "Kepler Detected Gravity-Mode Period Spacings ...

Atlanta Airport Hotel Near Georgia World Congress Center Provides Nearby Lodging to Guests Attending the 2011 Diabetes Expo on April 9

2011-03-31
The Hampton Inn & Suites Atlanta Airport Hotel (North, I-85) offers nearby accommodations travelers attending the 2011 American Diabetes Association Expo from 9:00am - 4:00pm on April 9 at Georgia World Congress Center. Located approximately 7 miles from downtown Atlanta, this ATL Airport hotel is a great place for Atlanta travelers to stay. The Expo is free to attend and will include health screenings, cooking demonstrations, product and service exhibitors, and leading experts speaking on preventing and managing diabetes. Guests attending the Diabetes Expo learn how ...

Game changer: Hepatitis C drug may revolutionize treatment

Game changer: Hepatitis C drug may revolutionize treatment
2011-03-31
ST. LOUIS – The drug boceprevir helps cure hard-to-treat hepatitis C, says Saint Louis University investigator Bruce R. Bacon, M.D., author of the March 31 New England Journal of Medicine article detailing the study's findings. The results, which were first reported at the 61st annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease's last November, offer a brighter outlook for patients who have not responded to standard treatment. Bacon, who is professor of internal medicine at Saint Louis University School of Medicine and co-principal investigator ...

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity Announces Mara Galezazzi Charity Gala

2011-03-31
Great Ormond Street Hospital has announced it will be holding another Charity Gala as part of its Theatres for Theatres Appeal. February 2011 saw Great Ormond Street Hospital holding the Andrew Lloyd Webber Wizard of Oz Charity Gala, and April 2011 will see the Royal Ballet Principal's Mara Galezzi's Charity Gala. For one night only, Mara Galezazzi, one of the world's leading ballet dancers, will be hosting and performing at a very special evening of dance, song and music. The event will be presented by Nicky Henson (who played Jack Edwards on the soap Eastenders') ...

HP Announces New Appointment for Carl Boustany

2011-03-31
HP announced that Carl Boustany has been appointed HP IHPS segment specialist for Middle East, Mediterranean (Turkey and Greece) and Africa (MEMA). Based in Dubai, Boustany will provide support for the IHPS team within the MEMA region, promoting the HP T200 and the T300 Inkjet Web Presses. Following the success of these products in Europe, Boustany's role will be to further increase sales for IHPS and boost the conversion of analogue to digital in this region. "The digital printing industry is growing rapidly and there is great potential for the adoption of Inkjet ...

Physicists detect low-level radioactivity from Japan arriving in Seattle

2011-03-31
University of Washington physicists are detecting radioactivity from Japanese nuclear reactors that have been in crisis since a mammoth March 11 earthquake, but the levels are far below what would pose a threat to human health. On March 16, the scientists began testing air filters on the ventilation intake for the Physics-Astronomy Building on the UW campus, looking for evidence of dust particles containing radioactivity produced in nuclear fission. The first positive results came from filters that were in place from noon on March 17 to 2 p.m. on March 18. Readings ...

Bariatric surgery reduces long-term cardiovascular risk in diabetes patients

2011-03-31
NEW YORK (March 30, 2011) -- In the longest study of its kind, bariatric surgery has been shown to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in patients with diabetes. These results and other groundbreaking research were presented at the 2nd World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes, hosted by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College. "This is a watershed moment for diabetes care. With 20 years of data, we can really see how the surgery can improve a spectrum of health measures -- notably cardiovascular risk," says Dr. Francesco ...

British Airways Creates Transatlantic Shuttle Service

2011-03-31
British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia have announced they will deliver more benefits to customers as schedules are coordinated across the North Atlantic and more destinations are launched in summer 2011. From March 27, American Airlines and British Airways will effectively create a transatlantic shuttle service between the top US-UK routes by aligning the timing on their schedules. The biggest change is on the Heathrow - New York route. Previously, five of the 11 daily flights to New York left Heathrow at almost exactly the same time, leaving gaps of up ...

Hidden elm population may hold genes to combat Dutch elm disease

2011-03-31
This press release is available in Spanish. Two U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists may have discovered "the map to El Dorado" for the American elm-a previously hidden population of elms that carry genes for resistance to Dutch elm disease. The disease kills individual branches and eventually the entire tree within one to several years. It has been accepted for 80 years that American elms (Ulmus americana) are tetraploids, trees with four copies of each chromosome. But there have also been persistent but dismissed rumors of trees that had fewer copies-triploids, ...

