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Archive Systems, Inc., a leading provider of records and document management services, today announced it developed the RIM Score to provide instant visibility into the health of an organization's records management program. This powerful resource arms records managers with information they've never had available previously, enabling them to run a much more effective program. "Records managers finally have a tool that clearly shows how to improve the management of their records collection, and the results are impressive. We first rolled the RIM Score out to our ...

Infertile women all over the world are falling victim to a widespread misunderstanding of Premature Ovarian Failure (POF), a medical condition in which a woman's ovarian function is lost prematurely, warns a New York infertility expert. This misunderstanding, in some cases, results in women resorting to egg donation even when they still have a significant chance of pregnancy without donor eggs. Premature Ovarian Failure (POF) is also called early menopause or Primary Ovarian Insufficiency (POI), a recently coined medical term. Current diagnostic criteria for POF are ...

Bat Blue Corporation, a single-source provider of end-to-end network and security solutions, announces its release of the first episode of their "Innovator Insights" interview series today on the www.BatBlue.com website. This first episode is the first of a three part exclusive interview with Dr. Whitfield Diffie, the renowned pioneer of public-key cryptography, recognized as the father of the technologies that drive privacy and commerce on the Internet today. This is the first episode in a series of interviews conducted by Bat Blue President & CEO Babak Pasdar. Dr. ...

TriNet Communications, a leading distributor of products to telecommunications providers, has signed an agreement with Mainline Equipment, Inc. which will allow TriNet to distribute its line of equipment to customers throughout the United States. Both companies boast more than 20 years serving the needs of CATV and other telecom providers. Mainline is the leading U.S. manufacturer of equalizers, attenuators (pads), diplex filters, AGC pilots and other plug-ins, in addition to offering the most comprehensive line of drop-in modules, up to and including 1GHz solutions. They ...

OzeVision Web Hosting has been ranked 11th amongst the "Top 25 Most Poplar" web hosting companies in the category "Australian Web Hosting Directory" by WebHostDir.com and ranked 6th in the category "Australian Dedicated Servers Directory" by DedicatedServerDir.com for the month of May 2011. The awards pages can be viewed at: http://ozevision.com/web_hosting/top-25-most-popular-webhosting-awards.html http://ozevision.com/web_hosting/top-25-most-popular-dedicated-awards.html Every month WebHostDir.com and DedicatedServerDir.com assess ...

Santander has today launched a number of highly competitive new Santander mortgages to support borrowers. It has also reduced rates again on a selection of deals for homebuyers and remortgagers. The new products are: - Two-year tracker with a rate of 2.99 per cent and no fee, available up to 70 per cent LTV to remortgagers - Two-year fix with a rate of 3.29 per cent and a GBP495 fee, available up to 60 per cent LTV to homebuyers with a maximum loan size of GBP550K - Two-year tracker with a rate of 3.99 per cent and a GBP995 fee, available up to 85 per cent LTV to ...

With over 25 years' experience within the offshore industry, Nigel primarily advises IFAs on taxation, trusts and financial planning matters, from a technical perspective. Nigel's main role within deVere will be to support Financial Consultants on technical issues in developing wealth management business with high net-worth expats, and thus strengthening the deVere Group's strong presence in the marketplace. deVere Group CEO Nigel Green commented, "We are delighted to welcome Nigel Smith to The deVere Group. With his exceptional expertise in the field in which ...

WellApps, Inc. announced today the newest release of GI Monitor, its symptom tracking app for (IBD) Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis. Co-Founder Edward Shin, MD, says, "We're particularly excited about the new release since GI Monitor has recently quadrupled its user-base. This scale is providing some powerful real-time data and we know what an engaged mobile community can mean for patients." One of those patients is Brett Shamosh, creator of GI Monitor and Co-Founder of WellApps, who has a personal passion for the potential of mobile health. After twenty years ...

The brains of all vertebrates display gender-related differences. In songbirds, for example, the size of the brain areas that control their singing behaviour could be linked to the size of their song repertoires. In many songbird species, only the males sing and indeed, they do have larger song control areas in the brain than females. However, even species where both sexes sing identically, display the same sex differences in their brain structure. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen have now demonstrated for the first time in the white-browed ...

DARIEN, Ill. – According to new research that will be presented Saturday, June 11, at the 20th Anniversary Meeting of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine (AADSM), children with enlarged tonsils and adenoids who wore an oral appliance for six months experienced more favorable craniofacial growth, enlargement of pharyngeal dimensions, and improved breathing and snoring during sleep. Enlarged tonsils and dental malocclusion have a strong relation with sleep disturbance in children. Its consequences can include abnormalities of craniofacial growth and facial morphology ...

DARIEN, Ill. – According to new research that will be presented Saturday, June 11, at the 20th Anniversary Meeting of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine (AADSM), objective compliance measurements agree with subjective compliance estimates in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) undergoing oral appliance therapy (OAT) – a finding that is not apparent in patients using continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy. Results show that the objective mean wearing time in the whole group was 6.8 hours per night. Among 21 patients who filled out the subjective ...

