Innovative Custom Products, Inc. (ICP), owner of CureCeuticals, announced today its new invention, CureCeuticals' All-Natural Kills Ticks Specimen Drops. According to Sherry Williams, Vice President, CureCeuticals' All-Natural Kills Ticks Specimen Drops start working on contact and kill a tick in about 90 seconds. She said the product contains no DEET, no chemicals, no synthetic ingredients and is completely safe. It comes in a small, convenient pocket-size vial that doubles as a "tick specimen receptacle". Williams said the product is simple to use, safe and effective. ...

Stanley, Morgan & Associates, the country's leading collection association, announces plans to unveil its Quick Pay Program just in time for the holiday season. Given present economical conditions, the reps at Stanley, Morgan & Associates understand time is money and having to wait for a check from your collection agency can mean the difference between expanding your wish list and keeping your doors open in the coming months. In an effort to place remittances in the clients' hands as quickly as possible, Stanley, Morgan & Associates announces the "Quick Pay Program" ...

The deVere Group, the world's largest independent financial consultancy group, was announced lead sponsor of Chris Foot in his quest to become the first polar expeditionist to travel 1392 miles solo unsupported and unassisted. The deVere Group is sponsoring Chris GBP20,000 to aid the costs of the equipment for the expedition. In addition, deVere employees are raising money across the globe for Combat Stress. This epic route is the only remaining conquest in Antarctica not to be claimed by an expeditionist. Chris will be in partnership with Combat Stress throughout ...

Washington, DC -- A new study suggests joint complaints attributed to aromatase inhibitors (AI), popular breast cancer drugs, are not associated with inflammatory arthritis or autoimmune disease. Because of that, researchers say women who were primarily concerned about the threat of arthritis should be encouraged to continue taking the medication. The findings of the study will be presented Tuesday, Nov. 9 at the 74th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology in Atlanta, Georgia For many post-menopausal women with breast cancer promoted by the ...

Washington, DC -- New research from Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) suggests that up to 40 percent of scleroderma patients will not be correctly diagnosed with the disorder using a new automated commercial screening test. The findings of the study will be presented Wednesday, November 10th at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology in Atlanta, Georgia. The American College of Rheumatology recommends immunofluorescence antinuclear antibody (IF-ANA) testing to help detect the presence of scleroderma specific antinuclear antibodies. ...

Philadelphia, Pa. – Examining the blood "metabolomics" profile of smokers immediately after they had a cigarette revealed activation of pathways involved in cell death, inflammation, and other forms of systemic damage, say researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of Georgetown University Medical Center. They say their findings, presented at the Ninth AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Meeting, is the best analysis for chemicals unequivocally produced by smoking and indicates the potential toll that carcinogens and toxins poise to ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – In the largest study to date of the Arthritis Foundation's Tai Chi program, participants showed improvement in pain, fatigue, stiffness and sense of well-being. Their ability to reach while maintaining balance also improved, said Leigh Callahan, PhD, the study's lead author, associate professor in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and a member of UNC's Thurston Arthritis Research Center. "Our study shows that there are significant benefits of the Tai Chi course for individuals with all types of arthritis, including ...

Hamilton, ON (November 7, 2010) – In an important breakthrough, scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to make human blood from adult human skin. The discovery, published in the prestigious science journal Nature today, could mean that in the foreseeable future people needing blood for surgery, cancer treatment or treatment of other blood conditions like anemia will be able to have blood created from a patch of their own skin to provide transfusions. Clinical trials could begin as soon as 2012. Mick Bhatia, scientific director of McMaster's Stem Cell ...

Hospital for Special Surgery physicians who focus on lupus, scleroderma and related conditions are traveling from New York City to Atlanta this week to share their recent findings at the 74th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR). Special Surgery investigators will present advances that may influence the future of clinical care. Topics include prevention strategies for helping orthopedic patients avoid falls, quality of life in children with lupus, understanding joint pain caused by a commonly used breast cancer medication, lupus-related ...

Using pests as part of an insect birth control program helps to get rid of them, UA researchers find. A new approach that combines the planting of pest-resistant cotton and releasing large numbers of sterile moths has virtually eliminated of the world's most destructive cotton pests from Arizona. The novel control strategy, published in the Nov. 7 advance online publication of the journal Nature Biotechnology, has allowed growers to maintain high cotton yields without spraying insecticides to control pink bollworm. "We are running the pesticide treadmill in reverse," ...

ATLANTA, GA — Lupus puts children at higher risk for coronary artery disease when they become adults, but routinely using statins doesn't provide enough benefit to warrant their regular use in children and adolescents, according to the largest study of pediatric lupus patients to date. Lupus is an autoimmune disease that causes widespread inflammation and organ damage. Children with lupus show early signs of atherosclerosis -- the fatty tissue buildup that is the precursor to clogged arteries. Previous research also indicates risk for heart attack and stroke in premenopausal ...

"Anecdotally, we can see the transformative effect," says Dr. Mechael, who, sponsored by the mHealth Alliance, has recently completed an analysis of 2,400 published mHealth reports. Working with WHO, she found that many countries either have already or are considering introducing mHealth into their health systems. mHealth is so new, however, "the data is just not there yet to prove the case," says Dr. Mechael. Many different groups and organizations are carrying out countless pilot projects. That presents a potential barrier to expansion. "Most projects are designed as ...

St. Louis, MO, November 8, 2010 – The economic recession impacts many aspects of our lives including an increase incidence of food insecurity. This can have serious consequences for those suffering from chronic illnesses like diabetes. For diseases like diabetes, in which nutrition and menu planning play a key role in treatment, food insecurity can be devastating. A study in the November/December issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior explores how technology advancement in the form of telemedicine can provide cost-effective ways to treat those with diabetes ...

