Latest Scoop on Breast Surgery
2011-01-08
Breast surgery is an umbrella term for several types of cosmetic surgery procedures including breast augmentation, breast lift, breast reduction, breast reconstruction and breast implant revision. These breast surgery options can improve the appearance of breasts from the use of breast implants for small, asymmetric or misshapen breasts to a breast reduction for disproportionately heavy breasts.
Today, plastic surgeons offer many different breast surgery procedures (http://www.psurgery.com/breast-surgery.html) that can be tailored to the specific needs of individual ...
What to Do If You Are in a Severe Car Accident
2011-01-08
Getting in a a severe car accident can be a life-changing experience. Car accidents can result in mild injuries, such as scratches and scrapes, or serious and life-threatening trauma such as head, neck, and spinal cord injuries. It is important to follow the some specific steps after being in a severe car accident to ensure that you are able to recover physically, emotionally, and financially.
Your first step after a severe car accident should be to seek immediate medical attention. If possible, exchange the following information from all drivers involved:
- Name
- ...
Personal Injuries Caused by New York City Bicyclists Can be Reduced
2011-01-08
According to New York City statistics available to New York personal injury attorneys, there have been approximately 3,830 bicycle related accidents, including 12 fatal accidents involving bicycles, so far this year.
In the New York Post, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer was quoted as saying that bike lanes are a significant contributor to the increase in bicycle accidents, some of which resulted in personal injury to pedestrians. The existence of the bikes lanes apparently causes cyclists to feel they "now own the road and think they can do no wrong." ...
Criminal Convictions Have Devastating Consequences for Immigrants
2011-01-08
Ohio High School Standout Latest Victim of Strict US Immigration Laws
Bernard Pastor, an 18-year-old student from Springdale, Ohio is making national news - and not because he was set to graduate in the top five of his high-school class. Instead of enjoying his senior year and making plans for college like the rest of his classmates, Pastor is being held at a detention center in Ohio awaiting deportation back to Guatemala.
Pastor was taken into police custody after being unable to produce a driver's license at the scene of a minor traffic accident. Driving without ...
Jurisdiction in Minnesota for Out of State Developers
2011-01-08
Before an individual can be called into a particular court, that court must have personal jurisdiction over the person. If you have never had any interactions with the state of Minnesota, for example, a Minnesota court cannot demand that you make an appearance.
When companies are involved, though, the issue of personal jurisdiction can become complicated. Companies do not reside in a single location and often interact with people in a variety of states; complex business structures can lead to difficult questions regarding personal jurisdiction.
Recently, the Minnesota ...
When a Colorado Skiing Accident Injury is Not Your Fault
2011-01-08
Anyone who skis or snowboards knows that a certain level of risk is inherent to these sports. Yet after a ski accident , many injured skiers are unaware just where the line is between negligence on the part of others and the risks one assumes by taking to the slopes. Although skiing is a relatively safe sport, serious injuries can occur. When a skier is injured, it is very important to be able to recognize when fellow skiers, or the ski resort itself, may be to blame under Colorado law.
Common Ski Injuries
Despite skiing's reputation as a dangerous sport, the rates ...
The Hallmark of Our Justice System: Innocent Until Proven Guilty
2011-01-08
In the United States, our justice system is premised on a fundamental principle: those accused of crime are deemed innocent until they are proven guilty. The bar for establishing guilt is high -- jurors are expected to only convict an individual accused of a crime if the prosecutor has proved guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt."
At times though, this expectation contradicts the assumptions of those who are asked to serve as members of the jury. For some it is easy to assume that by the time an individual has been arrested by the police and put on trial by a prosecutor, ...
Should the MTA be Required to Unlock New York Subway Doors?
2011-01-08
City councilwoman Letitia James introduced a resolution that would force the MTA to unlock subway car doors.
She says it's a question of public safety. With the subway doors locked, passengers have no way to escape a situation in which they feel unsafe, like a fight in a subway car or harassment by another rider.
The city, however, believes that locked doors keep the straphangers safer. When the trains are moving, the gap between cars can be dangerously large at times. To the city, the risk involved in allowing individuals to move between cars outweighs the risk ...
M&S Money Reveals Over 50s Stick Close to Home in Retirement
2011-01-08
M&S Money has revealed that only 10% of the UK's 50 to 70 year olds are actually considering upping and leaving Britain behind for good when they retire, putting to rest the myths of the UK's "globe trotting" older generation.
