Ethos Spa Announces the Addition of Xeomin Botox-Alternative Treatments to Its Line of Popular Anti-aging Treatments

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Summit, New Jersey (PRWEB) May 28, 2014

Ethos Spa Skin and Laser Centers has announced the addition of Xeomin to its growing line of anti-aging injectable products used that target deep lines and wrinkles. Xeomin is an additives-free Botox alternative for reducing or eliminating glabellar linesthose deep vertical frown lines on the face that resemble the number 11 between the eyebrows. Xeomin is often used along with Botox to treat wrinkles, severe frown lines and crows feet.

Manufactured by Merz Aesthetics, Xeomin works by softening lines and wrinkles, and by blocking signals between facial nerves and muscles to prevent muscle contractions. Xeomins effects become visible within one week, and the results last from three to six months, making it comparable to Botox in terms of both onset and duration of results.

Xeomin gained U.S. approval after two pivotal clinical trials involving 16 investigational sites and 547 healthy adult patients whose glabellar lines were significantly reduced within 30 days of their first Xeomin injection. Because it is a naked (additive-free) form of the botulinum toxin type A, Xeomin is the only botulinum toxin currently approved in the U.S. that does not require refrigeration prior to reconstitution.

Anti-aging products like Botox, Dysport and Xeomin have plenty in common, but they also have some important differences. Although all three contain the botulinum toxin, Xeomin is the only pure form of botulinum toxin type A, which may lessen the patient's likelihood of developing antibodies and triggering an allergic reaction.

Originally prescribed to treat Cervical Dystonia (a painful condition in which neck muscles contract involuntarily) and Blepharospasm (an abnormal contractions or twitch of the eyelid,) Xeomin has being used in Europe for cosmetic procedures to reduce fine lines and wrinkles for years.

Many patients and practitioners prefer neurotoxins for anti-aging cosmetic treatments instead of microdermabrasion and chemical peels because the botulinum toxin works more directly and releases wrinkles for months at a time. Plus, injectable neurotoxin treatments do not require the same downtime or cost commitments as traditional facial surgeries such as face or brow lifts. Injectable products such as Xeomin, Botox and Dysport require only a brief office visit, and most patients return to work that same day.

Both Botox and Xeomin take about 7 days for the full effects to be visible, and results last an average three to six months before another treatment is required.

For more information on Xeomin anti-aging treatments or any of the expert aesthetic services available at the Ethos Spa, Skin and Laser Center, visit the Ethos Spa website, call the Summit location at (908) 273-5400, or call the Englewood location at (201) 541-6600.

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Can Tai Chi slow the aging process?

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Contact: Robert Miranda cogcomm@aol.com Cell Transplantation Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair

Putnam Valley, NY. (May 28, 2014) Tai Chi, a traditional Chinese martial art and sport, has been found to be beneficial in raising the numbers of an important type of cell when three groups of young people were tested to discover the benefits of Tai Chi, brisk walking or no exercise. The group performing Tai Chi saw a rise in their cluster of differentiation 34 expressing (CD34+) cells, a stem cell important to a number of the body's functions and structures.

The study was published in issue 23(4/5) of Cell Transplantation and is freely available on-line at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/ct/2014/00000023/F0020004/art00020.

"To evaluate the potential life-lengthening effect of Tai Chi, we conducted a year-long, retrospective cross-sectional study comparing the rejuvenating and anti-aging effects among three groups of volunteers under the age of 25 who engaged in either Tai Chi (TCC), brisk walking (BW), or no exercise habit (NEH)," said study corresponding author Dr. Shinn-Zong Lin of the Center for Neuropsychiatry, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan. "We used young volunteers because they have better cell-renewing abilities than the old population and we also wanted to avoid having chronic diseases and medications as interfering factors."

According to the authors, Tai Chi "has been confirmed to benefit" patients with mild to moderate Parkinson's disease and fibromyalgia. In addition, they cite possible advantages of Tai Chi in pain reduction, fall prevention and balance improvement, aerobic capacity, blood pressure, quality of life and stress reduction.

"Compared with the NEH group, the TCC group had a significantly higher number of CD 34+ cells," wrote the authors. "We found that the CD34+ cell count of the TCC group was significantly higher than the BW group."

CD 34+ cells, they explained, express the CD 34 protein and are "cluster markers" for hematopoietic stem cells (blood stem cells) involved in cell self-renewal, differentiation and proliferation.

"It is possible that Tai Chi may prompt vasodilation and increase blood flow," said Lin. "Considering that BW may require a larger space or more equipment, Tai Chi seems to be an easier and more convenient choice of anti-aging exercise." "This study provides the first step into providing scientific evidence for the possible health benefits of Tai Chi." said Dr. Paul R. Sanberg, distinguished professor at the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. "Further study of how Tai Chi can elicit benefit in different populations and on different parameters of aging are necessary to determine its full impact."

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Quantity, not quality: Risk of sudden cardiac death tied to protein overproduction

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Contact: Shawna Williams shawna@jhmi.edu 410-955-8236 Johns Hopkins Medicine

A genetic variant linked to sudden cardiac death leads to protein overproduction in heart cells, Johns Hopkins scientists report. Unlike many known disease-linked variants, this one lies not in a gene but in so-called noncoding DNA, a growing focus of disease research. The discovery, reported in the June 5 issue of The American Journal of Human Genetics, also adds to scientific understanding of the causes of sudden cardiac death and of possible ways to prevent it, the researchers say.

