TORONTO, Ont., Feb. 11, 2011 -- The daughters of rats who took folic acid supplements before conception, during pregnancy and while breast-feeding have breast cancer rates twice as high as other rats, according to a new study. They also had more tumours and developed them at a faster rate, according to the study led by Dr. Young-in Kim, a gastroenterologist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. Kim stressed more research needs to be done to determine whether the findings also apply to humans. While there are similarities in breast cancer in rats and humans, there are ...

A set of maps created by the University of Sheffield have illustrated, for the first time, how our last British ice sheet shrunk during the Ice Age. Led by Professor Chris Clark from the University's Department of Geography, a team of experts developed the maps to understand what effect the current shrinking of ice sheets in parts of the Antarctic and Greenland will have on the speed of sea level rise. The unique maps record the pattern and speed of shrinkage of the large ice sheet that covered the British Isles during the last Ice Age, approximately 20,000 years ago. ...

Flavorful fresh food is united with family tradition at Fóumami (pronounced "Foo-mah-mee"), an inventive new Asian sandwich bar that offers breakfast and lunch, to stay or to go, in the heart of Boston's financial district. Located at 225 Franklin Street, Fóumami is the brainchild of owner and general manager Michael Y. J. Wang, a Harvard Business School grad and third generation restauranteur who has based his Asian concept sandwich bar on age old elements of Asian cuisine, drawing from Chinese, Korean, and Japanese influences and prized family recipes to develop a variety ...

The gene, GFPT1, has been identified by researchers at Newcastle University working with international colleagues, as crucial in causing a variation of Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome (CMS). The condition came to prominence in recent times in the UK with the plight of baby RB, who was at the centre of a "right-to-life" legal dispute. CMS is a rare genetic condition affecting the way signals travel between the brain and muscles which can cause paralysis and in some cases death. It affects one in every 500,000 births and the severity of the condition varies, depending ...

Walker Author Tours, a company that helps authors promote their books through blog tours, announces the upcoming book blog tour for Frosty: Adventures of a Morgan Horse. The book tour will comprise tour stops at various book blogs on the Internet, where readers can read book reviews, interviews with the author, and, in some cases, ask questions of the author. This is a great way to learn about new books and authors. The Frosty: Adventures of a Morgan Horse book blog tour will run from April 1 - 11, 2011, with book reviews and author interviews conducted by different ...

Tiny organisms preserved in marine sediments hold clues about Arctic climate variation during an ancient episode of greenhouse warming. Based on reconstructions of Arctic climate variability in the greenhouse world of the Late Cretaceous, Southampton scientists have concluded that man-made global warming probably would not greatly change the climatic influence associated with natural modes of inter-annual climate variability such as the El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) or the Arctic Oscillation/ North Atlantic Oscillation (AO/ NAO). "Even in the warm Cretaceous ...

This Glendale location makes the Institute more accessible to the San Gabriel Valley. The Oncology Institute Administrator Hilda Agajanian issued a statement on the new location. "It is our mission to be as accessible as possible to our patients and this new location will be a huge help to those that now commute from both the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valley," As experts in patient care and recent winners of the 2010 HOPE Award for Practice Excellence in Patient Care, The Oncology Institute of Hope and Innovation is known for their exemplary internal clinical research ...

Spanish legislation stipulates that at least 60% of waste paper and cardboard collected must be recycled, along with 60% of glass, 50% of metals and 22.5% of plastics. However, a study by researchers at the Jaume I (UJI) University in Castellón shows that this minimum requirement is only exceeded in the case of glass. "Collection from sites for depositing paper and cardboard stands at 45% in the best of cases, at a maximum distance of 80 metres, while the average percentage for containers is 20%, meaning the target is not met either for plastics or metals", Antonio Gallardo, ...

Canonical today announced that for the first time it was making publicly available its complete database of certified components for Ubuntu and Linux -- rapidly reducing the time-to-market for Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) working on Ubuntu or Linux machines. The catalogue gives ODMs a selection of over 1300 certified components from 161 manufacturers, making it the largest list of Linux-compatible components available. It takes advantage of Canonical's position at the heart of the server and PC industry, which enables the company to get components first as it ...

Brain and spinal cord comprise more than just nerve cells. The extracellular matrix, a complex scaffold of proteins with sugar residues, surrounds the cells and influences their well-being. Prof. Wiese's team is interested in the interaction of the matrix with a specific kind of nerve cells, which transmit signals from the brain to muscles (motoneurons). Because injured motoneurons lead to paralysis, clinicians have great interest in being able to influence the growth of these cells. "If we had a medication that could change the extracellular matrix so that it favours the ...

Where more standard medicine fails, people turn their attention to other means of healing. Those include acupuncture, naturopathy, homeopathy and many more, but none are as widely recognized as chiropractic, a discipline that primarily uses manual therapy to heal the body, and particularly the spine, ever-important pillar that supports the body and also serves as the seat of the central nervous system. Chiropractic may ignite controversy, but evidence "for" is strong enough to consider it as a solid branch of healthcare. Now, LogoBee sets out to aid chiropractors in ...

SAN FRANCISCO (February 11, 2011) — In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, in San Francisco, researchers will present findings that show that use of non alcohol antibacterial mouth-rinse containing cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) decreases the incidence of preterm birth (PTB). "This research demonstrated that reducing the severity of periodontal disease has a direct correlation with preterm birth," said Marjorie Jeffcoat, D.M.D., one of the study's authors. "Preterm birth is the major ...

