Owing back taxes is a stressful event. It takes a toll on health, bank accounts and marriages. Luckily Randy and Ethel Fay Thieme of Titusville, Pennsylvania, sought help dealing with their back tax debt. The Thiemes' tax problems started with not having enough taxes withheld from their business income. Not filing their federal tax returns on time contributed to the problem. They were uncertain of how to fix their tax problem when they turned to JK Harris & Company, the nation's largest tax representation firm. According to the IRS, the Thiemes owed approximately ...

NEW YORK – A new study involving nearly 2,500 high school students demonstrates the value of routine mental health screening in school to identify adolescents at-risk for mental illness, and to connect those adolescents with recommended follow-up care. The largest school-based study conducted to-date by the TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups at Columbia University, findings are published in the Sept. 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Conducted between 2005 and 2009 at six public high schools in suburban ...

Los Angeles, CA (AUGUST 25, 2011) Suicide, child abuse, playground fights, gang violence, sexual assault, and domestic violence are just a few examples of violence that touch people in all walks of life and communities everywhere. Homicide and suicide remain in the top ten leading causes of death for people from birth to age 64. How do you combat an issue that takes so many forms and has so many causes? The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine (published ...

Patty Briguglio, president of MMI Public Relations (http://www.mmipublicrelations.com), a Raleigh-based full-service public relations firm, has announced that the firm has received a 2011 Videographer Award for "Four Guiding Principles," a video produced for Wake School Choice. Wake School Choice was created by The Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce and Wake Education Partnership in response to a request for input on growing student enrollment by the Wake County Board of Education. The initiative was designed by these organizations to address the tremendous ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Why do some folks who take every precaution still get the flu, while others never even get the sniffles? It comes down to a person's immune system response to the flu virus, says Alfred Hero, professor at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. In one of the first known studies of its kind, Hero and colleagues from Duke University Medical Center and the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, used genomics to begin to unravel what in our complex genomic data accounts for why some get sick while others don't. The study findings will appear ...

Uterine leiomyomas, also called fibroids, cause a very significant burden to women's health. They are benign tumors that occur in 60% of women by the age of 45 years and cause symptoms such as abdominal pain and discomfort, and abnormal bleeding, in about half of the cases. Fibroids are also an important cause of infertility. These tumors are the most common medical reason for hysterectomy. Considering the clinical importance of fibroids, relatively little has been known about the mechanisms of tumorigenesis involved. A research team at the University of Helsinki, ...

Personal injury law firm Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig LLP is pleased to announce that SJ Magazine has named personal injury lawyer John M. Dodig to its 2011 Top Attorneys list for the second consecutive year. SJ Magazine's list of Southern New Jersey's best lawyers is the result of comprehensive polling of members of the Southern New Jersey legal community. With a readership of approximately 180,000, SJ Magazine is widely read by residents and business professionals throughout New Jersey's Burlington, Camden and Gloucester counties. SJ ...

A new, comprehensive study by an international team of scientists, including scientists at Boston University in the US and the Universities of Viçosa and Campinas in Brazil, has been published in the current issue of Science (August 26, 2011) refuting earlier alarmist claims that drought has induced a decline in global plant productivity during the past decade and posed a threat to global food security. Those earlier findings published by Zhao and Running in the August 2010 issue of Science (Vol. 329, p. 940) also warned of potentially serious consequences for biofuel ...

Researchers got their first up-close look at dust from the surface of a small, stony asteroid after the Hayabusa spacecraft scooped some up and brought it back to Earth. Analysis of these dust particles, detailed in a special issue of the journal Science this week, confirms a long-standing suspicion: that the most common meteorites found here on Earth, known as ordinary chondrites, are born from these stony, or S-type, asteroids. And since chondrites are among the most primitive objects in the solar system, the discovery also means that these asteroids have been recording ...

Bright Bay Mazda is excited to announce that Mazda has developed an industry-first recycling technology that takes old bumpers from end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) and recycles them into raw materials for new car bumpers. The innovative technology by Mazda is a major step in reducing waste and building greener vehicles. Mazda's new recycling process is known as thermal recycling. Mazda breaks down the old bumpers into a residue which then gets thrown into an incinerator to recollect the heat energy. The recycled plastic is projected to be 10% of the new bumper. Mazda's ...

Flexiant, a UK-based cloud infrastructure software and services provider - and Europe's original public cloud provider - and Standing Cloud, Inc. a leader in the emerging platform as a service (PaaS) marketplace, have gone live with their "Standing Cloud powered by Flexiant" integration, bringing a vastly simplified method of deploying and managing cloud-hosted applications to European cloud users. "Standing Cloud powered by Flexiant" marries an application layer from Standing Cloud with Flexiant's Extility cloud product. Extility customers will be ...

Scientists at Yale University have developed the first practical method to create a compound called huperzine A in the lab. The compound, which occurs naturally in a species of moss found in China, is an enzyme inhibitor that has been used to treat Alzheimer's disease in China since the late 1990s and is sold in the U.S. as a dietary supplement to help maintain memory. Scientists believe it could also potentially combat the effects of chemical warfare agents. Until now, researchers have only been able to derive small amounts of the compound directly from the Huperzia ...

