Today, Sleep Train, the number one mattress store on the West Coast, is honored to announce it has received nationwide recognition for its Sleep Train Foster Kids Program from the Points of Light Institute, a national organization founded in 1989 under President George Bush to recognize people changing the world through service. Sleep Train is the recipient of the institute's May 23rd, 2011 Daily Point of Light Award, honoring individuals and volunteer groups who are helping to meet critical needs in their communities and creating change every day. In 2008, Sleep Train ...

DetentionReport (http://www.detentionreport.com), a new website that releases daily mugshots of different personalities has just been launched. Web visitors can comment on the site without registering. How DententionReport Works Content is mainly generated by the Internet community. Some of the funniest mugshots of famous people or local criminals are collected from various sources and submitted to the website. The site owner then publishes these photographs on the site and web visitors are free to comment on these photos without having to go through cumbersome registrations. ...

The brilliant game designers at no download casino WinADay have come up with yet another completely original, one-of-a-kind slot machine. Before they launch it next month, they're asking players to name it. Like all of WinADay's newest casino games, this one will be a full-screen, 5 reel, 21 pay line slot machine with amazing graphics and effects. In a tribute to the spirit of America, the reels will be adorned with symbols of the land of the free and home of the brave including baseballs, hamburgers and Uncle Sam's star spangled top hat. A Statue of Liberty will be ...

Be it through the Internet, Facebook, the local grapevine or the spread of disease, interaction networks influence nearly every part of our lives. Scientists previously assumed that interaction networks without central control, known as self-directed networks, have universal properties that make them efficient at spreading information. Just think of the local grapevine: Let something slip, and it seems like no time at all before nearly everyone knows. By observing interactions in ant colonies, University of Arizona researcher Anna Dornhaus and doctoral candidate Benjamin ...

A leading provider of Electronic Medical Record, medical billing, practice management, and patient portal software, Bizmatics is announcing the launch of their new website, http://www.bizmaticsinc.com/. With a complete redesign by EMR and patient portal website specialists Medical Web Experts (http://www.medicalwebexperts.com/), the site promises to offer their clients a better way to explore the benefits of EMR as well as provide more user-friendly features and resources. Bizmatics is best known for their flagship EMR product PrognoCIS, a CCHIT and ONC-ATCB-certified ...

MADISON – Pity the lowly astrocyte, the most common cell in the human nervous system. Long considered to be little more than putty in the brain and spinal cord, the star-shaped astrocyte has found new respect among neuroscientists who have begun to recognize its many functions in the brain, not to mention its role in a range of disorders of the central nervous system. Now, writing in the current (May 22) issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology, a group led by University of Wisconsin-Madison stem cell researcher Su-Chun Zhang reports it has been able to direct embryonic ...

Sherpia Inc., today announced the addition of several Industry Guides that now share website recommendations on Sherpia.com, a social search site which allows its users to find relevant and recommended websites for their personal interests or activities based on reviews from others they trust. In addition to Industry Guides, an individual may limit search results to recommendations from those they trust including friends, co-workers, or others. The set of interest-based activities in Sherpia include online shopping, travel, music, and dozens of other categories. Sherpia ...

Earthquake scientists trying to unravel the mysteries of an unfelt, weeks-long seismic phenomenon called episodic tremor and slip have discovered a strange twist. The tremor can suddenly reverse direction and travel back through areas of the fault that it had ruptured in preceding days, and do so 20 to 40 times faster than the original fault rupture. "Regular tremor and slip goes through an area fairly slowly, breaking it. Then once it's broken and weakened an area of the fault, it can propagate back across that area much faster," said Heidi Houston, a University of ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA – May 22, 2011 -- The stomach bacteria responsible for ulcers could also play a role in the development of Parkinson's disease according to research presented today at the 111th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. "Infection of late middle-aged mice with a particular strain of the bacteria Helicobacter pylori results in development of Parkinson's disease symptoms after 3-5 months," says Traci Testerman of Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, who presented the research. "Our findings suggest that H. pylori ...

ZyLAB, a leading eDiscovery and information management technology company, today announced that it was positioned by Gartner, Inc. as a "Visionary" among the 24 eDiscovery software vendors selected for inclusion in the firm's inaugural "Magic Quadrant for E-Discovery Software" report. ZyLAB's position in the visionary quadrant is based upon Gartner's analysis of the company's ability to execute and its completeness of vision. ZyLAB has demonstrated its keen understanding of buyers' wants and needs and the ability to translate that understanding into ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA – May 22, 2011 -- Combining the cutting-edge technology of whole genome sequencing of bacteria with social networking analysis, public health officials can get a more detailed picture of disease outbreaks that will better help track and stop them, say researchers today at the 111th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. "Public health agencies are now able to harness the power of genome sequencing, which, when combined with the detailed clinical and epidemiological data we have access to, allows us to reconstruct outbreaks and really ...

May 22, 2011 –Gothenburg, Sweden: Two trials presented at the Heart Failure Congress 2011, organized by the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (HFA of the ESC), will help to define the precise populations of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) in whom telemedical management delivers benefits. Both the TIM-HF and TEHAF studies - presented in Late Breaking Session 1 - revealed that telemonitoring showed significant benefits in defined subgroups of patients. The results, which will be used to help in the design of future trials, come ...