Indeed, contrary to popular belief the majority (61%) of this age group have no desire to move overseas and prefer to holiday close to home or in an English-speaking country. The top five destinations where M&S Credit Card customers use their card are USA, France, Spain, Ireland and Italy.
Research conducted by the Institute of Public Policy ...
House of Fraser Introduces New Tommy Hilfiger Collection Online
2011-01-08
House of Fraser, the premium department store now offers the new Tommy Hilfiger 2011 collection online at www.houseoffraser.co.uk.
Established in 1985, Tommy Hilfiger has successfully created preppy, luxury leisurewear along with fresh fragrances. Tommy Hilfiger clothing and accessories, including men's jeans and men's socks, women's clothing and children's hats and scarves are now all available at houseoffraser.co.uk.
The new range includes Tommy Hilfiger's Men's Holiday collection, featuring padded cotton plaid shirts in a variety of festive shades from holly ...
Salon and Spa Galleria Adds Arlington Location
2011-01-08
An old dog learns new tricks as an Arlington salon reopens its doors with a new marketing strategy for both customers and tenants. Every specialist who rents a studio at the Salon and Spa Galleria will receive a free page on the salon's search engine-optimized website.
"It's more than just a profile page with a picture and contact information," says the owner of the salon. "It's a personal salon blog they can use to connect with their client bases. Every blog posting makes their page that much more optimized for Google, thus getting them that much more exposure on the ...
Didriks Announces British Cutlery Designer David Mellor Honored for Design Achievements by Modern Magazine
2011-01-08
In their Winter 2010 issue Modern Magazine spotlighted the late post-war British cutlery designer David Mellor. Mellor has been hailed "as Britain's most serious, modest and greatest postwar product designer."
Mellor not only devoted his professional life to the design of exceptional contemporary flatware but also created many well-known industrial designs woven in British daily life, such as public trash bins, street lights and the modernized red post box.
The full collection of David Mellor flatware is available for purchase in the United States at Didriks, in Cambridge, ...
Didriks Announces Third Annual February Campaign to Benefit Food For Free
2011-01-08
Didriks, a retailer of outdoor furniture and home furnishings, announced that they will donate five percent of in-store and online sales in February to Cambridge, MA nonprofit Food For Free. This will be Didriks' third annual campaign to benefit Food For Free, an organization that collects and provides fresh food to the needy.
Didriks invites the public to an in-store kickoff party on February 3rd, 2011, from 5-8pm. Catering for the event is provided by Season to Taste catering.
Food For Free Director, David Leslie, said: "We're excited and grateful to partner with ...
iWatchz Launches Carbon and Jelly Collections at CES 2011 -- The World's #1 iPod Nano Watch Follows the Huge Success of its 'Q Collection' with the Launch of Two New Stylish Collections
2011-01-08
The Carbon Collection features a matte-black aluminum nanoclipz system and a carbon watchband accented with coloured stitching available in six colours. The Carbon Collection will be available in early February 2011 at over 250 Apple Stores nationwide, Apple.com and www.iwatchz.com at $49.95 USD.
The Jelly Collection features a translucent-coloured nanoclipz system and matching vibrant silicon watchbands in pink, orange, red, green, blue, white and grey. The Jelly Collection will be available at retailers nationwide and at www.iwatchz.com in early February 2011 at the ...
IVF breakthrough to hit the world market
2011-01-07
A University of Adelaide reproductive biologist has achieved a major breakthrough in IVF technology that is expected to help millions of women around the world who have suffered previous miscarriages after IVF treatment.
Professor Sarah Robertson, an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow and member of the University's Robinson Institute, has partnered with a Danish company to develop a product which improves IVF embryo implantation rates for some women by up to 40%.
In the world's largest clinical trial on IVF media, Professor Robertson and ORIGIO a/s - a European company ...
Scripps Research chemist devises new method to quantify protein changes
2011-01-07
JUPITER, FL, January 5, 2011 – A scientist from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute has devised a new method of analyzing and quantifying changes in proteins that result from a common chemical process. The new findings could provide new insights into the effects of a highly destructive form of stress on proteins in various disease models, particularly cancer.
The study, published January 5, 2011, in the online Early View of the journal Angewandte Chemie, was designated by the journal as a "very important paper," a distinction bestowed on less than five ...
Deaths from anesthesia during childbirth plummet
2011-01-07
AURORA, Colo. (Jan. 5, 2011) – The number of women who die from complications of anesthesia during childbirth has plummeted 59 percent over the last two decades thanks to improved monitoring and better medical techniques, according to a recent study.