Unmarried Fathers Have the Same Rights as Mothers Unwed fathers have the same constitutional rights as unwed mothers to establish a relationship with his child. However, in order to receive the same rights, the unwed father must first show the state he is the biological father. While state laws vary, generally a man is only presumed to be the father at birth under the following circumstances: -The child is born during marriage to the child's mother -He is required to support the child by law -He has signed a declaration of paternity Additionally, the father's ...

Yale University researchers have successfully re-engineered the protein-making machinery in bacteria, a technical tour de force that promises to revolutionize the study and treatment of a variety of diseases. "Essentially, we have expanded the genetic code of E. coli, which allows us synthesize special forms of proteins that can mimic natural or disease states," said Jesse Rinehart of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and co-corresponding author of the research published in the August 26 issue of the journal Science. Since the structure of DNA was revealed ...

The number of people who are obese and suffer one or more of its associated health problems (including type 2 diabetes) is escalating dramatically. Researchers are seeking to identify new targets for therapeutics that could limit appetite and thereby obesity. A team of researchers, led by Scott Waldman, at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, has now uncovered one such potential target by studying the molecular control of appetite in mice. In the study, Waldman and colleagues found that nutrient intake by mice caused cells in their gut to secrete the precursor of ...

The "Best Interest" of the Child Determines Custody in Divorce Courts Have Broad Discretion to Decide a Child's Best Interest Often the biggest concern for parents going through a divorce is who will obtain custody of minor children. It can also be one of the most hotly contested issues in a divorce. In all states, custody is determined by what a judge determines is in a child's best interest. States vary in their definitions of what the "best interest" means. Generally, however, state laws allow judges to have fairly broad discretion in what ...

Parkinson disease (PD) is a relatively common neurodegenerative disorder, affecting 1-2% of the world's population over the age of 65 years. About 5-10% of PD cases are inherited, and mutations in the Parkin gene are a common cause of familial PD. Michael Sack and colleagues, at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, have now identified a new function for the protein templated by the Parkin gene, it regulates fat uptake from the blood by liver cells and thereby fat levels in the blood. Furthermore, they determine that it does this by regulating the level of expression ...

State Pushes Zero Tolerance for Underage Drinking and Driving Offenses July 14th, 2011, marked the 17th anniversary of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984, which required all states to pass legislation setting 21 years old as the minimum age to drink or purchase alcohol. States that did not comply faced a 10 percent penalty in their federal highway funding. The law was enacted as a measure to combat the problem of underage drinking and associated traffic fatalities. In 2007, nearly 31 percent of teen drivers killed in highway crashes had been drinking, and ...

EDITOR'S PICK: Slim down by targeting the hormone uroguanylin The number of people who are obese and suffer one or more of its associated health problems (including type 2 diabetes) is escalating dramatically. Researchers are seeking to identify new targets for therapeutics that could limit appetite and thereby obesity. A team of researchers, led by Scott Waldman, at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, has now uncovered one such potential target by studying the molecular control of appetite in mice. In the study, Waldman and colleagues found that nutrient intake ...

National Institutes of Health researchers have found that Parkin, an important protein linked with some cases of early-onset Parkinson's disease, regulates how cells in our bodies take up and process dietary fats. Parkinson's disease is a complex, progressive, and currently incurable neurological disorder characterized by shaking, stiffness, slowed movement, and impaired balance. Parkinson's primarily affects people over 50, but in about 5 to10 percent of cases it occurs in people as young as their 20s. This form of the disease, which affects actor, author, and Parkinson's ...

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Researchers have today revealed a new gene associated with osteoarthritis. This is only the third gene to be identified for this painful and debilitating disease that affects more than 40 per cent of people aged more than 70 years. The disease-associated variant, in the gene MCF2L, was discovered when Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute researchers used data from the 1000 Genomes Project to increase the power of their genome-wide association scan. The preliminary stage of the original arcOGEN study, funded by Arthritis Research UK, compared the genomes of 3,177 people with ...

Canadian researchers have discovered that a tumor cell marker is a receptor for measles virus, suggesting the possible use of measles virus to help fight cancer. Their findings appear in the Open Access journal PLoS Pathogens on August 25th. Viruses cause infection by attaching to specific proteins on cell surfaces called receptors. Dr. Chris Richardson of Dalhousie Medical School in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and colleagues found that the tumor cell marker, PVRL4 (Nectin 4), is a receptor for measles virus. The PVRL4 receptor is found in airway cells, and measles ...

MFGpartners.net, the online trade association & national networking portal for the custom manufacturing industry is at it again with its enter into the competitive Californian marketplace. The company, founder of the American Machine Shops Network (AMSN) says it has approved over 70 California machine shops profiled on its website at http://mfgpartners.net/category/california-shops/ serving markets throughout Los Angeles, Fresno, Anaheim, Long Beach, San Diego, Sacramento, San Francisco, Santa Ana, Northbridge, San Jose, Oakland and numerous other cities and counties ...

New Orleans, LA – Research led by Dr. Melinda Sothern, Professor of Public Health and Jim Finks Endowed Chair in Health Promotion at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has found that obese 7-9-year-old children had nearly three times the liver fat and almost double the belly fat of their nonobese counterparts and that insulin resistance was more than double and insulin sensitivity less than half respectively. The study is the first to use a combination of advanced measurements in healthy obese and nonobese children in this age group prior to entering puberty. The findings ...