Ask anyone who works at an excavation site for an oil or natural gas mining operation, and they'll tell you that drilling can be dangerous work. But one of the biggest threats facing oil and gas workers -- as well as the general public -- is not explosions, or equipment malfunctions, or noxious fumes. It is something that, at first glance, seems far less threatening: truck accidents. While highway accidents can be a danger in any profession that involves travel on the open road, they appear to be especially prevalent in the oil and gas industry. Why? Many experts blame ...

Sheraton Atlanta Perimeter Hotel North, located at Atlanta Perimeter Center, announces a special savings offer for their hotel guests to enjoy. Guests who are residents of Georgia will save 15% on room accommodations when they book the Georgia Residence Rates promotion. A valid GA driver's license/ID is required at check-in. Advanced reservations are required, some restrictions may apply. The Sheraton Atlanta Perimeter Hotel and Suites' services and amenities include: - Free high-speed Internet access - Club level lounge - Concierge desk - 24-hour outdoor heated ...

Holidaymakers looking to getaway after the summer of sport can grab a great value holiday with British Airways which has launched its 12-day summer sale. The flight and holiday sale offers savings of up to 25 per cent on flights and holiday packages travelling after September 10, 2012. With a choice of over 80 worldwide destinations included in the sale with economy and premium economy flights as well as city breaks, USA holidays, fly-drive packages and sun breaks to the Caribbean all on offer. Top European destinations are included with two night city breaks in Prague ...

Hotter Shoes has revealed its stylish comfort shoe collection which features a range of comfortable and stylish footwear for summer holidays and weekend breaks. Design Director, Ian Spedding commented: "We have created a collection of summer shoes that our customers will find comfortable no matter how they enjoy their holidays, from active sightseers to relaxed beach lovers. With on-trend style details and an array of fabulous colours our customers can be confident that our shoes will look just as good as they feel. "For walks along the beach our designers ...

British Airways is bringing a bit of winter sunshine to London City Airport by extending its popular Palma and Ibiza flights to a year-round service. At present the two Balearic Island destinations are summer-only but from October they will continue through the winter with two flights a week on Thursdays and Sundays. The news will come as a welcome boost to Ibiza since the island does not currently have a single direct service to the UK during the winter. The two islands are very popular with leisure customers through the summer and now winter sun seekers and ...

GIO Insurance launched its new GIO Platinum car insurance, which in an Australian first(1) includes lifetime new car replacement following total loss for eligible customers(2). GIO spokesperson Duncan Bone said the product was built in recognition of how important a new car is to Australians. "A new car is one of the great pleasures of life and better protection is what we are offering, whether the car is written off or stolen six months or twelve years after it's been bought," he said. New cars have become an increasing part of Australian life with one ...

Sun, sand, surf, sandals, sunglasses and swimsuits - they all add up to another great summer. But summer can be disastrous for your skin; dry skin can ruin your summer. So what is the best lotion for dry skin? What tips can help you solve the problems of dry skin on your face, how to treat sunburn, etc.? Follow these 9 tips to help keep your skin healthy and beautiful: - Nothing causes dry skin faster than sunburn. Limit your tanning time to before 11:00 a.m. and after 2:00. - Choose a sunscreen with as few chemicals as possible. Studies show that some chemicals ...

Repair Labs continues to be a leader in the the iPhone and MacBook restoration industries. Thus, they understand the importance of using an Apple certified technician. An Apple certified technician has received training directly from Apple and are certified by Apple after they pass a series of test that will prove their ability to effectively repair Apple products. In a recent online interview the owner of RepairLabs, Sean Hennessy, stated, "We are proud that we can provide our customers with only the highest quality technicians that are Apple certified. We know ...

Palomar has announced that their buildings conform to related fire assembly requirements as laid out by Factory Mutual and UL. Oilfield housing is considered to be dormitories under IBC 2009 and these multiple occupancy buildings must conform to IBC 2008 R-2 occupancies and built to the more rigid standards of the National Fire Protection Association as laid out in their Life Safety 101 Standards and IBC 2009. Palomar Modular Buildings does not build HUD code mobile homes or manufactured housing for oilfield quarters. HUD coded mobile homes do not meet the requirements ...

With millions of Brits due to head off on their annual summer holiday over the next couple of months, Parcel2Go has reminded people to make sure their pre-holiday internet purchases don't get lost in the mail. Sunglasses, toiletries, bikinis, books and digital cameras will all be bought online in their thousands over the coming weeks as people get ready to head for the sun. But Bolton-based online parcel delivery firm has called on consumers to only make purchases though websites that offer delivery through reliable courier companies if they want their goods to turn ...

Could vision changes experienced by astronauts be linked to a vitamin B-12 or folate deficiency? While investigating the vision changes recently identified in astronauts, nutritional assessment data showed similarities to symptoms that occur with vitamin deficiencies, according to a new study published in the March edition of The Journal of Nutrition. Approximately 20 percent of astronauts living on the International Space Station have reported post-flight vision changes. Previous research, published in the October 2011 issue of Ophthalmology, identified a possible ...

An online cosmetic surgery resource has highlighted the benefits of breast augmentation surgery. According to Cosmetic Surgery Guru - which provides information and advice about surgical and non-surgical procedures - boob jobs can give patients a confidence boost and are more than just a cosmetic treatment. A spokeswoman for the site, Isabella Franklin, said: "Breasts are an important part of the female anatomy and many women feel inadequate if they're flat chested. Surgery offers a safe and reliable alternative to natural beauty and can do wonders for peoples' ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — A groundbreaking study of nearly 250,000 U.S. women reveals live birth rates approaching natural fertility can be achieved using assisted reproductive technology, where eggs are removed from a woman's ovaries, combined with sperm and then returned to the woman's body. The research, led by Michigan State University's Barbara Luke and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, highlights what factors help or hinder getting pregnant using assisted reproductive technology, or ART. The results indicate that when there are favorable patient and ...

