The bacteria that cause Lyme disease, one of the most important emerging diseases in the United States, appear to hide out in the lymph nodes, triggering a significant immune response, but one that is not strong enough to rout the infection, report researchers at the University of California, Davis. Results from this groundbreaking study involving mice may explain why some people experience repeated infections of Lyme disease. The study appears online in the journal Public Library of Science Biology at: http://tinyurl.com/3vs8pm9. "Our findings suggest for the first ...

When Hansel and Gretel ventured into the forest, they left a trail of breadcrumbs to find their way home. In today's world, cellular phones, Global Positioning System (GPS), WiFi, and Bluetooth are the digital signals that connect us to friends, family, and colleagues while helping us find our location and map our routes. Yet, despite the ubiquity of such devices, with few exceptions, today's firefighters still rely on 20th-century radios, whose outdated analog signals have trouble penetrating debris and concrete. When a firefighter heroically plunges into a smoke-filled ...

The largest fire in the history of the state of Arizona continues to burn and emergency managers and responders are using satellite data from a variety of instruments to plan their firefighting containment strategies and mitigation efforts once the fires are out. The Landsat 5 satellite captured images of the Wallow North and Horseshoe 2 fires burning in eastern Arizona on June 15, 2011 at 19:54:23 Zulu (3:54 p.m. EDT). Both images are false-colored to allow ease of identification of various objects that will help firefighters and emergency managers. In the images burn ...

DALLAS – June 16, 2011 – UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists are shedding new light on why the anesthetic drug ketamine produces a fast-acting antidepressant response in patients with treatment-resistant depression. The drug's robust effect at low doses as a fast-acting antidepressant potentially has use in emergency rooms with high-risk patients. "Ketamine produces a very sharp increase that immediately relieves depression," said Dr. Lisa Monteggia, associate professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study published June 15 in Nature. Typical ...

A newborn described as a "happy blue baby" because of her bluish skin color but healthy appearance made a small mark in medical history when one of her physicians discovered something new in her genes—the hemoglobin Toms River mutation. Scientists have identified hundreds of mutations in genes that carry instructions for producing hemoglobin—the four-part protein that carries oxygen in everyone's red blood cells. By tradition, whoever discovers a mutation in hemoglobin genes names it after the hometown of the patient, said pediatric hematologist Mitchell J. Weiss, M.D., ...

Although most teens have the knowledge and reasoning ability to make decisions as rationally as adults, their tendency to make much riskier choices suggests that they still lack some key component of wise decision making. Why is this so? Because adolescents may not bother to use those thinking skills before they act. That's the finding of a new study by researchers at Temple University that appears in the journal Child Development. "The study's findings have important implications for debates about whether adolescents should be held to the same standards of criminal and ...

Home learning experiences that are consistently supportive in the early years may boost low-income children's readiness for school. That's the finding of a new longitudinal study that appears in the journal Child Development. The study was done by researchers at New York University based on research conducted as part of the national Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project, which is funded by the Administration for Children and Families. The study was also supported by the National Science Foundation. Previous research has found that on average, children living ...

We know that poor social and physical environments can harm young children's cognitive and behavioral development, and that development often improves in better environments. Now a new study of children living in institutions has found that intervening early can help young children develop language, with those placed in better care by 15 months showing language skills similar to children raised by their biological parents. The study, in the journal Child Development, was conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota, Ohio University, The Ohio State University, ...

Scientists have developed a way to turn memories on and off—literally with the flip of a switch. Using an electronic system that duplicates the neural signals associated with memory, they managed to replicate the brain function in rats associated with long-term learned behavior, even when the rats had been drugged to forget. "Flip the switch on, and the rats remember. Flip it off, and the rats forget," said Theodore Berger of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Department of Biomedical Engineering. Berger is the lead author of an article that will be published ...

ATLANTA – June 17, 2011 – A steady reduction in overall cancer death rates translates to the avoidance of about 898,000 deaths from cancer between 1990 and 2007, according to the latest statistics from the American Cancer Society. However, the report, Cancer Statistics 2011, and its companion consumer publication Cancer Facts & Figures 2011 find that progress has not benefitted all segments of the population equally. A special section of the report finds cancer death rates for individuals with the least education are more than twice those of the most educated and that closing ...

A multicenter pilot study of etanercept for treatment of dermatomyositis found no major safety concerns and many patients treated with the drug were successfully weaned from steroid therapy. These results are encouraging, but larger studies are needed to further investigate the safety and efficacy of etanercept. Results of this clinical trial are available in Annals of Neurology, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Neurological Association. Dermatomyositis is a type of inflammatory myopathy that causes inflammation and progressive weakness ...

A Spanish-language version of the popular MyPlate poster and handouts tablet is now available from Learning ZoneXpress. MyPlate is the USDA's new healthy eating guide, replacing the familiar but confusing food pyramid. MyPlate clearly shows that half of all food intake should be fruits and vegetables, with the other half split between grains and protein-rich foods. It also encourages choosing fat-free or low-fat dairy products. It was unveiled on June 2 by First Lady Michelle Obama, who has repeatedly promoted better eating and healthier living - especially for children ...

