Debenhams has announced the addition of four new designer names to its fashion range; Jonathan Saunders, Preen, Jonathan Kelsey and Roksanda Ilincic, who will be working with the retailer on a fresh new concept called Edition.      Edition will be fluid, allowing Debenhams to bring both the fashion industry's emerging and established talent to shoppers across the country. However, unlike other competitor collaborations, these designers will work with the retailer for a minimum of four seasons. Edition will debut in stores and online in spring 2011 with clothes from ...

Experian, the global information services company, announced that it has been selected by RBS to provide a range of global payment validation and data conversion services to the bank's corporate customers. The agreement enables RBS' corporate customers to make SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) compliant payments and ensure payments reach the correct beneficiaries anywhere in the world. As the migration to SEPA services gathers pace, banks and their corporate customers will no longer be able to use domestic Basic Bank Account Numbers (BBANs) in their domestic and cross-border ...

Bupa has revealed that fever, diarrhoea or vomiting are not enough to stop British parents sending their offspring to school. New research from the Bupa 'How Are You Britain?' report reveals half of all parents in the UK admit to sending their children to school or nursery when they are feeling poorly and this isn't just limited to the sniffles, with 17% saying contagious illnesses such as diarrhoea and vomiting (13%) are not reason enough to keep their children at home. The number one reason cited by two thirds of parents for sending poorly kids to school was the belief ...

AdCracker.com has released a compendium of the 52 most popular advertising techniques worldwide. This comprehensive collection of advertising techniques will inspire new ways for marketing and advertising professionals to create effective communications. The collection features hundreds of contemporary print, TV, digital and social media examples. And the techniques themselves range from the traditional - such as Problem / Solution and Metaphors - to cutting-edge techniques such as Dramatic Conflict. "We started with a review of thousands of ads from Asia, the ...

Corcentric, a leading provider of accounts payable automation solutions, today announced the launch of its COR360 Accounts Payable Automation product which features leading-edge technology advancements that automate, streamline, and drastically reduce the costs associated with invoice processing. This offering will become part of the Corcentric suite of powerful accounts payable and accounts receivable solutions. Corcentric is headquartered in McLean, VA. COR360 will feature automated three way matching using StraightThrough Processing technology, electronic invoice ...

Escrow Associates, LLC (www.escrowassociates.com) has been named one of the preferred providers of trusted neutral third party software escrow services for Microsoft's "Certified for Microsoft Dynamics" (CfMD) program. Escrow Associates, based out of Atlanta, Georgia, prides itself on stellar software escrow services supported by the most customizable agreements, personalized account services and a solid reputation. As of November 1, 2010 all Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) must escrow their source code to achieve the CfMD certification (More details). By providing ...

Northridge dentist, Dr. Farshid Ariz announced that he is offering a free periodontal consultation and evaluation to residents of the Northridge community. His hope is that people in the area will visit his office and become more aware of the importance of periodontal health. He hopes to evaluate patients and give them an assessment of periodontal health that will encourage them to get follow-up treatment. He plans to discuss periodontal health with his patients and advise them on any course of treatment they might need. In the end, he wants patients to be more aware ...

A new product from EnviroGreen Global Solutions, Inc., could prevent future incidents of food-borne illnesses such as the recent outbreak of Listeria in a processing plant in Texas which killed four people, according to Diane Hardin, Senior Vice President of Research and Development for EGS. AOL News reported on Thursday that the Texas Department of State Health Services has shut down the plant after tracing six cases of listeriosis, four of which were fatal, to celery processed there. Ms. Hardin explains, "Produce treated with Preserv Post Harvest Wash during processing ...

Tracker Corp, innovative leaders in SaaS and enterprise software for I-9 compliance and immigration case management, announced the promotion of David Ziegler to Vice President of Technology. David is responsible for development strategies of all Tracker Corp products, including ImmigrationTracker and Tracker I-9 software. An exemplary champion of continual product innovation at Tracker Corp, David leads an expert design and development team in step with market and customer demands. David began at Tracker almost a decade ago, as Employee #2, the company's first Technical ...

Patients with severe acne scars often resort to multiple treatments, but seeing only minimal results, start to suffer from a low self-image. Coolaser Laser Resurfacing, a technique developed by Dr. Simon Ourian of Epione Medical Corporation in Beverly Hills, is a highly effective treatment used by many individuals to restore clear skin and eliminate unsightly acne scars. Dr. Ourian's Coolaser technology is a highly individualized process, with a treatment regime customized for each patient. "Facial acne scars affect everybody differently," said Dr. Ourian, medical director ...

Just a few short years ago, the HyProCure sinus tarsi stent, a small titanium implant no longer than a paper clip, was an inspiration on a sketch pad and a dream to help people live a life free of debilitating foot pain. At that time, Dr. Michael E. Graham, the podiatric surgeon and creator of HyProCure, was searching for a better way to help his patients suffering from a very common and often devastating foot condition known as talotarsal dislocation syndrome (TTDS). TTDS is an abnormal motion of the ankle on the hindfoot bones causing the foot to become misaligned ...

Despite the advances humankind has made in technology, science, communication and spirituality over the past thousand years, human beings have yet to solve the most important, intriguing mysteries of humanity. What is the meaning of life? Is there a God? Why is there suffering and death? What happens when I die? Who am I? Every day across the globe, billions of people are asking these questions, left unsatisfied with the answers. Dr. Edward Schellhammer's Individuation Academy aims to form life counselors and coaches for the Third Millennium. "We intend to provide ...

