Bupa International has announced the launch of its free online health assessment. The assessments are part of the Bupa International's new health section on its website, which has more than 50 factsheets and a series of health theme pages which include articles and videos explaining medical issues. The online health assessment is designed to help users find the answers to any health-related questions they may have. The health assessment will ask the user a series of questions to help understand their medical and lifestyle risk factors. At the end users will receive ...

Tesco Clothing has revealed the official Climate Week (21-27 March) T-shirt, featuring an exclusive, limited edition design by the 'patron saints of print', Eley Kishimoto, in aid of the Environmental Justice Foundation. Organic, ethically made and manufactured by wind and solar power, the low carbon T-shirts will be available for men and women exclusively from Tesco clothing, Climate Week's headline partner, for only GBP10. The women's climate week T-shirt and men's climate week T-shirt will be available in time for Climate Week, in-store and online on the Tesco ...

Burton reveals its new trends for the springs/summer season 2011. The big trend this season is Burton's Army Surplus range, which carries on the military details of autumn/winter 2010 but gives it a softer reworking for the warmer months of the spring and summer season. These pieces are designed to make the transition from winter into spring with minimal effort, creating a laid back look that doesn't veer too far from the fashion rule book. The Army Surplus trend features pieces such as waffle knit and cable knit cardigans, vintage style T-shirts, camouflage prints, ...

Reliant Technology, an EMC and IBM SAN storage supplier, is offering a guarantee on all used storage purchased by end users. The warranty confirms Reliant Technology as a trusted source for quality storage upgrades for IBM storage, EMC Storage, NetAPP Storage, Brocade SAN Switches and CISCO SAN Switches. The 110 percent warranty provides SAN storage customers a combination one year warranty and money back guarantee on all used storage equipment purchased from Reliant Technology. Should a component fail within a year of purchase, it will be replaced by Reliant Technology ...

ZyLAB, a leading provider of eDiscovery and Information Management solutions, today released its 8-Point Risk Assessment guide for organizations that are evaluating whether they have "adequate procedures" in place to prevent bribery. The 8-Point guide can be used independently to reveal potential weaknesses in information management protocol, or it can be used in combination with the ZyLAB Compliance & Litigation Readiness System to identify potential "hot spots" that warrant proactive steps to foster compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the UK Bribery ...

Each month, a newsletter on the artistic work done by Robert Lauri during the past month is published on the Internet and also on several social networking sites. One of the categories includes links to music files, giving a glimpse of the richness and depth of work produced by the artist during the past month. Robert Lauri is a truly eclectic musician producing an impressive amount of unique and innovative melodies in very different genres and styles; each song is a true work of art, using colorful harmonies and arrangements. Several musical genres combine within ...

Salon and Spa Galleria launches new website to inform visitors of services offered at its salon and spa in Grapevine as well as information on studios and spaces for lease for potential tenants. The web address for the new site is www.salonandspagalleria.com and one of its unique features is that each tenant can have a personalized web page for their business. "When we reopened this salon and spa in Grapevine TX we really wanted to do it right and felt that the launch of a website would help push its success," Owner Ron Sturgeon said. "One of our goals was to help those ...

The Florida State Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (FSHCC) announces a new strategic alliance with UPS, the world's largest package delivery company and a global leader in logistics services. The two firms have teamed up to offer Florida small-to-mid-sized Hispanic businesses a suite of turnkey transportation solutions that provide reliable, affordable and easily accessible point-to-point logistics support for companies, regardless of size or industry. "UPS brings a wealth of logistics management knowledge to the table. Sharing that knowledge with the Hispanic business community ...

"VirtualEDU announced today that it will begin providing all of their 200 fully accredited high school online classes to students for a subscription price of just $49.95 per month. With critical funding shortfalls in all in states, we are concerned that rapidly increasing class sizes will severely reduce student learning," stated Executive Director Dana Delane. "We are offering a class size of one through the individualized instruction that can occur through online learning to school districts, charter schools, independent schools and parents who want to see their students ...

In contrast with past years, thousands of new forces have joined the internet game exchange market, therefore it has become more competitive in 2011. In order to rank a good score in this competition, BYGAMER draws from an impeccable blueprint to reach its target. With help of Wow Cataclysm, the virtual currency industry got a fast development at the end of last year. The demand of WoW Gold, items, CD Key, and power leveling service were higher than ever during the Christmas period. Numerous new websites were set up and attempted to take a share of this market. If you ...

Just in time for the Lenten season, Whataburger is offering customers the meat-free option of a Whatacatch fish taco and spicy tartar sauce for a limited-time. Now through May 1, fans can choose to substitute Whataburger's original tartar sauce with a spicier alternative to add a southwestern touch to their Whatacatch taco or sandwich. The Whatacatch taco includes breaded, sliced white fish filet wrapped up in a warm flour tortilla, accompanied with crisp lettuce and topped off with a choice of Whataburger's original or spicy tartar sauce. "We're happy to bring the ...

TinyVox, the free iPhone app that makes it fun and easy to tape and share audio files on social networks or email, was named a finalist in the Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator at SXSW, where early stage technology companies demo innovative new technology for influential industry judges and a live audience. The contest is sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark, The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, IBM, .CO, and Turner Broadcasting System. TinyVox is one of 40 finalists in five categories out of more than 400 applicants. "TinyVox helps SXSW attendees capture and transmit ...

