[EMBARGOED FOR JUNE 24, 2011] Vaccination against rotavirus, a major cause of severe acute gastroenteritis in children, dramatically decreased hospitalization rates for the infection among infants in three U.S. counties, according to a new study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and now available online (http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/cid/prpaper.pdf). From 2006 to 2009, researchers examined the impact of the vaccine among children hospitalized for diarrhea and/or vomiting in the Cincinnati, Ohio; Nashville, Tenn.; and Rochester, N.Y., areas. In ...

(Boston MA) – A group of 26 of the nation's leaders in medicine, health care, patient safety, and research today called for sweeping changes in the design, supervision and financing of U.S. hospital residency care programs to protect patients from serious, preventable medical errors, and end dangerously long work hours for physicians in training. In a set of recommendations published in the June 24 issue of the online journal Nature & Science of Sleep, the authors say the rules for residency training set to take effect on July 1 "stop considerably short" of best practices ...

STANFORD, Calif. - Tobacco companies increased the advertising and lowered the sale price of menthol cigarettes in stores near California high schools with larger populations of African-American students, according to a new study from the Stanford School of Medicine. Although cigarette makers have denied using race or ethnicity to target customers, the lead researcher for the study said the data shows a "predatory" marketing pattern geared to luring young African Americans into becoming smokers. "The tobacco companies went out of their way to argue to the Food & Drug ...

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Esteemed cosmetic dentist in University Heights, CA, Dr. Allan Patch, is pleased to introduce a variety of new procedures and technologies for added convenience and increased dental health care for all patients. These new dental services and innovations include Lumineers, Snap-On Smile, laser dentistry and precise cancer detection. Snap-On Smile is an affordable, non-invasive and completely reversible, cosmetic, removable arch that can easily and painlessly give patients a beautiful smile. It does not require shots or drilling, and can be completed in two visits. Snap-On ...

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The Fourth of July is coming. Fireworks, barbecues, picnics, concerts, parades, baseball games, family reunions, the Stars and Stripes Forever, and what's new this year? Audio4fun.com today announced the launch of 'Speak like a President', its first-ever Internet video contest, aimed at celebrating Independence Day in America. For more information visit Audio4fun.com's fan page on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Audio4funcom/149128588493714 "The Fourth of July is a milestone in man's history, embodying the greatest of human aspirations. It is the day when ...

Critical Information Network (CiNet), LLC, and its Professional Security Training Network (PSTN) announces the release of its newly updated Campus Security Training Series. The interactive video and web-based training was created to offer campus security personnel and school resource officers the knowledge and skills needed to ensure safety and protect essential assets. PSTN's training curricula include real-world demonstrations and actual situations, greatly enhancing the learning experience and results. "Our nation's schools must be safe havens for teaching and ...

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Prime Source Accessories, Inc. announces the launch of their new lifestyle brand, Sloane Ranger. The brand began as an idea to fashion the checklist for the Sloane Ranger. Inspired by the streets of Sloane Square in London, it was time to bring the Sloane's effortless cool and confident styling across the pond, and thus the Sloane Ranger brand was born. "London is such a special place for me. I make the trip at least twice per year and I have always been inspired by the Sloanes of Chelsea. With this brand we will bring the Sloane Ranger lifestyle to the American ...

TeamSupport.com (http://www.TeamSupport.com) - a trend setting provider of SaaS-based customer service and help desk tools - today announced a successful integration between the company's flagship TeamSupport product and Batchbook, a powerful social CRM system from BatchBlue Software. "Customer Support & Bug Tracking solutions rarely communicate efficiently with CRM systems, so keeping their separate customer databases synchronized is often a tedious and error-prone manual process," explained Robert C. Johnson, CEO of TeamSupport. "We make it easy ...

The People's Republic of China should improve its system for ensuring the safety of its rapidly expanding nuclear power program, experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences say. Despite having 40% of the world's proposed nuclear power plants, the country lacks an independent regulatory agency and sufficient staff to keep pace with nuclear power development, they describe in a viewpoint article in ACS's journal Environmental Science & Technology. Qiang Wang and colleagues note that the Chinese government announced that it would suspend approvals for nuclear power plant ...

