SAN FRANCISCO (February 11, 2011) — In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, in San Francisco, researchers will present findings that show that when women at high risk for preterm birth participated in a preterm birth prevention clinic, more women delivered full term babies and there were fewer cases of infant morbidity. The National Center for Health Statistic reports that in 2008, 12.3% of babies were born prematurely. Women who have had a prior preterm birth are at high risk to have ...

SAN FRANCISCO (February 11, 2011) — In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, in San Francisco, researchers will present findings that show that many women are having different test results for Group B streptococcus (GBS) between their routine third trimester screening and a rapid test performed at the time of labor. GBS early-onset sepsis is a leading cause of neonatal infection. GBS is a bacterium that normally exists in the genital tracts of one-third of women; this bacterium comes ...

Silent strokes, which have no immediate symptoms but could cause long-term cognitive and learning deficits, occur in a significant number of severely anemic children, especially those with sickle cell disease, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2011. One-quarter to one-third of children with sickle cell disease have evidence of silent strokes in their brains, according to Michael M. Dowling, M.D., Ph.D., lead author of the study and assistant professor of pediatrics and neurology at the University of Texas ...

SAN FRANCISCO (February 11, 2011) — In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, in San Francisco, researchers will present findings that show that despite fetal pulmonary maturity, babies delivered at between 36 to 38 weeks, still have a significantly increased risk of neonatal morbidities. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends that fetal pulmonary maturity be documented for scheduled deliveries occurring prior to 39 weeks of gestation in order to prevent neonatal ...

Alan Soft has issued new product - Record and supervise with face sensor. The program has pre-event and post-event recording. Playing back recorded picture is fairly simple and performs on the security computer as well as on distant server through Online interface. The software has been designed as universal application for surveillance cross platforms functioning concurrently with wireless and wired IP cameras, TV-boards, capture cards, power-line, and USB webcams. Software's modular structure considerably boosts reliability because all parts work as autonomous ...

Resistance to leptin, a protein that plays a key role in regulating metabolism and appetite, may help prevent the development of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and acute lung injury (ALI) in individuals with type II diabetes, according to a study conducted by researchers in Chicago. The study indicates leptin resistance, a common characteristic of diabetes, may help prevent the formation of inflexible, fibrous tissue that develops in ALI and ARDS. The findings were published online ahead of the print edition of the American Thoracic Society's American Journal ...

A small proportion of adult cancer patients participate in clinical trials in part due to a low level of physician referrals, according to an online study published Feb. 11 in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Although more than 8000 clinical trials are accepting participants, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), only an estimated 2%𔃂% of newly diagnosed cancer patients participate in them. Prior studies suggest that most eligible patients do not enroll in trials because their physicians do not refer them. To understand what types of ...

Amadeus Consulting, a Boulder-based custom software development company, announced today that Chief Executive Officer Lisa Calkins has been featured in Robert Half Technology's CIO Insomnia Project. The project highlights CIO insights and advice on the topics that most concern CIOs. Interviewees of the CIO Insomnia Project were asked to discuss areas of concern that as technology leaders are keeping them up at night. Several technology leaders were interviewed, including Lisa Calkins. Topics that were addressed include: staffing issues, prioritizing projects, managing ...

Psychology students at Queen's University have discovered similarities between child soldier trauma in Uganda and those children caught up in Northern Ireland's Troubles. Post-graduate students from the Doctoral Programme in Educational, Child and Adolescent Psychology at Queen's recently travelled to Uganda to a school for ex-child soldiers. Their study analysed the levels of post-traumatic stress among ex-soldiers, explained the symptoms of trauma to the children and offered psychological therapy to the most traumatised children. The children in the school were ...

Extremely obese women may not need to gain as much weight during pregnancy as current guidelines suggest, according to a new study presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine annual meeting. Severely obese women who gained less than the recommended amount of weight during the second and third trimester of pregnancy suffered no ill effects, nor did their babies. In contrast, obese and non-obese women who gained less weight in the second and third trimester had undesirable outcomes, including a higher likelihood of delivering a baby that is small for gestational ...

HOUSTON, Feb. 11, 2011 – Eliminating tens of thousands of manual lab experiments, two University of Houston (UH) professors are working toward a method to cut the development time of new antibiotics. While current practices typically last for more than a decade, a computerized modeling system being developed at UH will speed up this process. Vincent Tam, associate professor of clinical sciences, and Michael Nikolaou, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, are focusing on dosing regimens to reveal which ones are most likely to be effective in combating infection ...

The CDM Media team announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with insideHPC, a rapidly growing short-format news site that delivers the latest news on high performance computing to scientific and technical computing professionals around the globe, serving up an average of 850,000 page views per month. CDM Media and insideHPC are partnering on the following technology events: • CIO Summit, March 13-16, 2011, http://www.ciosummit.us • CIO Life Sciences Summit, May 8-11, 2011, http://www.ciolifesciencessummit.com • CIO Cloud Summit, June 14-16, 2011, ...

"The MoneyMan Report" with Dan Frishberg on Tuesday featured guest John D. Kuhns, Chairman & CEO of Kuhns Brothers one of the first and best known U.S. Investment Bankers to create IPOs in Chinam and a insider In China for over twenty-five years. Kuhns was able to debunk many of the misconceptions about China "overtaking" the U.S. as the world's foremost superpower. He said that fears regarding China becoming its own reserve currency and surpassing the U.S. militarily are misplaced, and that those events are unlikely, because the country will be focused on its own economic ...

