Computed tomography colonography (CTC) — otherwise known as virtual colonoscopy — is feasible in remote health centers where optimal colonoscopy is limited, according to a study in the November issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology (www.ajronline.org). The study was performed at Fort Defiance Indian Hospital in Fort Defiance, AZ, and Tuba City Regional Health Care Center in Tuba City, AZ, both of which are rural medical centers serving Native American, mainly Navajo, populations. After brief on-site instruction, including performing a CTC examination on a volunteer ...

If you're a football fanatic, or if you just enjoy a great party, you won't want to miss Super Bowl XLV. The Dallas Cowboys are hosting this year's mega-event at their brand-new stadium in Arlington. And nobody does football parties bigger than Texans. To take full advantage of the Super Bowl experience, you need super accommodations. Luckily, you can rent a luxury home in DFW TX for the Super Bowl. Located just 15 miles from the stadium in the affluent suburb of Colleyville, this $3 million home will impress your guests with its lofty ceilings, seven different fireplaces, ...

Tarpaflex U.S, the worldwide tarps specialist are going for gold this winter with a large shipment of economy blue tarps for the new London Olympic Stadium. A highly anticipated event, transforming London in time for the 2012 games is a difficult and complex task. Plans and progress are already full steam ahead despite the event being almost two years away. So far, the focus on efforts has been on the construction of the new, world-class Olympic stadium. With building on the 80,000 capacity stadium underway, Tarpaflex has received a large order for blue economy tarpaulins ...

Chef Point Cafe, one of the most respected Fort Worth fine dining restaurants, is holding a competition in search of a new theme song for their restaurant and website. If you are a musician looking for a start or a break this could be your lucky day. The Chef Point Cafe contest is for you. First prize is $100, your song played on http://www.chefpointcafe.org, and featured in a press release. This is the perfect opportunity for start-up musicians who want to build their resume. Aspiring musicians know how hard it is to build a resume; the best way to do so is by entering ...

Destiny Image Publishers will provide an opportunity for unpublished Christian authors to pitch their book projects at its Meet the Publisher event from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 16 and again from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 17, 2010, at Destiny Image Publishers in Shippensburg, PA. The event will also include a publishing workshop open to all from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 16, 2010. "We publish only 120 out of about 3,000 manuscripts a year," said Don Nori Sr., CEO and founder of Destiny Image Publishers. "This event will give unpublished authors the opportunity ...

The abstract, to be presented in a poster session by Dr. Jeffrey Vacirca of North Shore Hematology Oncology Associates, includes the additional data published from an ongoing clinical trial of bendamustine and rituximab treatment for patients with relapsed or treatment refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). "This impressive data appears to give us a new alternative in second-line lymphoma treatment," says Dr. Vacirca in a statement. The poster reflects response data on 33 patients, though as of October, 50 patients have been enrolled. This study is scheduled ...

Promexico, the Mexican government organization charged with the task of strengthening the country's ties to the international economy will be holding a seminar entitled, "It's Time to Do Business in Mexico", on Tuesday, October 26th from 8:00am to 11:00 at the offices of Mayer - Brown located at 71 S. Wacker Drive in Chicago, Illinois. Mayer - Brown, along with The U.S. - Mexico Chamber of Commerce will be co-sponsors of the event. After the welcome and opening remarks by representatives of Mayer-Brown and the U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Jorge Lopez, Promexico's ...

Green over Grey Designers have completed planting the largest and most biologically diverse outdoor green wall in North America. It is located in Surrey, BC, Canada, covering the Semiahmoo Public Library and RCMP Facility. The unique design is nearly 3,000 square feet and consists of over 10,000 individual plants representing more than 120 unique species. It includes ground covers, large perennials, shrubs and small trees. "This will be our first large-scale green wall in Surrey," says Mayor Dianne Watts. 'It will be a beautiful living work of art that will cover ...

Johnny Cash fans around the world can now tune in to Johnny Cash Radio, a new venture launched by Bill Miller who, along with the late Johnny Cash, founded the official Johnny Cash website 14 years ago. The station, www.johnnycashradio.com, streams Johnny Cash music and content 24 hours a day, seven days a week. "Johnny Cash Radio is a dream come true for Johnny's millions of fans around the globe. We are the source for all things Cash, and our lineup includes programming hosted by Johnny's own family members, friends, former band members and others in the music industry," ...

RICHLAND, Wash. -- A new technique that searches blood for the tiniest remnants of broken down proteins has revealed new information about how cells crank up cancer activators called proteases. The results improve researchers' understanding of the mechanics of breast cancer and point to where to look for possible indicators of early disease. Appearing this week in PLoS ONE, the research shows previously unknown contributing factors to protease activation, which helps spread cancer: cancer cells almost completely chew up small protein pieces that normally put the brakes ...

Curcumin, the major component in the spice turmeric, when combined with the drug Cisplatin enhances the chemotherapy's suppression of head and neck cancer cell growth, researchers with UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center have found. A naturally occurring spice widely used in South Asian and Middle Eastern cooking, Turmeric has long been known to have medicinal properties, attributed to its anti-inflammatory effects. Previous studies have shown it can suppress the growth of certain cancers, said Dr. Marilene Wang, a professor of head and neck surgery, lead author of the study ...

Mutually beneficial partnerships among species may play highly important but vastly underrecognized roles in keeping the Earth's ecosystems running, a group of evolutionary biologists suggests in a study. The authors present evidence that human impacts may be forcing these mutualist systems down unprecedented evolutionary paths. "With global climate change, evolutionary change can happen very rapidly, over a few years," said Judith Bronstein, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the UA's College of Science and senior author on the paper. "That can be a ...

