Board-certified plastic surgeon, Dr. John J. O'Brien Jr., of the St. Petersburg Center for Plastic Surgery in St. Petersburg, Florida, has added autologous fat grafting, a hot new trend in plastic surgery, to his extensive suite of plastic, reconstructive and cosmetic services. Autologous fat transfer, or fat grafting, is a state-of-the-art procedure which transfers a patient's own fat from an unwanted area of the body to an area where augmentation is desired. The procedure provides a gentle solution to addressing changes the face and body commonly experience as a result ...

Nine out of ten women suffer from cellulite, and labor in the seemingly-difficult chore of its removal. However, the removal of cellulite is no longer such a mystery, thanks to a groundbreaking new cellulite treatment regimen developed by Dr. Simon Ourian, medical director of Epione Medical in Beverly Hills. The treatment combines Trans-dermal Acoustic Therapy (TAT) with Dr. Ourian's distinct OptiLipo system. The result is a non-invasive cellulite treatment regimen which has helped many patients to begin changing the tide in what is for most women a lifelong battle ...

Visitors to the new-and-improved www.AIDS.org are reporting rave reviews of the new design. AIDS.org has been on the frontline of the fight against AIDS for more than 12 years. "The information continues to be relevant, factual, and current; it's just the packaging that's changed," said Alain Berrebi, Executive Director of AIDS.org. "This facelift will help us keep up with the ever-changing expectations of Internet users and make our vital content more accessible." The leading online provider of AIDS and HIV education and prevention information, AIDS.org provides more ...

The Training Doctor, LLC, an instructional design firm which specializes in workplace learning and professional development, gives back to its profession and its community on a regular basis. Twice per year the company awards a $500 scholarship to a working professional who is pursuing an advanced degree in training or organization development. They will also provide up to 20 hours of free, training-related, consulting services to a 501-3c. Recent projects have included advising on a policies and procedures manual, creating an eLearning tutorial on HIV prevention, ...

ExamplesOf.com is a major new website which provides the full spectrum of template documents for everything from resumes to love letters. This site is intended to be a much more functional thing than the very patchy, often highly repetitive and uninspired "form" sites of the past. ExamplesOf.com CEO Carmelo Zahra comments: "There was an obvious need for a much broader based example and template site dealing with multiple functional issues than the things currently on the market. Most template-type sites are single stream, like just basic spreadsheets or formula letters ...

LearnSomething, Inc., a provider of eLearning solutions to associations, has announced a new relationship with Higher Logic, a professional social networking applications provider for non-profits and associations. Their partnership will allow both companies to enhance their products in a way that will benefit customers of both companies. As a result of their collaboration, organizations utilizing LearnSomething's learning management solutions will have access to a turnkey integration to and from Higher Logic's Connected Community. Senior Vice President of Association ...

YouTube and Broadway sensation, Miranda Sings, astounds her "haters" by winning Murphy's Magic Community's "What Magic Means to You" contest for a free trip for two to Las Vegas, NV to personally meet and see world-famous magician, Criss Angel, perform live. Miranda Sings has more than 38,000 followers on her YouTube Channel, and her videos have been viewed more than 11 million times. She won the contest by a landslide with her video entry "Magic". Due to the overwhelming popularity of her magic video, Murphy's Magic Supplies, Inc. is releasing an exciting new magic ...

Amplidata announces it has opened its US headquarters in Redwood City. The office will be the home base for the US sales, product management and support teams headed by VP Business Development Craig Stevens and VP Products Paul Speciale. Amplidata's engineering teams and EMEA sales will remain in the European Headquarters in Belgium and across its offices in Germany, Egypt and India. With the opening of the US headquarters, Amplidata strengthens its position in the US market. The local sales team will target key customers with specific needs for large-scale, highly reliable ...

UC Davis researchers have found a new pathway for repairing DNA damaged by oxygen radicals. The results are published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "This new inducible pathway gives cells greater capacity to repair oxidative damage," said Peter Beal, professor of chemistry at UC Davis and senior author of the paper. As part of its inflammatory response, the body's immune system produces oxygen radicals, or reactive oxygen species, to kill bacteria, parasites or tumors. But chronic inflammation, for example in the gut, has ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Younger adult cancer patients have the most difficulty coping with the pain and emotional issues of cancer, in spite of their potentially better survival odds, according to a University of Michigan Health System study. The study, which included mostly breast and lung cancer patients, appears in the November issue of Pain Medicine, a journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. Adult cancer patients age 40 and under had more pain flares and more difficulty thinking quickly and logically six months after their diagnosis compared to older adults. ...

VIDEO: A UCSF-led team has discovered a neural mechanism that allows the translucent juvenile zebrafish to parse out large background patterns from its perception of visual surroundings, enabling it to see... Click here for more information. A tiny, translucent juvenile zebrafish, on the hunt for even littler prey, has offered up a big insight into how a specific circuit of nerve cells functions in the brain. The technique used to illuminate this circuitry, and the fish model ...

PHILADELPHIA — Men with history of fracture and comorbidities are at an increased risk of fracture after long-term use of androgen deprivation therapy, and initiating this therapy should be carefully considered in older men with localized prostate cancer. In addition, the longer duration of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (Gn-RH) use and history of orchiectomy (removal of the testicles to stop testosterone production, which prostate cancer needs to continue to grow) are also associated with an increased risk of fracture among men with prostate cancer. These study results ...

