Beverly Hills Orthopedic Institute Becomes R3 Stem Cell Center of Excellence

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Beverly Hills, California (PRWEB) September 08, 2014

Beverly Hills Orthopedic Institute has become an R3 Stem Cell Center of Excellence. Patients are immediately able to benefit from the regenerative medicine procedures at the Center, including bone marrow or amniotic derived stem cells for arthritis, sports injuries, and all types of chronic pain issues. Call R3 Stem Cell for scheduling at (844) GET-STEM.

R3 Stem Cell works with the best Board Certified providers nationwide, bringing the latest cutting edge regenerative medicine procedures to those in need. The top Beverly Hills orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Raj, is the medical director of Beverly Hills Orthopedic Institute and has performed over 50 stem cell procedures to date. Patients have include elite athletes, celebrities, executives, students, manual laborers and senior citizens. In other words, every walk of life can benefit.

The procedures offered include stem cell therapy for arthritis, back pain, cartilage defects, tendonitis, migraines, fracture healing and ligament injuries. The procedures are often able to help patients avoid the need for surgery and provide excellent pain relief with increased function.

Said R3 CEO Bob Maguire, MBA, Dr. Raj is a highly respected, skilled and compassionate provider who is committed to providing cutting edge options to his patients. It can help them heal faster while achieving pain relief. Thats what R3 Centers of Excellence strive for and have been very successful with to date.

Several different types of regenerative medicine procedures are offered at the R3 Center of Excellence. Amniotic stem cell procedures have shown amazing benefits in small studies to date. The fluid is obtained from consenting donors after a scheduled c-section, with the material being processed at an FDA regulated lab. No fetal tissue is involved or embryonic stem cells.

Bone marrow aspirate stem cell therapy is also offered, with the same day procedure injecting the processed bone marrow into the problem area. A high concentration of stem cells and growth factors sparks an impressive healing process, which can often regenerate damaged tissue.

Platelet rich plasma therapy is also offered, which involves a simple blood draw from patients. Studies are beginning to show that the regenerative medicine procedures work well for helping patients avoid the need for joint replacement surgery and also assisting athletes to get back on the field faster than otherwise.

Financing is available for the procedures at all R3 Stem Cell Centers of Excellence. Call (844) GET-STEM for more information and scheduling with stem cell treatment Los Angeles trusts.

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Space Station Crew Member Discusses Life In Space With German Media – Video

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Open space is a key feature of future Central Subway station

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There is something that the Chinatown community desires more, and has less of, than housing.

Open space.

While San Francisco stakeholders years ago debated the Central Subway extending the Muni T-Third Street line north on Fourth Street with a Chinatown station as the terminus, community activists coalesced on what would become of the area above it.

Fast-forward to today, construction crews at Washington and Stockton streets in the heart of the neighborhood are erecting walls 85 feet below surface level for the approved, multilevel Central Subway station scheduled to open by 2019. The design plans for a 5,400-square-foot rooftop plaza at the site have yet to be grounded, but are shaping up to be what the Chinatown community wants, said Norman Fong, executive director of the Chinatown Community Development Center.

"I dreamed about that a long time ago with a lot of people in the community, but we figured maybe The City would go for income-generating things like housing," he said. "So I had low expectations. I can't believe that The City listened to the community and the community needs for open space."

The design for the Chinatown station itself was approved with a transit-oriented development to complement it in mind. In determining what to build above the station, The City opened the process to community groups that conducted surveys and various meetings.

"We looked at housing and business, but at the end of the day, what the community wanted -- and they were probably right -- was to have a park and enjoy the sunshine," said John Funghi, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's Central Subway program director.

San Francisco's Chinatown is the densest neighborhood in the country outside of New York's Chinatown, with only four open-space places -- heavily trafficked Portsmouth Square, the Willie "Woo Woo" Wong and Woh Hei Yuen playgrounds, and St. Mary's Square, which is slated to get a rooftop park extension in exchange for two new office towers on the rise.

The Chinatown station plaza is an opportunity to create a fifth spot, Recreation and Park Commissioner Allan Low said.