PHILADELPHIA — Young mice that experienced the psychosocial stress of prolonged separation from their mothers had a higher incidence and faster onset of breast tumors compared with young mice who did not experience this stressful life event. Specifically, neonatal mice separated from their mothers for a prolonged period of time developed mammary tumors twice as fast as mice that experienced short or no maternal separation. The results of this study, conducted by Leslie Kerr, Ph.D., associate professor of biology and psychology at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, ...

A new study has found that women who receive silicone implants after a double mastectomy are more satisfied with their breasts than women who receive saline implants. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings may help physicians and breast cancer survivors as they together make decisions related to postmastectomy reconstructive surgery. Women who have one or both of their breasts removed as a treatment for breast cancer may wish to undergo breast reconstructive surgery with implants. Such postmastectomy implants ...

Applying a vapor rub is effective for treating children with night-time cough and congestion and improves sleep for children with cold symptoms, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. "Upper respiratory infections are the most common acute illnesses in the world," said Ian Paul, M.D., M.Sc., associate professor of pediatrics and public health sciences. "Symptoms caused by these infections are disruptive for children, and often disturb sleep for both ill children and their parents, with an impact on subsequent daytime activities. Safe and effective, ...

An Indiana University study found that Indiana spends more on the health care consequences of substance abuse than on its prevention. Eric Wright, director of the Center for Health Policy at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, said that for every dollar Indiana spends on services dealing directly and indirectly with substance abuse, 66 cents are used for health care-related consequences while only 1 cent pays for prevention/intervention initiatives. When compared with other states in the region, Indiana spends less than most states on substance abuse ...

Innovative Custom Products, Inc. (ICP), owner of CureCeuticals, announced today that its CureCeuticals Fresh Me Up All Natural Body and Pet Sprays and its OTC CureCeuticals Itchy Scaly Skin Lotion formulated with the best of the best ingredients from around the world are being debuted in the 11th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards Official Gift Bags for Presenters and Performers. The 11th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards on November 11, 2010 in Las Vegas will air live on the Univision Network from 8 - 11 p.m. ET/PT (7 p.m. Central). According to Sherry Williams, Vice President, CureCeuticals ...

Mobile phone operator, Orange today announced the return of the award winning* online game Balloonacy, the world's first Internet balloon race. Building on the success of the last Balloonacy campaign in which over 40,000 'pilots' flew balloons across a racecourse of over 1,500 selected websites racking up a total of 63 million online miles, the latest campaign is set to be bigger and better and most importantly, an even richer digital experience. As before, 'pilots' all begin from the same starting point - the Balloon Race home page -- then in an unique digital experience, ...

One Texas real estate investment firm has harnessed the power of the Internet to market commercial space for lease. Fort Worth-based RDS Real Estate has seen website traffic triple since implementing its new marketing strategy. "Internet marketing is a very effective tool in today's business world," says Ron Sturgeon, owner of RDS Real Estate. "When consumers are looking to rent or buy industrial properties, we want them to find our site. That's our specialty, after all." As part of its strategy, the commercial real estate firm has tried to capture search traffic ...

ESCO Corporation's Turbine Technologies (TT) Group recently signed a contract with The Offshore Group to continue manufacturing in Mexico at its operations in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico through 2017. The company occupies 33,500 square feet of industrial space at the Roca Fuerte Industrial Park. ESCO TT, the first tenant at The Offshore Group's Guaymas industrial park, will soon celebrate the tenth anniversary of its Mexico manufacturing operations. "ESCO Turbine Technologies is excited to continue its relationship with The Offshore Group which has provided us with exceptional ...

CiCi's Pizza top pizza makers will compete for the title of "Ultimate Pizza Artist" and the coveted crystal pizza cutter as CiCi's launches its first-ever Pizza Throwdown. In addition to a year's worth of bragging rights, CiCi's team members from across the nation will compete for a flat screen TV. Winners of the four regional contests will compete in the finals, hosted by CiCi's Pizza, in Dallas in January 2011. "We know that we have some of the most attentive and talented pizza professionals in the business," CiCi's Pizza CEO Mike Shumsky said. "CiCi's Pizza Throwdown ...

High Speed Design Center (HSDC) and PacketMicro announced today that they are offering a family of handheld TDR BladeProbes and an impedance standard substrate to the US market. The high-bandwidth, fixed-pitch probe design enables accurate and repeatable impedance measurements for high-speed PCB development and manufacturing. "The BladeProbe offering provides the best combination of performance, accuracy and price," said Ben Chia, HSDC President. "BladeProbe and impedance standard substrate help designers and manufacturing houses to correlate their impedance measurements. ...

The largest ever clinical trial in patients hospitalised with severe malaria has concluded that the drug artesunate should now be the preferred treatment for the disease in both children and adults everywhere in the world. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust, is published today online in the journal The Lancet. An international consortium of researchers, led by Professor Nick White of the Wellcome Trust-Mahidol University-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Programme in Bangkok, Thailand, compared treatment with artesunate, which is used in Asia to treat severe malaria, ...

Philadelphia, PA, November 7, 2010 – Approximately 600,000 hysterectomies are performed in the United States annually to treat benign disorders of the pelvis. More than two-thirds are performed through an abdominal incision. In an evidence-based position statement published online today in The Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, the AAGL, a medical specialty society of over 5,000 gynecologic surgeons, advocates the practice of performing these procedures vaginally or laparoscopically in a minimally invasive manner, thus reducing morbidity and facilitating a faster ...