Scientists are reporting development and successful initial tests of a potential new delivery system for the biological signaling agent responsible for the effects of Viagra. It could be used to deliver the substance, called nitric oxide or NO, to treatment conditions ranging from heart disease to skin ulcers and other wounds that fail to heal, according to a report in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. João Rocha and colleagues explain that NO acts as an important agent in the body for expanding blood vessels (its role in Viagra and related medicines for erectile ...

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Cancer survivors are less likely to be employed, and they work fewer hours, than similarly aged adults without a history of cancer, even two to six years after diagnosis, according to a study by Penn State researchers. "The finding is significant when you consider that there are nearly 12 million cancer survivors living in the United States," said John Moran, assistant professor of health policy and administration, who led the study. Moran and his colleagues focused on a previously understudied group, cancer survivors in their prime working years -- between 28 and ...

Banning fisheries discards in the North Sea will promote fish stock recovery and increase fishermen's incomes, according to new research by scientists at the University of York. In the North Sea up to 75 per cent of fish are currently dumped after being caught, with the result that many fisheries are now badly overfished. In comparison, discards were banned in Norwegian waters in the late 1980s and their fisheries are now some of the most prosperous in the world. The research, published in the journal Reviews in Fisheries Science, involved a comparison of long-term data ...

The obscure technology used in heated automobile seats, gadgets that charge iPhones from the heat of a campfire, and other devices is undergoing a renaissance and could well emerge as a new "green" substitute for traditional sources of energy and play other key roles in addressing some of society's most pressing sustainability issues. That's the conclusion of an article on the technology — termed thermoelectrics — in the current issue of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) the American Chemical Society's weekly newsmagazine. In the article, C&EN Senior Editor Mitch Jacoby ...

Samples of icy spray shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus collected during Cassini spacecraft flybys show the strongest evidence yet for the existence of a large-scale, subterranean saltwater ocean, says a new international study led by the University of Heidelberg and involving the University of Colorado Boulder. The new discovery was made during the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, a collaboration of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. Launched in 1997, the mission spacecraft arrived at the Saturn system in 2004 and has been touring the ...

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL, June 22, 2011 – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's (BGU) Prof. Alon Tal presented the most comprehensive report to date on Israel's environmental movement. It details the movement's lack of training, involvement of experts and public support, as well as its perilous dependence on foreign donations. The report, "Israel's Environmental Movement: Trends, Needs and Potential," was presented to Knesset Speaker MK Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday as part of Environment Day at the Knesset. Prof. Alon Tal, of the Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research ...

Mental illness of a family member destroys the family's connection with the religious community, a new study by Baylor University psychologists has found, leading many affected families to leave the church and their faith behind. The study shows that while families with a member who has mental illness have less involvement in faith practices, they would like their congregation to provide assistance with those issues. However, the rest of the church community seemed to overlook their need entirely. In fact, the study found that while help from the church with depression ...

New research conducted at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, offers hope for people with a rare disorder called Chuvash polycythemia. Polycythemia is a disease characterized by excessive production of red blood cells. Symptoms include an enlarged spleen, blood clots, an increased risk of stroke, and in some cases the disease is a precursor to acute leukemia. While 95 percent of polycythemia cases are associated with a mutation in the JAK2 gene, a small number of patients have a mutation in the von Hippel-Lindau gene that produces a protein called pVHL. "It ...

Evolution is usually thought to be a very slow process, something that happens over many generations, thanks to adaptive mutations. But environmental change due to things like climate change, habitat destruction, pollution, etc. is happening very fast. There are just two options for species of all kinds: either adapt to environmental change or become extinct. So, according to McGill biology professor, Andrew Gonzalez, the question arises, "Can evolution happen quickly enough to help a species survive?" The answer, according to his most recent study, published in Science, ...

NEW YORK (June 22, 2011) – A new genetic study by a team of Cuban and American researchers confirms that American crocodiles are hybridizing with wild populations of critically endangered Cuban crocodiles, which may cause a population decline of this species found only in the Cuban Archipelago. Cuban crocodiles and American crocodiles have been confirmed to interbreed in captivity and were suspected to hybridize in the wild. This is the first genetic study that confirms wild hybridization. The study, which appears in the spring issue of the Journal of Experimental ...