PHILADELPHIA — Ninety percent of children who lived in a house where an adult smoked had evidence of tobacco-related carcinogens in their urine, according to research presented at the Ninth AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, held here from Nov 7-10, 2010. The average amount of tobacco metabolites in children aged one month to 10 years old was 8 percent of what is found in a smoker, said the lead researcher Janet L. Thomas, Ph.D., assistant professor of behavioral medicine at the University of Minnesota. "This finding is striking, because while ...

PHILADELPHIA — Women planning on taking hormone therapy for the treatment of menopausal symptoms should be aware of a possible increased risk for ovarian cancer, according to data presented at the Ninth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, held here Nov. 7-10, 2010. "This study is consistent with previous recommendations that say if women are going to take hormones they should only take them in the short term," said Konstantinos Tsilidis, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford. Tsilidis and ...

PHILADELPHIA — Women being treated for breast cancer with aromatase inhibitors may experience extremely low estrogen levels resulting in a wide variety of side effects that a typical postmenopausal woman without cancer may not experience. Data presented at the Ninth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Conference, held here Nov. 7-10, 2010, showed that women assigned to take aromatase inhibitors had increases in side effects such as hot flashes, decreased appetite, fatigue, fever, breast sensitivity, etc. "Aromastase inhibitors represent one of the most major ...

PHILADELPHIA — Women who exercise for 150 minutes a week or more may see a reduced risk of endometrial cancer, despite whether or not they are overweight, according to data presented at the Ninth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, held here Nov. 7-10, 2010. "This study is consistent with other studies that strongly support the association between physical activity and lower risk of endometrial cancer," said Hannah Arem, a doctoral student at Yale School of Public Health. Arem and colleagues examined data collected from a case-control study ...

PHILADELPHIA — Researchers have further established that long-term use of statins is unlikely to substantially increase or decrease overall cancer risk, according to study results presented at the Ninth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, held Nov. 7-10, 2010, in Philadelphia. Statins are a class of drugs commonly used in the United States to lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. While study results to date have shown that short-term use of statins has little effect on risk of developing cancer, not much is known ...

PHILADELPHIA — Despite strong evidence of its effectiveness, few of the young women who are eligible for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine take it, according to research presented at the Ninth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, held Nov. 7-10. What's more, many of the teens who begin treatment do not complete the recommended three-dose regimen. "Only about one-third of young women who begin the three-dose series actually complete it; this means that large numbers of teenagers are unprotected or under-protected from strains of HPV that ...

An analysis of nationally representative data suggests that being obese in adolescence increases the risk of being severely obese in adulthood, with the risk higher in women, and highest for black women, according to a study in the November 10 issue of JAMA. Individuals with severe obesity (body mass index [BMI] 40 or greater) encounter serious and potentially life-threatening health complications. "In 2000, an estimated 2.2 percent of adults, or 4.8 million individuals, were severely obese, with a disproportionately higher prevalence in women and racial/ethnic minorities. ...

Implementation in Massachusetts of a computer-automated safety surveillance system of clinical outcomes registries for cardiovascular devices resulted in the identification of a drug-releasing stent that had significantly higher rates of major adverse cardiac events than similar stents, according to a study in the November 10 issue of JAMA. The findings indicate that this type of system appears feasible and useful in identifying new cardiovascular devices with early low-frequency potential safety issues that are not observed in premarket approval studies. "Monitoring ...

In England, a country with a universal access health care system, there is wide variation between local populations in the rate of death from coronary heart disease, which is largely explained by population characteristics such as low socioeconomic factors, white ethnicity, levels of smoking, and diabetes, according to a study in the November 10 issue of JAMA. "Although mortality from coronary heart disease (CHD) has been steadily decreasing since the 1970s, it is still responsible for 15 percent of all deaths and nearly half of all circulatory disease deaths in England. ...

The quality of public reporting of bloodstream infection rates among hospitals may be effected by the variation in surveillance methods, according to a study in the November 10 issue of JAMA. "Public reporting of hospital-specific infection rates is widely promoted as a means to improve patient safety. Central line [central venous catheter]-associated bloodstream infection (BSI) rates are considered a key patient safety measure because such infections are frequent, lead to poor patient outcomes, are costly to the medical system, and are preventable. Publishing infection ...

DNA methylation plays an important role in many processes such as animal development, X-chromosome inactivation, and carcinogenesis. Understanding the mechanisms and functions of DNA methylation and how it varies from tissue to tissue and between individuals will have profound implications for human health and disease. A team of Chinese researchers decoded the essentially complete methylome (an inventory of all the bases that are methylated) of the human genome using peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). The results will be published in the online, open access journal ...

Probiotic bacteria given as therapies for diarrhoea reduce the length of time sufferers are affected and lessen the chance of episodes continuing for more than four days. These are the findings of a new systematic review by Cochrane researchers. Every year, diarrhoeal diseases kill nearly two million people in developing countries, mostly young children. The main treatment is rehydration fluids, but these do not tend to reduce the length of illness, which is crucial in reducing the risk of persistent diarrhoea. Probiotics, so-called "good bacteria", may help in a variety ...

Working to change the behaviour of family members may be an effective treatment for people with schizophrenia, according to a new Cochrane systematic review. The researchers reviewed the most up-to-date evidence on the subject and found that patients whose families received the interventions were less likely to relapse. It has long been known that people who have schizophrenia are more likely to relapse if they come from families where they experience high levels of criticism, hostility and over involvement. New psychosocial interventions that aim to reduce levels of ...