Nursing Homes Liable for Neglecting Elderly Residents' Bedsores Bedsores are painful and life-threatening for patients in nursing homes. They occur when a person is confined and immobile to either a bed or a wheelchair for so long that the skin begins to blister. Also known as pressure sores, pressure ulcers and decubitus ulcers, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 11 percent of nursing home patients had the painful condition in 2004. In addition to the obvious physical and emotional trauma that occurs from being stationary for so ...

Are 10,000 Pending DUI Cases in South Carolina Too Many? South Carolina's Chief Justice Orders Courts to Reduce Backlog Increased driving under the influence (DUI) enforcement in South Carolina, combined with limited court resources, has led to a large amount of pending DUI cases for the state. According to the South Carolina Judicial Department, there are over 10,000 outstanding DUI cases statewide, the longest going back 10 years. The backlog led law enforcement officials to report frustration to Chief Justice Joan Toal for the amount of time the officers are currently ...

El Paso's Extra DWI Enforcement During Spring Break 2011 a Success $50,000 Texas Department of Transportation Grant Helped Prevent Any Fatalities From Saturday, March 12 to Sunday, March 20, 2011, the El Paso Sheriff's Office participated in a statewide program that increased deputy hours on roads often frequented by impaired drivers. It was an attempt to get motorists driving while intoxicated (DWI) off the road during a time when many choose to drive impaired. On its blog, the El Paso Sheriff's office reported the program a success, with 185 enforcement hours ...

Medical Errors More Common Than Previously Thought In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a study noting that up to 98,000 people died each year from medical mistakes. The IOM also estimated that an additional one million people were injured as a result of these errors, putting the total cost of these mistakes anywhere between $17 billion and $29 billion annually. The purpose of the study was to bring attention to the prevalence of medical mistakes and ultimately make hospitals safer. A new study, however, indicates that medical errors may be up to 10 times ...

Confirming the latest phase in the company's expansion programme, the catering firm has opened new office premises in Irvine, Ayrshire, from which its UK operations will be managed. "The company had long since outgrown the current premises and the new office offers us the perfect base for managing operations throughout the UK. Following a period of rapid expansion in each of our service areas, it became increasingly apparent that the team required additional space to successfully manage existing contracts and I'm confident that expanding into new premises is a key ...

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The participation in the Ukrainian Renewable Energy Forum has already established a strong position in the plans of players who are interested in developing and promoting of their business. During the year we have been preparing a business platform REF-2011, to give forum participants the maximum that is possible over two days - the quality information and communication, and to ask another impetus to the development of renewable energy in Ukraine. In 2010, the Ukrainian Renewable Energy Forum REF-2010 brought together over 260 delegates from 28 countries and this fact proves ...

Nuance Communications, Inc. has already proven itself a leading provider of imaging and speech solutions. It has previously introduced to the technology crowd its Nuance PDF Converter for Windows. The company follows up the move with another good one - the release of the Nuance PDF Converter for MAC. This action allows MAC users to do just about everything with PDF files. MAC versus Windows Though the MAC operating system (OS) is frequently encased in stylish exteriors, which Apple is known for, the OS itself is still just a runner up to Windows. So, the introduction ...

A new biomaterial designed for repairing damaged human tissue doesn't wrinkle up when it is stretched. The invention from nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego marks a significant breakthrough in tissue engineering because it more closely mimics the properties of native human tissue. Shaochen Chen, professor in the Department of NanoEngineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, hopes future tissue patches, which are used to repair damaged heart walls, blood vessels and skin, for example, will be more compatible with native human tissue ...

Are you worrying about the disobedience of your dog? Dogs need plenty of physical exercise, an effective standard of communication and mental stimulation, and a lack in any one of these could affect your dog's behavior. Although pet dogs aren't that difficult to deal with some breeds are very difficult to train and control. Whatever effort you put, in training your dog sometimes may yield no required result. Through dog obedience training, that provide customized, private, in-home lessons to your dogs, they are taught to behave in a certain manner. After each lesson, you ...

New York, NY, May 25, 2011 – Sudden cardiac death in young athletes who had not previously exhibited symptoms is a relatively rare yet tragic event. This occurs in around 60-80 young athletes annually in the United States. In the June 2011 issue of The American Journal of Medicine, researchers collected electrocardiograms and echocardiograms of 964 athletes at a single university and found that distinct ECG abnormalities were present in 10% and were more common in males as well as black athletes. Two athletes were subsequently excluded from competition. Investigators ...

The cofounder of the Small Business Survival Summit urged Maryland business owners to celebrate Small Business Week by becoming more adept at business practices that will make them successful. "Small business is the core strength of the American economy," says summit creator Patrick Chambers. "More than half of all Americans either own or work for a small business. And while there's a lot of talk about creating jobs, let's remember that small businesses create 60 to 80 percent of new jobs." The first-ever Small Business Survival Summit, scheduled ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Over the past two decades, scientists have shown that babies only a few months old have a solid grasp on basic rules of the physical world. They understand that objects can't wink in and out of existence, and that objects can't "teleport" from one spot to another. Now, an international team of researchers co-led by MIT's Josh Tenenbaum has found that infants can use that knowledge to form surprisingly sophisticated expectations of how novel situations will unfold. Furthermore, the scientists developed a computational model of infant cognition that ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — There is water inside the moon – so much, in fact, that in some places it rivals the amount of water found within the Earth. The finding from a scientific team including Brown University comes from the first-ever measurements of water in lunar melt inclusions. Those measurements show that some parts of the lunar mantle have as much water as the Earth's upper mantle. Lunar melt inclusions are tiny globules of molten rock trapped within crystals that are found in volcanic glass deposits formed during explosive eruptions. The new finding, ...

