iUseMac, in cooperation with the Italian Mac Users Group, Italiamac, today is pleased to announce its special bundle of 9 different Mac OS X applications at 90% off its normal combined price. The offer is good only from November 1 through November 15, and includes: Picturesque, Clean Text, iFlicks, Renamer, Labels & Addresses, SyncMate Expert, Proview, TypeIt4Me, MacCleanse 2. A tenth, surprise utility will also be free to purchasers of the bundle. iUseMac and Italiamac tested hundreds of software products to create this special offer. Applications included: 1. Picturesque 2. ...

Defendmyname.com, a pioneer in the online reputation management industry, has developed several new reputation management programs to help company's combat negative links in the major search engines! Defendmyname.com has launched several new websites that will support these new reputation repair programs such as www.prpowerblast.com, www.defendmyreviews.com and www.morelocalclicks.com. "With the rise in consumer advocate sites and reviews sites on local business listing profiles it has become essential to protect your reputation and reviews online in the eyes of ...

Recent research conducted by The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration has given salon owners and stylists a reason to exercise caution when performing hair straightening treatments like Brazilian keratin treatments and Brazilian blowouts. Throughout the months of September and October, a number of salons in the Portland, Oregon area submitted samples of Brazilian blowout solutions to Oregon Health and Science University's Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology (CROET). One of these products claimed to be "formaldehyde-free" and ...

ARGYLEtv.com, a website offering free online television channels from around the world, announced today that it has increased its online television channel line-up to over 3,000 channels. Positioning itself to be a leader in live online television broadcasts, ARGYLEtv.com continues to give people what they want: television channels from their native country in their native language. Thousands of people migrate from one country to another every day seeking better opportunities for themselves and their families. One of the comforts from home that they are often forced ...

The ocean surface is 30 percent more acidic today than it was in 1800, much of that increase occurring in the last 50 years - a rising trend that could both harm coral reefs and profoundly impact tiny shelled plankton at the base of the ocean food web, scientists warn. Despite the seriousness of such changes to the ocean, however, the world has yet to deploy a complete suite of available tools to monitor rising acidification and other ocean conditions that have a fundamental impact on life throughout the planet. Marine life patterns, water temperature, sea level, and ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have taken a less-is-more approach to designing effective drug treatments that are precisely tailored to disease-causing pathogens, such as viruses and bacteria, and cancer cells, any of which can trigger the body's immune system defenses. In a report to be published in the latest issue of Nature Medicine online Oct. 31, researchers describe a new "epitope-mapping" laboratory test that within three weeks can pinpoint the unique binding site – or epitope – from any antigen where immune system T cells can most securely attach and attack invading ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Chandra Tucker shines a blue light on yeast and mammalian cells in her Duke University lab and the edges of them start to glow. The effect is the result of a light-activated switch from a plant that has been inserted into the cell. Researchers could use this novel "on-off switch" to control cell growth or death, grow new tissue or deliver doses of medication directly to diseased cells, said Tucker, an assistant research professor in the biology department at Duke. She and colleagues created the switch by genetically inserting two proteins from a mustard ...

Scientists from the UK and Australia have seen the human immune system's assassin – a protein called perforin – in action for the first time. The UK team, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Wellcome Trust, is based at Birkbeck College where they used powerful electron microscopes to study the mechanism that perforin uses to punch holes in rogue cells. The research is published today (1800hrs, 31 October) in Nature. Professor Helen Saibil, who leads the UK team at Birkbeck College, said "Perforin is a powerful bullet in ...

A team of Melbourne and London researchers have shown how a protein called perforin punches holes in, and kills, rogue cells in our bodies. Their discovery of the mechanism of this assassin is published today in the science journal Nature. "Perforin is our body's weapon of cleansing and death," says project leader Prof James Whisstock from Monash University. "It breaks into cells that have been hijacked by viruses or turned into cancer cells and allows toxic enzymes in, to destroy the cell from within. Without it our immune system can't destroy these cells. Now we ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Roughly 3.5 billion years ago, the first epoch on Mars ended. The climate on the red planet then shifted dramatically from a relatively warm, wet period to one that was arid and cold. Yet there was at least one outpost that scientists think bucked the trend. A team led by planetary geologists at Brown University has discovered mounds of a mineral deposited on a volcanic cone less than 3.5 billion years ago that speak of a warm and wet past and may preserve evidence of one of the most recent habitable microenvironments on Mars. Observations ...

DARIEN, IL – A study in the Nov. 1 issue of the journal SLEEP found that vulnerability to sleep deprivation is influenced by the interaction between waking social activity and individual personality traits. Results show that extraverts who were exposed to 12 hours of social interaction were more vulnerable to subsequent sleep deprivation than those who were exposed to an identical period of isolated activity. Speed on the Psychomotor Vigilance Task (PVT) for extraverts in the socially enriched group was significantly slower at 4 a.m., 6 a.m. and noon compared with speed ...