May 22, 2011- Gothenburg, Sweden : The aldosterone antagonist eplerenone (Inspra, Pfizer) significantly reduced the development of new onset atrial fibrillation and flutter (AFF) in patients with class 2 heart failure, concludes a sub-analysis of the EMPHASIS-HF trial, presented at the Heart Failure Congress 2011, organized by the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). The analysis, presented in Late Breaking Session 1, furthermore showed that the beneficial effects of eplerenone in reducing major CV events were similar in patients with ...

Patients with dyssynchronous yet viable ventricles are most likely to benefit from cardiac resynchronization therapy combined with defibrillation, concludes the latest analysis of the MADIT CRT trial. The CRT-MADIT-CRT trial - presented at the Heart Failure Congress 2011, organized by the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in Late Breaking Session 1 - showed that CRT produced improvements in both synchrony and contractile function, and that the extent of this benefit relates to subsequent outcomes. The Multicentre Automatic Defibrillator ...

A Canadian research team has developed an automated microfluidic cell culture platform to monitor the growth, survival and responses of hundreds of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) at the single cell level. This new tool allows scientists to study multiple temporally varying culture conditions simultaneously and to gain new insights on the growth factor requirements for HSC survival. "The ability to perform massively parallel cultures of single non-adherent mammalian cells will provide new avenues to explore complex biological questions," says Véronique Lecault, lead ...

A new study by rheumatologists at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York has shown that a powerful pro-inflammatory protein, tumor necrosis factor (TNF), can also suppress aspects of inflammation. The researchers say the identification of the mechanism of how this occurs could potentially lead to new treatments for diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. The study was published May 22 online in advance of publication in the journal Nature Immunology. "Prior to this study, TNF has long been known as a potent pro-inflammatory cytokine, but if you look carefully through ...

Adevarul, Romania's premier integrated multimedia business publishing magazines such as OK!, Forbes, etc. chooses LockLizard Safeguard Enterprise PDF DRM to secure ebooks in their new ebook shop, www.adevarulshop.ro. Adevarul had been looking to provide digital products and take a leading position in the rapidly developing ebook marketplace, but concerns over piracy and associated loss of revenue had prevented them from pursuing this avenue further. Enter LockLizard with their PDF DRM software - a DRM solution for secure ebooks in PDF format. LockLizard PDF DRM has been ...

Researchers have identified a new protein involved in the development of drug resistance in breast cancer which could be a target for new treatments, they report today in the journal Nature Medicine. In a mouse model of breast cancer, blocking production of the protein using genetic techniques caused tumours to shrink. The scientists are now looking for new drugs which could achieve a similar effect. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK, affecting about 46,000 women each year. More than two thirds of breast tumours contain oestrogen receptors, meaning that ...

A new computer model of the Gulf of Mexico in the period after the oil spill provides insights into how underwater currents may have primed marine microorganisms to degrade the oil. "It is called dynamic auto-inoculation. Parcels of water move over the ruptured well, picking up hydrocarbons. When these parcels come back around and cross back over the well, the bacteria have already been activated, are more abundant than before, and degrade hydrocarbons far more quickly," says David Valentine of the University of California, Santa Barbara, speaking today at the 111th ...

Page 1 Solutions, a Colorado-based Internet marketing and website design agency, just launched a new website design and new logo for the company on May 17th, 2011. Page 1 offers Web marketing services to attorneys, dentists, plastic surgeons, and ophthalmologists across the U.S. and Canada. It has been three years since Page 1 has had a new website design and the timing was perfect for the new site to go live. It was launched right before the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (AACD) meeting in Boston, MA, where Page 1 is exhibiting. Spring and summer are busy travel ...

Boston, MA – The physical forces that guide how cells migrate—how they manage to get from place to place in a coordinated fashion inside the living body— are poorly understood. Scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) have, for the first time, devised a way to measure these forces during collective cellular migration. Their surprising conclusion is that the cells fight it out, each pushing and pulling on its neighbors in a chaotic dance, yet together moving cooperatively toward their intended direction. The ...

Boston - A study by researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and collaborators at other institutions has provided new insights into the means by which bone cells produce new bone in response to mechanical stresses, such as exercise. Their findings lay a path for developing new strategies for treating diseases characterized by low bone density, such as osteoporosis in adults and osteogenesis imperfecta in children. The research team, led by Matthew Warman, MD, of the Orthopedic Research Laboratories (ORL) in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Children's Hospital ...

The HIV epidemic is the largest in the world and represents one of the most serious public health problems, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO). Only 30% of the more than 10 million patients in need have the access to the antiretroviral treatment. The total number of infected people exceeds 30 million and there are about 3 million new infections per year. The best hope for reducing the incidence of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a preventive vaccine. The most effective preventive vaccines act by inducing a response based on neutralizing ...

Los Angeles, Calif., May 22, 2011—Some men of African descent may have a higher genetic risk of developing prostate cancer, according to research conducted at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC). The genome-wide association study, published in the journal Nature Genetics on May 22, determined a marker of risk for prostate cancer in men of African descent, who tend to more susceptible to prostate cancer than men of non-African descent. The research team was led by Christopher Haiman, ScD., at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center ...

STANFORD, Calif. — A rare genetic disease called dyskeratosis congenita, caused by the rapid shortening of telomeres (protective caps on the ends of chromosomes), can be mimicked through the study of undifferentiated induced pluripotent stem cells, according to new findings from the Stanford University School of Medicine. Although dyskeratosis affects only about one in a million people, the scientists' findings could greatly facilitate research into this and other diseases caused by stem cell malfunctions, including some bone marrow failure syndromes and, perhaps, pulmonary ...