VIDEO: An animation of satellite observations shows the progression of Tropical Storm Debby from June 25-27, 2012. The animation shows that Tropical Storm Debby's center move from the northeastern Gulf of... Click here for more information. Debby has tracked across Florida from the Gulf coast to the Atlantic coast, and the interaction with land has taken its toll on the storm's organization. In GOES-13 satellite imagery today, June 27, the bulk of clouds and showers associated ...

NASA satellites continue to provide coverage of the smoke and heat signatures generated from wildfires raging in the western United States. The Waldo Canyon Fire is threatening populated areas, and is located near Colorado Springs, Colo. The Waldo Canyon Fire was discovered on June 23, 2012, burning in Pike National Forest near Colorado Springs, Colorado. By June 27, it had burned 15,517 acres (6,280 hectares), was 5 percent contained, and had forced at least 32,000 people to evacuate their homes. Don Savage, retired from NASA and residing in Colorado, captured photographs ...

(CHICAGO) - Researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have created the first animal model that spontaneously develops rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and is predisposed towards atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. This model is considered of critical importance because patients with RA are at increased risk for heart attack and other premature cardiovascular events, but scientists don't know why. "Generally, people with RA die because of cardiovascular disease," said Harris Perlman, associate professor of rheumatology at Feinberg, who ...

Research funded by the Dengue Vaccine Initiative (DVI) involving an economic analysis of producing a tetravalent dengue vaccine shows that the cost could be as low as $0.20 per dose with an annual production level of 60 million doses packaged in ten-dose vials. The study used data on a vaccine developed by US NIH and the facilities of the Instituto Butantan in Sao Paulo, Brazil. These findings, published in the July 6, 2012 edition of Vaccine, should provide confidence to ministries of health that they can aggressively plan for the inclusion of dengue vaccine in their ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic researchers have successfully used smaller, folded DNA molecules to stimulate regeneration and repair of nerve coatings in mice that mimic multiple sclerosis (MS). They say the finding, published today in the journal PLoS ONE, suggests new possible therapies for MS patients. "The problem has been to find a way to encourage the nervous system to regenerate its own myelin (the coating on the nerves) so nerve cells can recover from an MS attack," says L. James Maher III, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic biochemist and senior author on the paper. "We ...

In a process akin to belling an infinitesimal cat, scientists have managed to tag a protein that regulates the neurotransmitter serotonin with tiny fluorescent beads, allowing them to track the movements of single molecules for the first time. The capability, which took nearly a decade to achieve, makes it possible to study the dynamics of serotonin regulation at a new level of detail, which is important because of the key role that serotonin plays in the regulation of mood, appetite and sleep. The achievement was reported by an interdisciplinary team of Vanderbilt scientists ...

Salmonella Typhi (S. Typhi) is the causative agent of typhoid fever, a serious health threat resulting in some 22 million new cases yearly and approximately 217,000 fatalities. A number of novel vaccine candidates using live attenuated strains of Salmonella are being developed, but care must be taken to ensure the bacteria are not excreted into the environment following vaccination. Karen Brenneman and her colleagues at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute have been examining ways to detect the presence of S. Typhi in stool following inoculation with various ...

Inhibiting a key immune response in mice during initial multi-drug treatment for tuberculosis could — paradoxically — shorten treatment time for the highly contagious lung infection according to new research from Johns Hopkins Children's Center and the Center for TB Research. Shorter duration of drug therapy is key, researchers say, to increase treatment compliance for the growing global health threat posed by the disease. In experiments described in the June 27 issue of PLoS ONE, the Johns Hopkins investigators compared a group of TB-infected mice receiving standard ...

Studies on some 55 U.S. men and women with potentially deadly liver or pancreatic cancers show that specialized MRI scans can tell within a month whether highly toxic chemotherapy is working and killing tumor cells long before tumors actually shrink – or fail to shrink. Using special software and MRI scanners, imaging experts at Johns Hopkins developed their new assay, known as a volumetric functional MRI scan, by exploiting the physiological differences in water movement and absorption inside cancer cells that are dying and those that are not. The studies are believed ...

Researchers at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging have corrected the genetic mutation responsible for Huntington's Disease (HD) using a human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) that came from a patient suffering from the incurable, inherited neurodegenerative disorder. Scientists took the diseased iPSCs, made the genetic correction, generated neural stem cells and then transplanted the mutation-free cells into a mouse model of HD where they are generating normal neurons in the area of the brain affected by HD. Results of the research are published in the June ...

This press release is available in German. An organism's ability to make new antibodies and use them to optimize its own immune defenses is of central importance in the fight against pathogens. In the case of severe infections, the overall relative speed with which an immune response proceeds could mean the difference between life and death. An international team of scientists, among them systems immunologist Prof. Michael Meyer-Hermann of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) of Braunschweig, Germany, has now found that asymmetric division of antibody-producing ...

Researchers have come up with a device that may enable people who are completely unable to speak or move at all to nevertheless manage unscripted back-and-forth conversation. The key to such silent and still communication is the first real-time, brain-scanning speller, according to the report published online on June 28 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. The new technology builds on groundbreaking earlier uses of fMRI brain scans to assess consciousness in people described as being in an unconscious, vegetative state and to enable them to answer yes and no ...