"Open space is being elevated, which is really the only way you can create new open space," he said, praising the "creativity and collaboration" on the project thus far.

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International Space Station accidentally launches satellites on its own

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NEW YORK, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- On Thursday, the International Space Station decided to launch some satellites on its own. CubeSats are tiny satellites (about the size of a few bricks), weighing less than 1.33 kilograms, and they're supposed to do a range of missions from communicating with sea vessels to monitoring earthquakes.

The station commander, Steve Swanson, was putting blood samples in a freezer when he noticed the CubeSat launcher's doors were open, according to reports. "No crew members or ground controllers saw the deployment. They reviewed all the camera footage and there was no views of it there either," according to NASA Mission Commentator Pat Ryan. Those working at the Johnson Space Center in Houston realized that the CubeSats had somehow been released without anyone initiating a launch.

According to Pat Ryan, the crew had been trying to repair the launcher recently, which explains why their may have been such an error. The space station received the 32 CubeSats in July to take images of Earth. So far, four of the 12 released were released on accident, and the fate of the mission remains unclear.

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NASA Launches New Era of Earth Science from Space Station

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The launch of a NASA ocean winds sensor to the International Space Station (ISS) this month inaugurates a new era of Earth observation that will leverage the space station's unique vantage point in space. Before the end of the decade, six NASA Earth science instruments will be mounted to the station to help scientists study our changing planet.

The first NASA Earth-observing instrument to be mounted on the exterior of the space station will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on the next SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services flight, currently targeted for no earlier than Sept. 19. ISS-RapidScat will monitor ocean winds for climate research, weather predictions and hurricane monitoring from the space station.

The second instrument is the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS), a laser instrument that will measure clouds and the location and distribution of airborne particles such as pollution, mineral dust, smoke, and other particulates in the atmosphere. CATS will follow ISS-RapidScat on the fifth SpaceX space station resupply flight, targeted for December.

"We're seeing the space station come into its own as an Earth-observing platform," said Julie Robinson, chief scientist for the International Space Station Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. "It has a different orbit than other Earth remote sensing platforms. Its closer to Earth, and it sees Earth at different times of day with a different schedule. That offers opportunities that complement other Earth-sensing instruments in orbit today."

The space station-based instruments join a fleet of 17 NASA Earth-observing missions currently providing data on the dynamic and complex Earth system. ISS-RapidScat and CATS follow the February launch of the Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory, a joint mission with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and the July launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, making 2014 one of the busiest periods for new NASA Earth science missions in more than a decade.

Most of the agencys free-flying, Earth-observing satellites orbit the planet over the poles at altitudes higher than 400 miles in order to gather data from all parts of the planet. Although the space station does not pass over Earths polar regions, its 240-mile high orbit does offer logistical and scientific advantages.

"With the space station we don't have to build a spacecraft to gather new data -- it's already there, said Stephen Volz, associate director of flight programs in the Earth Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The orbit enables rare, cross-disciplinary observations when the station flies under another sensor on a satellite. Designing instruments for the space station also gives us a chance to do high-risk, high-return instruments in a relatively economical way."

The data provided by ISS-RapidScat will support weather and marine forecasting, including tracking storms and hurricanes. The station's orbit will allow the instrument to make repeated, regular observations over the same locations at different times of day, providing the first near-global measurements of how winds change throughout the day. ISS-RapidScat was built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

CATS is a laser remote-sensing instrument, or lidar, that measures clouds and tiny aerosol particles in the atmosphere. These atmospheric components play a critical part in understanding how human activities such as pollution and fossil fuel burning contribute to climate change. CATS was built by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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Wake Forest Baptist Researcher Awarded NASA Grant to Study Effects of Space Travel on Hip and Knee Joints

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Newswise WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Sept. 8, 2014 Jeffrey S. Willey, Ph.D., assistant professor of radiation oncology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, has been awarded a grant by NASAs Space Biology Program to study how space flight can cause degeneration of skeletal joints and to test ways to prevent this damage.

The grant was one of 26 awarded to researchers at 17 institutions in nine states. When fully implemented, funding for the Wake Forest Baptist project and others will total approximately $12.6 million.