The new app store for the free semYOU app computing system heralds the future of software use: a large number of ad-free, no-cost apps offering entertainment, tools, games and management are now available at www.semyou.com. The apps are based on the latest Microsoft Silverlight technology and offer all the advantages of cloud computing. Startup semYOU thus represents true competition against Google's Apps Marketplace. Applications are now available on local computers, easily, free of charge and on demand: a mail program, media player, word processing tools, games or ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- In the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researchers report that residential treatment for tobacco dependence among heavy smokers greatly improves the odds of abstinence at six months compared with standard outpatient treatment. The study reports that 52 percent of the patients were still not smoking six months after residential treatment, compared with 26 percent in the outpatient treatment setting. "This means there is hope for patients who are tobacco dependent and feel they have exhausted every other means of trying to quit smoking," says ...

RENO, Nev. – While unemployment has been a frequent topic of discussion during the recession, underemployment and its effects have not, even though the number of underemployed workers has also increased. A study published online last week in the Journal of Management, "'I Have a Job, But…' A Review of Underemployment," by University of Nevada, Reno Assistant Professor Frances M. McKee-Ryan and University of Alabama Assistant Professor Jaron Harvey brings attention to the topic and its potentially detrimental effects to individuals, organizations and society. The study ...

Combining targeted therapies might be required for maximum anti-tumor activity when treating HER2-positive breast cancers, according to two new studies by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) investigators. The findings, reported in two papers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), suggest that upregulation of the HER3 receptor limits the effectiveness of two classes of targeted therapies (HER2- and PI3 kinase-targeted therapies). Therefore targeting HER3 together with these agents should improve their clinical utility. Around 25 percent of ...

Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy – University of Gothenburg, Sweden - and Karolinska Institutet have carried out the first ever national study of the prevalence of overweight and obesity in schoolchildren. It reveals that one in five children in Sweden is overweight, and that there is a link between low levels of education and overweight children. Published in the online version of the journal Obesity Reviews, the study was part of a European project, the WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative, that involved 14 European countries. "There has previously ...

The artificial intelligence program "Watson" may have outsmarted human competitors on the television quiz show "Jeopardy!" recently, but it would have to go a long way to best an intelligence analyst, according to Kristan Wheaton, J.D., associate professor of intelligence studies at Mercyhurst College. On Feb. 14-16, the reigning champions of Jeopardy! – Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter – faced a formidable new competitor – a supercomputer named Watson under development by IBM for four years. Watson defeated his adversaries handily. Wheaton's graduate students recently ...

Surgeons at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center performed the first hand transplant in the western United States in an operation that began one minute before midnight on Friday, March 4, and was completed 14-and-a-half hours later, on Saturday, March 5. The transplant was performed on a 26-year-old mother from Northern California who lost her right hand in a traffic accident nearly five years ago. UCLA is only the fourth center in the nation to offer this procedure, and the first west of the Rockies. This was the 13th hand transplant surgery performed in the United States. ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- A pair of related studies on smoking cessation by researchers at the University of Oregon and other institutions have isolated the brain regions most active in controlling urges to smoke and demonstrated the effectiveness of text-messaging to measure and intervene in those urges. Both projects used the same group of test subjects -- 27 heavy smokers recruited from the American Lung Association's Freedom From Smoking program in Los Angeles. Elliot Berkman, professor of psychology at the UO, and colleagues Emily Falk at the University of Michigan and Matthew ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 8, 2011) -- Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the University of Texas at Dallas are reporting today at the 55th Annual Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD how they are using a novel 3D cell imaging method for studying the complex spatial-temporal dynamics of protein transport, providing a solution to this fundamental problem in cell biology. According to the authors of the study, imaging such highly dynamic processes in the cell and in 3D poses major technical challenges in a complex cell monolayer ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 8, 2011) -- In work that is pushing the "diffraction barrier" associated with microscopic imaging of living cells, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM demonstrated the power of a new super-resolution microscopy technique called Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM), which can simultaneously image multiple molecules in living immune cells. As described today at the 55th Annual Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD, Jesse Aaron and Jerilyn Timlin used this new technique to reveal the changes ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 8 2011) -- Researchers at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular in Lisbon, Portugal and the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are making major strides toward understanding the life cycle of flaviviruses, which include some of the most virulent human pathogens: yellow fever virus, Dengue virus, and the West Nile Virus, among others. Today, at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society in Baltimore, MD, members of the team will report on studies using dengue virus as a model to elucidate the molecular details ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 8 2011) -- Viruses can penetrate every part of the body, making them potentially good tools for gene therapy or drug delivery. But with our immune system primed to seek and destroy these foreign invaders, delivering therapies with viruses is currently inefficient and can pose a significant danger to patients. Now scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have engineered a virus with potential to solve this problem. They describe the new virus today at the 55th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting in Baltimore, MD. "We would like to find a way ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 8, 2011) -- Scientists in Israel and California have developed an instrument for rapidly analyzing molecular interactions that take place viruses and the cells they infect. By helping to identify interactions between proteins made by viruses like HIV and hepatitis and proteins made by the human cells these viruses infect, the device may help scientists develop new ways of disrupting these interactions and find new drugs for treating those infections. According to Doron Gerber, a professor at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, the PING system (Protein ...