A woman's blues bring a relationship down

2011-03-31
Depression erodes intimate relationships. A depressed person can be withdrawn, needy, or hostile—and give little back. But there's another way that depression isolates partners from each other. It chips away at the ability to perceive the others' thoughts and feelings. It impairs what psychologists call "empathic accuracy" —and that can exacerbate alienation, depression, and the cycle by which they feed each other. Three Israeli researchers—Reuma Gadassi and Nilly Mor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Eshkol Rafaeli at Bar-Ilan University—wanted to understand ...

Fatal respiratory infections in endangered gorillas are linked to human contact

2011-03-31
In a study published online this week in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, an international team of researchers report that a virus that causes respiratory disease in humans infected and contributed to the deaths of mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park. This finding raises questions about the safety of ecotourism for endangered species. The study, which appears in the April issue of the journal, was conducted by scientists at Columbia University's Center for Infection and Immunity (CII), Roche 454 Life Sciences, the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center and the ...

Column Manufacturer HB&G Building Products Adds Aluminum Columns to its Line of Porch Columns

Column Manufacturer HB&G Building Products Adds Aluminum Columns to its Line of Porch Columns
2011-03-31
HB&G Building Products Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of porch columns, has announced a strategic alliance with Columns Inc., the original innovator and manufacturer of high quality aluminum columns. The Distribution, License and Supply Agreement now gives HB&G the exclusive right to manufacture, market, sell and distribute aluminum columns by Columns Inc. Operating out of Pearland, Texas, Columns Inc. revolutionized the porch column industry with the development of the first aluminum column dating back to 1963, and have consistently led that segment of the ...

NOAA scientists find killer whales in Antarctic waters prefer weddell seals over other prey

NOAA scientists find killer whales in Antarctic waters prefer weddell seals over other prey
2011-03-31
NOAA's Fisheries Service scientists studying the cooperative hunting behavior of killer whales in Antarctic waters observed the animals favoring one type of seal over all other available food sources, according to a study published in the journal Marine Mammal Science. Researchers Robert Pitman and John Durban from NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, Calif., observed killer whales hunting in ice floes, off the western Antarctic Peninsula during January of 2009. While documenting the whales' behavior of deliberately creating waves to wash seals off ...

Astrophysicist: White dwarfs could be fertile ground for other Earths

2011-03-31
Planet hunters have found hundreds of planets outside the solar system in the last decade, though it is unclear whether even one might be habitable. But it could be that the best place to look for planets that can support life is around dim, dying stars called white dwarfs. In a new paper published online Tuesday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Eric Agol, a University of Washington associate professor of astronomy, suggests that potentially habitable planets orbiting white dwarfs could be much easier to find – if they exist – than other exoplanets located so far. White ...

GSA Bulletin highlights: New research posted March 2-23, 2011

2011-03-31
Boulder, CO, USA - GSA BULLETIN is now offering pre-issue publication of papers online. GSA invites you to sign up for e-alerts and be the first to have access to new journal content as it becomes available. Sign in at http://www.gsapubs.org/cgi/alerts with your e-mail address to manage your subscriptions for full tables of contents, TOC notification-only alerts, new "ahead of print" postings, and more. Widespread basement erosion during the late Paleocene-early Eocene in the Laramide Rocky Mountains inferred from 87Sr/86Sr ratios of freshwater bivalve fossils Majie ...

Having trouble achieving work-life balance? Knowing your strategies is key

2011-03-31
TORONTO, ON - Essays are being written, final exams are looming and classes are reaching their busy conclusion. With conflicting demands from work, home and the classroom, this hectic time of year can be filled with stress. But according to new research from the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), a little self-reflection could do us all a world of good. "People need to ask themselves, 'What roles do I play?' and 'Are these roles working for me?'" says Julie McCarthy, associate professor of organizational behaviour at UTSC. "And if they're not working, we then need ...

Smithsonian scientists find declining rainfall is a major influence for migrating birds

Smithsonian scientists find declining rainfall is a major influence for migrating birds
2011-03-31
Instinct and the annual increase of daylight hours have long been thought to be the triggers for birds to begin their spring migration. Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, however, have found that that may not be the case. Researchers have focused on how warming trends in temperate breeding areas disrupt the sensitive ecology of migratory birds. This new research shows that changes in rainfall on the tropical wintering grounds could be equally disruptive. The team's findings are published in scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, ...
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