This release is available in German. Halting page loading and postage stamp sized-videos jiggling all over the screen – those days are gone for good thanks to Smartphones, flat rates and fast data links. Last year, 100 million videos were seen on YouTube with cell phones all over the world. A survey of the high-tech association BITKOM found that 10 million people surf the Internet with their cell phones in Germany. And there's another hype that is unbroken: 3-D films. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, HHI in Berlin, ...

Sam Sesi, owner of NOW Property Preservation, utilizes his skills to stabilize neighborhoods nationwide. The area that Sam Sesi of NOW Property Preservation stabilizes neighborhoods in is the foreclosure home sales area nationwide. "Each property is the key to a new life and a new beginning. What family will move in next door to a home with code violations or just not maintained?", remarks Sam Sesi. By maintaining foreclosure/reo homes, Sam Sesi of NOW Property Preservation keeps neighborhoods stabilized. The services that NOW Property Preservation provides include ...

This release is available in German. Cloud Computing is a tempting development for IT managers: with cloud computing, companies and organizations no longer have to acquire servers and software solutions themselves and instead rent the capacities they need for data, computing power and applications from professional providers. You only pay for what you use. In Germany, primarily companies are turning to cloud computing, transferring their data, applications and networks to server farms at Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft or other IT service providers. In the space of just ...

While many had a white Christmas, it's a new year and time to brighten things up with colorful silicon rubber watches from Shopforbags.com. From celebs and fashionistas to soccer moms and teens, jelly sports watches are poised to be a top trend for spring. Leading retailers will prepare for spring shopping fever with Shopforbag.com's trendy watches including crosses, fleur de lis, peace signs, zebra print, flowers and even collegiate logos. The wholesale watches - embellished with Austrian crystal rhinestones around the face - are available in a variety of bright and ...

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University Hospitals (UH) Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center recently reported that it has increased the use of tPA or "clot busting therapy" for ischemic stroke by 13.5 times throughout UH system hospitals since implementing the System Stroke Program (SSP). Launched in 2008, SSP sought to increase access to the lifesaving treatment for acute (urgent) ischemic stroke patients in the 15 counties surrounding Cleveland. tPA is Tissue Plasminogen Activator, a drug that dissolves blood clots and must be administered intravenously within 4.5 hours of the onset of stroke symptoms ...

Astronomers have a neat trick they sometimes use to compensate for the turbulence of the atmosphere that blurs images made by ground-based telescopes. They create an artificial star called a guide star and use its twinkling to compensate for the atmospheric turbulence. Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has invented a guide star for biomedical rather than celestial imaging, a breakthrough that promises game-changing improvements in biomedical imaging and light therapy. Wang's ...

Gloria Larkin, President of Targetgov, will be among honorees at MEA Magazine's 50 Women of Influence and Power Awards Luncheon 2011. Gloria is being honored for her commitment to business growth, professional excellence and advocacy on behalf of government contracting businesses nationwide. MEA Magazine, a publication of the award-winning organization Minority Enterprise Executive Council, is hosting a prestigious luncheon recognizing 50 Women of Influence and Power on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. The luncheon theme is "Applauding Courage and Success" and it will be ...

Christopher Panebianco, vice president of marketing for Bankers Healthcare Group, will join Dominick Destefano, physicians relations at Broward General Medical Center, to co-chair the 2011 "Let's Move Together" Arthritis Walk Broward. "I am delighted to partner with the Arthritis Foundation because I fully support and believe in their mission to find a cure for arthritis with efforts towards prevention and improving the quality of life for arthritis patients," said Panebianco, who oversees traditional and interactive marketing, lead generation and management, customer ...

RICHMOND, Va. (Feb. 11, 2011) – An international team of researchers has discovered a new class of magnetic superhalogens – a class of atomic clusters able to exhibit unusual stability at a specific size and composition, which may be used to advance materials science by allowing scientists to create a new class of salts with magnetic and super-oxidizing properties not previously found. The discovery, which was published Feb. 10 in the Early View issue of the international chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition, was based on theoretical work by researchers ...

Targeting the neuroinflammatory causes of Parkinson's disease with a naturally present brain chemical signal could offer a better understanding of the clinical mechanisms of the disease and open a future therapeutic window, reports a team of researchers from the University of South Florida Department Neurosurgery and Brain Repair and the James A. Haley Veterans' Administration Hospital, Tampa. Their findings are published online in the Journal of Neuroinflammation (http://www.jneuroinflammation). Brain inflammation has been clearly shown in PD, and the brain's microglia ...

ALEXANDRIA, VA – One year after having a stroke, 52% of people who participate in either a physical therapy program that includes a walking program using a body-weight supported treadmill or a home-based program focused on progressive strength and balance exercises experience improved functional walking ability, according to the results of the Locomotor Experience Applied Post-stroke (LEAPS) trial being presented today at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2011 in Los Angeles, and tomorrow at the American Physical Therapy Association's (APTA) ...

Buzz Brand Marketing, a top boutique marketing and pr firm, headquartered in New York, is starting off the New Year with some major plans and announcements. With the addition of new executives, new market launches across the United States and focusing their philanthropic efforts on the empowerment of women and girls, 2011 is sure to be a stellar year for this team of all-stars. Buzz is proud to announce the addition of Lexi Chow and Tonia Purnell-Respes to the executive team. Lexi Chow comes to Buzz as the Senior VP of Lifestyle & Entertainment, after having sat at the ...