The goal of the Space Biology Program is to uncover basic knowledge that other NASA scientists and engineers can use to solve problems relating to human exploration of space or that could lead to new biological tools or applications on Earth. Research projects will be performed on the International Space Station.

Our project specifically will examine how near-weightlessness during long space missions affects skeletal joints, said Willey, who joined the Wake Forest Baptist faculty in 2012.

Both the reduced gravity and increased exposure to radiation, such as that from solar flares, during space flights can damage the hip and knee joints. That damage could increase the risk of developing arthritis or bone fractures during the flight or after returning to earth. However, the extent and exact cause of damage to these joints hasnt been studied and it isnt known if the joint tissues can recover.

The Wake Forest Baptist study is designed to compare a group of mice kept on earth under weightless conditions to a group that will be kept on the International Space Station for 30 days. Damage to the hip and knee joint structure will be assessed through imaging techniques, engineering devices that measure tissue strength and identification of the molecules that cause the damage.

The team will also determine if treadmill running or climbing can reverse any of the hip and knee joint damage caused by being in the weightless space environment.

We also hope to gain insights into how joint degradation develops in wheelchair-bound spinal cord injury patients, and how it can be prevented, Willey said.

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New NASA Probe Will Study Earth's Forests In 3D

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Image Caption: The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation lidar will reveal the 3-D architecture of forests, as depicted in this artists concept. The unprecedented detail of these measurements will provide crucial information about the impact that trees have on the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Elizabeth Zubritsky, NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center

A laser-based instrument being developed for the International Space Station will provide a unique 3-D view of Earths forests, helping to fill in missing information about their role in the carbon cycle.

Called the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar, the instrument will be the first to systematically probe the depths of the forests from space. The system is one of two instrument proposals recently selected for NASAs Earth Venture Instrument program and is being led by the University of Maryland, College Park. The instrument will be built at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

As a global leader in research and discovery related to environmental sustainability, the University of Maryland is extraordinarily proud to be a part of this new venture with our partners from NASA, said University of Maryland Vice President and Chief Research Officer Patrick OShea. GEDI lidar will have a tremendous impact on our ability to monitor forest degradation, adding to the critical data needed to mitigate the effects of climate change.

GEDI will be a tremendous new resource for studying Earths vegetation, said Piers Sellers, deputy director of Goddards Sciences and Exploration Directorate. In particular, the GEDI data will provide us with global-scale insights into how much carbon is being stored in the forest biomass. This information will be particularly powerful when combined with the historical record of changes captured by the U.S.s long-standing program of Earth-orbiting satellites, such as Landsat and MODIS. The MODIS, or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, is an instrument that flies aboard NASAs Terra and Aqua satellites.

By revealing the 3-D architecture of forests in unprecedented detail, GEDI will provide crucial information about the impact that trees have on the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. Although it is well-established that trees absorb carbon and store it long-term, scientists have not quantified exactly how much carbon forests contain. As a result, its not possible to determine how much carbon would be released if a forest were destroyed, nor how well emissions could be countered by planting new trees.

One of the most poorly quantified components of the carbon cycle is the net balance between forest disturbance and regrowth, said Ralph Dubayah, the GEDI principal investigator at the University of Maryland. GEDI will help scientists fill in this missing piece by revealing the vertical structure of the forest, which is information we really cant get with sufficient accuracy any other way.

GEDI can do this because its a laser-based system, called a lidar, that can measure the distance from the space-based instrument to Earths surface with enough accuracy to detect subtle variations, including the tops of trees, the ground, and the vertical distribution of aboveground biomass in forests. Its immediate predecessors are Goddards Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) and airborne Land, Vegetation and Ice Sensor, known as LVIS, which is flown on high-altitude aircraft to measure forests, land topography, ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice.

Lidar has the unique ability to peer into the tree canopy to precisely measure the height and internal structure of the forest at the fine scale required to accurately estimate their carbon content, said Bryan Blair, the deputy principal investigator for GEDI at Goddard.