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10, 2011 — Young, uninsured stroke survivors or those covered by the Medicare Part D drug benefit often can't afford medications — increasing the risk for future strokes or other cardiovascular disease-related events, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2011. Researchers evaluated whether cost-related non-adherence to medication was a problem for stroke survivors even after the 2006 implementation of Medicare Part D, a federal government drug benefit that offers prescription drug coverage ...

TORONTO, Ont., Feb. 11, 2011 -- The daughters of rats who took folic acid supplements before conception, during pregnancy and while breast-feeding have breast cancer rates twice as high as other rats, according to a new study. They also had more tumours and developed them at a faster rate, according to the study led by Dr. Young-in Kim, a gastroenterologist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. Kim stressed more research needs to be done to determine whether the findings also apply to humans. While there are similarities in breast cancer in rats and humans, there are ...

A set of maps created by the University of Sheffield have illustrated, for the first time, how our last British ice sheet shrunk during the Ice Age. Led by Professor Chris Clark from the University's Department of Geography, a team of experts developed the maps to understand what effect the current shrinking of ice sheets in parts of the Antarctic and Greenland will have on the speed of sea level rise. The unique maps record the pattern and speed of shrinkage of the large ice sheet that covered the British Isles during the last Ice Age, approximately 20,000 years ago. ...

Flavorful fresh food is united with family tradition at Fóumami (pronounced "Foo-mah-mee"), an inventive new Asian sandwich bar that offers breakfast and lunch, to stay or to go, in the heart of Boston's financial district. Located at 225 Franklin Street, Fóumami is the brainchild of owner and general manager Michael Y. J. Wang, a Harvard Business School grad and third generation restauranteur who has based his Asian concept sandwich bar on age old elements of Asian cuisine, drawing from Chinese, Korean, and Japanese influences and prized family recipes to develop a variety ...

The gene, GFPT1, has been identified by researchers at Newcastle University working with international colleagues, as crucial in causing a variation of Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome (CMS). The condition came to prominence in recent times in the UK with the plight of baby RB, who was at the centre of a "right-to-life" legal dispute. CMS is a rare genetic condition affecting the way signals travel between the brain and muscles which can cause paralysis and in some cases death. It affects one in every 500,000 births and the severity of the condition varies, depending ...

Walker Author Tours, a company that helps authors promote their books through blog tours, announces the upcoming book blog tour for Frosty: Adventures of a Morgan Horse. The book tour will comprise tour stops at various book blogs on the Internet, where readers can read book reviews, interviews with the author, and, in some cases, ask questions of the author. This is a great way to learn about new books and authors. The Frosty: Adventures of a Morgan Horse book blog tour will run from April 1 - 11, 2011, with book reviews and author interviews conducted by different ...

Tiny organisms preserved in marine sediments hold clues about Arctic climate variation during an ancient episode of greenhouse warming. Based on reconstructions of Arctic climate variability in the greenhouse world of the Late Cretaceous, Southampton scientists have concluded that man-made global warming probably would not greatly change the climatic influence associated with natural modes of inter-annual climate variability such as the El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) or the Arctic Oscillation/ North Atlantic Oscillation (AO/ NAO). "Even in the warm Cretaceous ...

This Glendale location makes the Institute more accessible to the San Gabriel Valley. The Oncology Institute Administrator Hilda Agajanian issued a statement on the new location. "It is our mission to be as accessible as possible to our patients and this new location will be a huge help to those that now commute from both the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valley," As experts in patient care and recent winners of the 2010 HOPE Award for Practice Excellence in Patient Care, The Oncology Institute of Hope and Innovation is known for their exemplary internal clinical research ...

Spanish legislation stipulates that at least 60% of waste paper and cardboard collected must be recycled, along with 60% of glass, 50% of metals and 22.5% of plastics. However, a study by researchers at the Jaume I (UJI) University in Castellón shows that this minimum requirement is only exceeded in the case of glass. "Collection from sites for depositing paper and cardboard stands at 45% in the best of cases, at a maximum distance of 80 metres, while the average percentage for containers is 20%, meaning the target is not met either for plastics or metals", Antonio Gallardo, ...

Canonical today announced that for the first time it was making publicly available its complete database of certified components for Ubuntu and Linux -- rapidly reducing the time-to-market for Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) working on Ubuntu or Linux machines. The catalogue gives ODMs a selection of over 1300 certified components from 161 manufacturers, making it the largest list of Linux-compatible components available. It takes advantage of Canonical's position at the heart of the server and PC industry, which enables the company to get components first as it ...

Brain and spinal cord comprise more than just nerve cells. The extracellular matrix, a complex scaffold of proteins with sugar residues, surrounds the cells and influences their well-being. Prof. Wiese's team is interested in the interaction of the matrix with a specific kind of nerve cells, which transmit signals from the brain to muscles (motoneurons). Because injured motoneurons lead to paralysis, clinicians have great interest in being able to influence the growth of these cells. "If we had a medication that could change the extracellular matrix so that it favours the ...

Where more standard medicine fails, people turn their attention to other means of healing. Those include acupuncture, naturopathy, homeopathy and many more, but none are as widely recognized as chiropractic, a discipline that primarily uses manual therapy to heal the body, and particularly the spine, ever-important pillar that supports the body and also serves as the seat of the central nervous system. Chiropractic may ignite controversy, but evidence "for" is strong enough to consider it as a solid branch of healthcare. Now, LogoBee sets out to aid chiropractors in ...