Alliance Benefit Group, LLC (ABG) received an Excellence in Communications award at the recent annual meeting for the Retirement Income Industry Association (RIIA). The RIIA annually selects what they deem as the communications materials, advertising and marketing initiatives that stand out across the retirement income industry. ABG was named the winner of the Retail Retirement Income Communications Award sponsored by Investment News in the category of New Media. ABG earned the award for its submission of "Introducing a Smarter Way to Manage Your 401(k) Plan", a campaign ...

Eos Systems today announced the release of PhotoModeler 2010 and PhotoModeler Scanner 2010. PhotoModeler, a Windows application, is used to create 3D models and measurements from photographs using ordinary digital cameras. PhotoModeler Scanner software adds the capability of creating dense point clouds like a laser or 3D scanner but eliminates the need for expensive and cumbersome equipment. The flexibility in using the ubiquitous digital camera offers sophisticated 3D capabilities for technical professionals and home users alike. Both ends of this user spectrum ...

(WASHINGTON, October 25, 2010) – An updated joint guideline by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) advises physicians about the appropriate use of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs), a class of drugs that stimulate the bone marrow to produce more red blood cells, to treat cancer patients with chemotherapy-induced anemia. While the guideline cautions that ESAs are associated with shorter survival and increased risk of thromboembolism — blood clots — and tumor progression, it also recognizes their major benefit ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered that a poorly understood class of RNA produced in a mammal's cells during a respiratory virus attack may affect the outcome of the infection. Their findings are reported today in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology. RNA (ribonucleic acid) contains information transcribed from the cell's instruction manual, its DNA. The best known of these RNAs translate sections of DNA code into building blocks for proteins. Most studies of how animals' cells respond to virus infection typically look at protein-coding ...

Montreal −If you are a person who already has stable heart disease, how fast your heart beats at rest can predict your risk of dying, not only from heart disease but all other causes, Dr. Eva Lonn told the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2010, co-hosted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. "The higher the heart rate, the higher the risk of death from cardiovascular and all causes, even after adjusting for all risk factors that could confound our results," says Dr. Lonn, a cardiologist and professor at McMaster University. ...

Older adults who survived severe sepsis were more likely to develop substantial cognitive impairment and functional disability, according to a study in the October 27 issue of JAMA. Hundreds of thousands of patients endure severe sepsis each year in the United States, according to background information in the article. "Although severe sepsis is the most common non-cardiac cause of critical illness, the long-term impact of severe sepsis on cognitive and physical functioning is unknown," the authors write. Theodore J. Iwashyna, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Michigan ...

Ann Arbor, Mich. — Older adults who survive severe sepsis are at higher risk for long-term cognitive impairment and physical limitations than those hospitalized for other reasons, according to researchers from the University of Michigan Health System. Research to be published Oct. 27 in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that 60 percent of hospitalizations for severe sepsis were associated with worsened cognitive and physical function among surviving older adults. The odds of acquiring moderate to severe cognitive impairment were 3.3 times higher ...

Even though the cancer-treatment agent cetuximab is not considered effective treatment for KRAS (a gene)-mutated metastatic colorectal tumors, new research indicates that patients with colorectal cancer not responding to chemotherapy and a certain variation of this gene who were treated with cetuximab had longer overall and progression-free survival than patients with other KRAS-mutations, according to a study in the October 27 issue of JAMA. "Recent retrospective correlative analyses of metastatic colorectal cancer trials indicate that patients with KRAS-mutated tumors ...

Lifestyle interventions, including physical activity and structured weight loss programs, can result in significant weight loss for overweight, obese and severely obese adults, according to two reports that were posted online October 9 by JAMA. The studies and accompanying editorials were made available early online to coincide with the presentation of these papers at the 28th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Obesity Society. The articles appear in the October 27 print issue of JAMA. According to background information in the papers, obesity is among the most significant ...

An analysis of data from previously published studies indicates that use of the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel for patients who have common genetic variants of a certain gene and are undergoing a procedure such as coronary stent placement have an associated increased risk for major adverse cardiovascular events, particularly development of blood clots in stents, according to a study in the October 27 issue of JAMA. Clopidogrel, one of the most commonly prescribed medications, has been shown to reduce cardiovascular events in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention ...

Journals need to develop policies to handle the inevitable competing interests that arise when they publish papers that may bring them reprint revenue or increase their impact factors. This is the conclusion of a research article by Andreas Lundh and colleagues from the Nordic Cochrane Centre published in this weeks PLoS Medicine. An accompanying perspective by Harvey Marcovitch, ex-chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and an editorial from the PLoS Medicine Editors discusses this issue further, concluding that journals should apply the same degree of transparency ...

Current WHO pesticide classifications are based on toxicity in rats but basing regulation on human toxicity will make pesticide poisoning less hazardous and prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths globally without compromising agricultural needs. These are the key findings from a study by Andrew Dawson (South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka) and colleagues published in this week's PLoS Medicine. The single most common means of suicide worldwide is agricultural pesticide poisoning. The authors examined the proportion ...

Nagoya, Japan, Wednesday 27 October 2010 (IUCN) – The most comprehensive assessment of the world's vertebrates confirms an extinction crisis with one-fifth of species threatened. However, the situation would be worse were it not for current global conservation efforts, according to a study launched today at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, CBD, in Nagoya, Japan. The study, to be published in the international journal Science, used data for 25,000 species from The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, to investigate the status ...