Hampton Inn & Suites Smyrna Georgia Hotel, an affordable Atlanta Galleria hotel, offers convenient accommodations to skiers and snowboarders attending the Peter Glenn of Vermont 2010 Ski Show at Atlanta Cobb Galleria Centre. The Ski Show will take place on October 22-24 at Center Court at Galleria Specialty Mall. The event is the largest ski and snowboard sale in the southeast. Guests can bring their gently worn winter jacket to be donated to charity and receive a $10 coupon off the purchase of a new winter jacket. In addition, attendees can expect to find huge savings ...

Hampton Inn Scottsboro Hotel offers nearby lodging to guests attending the Annual Native American Festival at Scottsboro-Jackson Heritage Center. The Festival will take place on October 21 - 22, 2010 from 8:30am - 4:00pm. The event will include Native American demonstrations using authentic techniques and materials used in making traps, shelters, clothing, medicine, cooking, hiding, weapons, baskets, flint-napping, fire, toys, and games. Among other Scottsboro hotels, the Hampton Inn & Suites is the premier place to stay. "The Annual Native American Festival is a unique ...

In an alarming court filing on October 15th, Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics denied Gulf War veteran Scott Almhjell's claim for the injuries that he suffered when DePuy's recalled hip replacement had to be surgically removed from his body. DePuy argues that Mr. Almhjell was not injured at all, or that if he was, he caused his own injuries and does not deserve compensation. Scott Almhjell is a Gulf War veteran who lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. When he needed a hip replacement in 2007, his doctor used DePuy's ASR hip implant. At this time, DePuy knew that ...

Organizers for Miami International Fashion Week (MIFW), the largest Latin American and international fashion event in the U.S., recently announced that the annual event will return to Miami Beach in 2011 and will be re-branded as "Miami Beach International Fashion Week (MBIFW)." The stellar production drawing innovative designers from around the world is scheduled to take place at the Miami Beach Convention Center March 3 - 6, 2011. Since its inception, the annual event has grown significantly in its global reach and has earned an influential role in South Florida's ...

"The economy is bad and surrogacy is expensive, so make sure that you are well informed about ALL of the costs associated with surrogacy," states John Erickson, CEO of Conceptual Options, LLC, The Surrogacy and Egg Donation Center. "Most reputable centers will have a fee breakdown that includes estimates for all costs including the variable ones, YET if it seems like it is too good to be true it probably is." Below are a few tips to remember when looking into the costs of a surrogacy: 1. Look at the costs objectively, not just at the bottom line number. Do they include ...

"If you were one of the many who bought your house at or near the top of the market in 2006 (and even in the two years prior), and find yourself struggling to make your monthly mortgage payment, but questioning your financial sanity for continuing to do so, you may be a candidate for strategic default," according to Riordan J. Zavala, Esq. The Law Offices of Riordan J. Zavala provides consumers with a specific path to get out from under their mortgage debt. This service is appropriate for any home owner, who, struggling or not, has seen a dramatic loss in their property's ...

E-Book Systems, creator of the patented Digital Flip(R) e-publishing technology, announces GNP has adopted its 3-D page-flipping FlipViewer(R) Xpress viewer format for its GNP Branded Gear Virtual Catalogs. Founded in 1985, GNP has since become a leading supplier of branded products specializing in the service of event planning and higher education organizations. "We chose FlipViewer(R) Xpress Creator software because it is extremely easy to use. The ability to re-brand the FlipViewer(R) logo and host the catalog on our own server also helped make the decision easier," ...

The Training Doctor, LLC, announces its December 1 deadline for the spring semester award of its bi-annual scholarship. Applicants must be a working professional, pursuing an advanced degree in the fields of training or performance improvement. Applications are accepted year round, with awards in December for the spring semester and July for the fall semester. To date, The Training Doctor has awarded $4500 in scholarships to further the education of professionals in the field of training and performance improvement.The Training Doctor, LLC is a custom instructional ...

NewNet Communication Technologies, a Skyview Capital portfolio company and recognized leader in mobile messaging and network signaling solutions for wireless, IP, and wireline networks, today announced it has successfully completed the acquisition of 3ple-Media, BV. Headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk, the Netherlands. 3ple-Media is a leader in providing innovative multi-media messaging solutions to wireless carriers worldwide. 3ple-Media's award-winning Mercury platform enables carriers to implement highly cost effective, media rich, campaigns such as live media broadcast, ...

CHICAGO—At the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) – Middle East-Africa Council of Ophthalmology (MEACO) Joint Meeting today, researchers report progress on two top eye disease challenges: treating advanced "dry" age-related macular degeneration, and preventing blindness in people with diabetes. The Joint Meeting is in session October 16 through 19 at McCormick Place, Chicago. The AAO-MEACO meeting is the world's largest, most comprehensive ophthalmic education conference. Proven Arthritis Drug Shows Promise versus Dry AMD: While ophthalmologists can turn to several ...

CHICAGO—Data on glaucoma risk in people with migraine and on innovative uses of mobile, digital technology are featured in today's Scientific Program, to be presented at the 2010 American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) – Middle East-Africa Council of Ophthalmology (MEACO) Joint Meeting. The AAO-MEACO meeting is in session October 16 through 19 at McCormick Place, Chicago. It is the largest, most comprehensive ophthalmic education conference in the world. The Blood Pressure-Glaucoma Connection in People with Migraine Yury S Astakhov, MD, PhD, of Pavlov Medical University, ...