London, UK (November 1, 2010) – In April 2010, the US government adopted a new nuclear strategy that depends on the conclusion that the current missile defense systems will reliably protect the continental United States in the extreme circumstances of nuclear-armed combat. Now research in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, published by SAGE, shows that these defenses have not been tested against real-world threats and would not be effective in real combat conditions. The April 2010 strategy relies on assumptions that the current US Ground-Based Missile Defense (GMD) and ...

Protected areas are generally seen as a triumph for the preservation of nature, yet the reality on the ground is more complex. The world's largest protected areas encompass vast amounts of wilderness but do not extensively overlap the highest priority areas for conservation or include unusually large numbers of birds, amphibians, or mammals, according to an analysis published in the November issue of BioScience. The study, by Lisette Cantú-Salazar and Kevin J. Gaston of the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, nonetheless describes anecdotal evidence that some very ...

Alexandria, VA — Racial and ethnic disparities among children with frequent ear infections (FEI) significantly influence access to affordable healthcare, according to new research published in the November 2010 issue of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. Ear infections are one of the most common health problems for children, with most kids experiencing at least one by their third birthday. Annual costs in the United States alone are in the billions of dollars. Despite changes that have occurred in healthcare to help low-income children, such as the Children's ...

VIDEO: Steven Moss, M.D., a gastroenterologist with Rhode Island Hospital, and his colleagues found that 33 individuals were responsible for 305 cases of medical intervention to remove foreign bodies that were... Click here for more information. PROVIDENCE, RI – A new study from Rhode Island Hospital found that 33 individuals were responsible for 305 cases of medical intervention to remove foreign bodies that were intentionally swallowed, resulting in more than $2 million in ...

SEATTLE--Primary-care clinicians know teen depression is common, but they've lacked a reliable screening test for it. Now researchers at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle Children's, and Group Health report the PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 item) is a good screening test for major depression in adolescents. Led by Laura P. Richardson, MD, MPH, the team tested the PHQ-9 as a screening tool for depression in 442 teenage patients, age 13-17, at Group Health. The test is brief, available free of charge, easy to score and understand, and proven to find ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. – A little self-awareness can help people struggling in the world of relationships, says Jeffrey Hall, assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas. Hall recently completed a study into styles of flirting among dating adults, surveying more than 5,100 people regarding their methods of communicating romantic interest. "Knowing something about the way you communicate attraction says something about challenges you might have had in your past dating life," Hall said. "Hopefully, this awareness can help people avoid those mistakes ...

Researchers have found that allergic infants may be at increased risk of peanut allergy if their mothers ingested peanuts during pregnancy. The data are reported in the November 1 issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Led by Scott H. Sicherer, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, researchers at five U.S. study sites evaluated 503 infants aged three to 15 months with likely milk or egg allergies or with significant eczema and positive allergy tests to milk or egg, which are factors associated with ...

Researchers have developed an efficient method for extracting and archiving CT radiation dose information that can enable providers to keep track of estimated radiation dose delivered to each patient at a given facility, help providers make more informed health care decisions and improve patient safety, according to a study in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (www.jacr.org). To facilitate access to and analysis of radiation dose information, researchers at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, designed, ...

An overwhelming majority of Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) facilities performing breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the U.S. are up-to-par with American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) and European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI) technical standards and requirements, according to a study in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (www.jacr.org). The BCSC is a collaborative effort to improve breast cancer research. It consists of five mammography registries and two affiliated sites with linkages to pathology ...

DETROIT – The race of liver donors may affect recurrent hepatitis C in patients after liver transplant, according to a study by Henry Ford Hospital. "Patients receiving white cadaveric donor grafts had significantly more aggressive recurrent hepatitis C than those receiving grafts from African-American donors regardless of recipient race," says Matthew Moeller, M.D., gastroenterology fellow at Henry Ford Hospital and lead author of the study. "This difference was especially marked in African-American recipients and persisted on multivariate analysis." The study ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010 – Researchers at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have reached an early, but important, milestone in the quest to grow replacement livers in the lab. They are the first to use human liver cells to successfully engineer miniature livers that function – at least in a laboratory setting – like human livers. The next step is to see if the livers will continue to function after transplantation in an animal model. The ultimate goal of the research, which will be presented Sunday ...

Argeron's creations showcase a broad range of talent. From the wildly creative to the classically simple, this range often includes a much-appreciated touch of each designer's personality and is what clients have come to expect in their work. Argeron's founder, Samantha Howard, said: "I began this business 10 years ago with the sole purpose of providing excellent design services at reasonable prices, and it has become so much more than that. I now realize that we are providing something of great value and importance to each client: a designer that they can count on. Five ...

With more and more users switching to digital photography, photo loss instances due to accidental deletion or formation is becoming quite often. Despite of the fact that data storage technology progress has gone exceptionally far in just few decades, users are frequently observed deleting their own or other's photos accidentally and regretting for that later. But the news is that though you delete these photos from the media, but they actually seize to physically exist on the media till you overwrite it. Hence, there is always a good possibility that you can recover ...

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