North Carolina Researchers Examine Prescription Drug Medical Errors Use of Prescription Drugs Not Tested in Children The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced an important new series of medical studies by the Pediatric Trials Network, a collaboration between NIH and Duke University's Clinical Research Institute, the world's largest academic clinical research organization. Researchers will study the effects of medical drugs and medical devices on children -- an important and often overlooked area of study. Surprisingly, clinical trials of prescription ...

Radisson Blu Hotel Tallinn, Estonia has announced that it now holds the Green Key eco-label certificate. The Green Key is an international eco-label for tourism and hospitality enterprises, recognizing their sense of responsibility for the environment and their local communities in general. To obtain the Green Key certificate an organization has to comply with a list of environmental and social awareness criteria. For Radisson Blu Hotels, the Green Key is a way of reaching out to guests and the community on how to attain in its business activities the harmony ...

House of Fraser, the premium department store is has introduced a toy collection from Hamleys online at houseoffraser.co.uk. The world's most famous toys store now offers a jam-packed collection that is full of specially selected toys made up of Hamleys own-brand and other favourite toy brands of popular toys and games for customers to purchase from the House of Fraser website. Founded by William Hamley in 1760, Hamleys currently operates out of its famous flagship store in London's Regent Street, airport stores, online at hamleys.com and a few concession stores in Denmark. ...

Barclaycard Freedom has announced that shoppers at House of Fraser can now earn Reward Money on purchases made at the department store*. House of Fraser is the latest household name to join over 20,000 retailers nationwide in one of the broadest customer reward schemes in the UK. Its customers will be able to earn 1% Reward Money with Barclaycard - just in time to cash in on Christmas shopping plus take advantage of any in store promotions. Sarah Alspach, marketing director of Barclaycard Freedom commented: "With 60 department stores across the UK, we're delighted ...

Bigmouthmedia's 2011 Travel Report has revealed that the sector's enthusiasm for digital marketing is set to continue in the face of extremely challenging trading conditions. While the travel sector has continued to be amongst the worst affected by events in 2010, the standout statistics from the bigmouthmedia Travel Report 2011 indicate that enthusiasm for the nascent social media and mobile channels is set to continue unabated, with social strategies taking a larger share of budgets than direct email marketing for the first time. Meanwhile smart phone enabled enthusiasm ...

The National Trust is launching a new campaign to encourage people to help secure the future of mistletoe in its heartland by buying sustainably sourced home-grown mistletoe in the run up to Christmas and the season of office parties.  The campaign is also encouraging shoppers to ask where the mistletoe they are buying has come from. The heartland for mistletoe is Somerset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, and this is where the plant is under threat as its main habitat of traditional orchards have declined dramatically in the last sixty years. Peter ...

Topshop will be stocking key pieces from the graduate collections of three of this year's most talented Central Saint Martins alumni for the first time. All three collections are available in-store from 8th December, while Lilly Heine and Matthew Harding's collections are also available on Topshop.com. Unavailable anywhere else in the world, customers can get their hands on one-off pieces by these talented graduates. Lilly Heine's graduate collection won her international recognition. Lilly is trained in textile design and her aesthetic is characterised by unusual ...

npower has announced the winners of its manager of the month and player of the month awards for the npower Football League in November. Port Vale manager Micky Adams has been named npower League 2 manager of the month. Vale picked up eight points during the month, conceding only one goal along the way. Former Charlton Athletic boss Alan Curbishley chairs the npower football league manager of the month judging panel. He said: "Port Vale maintained their consistent form which saw them top the npower League 2 table. Micky's side have the best defensive record in the ...

Reduce the levels of chronic stress in your body, extend your lifespan, boost your antioxidant levels, protect your nervous system (and sanity) while giving your endocrine system a much-needed rest. How? Download the original "That's What She Said" app and let the doctors' order go to work! Pranksters and jokesters alike can now have the world's most well-known sexual innuendo at their fingertips. The original Windows 7 Phone application for adding humor to any conversation is available now. Make your Windows 7 Phone the perfect conversation stopper (or starter) with ...

As your children open their latest electronic gadgets at Christmas time, do you ever wonder what the cutting-edge toys were like almost 100 years ago? Now you can see some at the DFW Elite Toy Museum in Fort Worth. The museum has recently acquired an extremely rare toy Christmas car. The tin car was manufactured by German toymaker Fischer in 1912. The toy is one of the rarest example of tin litho autos with Santa at the wheel. The toy is notable for its extensive graphic detail and die-cut stamping depicting teddy bears and toys on the sides of the vehicle. The back ...

TRIBAIR, a startup based in Montreal, Canada, is launching their global network of VOIP hotspots where members turn their personal or business WiFi into hubs for other members to use. When TRIBAIR users make paid long distance calls hotspot owners earn up to 20% of all revenues made over their hub. TRIBAIR aims to create the largest, decentralized VOIP community in the world. Anyone with a smartphone can download the TRIBAIR VoIP application for iPhone, Android or Blackberry and includes a starter credit of 25 cents, which represents 17 minutes of calling to over 50 ...

Spread-Betting.com introduces a newly launched trading guide bringing you the latest news and innovations in spread betting, offering practical, rigorous 'how-to' trading educational material on the intricacies of financial spread betting including trading strategies and technical analysis. If you have access to spread betting as a means of trading the markets then you absolutely must consider it seriously. The Spread-Betting.com website provides traders and investors alike with all the details and information one needs to open a spread betting account and start trading ...