Auto repair shop direct mail ( http://www.mudlickmail.com/ ) services provider, Mudlick Mail has formed a partnership with Honest-1 Auto Care, the nation's only eco-friendly auto repair chain. The partnership will help Honest-1 franchisees more effectively market and advertise their shops and grow their businesses. Mudlick Mail ( http://www.mudlickmail.com/ ) will offer exclusive direct mail packaging and pricing for Honest-1 franchisees, according to the agreement. As part of the company's partnership with Mudlick Mail, Honest-1 franchisees will receive a market analysis, ...

Athens, Ga. – A technical comment published in the current (May 27) edition of the journal Science casts doubt on a widely publicized study that concluded that a bacterial bloom in the Gulf of Mexico consumed the methane discharged from the Deepwater Horizon well. The debate has implications for the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem as well as for predictions of the effect of global warming, said marine scientist and lead author Samantha Joye, University of Georgia Athletic Association Professor in Arts and Sciences. Based on methane and oxygen distributions measured at 207 ...

Washington, D.C.—The Moon has much more water than previously thought, a team of scientists led by Carnegie's Erik Hauri has discovered. Their research, published May 26 in Science Express, shows that inclusions of magma trapped within crystals collected during the Apollo 17 mission contain 100 times more water than earlier measurements. These results could markedly change the prevailing theory about the Moon's origin. The research team used a state-of-the-art NanoSIMS 50L ion microprobe to measure seven tiny samples of magma trapped within lunar crystals as so-called ...

As part of this year's Location Business Summit in Amsterdam, Wikitude announces the international expansion of Wikitude Drive. "In addition to Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the world's first Augmented Reality navigation system is now available to millions of additional Android users in the UK, Italy, Spain and France" says Andy Gstoll, Wikitude's CMO at the Locations Business Summit in Amsterdam. The award-winning application does not need any maps, but instead overlays the desired route onto the camera view of the mobile device. For as little as 9.99 Euro ...

HOUSTON -- (May 27, 2011) – The genes of a cell are like the 88 keys of a piano. To play chords and music, however, the keys must be activated in exact combinations by a pianist's hands. Those hands represent the coregulators of a cell that simultaneously and precisely activate genes to produce all of the cell's functions. More than half of your DNA is devoted to regulating how the genes that make proteins – the workhorses of the cells – carry out their tasks, said Dr. Bert O'Malley (http://www.bcm.edu/mcb/index.cfm?pmid=7694), who, with Dr. Jun Qin (http://www.bcm.edu/biochem/?PMID=3779), ...

Troy, N.Y. – Thirty-eight million years ago, tropical jungles thrived in what are now the cornfields of the American Midwest and furry marsupials wandered temperate forests in what is now the frozen Antarctic. The temperature differences of that era, known as the late Eocene, between the equator and Antarctica were only half of what they are today. A debate has long been raging in the scientific community on what changes in our global climate system led to such a major shift from the more tropical, greenhouse climate of the Eocene to the modern and much cooler climates ...

The video game marathon will be broadcast live via SavePatches and feature a team playing console computer games past and present for 24 hours straight. Viewers will also be able to chat during the marathon through the built in chat feature. Through this feature viewers will be able to suggest games and help the gamers out if they get stuck. "We saw the success of similar events in America and thought the concept could be used in the United Kingdom to raise money for Charity", comments Simon Butler lead gamer and event co-ordinator. "We hope an event like ...

HOUSTON – (May 27, 2011) – Cells, like ordinary households, produce "garbage" – debris and dysfunctional elements – that need disposal. When the mechanism for taking out this garbage fails, rare genetic diseases called lysosomal storage disorders (including Tay-Sachs, Batten and Fabry disease) can disable and even kill the children they affect. In adults, such failure leads to neurodegenerative diseases that occur later in life, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. An international partnership between researchers at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research ...

Disparities between racial/ethnic minorities and whites cross all aspects of stroke care, according to an American Heart Association/American Stroke Association scientific statement. The statement, published online in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, is a comprehensive analysis of the role of race and ethnicity in stroke care and its impact on the numbers of people who have a stroke, live with its effects or die among minority groups compared to whites. It also addresses how access to care, response to treatment and participation in clinical research ...

Omega-3 fatty acids, combined with two blood-thinning drugs, significantly changed the blood-clotting process and may reduce the risk of heart attacks in patients with stents in their heart arteries, according to research reported in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology: Journal of the American Heart Association. Foods rich in omega-3, such as salmon and other oily fish, have been previously shown in other studies to reduce the risk of heart problems in people with coronary artery disease. In this study, the participants were given the pill form of omega-3 ...

Lucas Fox International Properties today announce their accreditation as a registered estate agent in Cataluna. The register d'agents immobiliaris accreditation is given by The Generalitat of Catalonia. The accreditation allows the company to provide estate agency services in Catalonia. Alexander Vaughan, Director of Lucas Fox International Barcelona comments, "This accreditation verifies our high levels of service and commitment to our clients. Lucas Fox has always strived to worth ethically and professionally and this is formalised by our obtaining the Generalitat's ...