DARIEN, Ill. – According to new research that will be presented Saturday, June 11, at the 20th Anniversary Meeting of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine (AADSM), the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) in patients with severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) was more improved by a combination treatment of a mandibular advancement splint (MAS) and positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy than by continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy alone. Results show that without lowering the pressure substantially, CPAP tolerance can be improved and severe OSA can be effectively ...

DARIEN, Ill. – New research that will be presented Saturday, June 11, at the 20th Anniversary Meeting of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine (AADSM) in Minneapolis, Minn., quantified the efficacy of mandibular advancement splints (MAS) using a self-administered, at-home device to monitor snoring and sleep-disordered breathing. Clinical assessment of MAS efficacy in the treatment of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is based predominantly on subjective reports by the patient and partner, and less commonly, on the apnea hypopnea index (AHI), which is ...

A new generation of high speed, silicon-based information technology has been brought a step closer by researchers in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at UCL and the London Centre for Nanotechnology. The team's research, published in next week's Nature Photonics journal, provides the first demonstration of an electrically driven, quantum dot laser grown directly on a silicon substrate (Si) with a wavelength (1300-nm) suitable for use in telecommunications. Silicon is the most widely used material for the fabrication of active devices in electronics. ...

Heart attack patients die at a higher rate when their nearest emergency room is so overtaxed that the ambulance transporting them is dispatched to another hospital, according to a new study led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco. The findings will be published online June 12, 2011 by JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. The research also will be presented on June 13, 2011 at the AcademyHealth's annual research meeting in Seattle, WA. "This is one of the first studies to tie patient-level outcomes to daily ambulance diversion ...

The Aurora A kinase may contribute to polycystic kidney disease (PKD) by inactivating a key calcium channel in kidney cells, according to a study in the June 13 issue of The Journal of Cell Biology (www.jcb.org). Aurora A is an oncogene best known as a regulator of mitotic progression. But the kinase has important functions during interphase as well, when it can promote cilia disassembly and can be activated by elevated calcium levels. Because both calcium signaling and cilia are defective in PKD, researchers from the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia wondered whether ...

A new study indicates high rates of injection drug use in urban Canadian Aboriginal youth, particularly in women, and points to the need for culturally specific prevention programs, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/embargo/cmaj101257.pdf Aboriginal leadership is alarmed at the levels of substance abuse in their young people, especially injection drug use, which is associated with HIV and hepatitis C virus infections. Injection drug use accounts for 70%󈞼% of all hepatitis C virus and almost ...

Administrative information can be useful for surveillance and understanding of alcohol-related harm in young people, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/embargo/cmaj110367.pdf Binge drinking and overconsumption of alcohol by young people is a growing issue in many countries. For example, in a 2009 study, almost 60% of young Canadians aged 15-24 reported having consumed alcohol in the previous month, with 22% reporting heaving drinking and 20% experiencing harm related to alcohol consumption. In Australia, ...

Accurate, safe prescribing information for children is often unavailable to doctors in Canada because pharmaceutical companies will not disclose information to Health Canada, states an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/embargo/cmaj110563.pdf Health professionals in Canada as well as other countries such as Japan and Australia, unlike their colleagues in the United States and Europe, do not have access to the same body of evidence regarding pediatric dosing. "As a consequence, Canadian children and youth ...

NEW YORK – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first clinical trial in humans of a new technology: Cornell Dots, brightly glowing nanoparticles that can light up cancer cells in PET-optical imaging. A paper describing this new medical technology, "Multimodal silica nanoparticles are effective cancer-targeted probes in a model of human melanoma," will be published June 13, 2011 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation (July 2011). This is a collaboration between Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), Cornell University, and Hybrid Silica ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new Brown University computer analysis that predicts the effect of genetic mutations on how the body splices mRNA indicates as many as a third of disease-related mutations may be linked to splicing problems — more than double the proportion previously thought. "Something like 85 percent of the mutations in the Human Gene Mutation Database are presumed to affect how proteins are coded, but what this work shows is that 22 percent of those are affecting the splicing process," said William Fairbrother, assistant professor of biology ...

A paper published online on June 13 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine (www.jem.org) identifies new gene mutations in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)—a disease often associated with lack of response to chemotherapy and poor overall survival. CLL is the most common leukemia in the Western world, but the disease varies greatly from patient to patient with regard to prognosis, survival, and disease course. In attempt to understand the genetic basis for this heterogeneity, a group led by Riccardo Dalla-Favera at Columbia University and Gianluca Gaidano ...

National Institutes of Health researchers have identified a new pathway that sets the clock for programmed aging in normal cells. The study provides insights about the interaction between a toxic protein called progerin and telomeres, which cap the ends of chromosomes like aglets, the plastic tips that bind the ends of shoelaces. The study by researchers from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) appears in the June 13, 2011 early online edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Telomeres wear away during cell division. When they degrade sufficiently, ...

A team of researchers, led by Emmanuel Nivet, now at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, has generated data in mice that suggest that adult stem cells from immune system tissue in the smell-sensing region of the human nose (human olfactory ecto–mesenchymal stem cells [OE-MSCs]) could provide a source of cells to treat brain disorders in which nerve cells are lost or irreparably damaged. Stem cells are considered by many to be promising candidate sources of cells for the regeneration and repair of tissues damaged by various brain disorders (including traumatic ...