A team of social scientists and medical and nursing researchers in the United States and the United Kingdom has pinpointed how a programme, which ran in more than 100 hospital intensive care units in Michigan, dramatically reduced the rates of potentially deadly central line bloodstream infections to become one of the world's most successful patient safety programmes. Funded in part by the Health Foundation in the UK, the collaboration between researchers at the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Leicester and the University of Pennsylvania, has led to a deeper ...

A large, national multi-center study of thousands of children taken to emergency departments with minor blunt head trauma has found that most of those with normal computed tomography (CT) scans do not require hospitalization for further observation. Of the more than 13,500 children included in the study, less than 1 percent had subsequent abnormal CT scans or MRIs and none required neurosurgical intervention. The study was conducted under the auspices of the groundbreaking Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). It is published online today in the ...

A new study published today in the journal Child Development (e-publication ahead of print) finds that having a poor "gut sense" of numbers can lead to a mathematical learning disability and difficulty in achieving basic math proficiency. This inaccurate number sense is just one cause of math learning disabilities, according to the research led by Dr. Michele Mazzocco of the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Approximately 6 to 14 percent of school-age children have persistent difficulty with mathematics, despite adequate learning opportunities and age-appropriate achievement ...

The Innovative 21st Century Enlightenment Conference hosted by RCIGI offers the "ultimate solutions" to the "widespread lies, deceit, cheat, dirty games, criminality, fraud, corruption megalomania, perversion, madness, lunacy, greed, and narcissism that currently celebrate their global culmination". RCIGI calls on future leaders in every field of society to attend the conference that plans to expose amongst other elements the "frightening and horrifying development of humanity and the planet", the "challenge for the leaders of tomorrow; ...

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Institute of Digital Marketing launches new web portal dedicated to Digital marketing. A new and unique web portal for students and professionals interested in Digital marketing. Institute of digital marketing, proud to announce the launch of it's new web portal for the students and professionals interested in making a career in the field of Digital marketing. Our aim is to provide a learning platform for interested people and reduce the gap between industry and educational institutes by creating a pool of employable candidates. We are confident that our new portal ...

Blog Talk Radio's World of Ink Network has a new show: Families Matter with hosts VS Grenier and Kecia Burcham. The Families Matter show will air live once a month on the 3rd Wednesday at 6pm EST. The idea of this new show on Blog Talk Radio's World of Ink Network is to have guests (adults or kids) share information to help empower children and their families. The first show on June 15, 2011 will be about bullying and how children and their families can deal with this ever growing problem. Host Kecia Burcham works as a middle school counselor and holds a masters ...

Santa Clara based Missionhub.org, an unique community comprising of 500 families and recognized as one of a kind in Silicon Valley, known to have a single voice and considered to be a big social influence in the city of Santa Clara, ties up with SF Bay Area based WomenNow TV, America's first South Asian TV talk show. This collaboration makes WomenNow TV the TV media partner for the community, thus enabling the group to bring social and community based TV programming to Silicon Valley residents. The co-founders, Ena Sarkar and Jaya Gautam said that WomenNow believes ...

Rembrandt Hotel was proud to participate in one of the largest and most effective business to business (B2B) travel events in Thailand, Thailand Travel Mart Plus 2011, at the Exhibition Centre Hall 5-6, IMPACT, Muang Thong Thani. The event is focused on trade and business talks among operators, buyers, sellars and the general public that is interested in travel. The event was first organized in 2001 and has the objective to promote tourism to Thailand. Hotels, Travel operators and other businesses across Thailand and Greater Mekong Sub-region were present on this ...

World-renowned photographer and marketing guru Sandy Puc' will be in Sacramento on July 13 to share her passion and knowledge of Children's photography through her Boutique Babies and Couture Kids Creative Edge Tour. The tour will visit 39 cities throughout the U.S. during the summer and early fall. Attendees can look forward to broadening their skills through her professional seminars relating to shooting techniques, the new wave of popular boutique set and props, video fusion and the important foundation to any photography business, pricing and marketing. Sandy will ...

WHO: The Rainbow Station at Hanover school (http://www.rainbowstation.org/our-schools/view_school.php?schoolId=10) is set on a 2.25 acre campus located at 8216 and 8218 Atlee Road in Mechanicsville, Va. and serves children aged 0-14. The academic offerings include extended day nursery school, preschool and Kindergarten as well as after school programs and summer camps. A unique feature of the facility is that if provides an on-site infirmary attended full-time by a pediatric nurse to provide parents with emergency back-up care. The "Get Well Place" is open to ...

Allan Houston, assistant general manager of the New York Knicks and NBA All-Star, who also created a non-profit program that assists young entrepreneurs in developing businesses, will be the keynote speaker at the New York & New Jersey Minority Supplier Development Council's Business Opportunity Expo 2011 on Thursday, June 16 at the New York Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway in New York City from 8:30am to 8:30pm. Houston's Legacy Foundation holds a Business Education and Development Program that offer a one-of-a-kind opportunity for entrepreneurial advancement for ...

Eric Parker, Senior Director and Site Lead, Neuroscience at Merck will give a featured presentation on "Getting to First BACE: Development of BACE Inhibitors for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease" at the 5th Neurodegenerative Conditions Research and Development Conference to be held in San Francisco, CA on September 22-23, 2011 by GTC. Eric Parker will review the development of the first small molecule BACE inhibitors, with a particular focus on the efficacy and potential for mechanism-based side effects associated with this approach. Benefits of Eric ...