CHICAGO— Genetic medicine is the focus of two presentations at today's Scientific Program of the 2010 American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) – Middle East-Africa Council of Ophthalmology (MEACO) Joint Meeting. The AAO-MEACO meeting is in session October 16 through 19 at McCormick Place, Chicago. It is the largest, most comprehensive ophthalmic education conference in the world. Seeking Genetics-Specific Treatments for Age-Related Macular Degeneration In the past decade ophthalmologists gained a powerful tool to control vision-damaging "wet" age-related macular degeneration ...

UPTON, NY — Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have discovered a key difference in the way human cells and Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which cause TB, deliver unwanted proteins — marked with a "kiss of death" sequence — to their respective cellular recycling factories. This critical difference, described in a paper published online October 17, 2010, in the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, may help scientists design drugs to disable the bacterial system while leaving normal ...

CHAPEL HILL – Since 2002, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has recommended that women ages 65 and older be routinely screened for osteoporosis and has suggested that a 2-year screening interval might be appropriate. However, what length the screening interval should be is a topic that remains controversial and undecided, with no definitive scientific evidence to provide guidance. Now a new study led by Margaret L. Gourlay, MD, MPH of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine finds that women aged 67 years and older with normal bone mineral ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Harvard University neurobiologists have created mice that can "smell" light, providing a potent new tool that could help researchers better understand the neural basis of olfaction. The work, described this week in the journal Nature Neuroscience, has implications for the future study of smell and of complex perception systems that do not lend themselves to easy study with traditional methods. "It makes intuitive sense to use odors to study smell," says Venkatesh N. Murthy, professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard. "However, odors are ...

Yale University researchers have found a gene that seems to be a key contributor to the onset of depression and is a promising target for a new class of antidepressants, they report Oct. 17 in the journal Nature Medicine. "This could be a primary cause, or at least a major contributing factor, to the signaling abnormalities that lead to depression," said Ronald S. Duman, professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at Yale and senior author of the study. Scientists have had a difficult time pinning down the cause of depression, which afflicts almost 16 percent of Americans ...

The first research from the Breakthrough Generations Study could lead to a test to predict a woman's reproductive lifespan. The findings, published today in Human Molecular Genetics, could have considerable impact on women in the UK and other western countries, where many start having children at a later age. Early menopause affects one in 20 UK women. The study from scientists at the University of Exeter Peninsula Medical School and The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), funded by The Wellcome Trust, tested four genes associated with the menopause. They compared ...

While it's still hotly debated among scientists whether climate change causes a shift from the traditional form of El Nino to one known as El Nino Modoki, online in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists now say that El Nino Modoki affects long-term changes in currents in the North Pacific Ocean. El Nino is a periodic warming in the eastern tropical Pacific that occurs along the coast of South America. Recently, scientists have noticed that El Nino warming is stronger in the Central Pacific rather than the Eastern Pacific, a phenomenon known as El Nino Modoki (Modoki ...

The American Heart Association is re-arranging the ABCs of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in its 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care, published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Recommending that chest compressions be the first step for lay and professional rescuers to revive victims of sudden cardiac arrest, the association said the A-B-Cs (Airway-Breathing-Compressions) of CPR should now be changed to C-A-B (Compressions-Airway-Breathing). "For more than 40 years, ...

Increasing the amount that physicians are reimbursed by Medicaid for administering influenza shots may raise vaccination rates among poor children. That is the conclusion of a study published online today in the journal Pediatrics. The study, conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), analyzes state-by-state vaccination data over three flu seasons and contends that the number of poor children receiving the annual flu shot could be increased by up to one percentage point for every additional dollar provided to doctors to administer ...

Data from one liability insurance database in Colorado indicate that wrong-site and wrong-patient surgical and procedure errors continued to occur despite nationwide steps to help prevent them, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. "Any intervention involving a wrong site, wrong patient or wrong procedure represents an unacceptable surgical complication, classified as a 'never event' by the National Quality Forum," the authors write as background information in the article. In 2004, the Joint Commission introduced ...

Le Meridien Amman, a subsidiary of Starwood Hotels and Resorts, and the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts have announced their partnership today in the global UNLOCK ART program. The program was developed by the hotel's Cultural Curator Jerome Sans and is one of four components that aim at awakening the guests' senses and stimulating their curiosity. The other three components of the award-winning program of the Arrival Experience are the Artwork on the Door, Sensory Experience and Elevated Experience. Mr. Giuseppe Ressa, Le Meridien Amman General Manager said: ...

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The Dermatology Laser Center & Spa announced professional teeth whitening treatment is now available at their Skin Magic MedSpa. Whether you have a big job interview, graduation, wedding or an event coming up or you just want to look your best while out running errands - having shiny, white teeth will restore your confidence in letting the world see your beautiful smile. XpresSmile teeth whitening system was selected as the most advanced and innovative technology and materials to whiten your teeth safely, quickly, and with maximum results. Visit San Marcos Medspa. The ...

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