The report's lead researcher, Joy Hawkins, MD, professor of anesthesiology and director of Obstetric Anesthesia at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, said the risks have been dramatically reduced due to a greater focus on eliminating complications of general anesthesia.
Hawkins examined 12 years of anesthesia-related ...
Ammonites' last meal: New light on past marine food chains
2011-01-07
Scientists have discovered direct evidence of the diet of one of the most important group of ammonites, distant relatives of squids, octopuses and cuttlefishes. The discovery may bring a new insight on why they became extinct 65.5 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous.
Ammonites are among the world's most well known fossils but until now, there has been no experimental evidence of their place in the food chain. Using synchrotron X-rays, a Franco-American team of scientists led by Isabelle Kruta has discovered exceptionally preserved mouth organs of ammonites, ...
Ammonites dined on plankton
2011-01-07
Powerful synchrotron scans of Baculites fossils found on American Museum of Natural History expeditions to the Great Plains suggests that the extinct group of marine invertebrates to which they belong, the ammonites, had jaws and teeth adapted for eating small prey floating in the water. One ammonite also provided direct evidence of a planktonic diet because it died with its last meal in its mouth—tiny larval snails and crustacean bits. The detailed description of internal structure of ammonites, published by a Franco-American research team this week in Science, also provides ...
Spinning the unspinnable: Using biscrolling technology invented at UT Dallas
2011-01-07
Nanotechnologists at The University of Texas at Dallas have invented a broadly deployable technology for producing weavable, knittable, sewable, and knottable yarns containing up to 95 weight percent of otherwise unspinnable guest powders and nanofibers. A minute amount of host carbon nanotube web, which can be lighter than air and stronger pound-per-pound than steel, confines guest particulates in the corridors of highly conducting scrolls without interfering with guest functionality for such applications as energy storage, energy conversion, and energy harvesting.
Using ...
When it's cool, female butterflies chase males in sex role reversal
2011-01-07
If you want to be surrounded by females on the prowl, it pays to be cool, at least if you are a male butterfly.
In an unusual example of sex role reversals, females actively court males after being exposed to cool, dry temperatures as caterpillars, Yale University researchers report in the Jan. 7 issue of the journal Science. Raised in the moist and warmer season as larvae, males take up the traditional roles of suitor, displaying their wing designs to females who do the choosing.
"Behavior in these butterflies is changed by the temperatures experienced during development," ...
Cancer in a single catastrophe
2011-01-07
Most of the time cancer seems to creep up gradually over time; cells become premalignant, then increasingly abnormal before they become cancerous. But sometimes cancers seem to pop up as if out of nowhere. Now, researchers reporting in the January 7th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, have new evidence to explain how that can happen. Based on the DNA sequences of multiple cancer samples of various types, they show that cancer can arise suddenly in the aftermath of one-off cellular crises involving tens to hundreds of genomic rearrangements.
"We think ...
A blood test for Alzheimer's disease?
2011-01-07
Using a new technology that relies on thousands of synthetic molecules to fish for disease-specific antibodies, researchers have developed a potential method for detecting Alzheimer's disease with a simple blood test. The same methodology might lead to blood tests for many important diseases, according to the report in the January 7th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.
"If this works in Alzheimer's disease, it suggests it is a pretty general platform that may work for a lot of different diseases," said Thomas Kodadek of The Scripps Research Institute. ...
It's complicated: Despite the challenges, collaboration is key in kidney disease care
2011-01-07
Most primary care physicians (PCPs) and kidney specialists favor collaborative care for a patient with progressive chronic kidney disease (CKD), but their preferences on how and when to collaborate differ, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). PCPs and kidney specialists need to partner more effectively to optimize care for patients with CKD.
Prompt referral of patients to kidney specialists can slow CKD progression or help patients prepare for dialysis or kidney transplantation in a timely ...
Plasma jets are prime suspect in solar mystery
2011-01-07
BOULDER—One of the most enduring mysteries in solar physics is why the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is millions of degrees hotter than its surface. Now scientists believe they have discovered a major source of hot gas that replenishes the corona: narrow jets of plasma, known as spicules, shooting up from just above the Sun's surface. The finding addresses a fundamental question in astrophysics: how energy moves from the Sun's interior to create its hot outer atmosphere.
"It's always been quite a puzzle to figure out why the Sun's atmosphere is hotter than its surface," ...
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