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Land Rover launches contest for adventurers to win a trip to space

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(MENAFN - Muscat Daily) Four friends are set to win a once-in-a-lifetime trip to space with Land Rover's Galactic Discovery competition a ground-breaking on-line search for a group of aspiring astronauts to go on the ultimate adventure.

The incredible Virgin Galactic space flight prize was announced to audiences around the world through a film featuring a group of the world's greatest-living adventurers and personalities including Sir Richard Branson Bear Grylls and Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

It will be the first time that a competition has offered the chance for a group of four friends to win a trip to space. The winners will be among the first pioneering travellers to view the earth from space and experience out-of-seat zero gravity.

The extraordinary opportunity is being offered by Land Rover and Virgin Galactic to mark the reveal of the New Discovery Sport a compact and versatile SUV and first of a new Discovery family. The car was unveiled to the world in a film shot at Spaceport America New Mexico which will be the base for Virgin Galactic's sub-orbital space flights. The film forms part of Land Rover's biggest ever digitally-led campaign debuting the New Discovery Sport exclusively to an online audience for the first time.

Over the next four months the brand will harness the power of social media PR and digital marketing across 40 countries to launch the New Discovery Sport and seek out the world's most adventurous spirits. The campaign will culminate with the announcement of the four winners in December this year.

Phil Popham group marketing director Jaguar Land Rover said 'Only Land Rover could offer this incredible opportunity: The chance to win the most spectacular group journey of a lifetime. Our heritage is rooted in adventure exploration and a desire to go above and beyond and nothing embodies this spirit of discovery more than a trip to space.'

British adventurer and Land Rover ambassador Bear Grylls will play a hands-on role in helping the winning group prepare for their voyage beyond the final frontier. He said 'This prize really is the ultimate adventure of a lifetime. I've stood on top of Mt Everest and looked up at the black above me thinking 'there's only one place higher to go now'. As humans it is in our DNA to go where people have never been before and now four friends have the opportunity to do that.'

Land Rover has assembled a group of experienced adventurers and personalities to back the Galactic Discovery mission including legendary British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes; entrepreneur and founder of Virgin Galactic Sir Richard Branson; and former actress and wildlife campaigner Virginia McKenna. Each of the stars brings their adventurous spirit gravitas and wisdom to the launch film which can be viewed atLand Rover'swebsite http://www.landrover.com/gotospace

To enter the competition aspiring astronauts from across the globe are being asked to produce a 30sec video or a still image that demonstrates their spirit of adventure choose three friends to join them on their space adventure and submit it on the website. Land Rover expects to receive tens of thousands of entries from over 40 countries across the globe.

The Galactic Discovery collaboration signals the next phase of two pioneering companies Land Rover and Virgin Galactic working together to push the boundaries of travel and adventure for the next generation. A global partnership between the brands was announced in New York in April this year and when flights begin a fleet of Land Rovers will play a key role in Virgin Galactic's space experience with future astronauts driving in the vehicles from the spaceport in New Mexico to the spaceship to begin their trip across the final frontier.

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Red Cross urges preparation in hurricane season's peak

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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) -- As the southeastern United States heads into the most active time of hurricane season, the American Red Cross is urging people to prepare for major storms.

And officials are using the 25th anniversary of Hurricane Hugo to talk about preparation. The Red Cross is gearing up for its week-long disaster relief classes as a part of the Prepare SC campaign.

Jim Strohm, the disaster relief chairman with the nonprofit, says he remembers Hurricane Hugo like it was just yesterday.

I stayed in my house with 10 other people. Luckily, I didn't have any trees hit my house and I don't know what I would've done if one did, said Strohm.

Strohm says he wasn't a Red Cross volunteer back then, but he wishes he was.

It was 10 or 15 days before people had electricity restored. Four to 10 days for water restoration, but now that I'm in the Red Cross I'll be better able to respond if something like that happens again, said Strohm.

If a hurricane does hit the Lowcountry again, the Red Cross wants the people of the Lowcountry to be prepared. It's the reason they are offering free classes on what everyone needs to know in case of a disaster.

What type of a plan do you need for you family, or what type of things you should have in a home kit are all the things we will be teaching, said Strohm.

The Red Cross will also be giving classes for people who would like to be become volunteers.

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