Survival rates of the world's most common cancer might soon be increased with a new vitamin E treatment which could significantly reduce tumour regrowth. Queensland University of Technology (QUT) prostate cancer researchers are leading the fight against a disease which kills 3000 Australian men a year. Dr Patrick Ling, whose research will be a centrepiece of the new $354 million Translational Research Institute (TRI) when it opens in Brisbane, is leading a team of researchers who have identified a particular constituent of vitamin E, known as tocotrienol (T3), which ...

The cells and tissues in our bodies grow, develop and interact in a highly complex, three-dimensional world. Likewise, the various microbial pathogens that invade our bodies and cause infectious disease interact with this complex 3-D tissue milieu. Yet the methods of culturing and studying human cells have traditionally been carried out in two dimensions on flat impermeable surfaces. While such 2-D culturing and modeling efforts have produced a steady stream of critical insight into cell behavior and the mechanisms of infection and disease, 2-D cell cultures have key limitations ...

There has been an abundance of research on the effects of alcohol on the brain, but many questions regarding how alcohol impairs the built-in control systems are still unknown. A new study released in the January 2011 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, which is currently available at Early View, explores that subject in detail and found that certain brain regions involved in error processing are affected more by alcohol than others. According to Beth Anderson, a postdoctoral fellow at the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Centre at Hartford Hospital in ...

Exposure to alcohol as a fetus has been shown to cause difficulties in memory and information processing in children New findings indicate that visual perception, control of attention and demand processing may be involved in fetal alcohol-related learning problems This information could potentially be used to help children affected with such difficulties It has been known for many years that drinking alcohol while pregnant can cause serious and irreversible damage to the fetus. However, new research exploring memory deficits in children diagnosed with fetal alcohol ...

Adolescence and puberty is a period of significant development in the brain New findings indicate that excessive alcohol use selectively damages the frontal lobe, which is responsible for the development of social skills and judgment This indicates that severe alcohol abuse may damage brain function, and the normal course of neural development in adolescents Alcohol, to an adolescent, is often seen as a rite of passage. Many teenagers view alcohol (as well as other drugs) as a gateway to adulthood, but are often blissfully unaware of the damage that it can cause ...

The gene CYP2E1, which is located on the terminal region of chromosome 10, plays a major role in the metabolic processing of alcohol New findings show that this gene is linked with a low sensitivity to alcohol and increased risk for alcoholism CYP2E1 could therefore be used as a predictor for those who are at risk for alcoholism The research into how alcohol reacts with the brain is a complex one, and has been relentlessly studied for many years. But a new study has shown, through linkage and association analysis on various family groups, that a gene originally ...

CHICAGO— Results of clinical research on new presbyopia treatments now available in Europe–and possibly available soon in the United States–were reported in today's Scientific Program of the 2010 Joint Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and Middle East-Africa Council of Ophthalmology (MEACO). The AAO-MEACO meeting is the world's largest, most comprehensive ophthalmic education conference and is in session October 16 through 19 at McCormick Place, Chicago. Presbyopia is Inevitable, but Blurry Vision is Not From age 40 onward our eyes' lenses gradually ...

CHICAGO—Cataract surgery not only improves vision and quality of life for older people, but is also apparently a way to reduce the number of car crashes. The research will be presented today's at the Scientific Program of the 2010 American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) – Middle East-Africa Council of Ophthalmology (MEACO) Joint Meeting. Cataract surgery not only improves vision and quality of life for older people, but is also apparently a way to reduce the number of car crashes. The research will be presented today's at the Scientific Program of the 2010 American Academy ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., (Oct. 19, 2010) -- Micro-scaled photovoltaic devices may one day be used to deliver chemotherapeutic drugs directly to tumors, rendering chemotherapy less toxic to surrounding tissue. "In the first step, we were able to prove the concept," says Tao Xu, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the University of Texas in El Paso. Xu and his colleagues will present their findings today at the AVS 57th International Symposium & Exhibition, which takes place this week at the Albuquerque Convention Center in New Mexico. Currently, chemotherapeutic drugs are piped ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., (Oct. 19, 2010) -- The long-held dream of creating atomically precise three-dimensional structures in a manufacturing environment is approaching reality, according to the top scientist at a company making tools aimed at that ambitious goal. John Randall, Vice President of Zyvex Labs in Richardson, Tex., says his researchers have demonstrated a process that uses a scanning tunneling microscope tip to remove protective surface hydrogen atoms from silicon one at a time and then adds single atomic layers of silicon only to those meticulously cleared areas. ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., (Oct. 19, 2010) -- When weighing options for energy storage, different factors can be important, such as energy density or power density, depending on the circumstances. Generally batteries -- which store energy by separating chemicals -- are better for delivering lots of energy, while capacitors -- which store energy by separating electrical charges -- are better for delivering lots of power (energy per time). It would be nice, of course, to have both. Today at the AVS 57th International Symposium & Exhibition, which takes place this week at the Albuquerque ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., (Oct. 19, 2010) -- Lithium-ion batteries have become ubiquitous in today's consumer electronics -- powering our laptops, phones, and iPods. Research funded by DARPA is pushing the limits of this technology and trying to create some of the tiniest batteries on Earth, the largest of which would be no bigger than a grain of sand. These tiny energy storage devices could one day be used to power the electronics and mechanical components of tiny micro- to nano-scale devices. Jane Chang, an engineer at the University of California, Los Angeles, is designing ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., (Oct. 19, 2010) -- The prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections is well known, causing an estimated 19,000 deaths and $3-4 billion in healthcare costs per year in the U.S. What is less well known is that this increased infection and resistance rate has not been met with a simultaneous development of novel antimicrobial and antibiotic agents; in fact, only three classes of antibiotics have been developed since the 1950s. To address this need, scientists at the University of New Mexico are working on a new type of antimicrobial ...