Zedge, a leading mobile content discovery platform with 30 million monthly unique visitors, invites Android app developers to promote their apps on Zedge. Android developers will now be able to participate in an app promotional network that does not promote based on pay per click or pay per download. Rather, it promotes based on fair and open rankings available to all developers and not just the ones that have deep pockets to pay for promotion. Space is limited, but initial entry during the beta period is free to all developers who are accepted. "Independent app developers ...

Boss Creations has launched its CHRIST-mas Tree and "Christian Nation" CHRIST-mas Tree, featuring an illuminated cross in the center. The creator, Marsha Boggs, says Glenn Beck was her inspiration to make a difference in America. "I believe we need to take a stand and rescue our religious holiday," says Marsha Boggs, founder of Boss Creations. "The new tradition of celebrating Christmas with a CHRIST-mas Tree will help put an end to the secularization of Christmas while enhancing the family's celebration. We also hope to spark the curiosity and develop dialogue with ...

LA JOLLA, CA-A close collaboration between researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the Institute for Advanced Study found that the tumor suppressor p53, long thought of as the "Guardian of the Genome," may do more than thwart cancer-causing mutations. It may also prevent established cancer cells from sliding toward a more aggressive, stem-like state by serving as a "Guardian against Genome Reprogramming." The new work, reported by Geoffrey M. Wahl, Ph.D., and Benjamin Spike, Ph.D., at Salk Institute and Arnold J. Levine, Ph.D., and Hideaki Mizuno, ...

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. – December 13, 2010 -- When a field of tubeworms was unexpectedly discovered on the side of a large underwater mountain 50 miles off the coast of Cyprus this summer, the finding was notable both for the discovery itself and for the process of the discovery. Found by a team of researchers led by marine explorer Robert Ballard, the tubeworms, in the genus Siboglinidae, have a symbiotic relationship with chemosynthetic bacteria; they both work together to metabolize warm, mineral-rich water that is seeping out of the seafloor. Numerous colonies of the ...

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have identified the primary site where the virus that causes foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) begins infection in cattle. This discovery could lead to development of new vaccines to control and potentially eradicate FMD, a highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease of cloven-hoofed animals that is considered the most economically devastating livestock disease in the world. The discovery was made by scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Foreign Animal Disease Research Unit at the Plum Island Animal ...

Over expressing a transcription factor that promotes the increase in number of mitochondria greatly improves the neurological function of transgenic mice models for Huntington's disease (HD), researchers today told the American Society of Cell Biology's 50th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Albert La Spada, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at the UC San Diego (UCSD) explained that over expression of the transcription factor results in a substantial clearing of the mutant protein aggregates in the brains of the mice models for HD. The misfolded huntingtin (htt) proteins ...

Contact: Yael Chatav Schonbrun, Ph.D. Yael_Chatav@Brown.edu 401-455-6547 Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research The effects of Alcoholics Anonymous on women returning from prison This new research is the first of its kind to analyze the effects of Alcohlics Anonymous attendance in incarcerated women and its effects The effects of alcohol abuse, as well as recovery from it, have been intensely studied. However, incarcerated women have remained an extremely understudied population despite steadily increasing ...

Contact: John F. Kelly, Ph.D. jkelly11@partners.org 617-643-1980 Center for Addiction Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital Keith Humphreys, Ph.D. knh@stanford.edu 650-617-2746 Stanford University Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research The effects of spirituality in Alcoholics Anonymous on alcohol dependence New research shows that attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings may increase spirituality and help decrease frequency and intensity of alcohol use Alcoholics Anonymous is a widely known 12-step program that can ...

Contact: Craig R. Rush, Ph.D. crush2@uky.edu 859-257-5388 Department of Behavioral Science, University of Kentucky Medical Center Mark T. Fillmore, Ph.D. fillmore@uky.edu 859-257-4728 Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research Alcohol consumption may increase amphetamine abuse New research indicates that ingesting moderate amounts of alcohol may increase an individual's risk of amphetamine abuse Amphetamines are part of a large group of drugs known as stimulants, which are commonly misused in the United ...

Contact: Joseph L. Jacobson, Ph.D. joseph.jacobson@wayne.edu 248-701-2159 Wayne State University School of Medicine Julie A. Kable, Ph.D. Julie.Kable@choa.org 404-712-9833 Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research Deficits in number processing in children with ADHD and alcohol exposure: Similar but different New research shows that ADHD and alcohol exposure in children while similar have different causes On the surface, children with fetal alcohol exposure and attention deficit hyperactivity ...

CHICAGO --- People will gain significantly less weight by middle age – especially women – if they engage in moderate to vigorous activity nearly every day of the week starting as young adults, according to new Northwestern Medicine research. Women particularly benefitted from high activity over 20 years, gaining an average of 13 pounds less than those with low activity; while men with high activity gained about 6 pounds less than their low-activity peers. High activity included recreational exercise such as basketball, running, brisk walking or an exercise class or ...

Young adults, particularly women, who maintained high levels of moderate and vigorous activity over a period of 20 years experienced smaller gains in weight and waist circumference during the transition from young adulthood to middle age, compared to individuals with lower activity levels, according a study in the December 15 issue of JAMA. The prevalence of obesity has increased markedly since 1976, now exceeding 30 percent among U.S. adults, and has well-known associations with illness and disability. Although many studies have examined treatments for obesity, data ...

Use of certain measures for lung preservation after brain death in potential organ donors resulted in a nearly doubling of lungs eligible for donation, compared to a conventional strategy that is used, according to preliminary research published in the December 15 issue of JAMA. Of patients with relatively normal pulmonary function at the time of brain death, only 15 percent to 20 percent of these patients' lungs are subsequently suitable for transplantation, which may be the result in part from the ventilatory strategy used after brain death. There is controversy as ...