"Traditionally, geneticists have studied gene variants that cause disease by producing an abnormal protein," says Aravinda Chakravarti, Ph.D., a professor of medicine, pediatrics, molecular biology and genetics, and biostatistics in the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "We think there will turn out to be many DNA variants that, like this one, cause disease by making too much or too little of a normal protein."

Chakravarti's interest in sudden cardiac death emerged a decade ago, when it claimed several of his colleagues within a few months. An expert in complex common diseases, he and his team knew that sudden cardiac death can be caused by many conditions. They focused on one: abnormalities in what is known as cardiac repolarization the time it takes for the heart to gear up to beat again.

The team compared the genetic sequences of tens of thousands of people with their electrocardiogram (ECG) results, identifying several regions on the genome with genetic variations associated with lengthened QT interval, a measure of cardiac repolarization, in the ECG. "The problem is that most of these variants lie outside of genes, in the noncoding DNA that controls how genes are used," Chakravarti says, "so it's hard to tell what genes they're affecting."

Despite the challenge, Chakravarti and his colleagues were able to home in on one suspect region of the genome housing a gene called NOS1AP. "There were many variants grouped in this area," says Ashish Kapoor, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in Chakravarti's laboratory, "so we catalogued all 200 that we found." The team then went through a process of elimination using genetically engineered, lab-grown cells and zebra fish to identify a variant in the noncoding DNA that affected how much protein was made by the nearby NOS1AP gene.

Next, they cultured rat heart cells and engineered them to overproduce NOS1AP. When the concentration of the protein rose in a particular type of heart cell called a cardiomyocyte, the cells' electrical properties changed in a way that is similar to the pattern seen in long QT syndrome.

Kapoor notes that 67 percent of the general population carries the NOS1AP-overproducing genetic variant. "We have observed that NOS1AP genetic variants are associated with sudden cardiac death whether or not they affect a particular person's QT interval, raising the risk by about 40 percent," he says. Chakravarti notes that the results also add to scientific understanding of how the heart and QT interval work knowledge with far-reaching implications. For example, many drugs developed for noncardiac conditions have turned out to temporarily lengthen QT interval, a side effect that only turns up after much time and money are spent on drug development. By better understanding regulation of the QT interval, researchers would be better able to predict what types of drugs could affect it.

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What what role does MSG play in obesity and fatty liver disease?

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Contact: Vicki Cohn vcohn@liebertpub.com 914-740-2156 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News

New Rochelle, NY, May 27, 2014The commonly used food additive monosodium glutamate (MSG) has been linked to obesity and disorders associated with the metabolic syndrome including progressive liver disease. A new study that identifies MSG as a critical factor in the initiation of obesity and shows that a restrictive diet cannot counteract this effect but can slow the progression of related liver disease is published in Journal of Medicinal Food, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.. The paper is available on the Journal of Medicinal Food website.

Makoto Fujimoto and a team of international researchers from Japan, the U.S., and Italy monitored the weight gain and development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and its progression to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in MSG-treated mice fed either a calorie-restricted or regular diet. They report their findings in the article "A Dietary Restriction Influences the Progression But Not the Initiation of MSG-Induced Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis".

"Although MSG has been deemed a safe food additive, its dosage, interaction with other drugs, effects on vulnerable populations, and effects on chronic inflammatory diseases and neurological diseases are unknown," says Co-Editor-in-Chief Sampath Parthasarathy, MBA, PhD, Florida Hospital Chair in Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, in the Editorial "How Safe is Monosodium Glutamate? Exploring the Link to Obesity, Metabolic Disorders, and Inflammatory Disease" . The findings by Fujimoto et al. "may have far reaching implications, as childhood obesity is a major problem across the globe."

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Obama Quizzes Kid Geniuses at White House Science Fair

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President Barack Obama quizzed students on their robots, electric cars, genetic discoveries and other projects at the White House science fair, highlighting the administrations push to boost science, technology, engineering and matheducation.

U.S. companies have lamented a shortfall of workers trained in so-called STEM fields, and the government officials want to boost enrollment in such programs.

These are the fields of the future, Mr.Obama said.This is where the good jobs are going to be.

As part of the fair, Mr. Obama announced $35 million in Department of Education grants to support training of more science, engineering and math teachers, an expansion of the AmeriCorps STEM program and a mentoring plan to link tech workers with students.

The White House said 100 students from more than 30 states came to the fair.On the same day of a major announcement about Afghanistan, a call with Ukraines president-elect and developments in policy toward Syria, the president spent more than an hour visiting with some of the students and asking them about award-winning projects.

Were so proud of you, Mr. Obama told 18-year-oldElana Simonof New York City. Ms. Simon, who survived a rare form of liver cancer, discovered a link between a common genetic mutation and the illness.

Peyton Robertson, a 12-year-old from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., developed a sandless sandbag to help protect against flooding. When dry, my bags are really lightweight, they weigh only four pounds, Mr. Robertson told the president. But then when you add water it expands and becomes heavy, it weighs 30 pounds.

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Carpenter Graduates from Air Force Academy, Commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant

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Andrew Carpenter, a 2010 Garnet Valley High School graduate, will be graduating from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado on May 28th with a degree in Behavioral Science. The three day festivities include graduation with the Thunderbird flyover, commissioning into the Air Force as a 2nd Lieutenant, the Superintendents Reception, a military ball and a final parade. Andrews father, retired United States Navy Commander, will be commissioning his son into the Air Force as an officer.

While at the academy, Andrew received his jump wings after completing five solo jumps and after flight training completed his solo in a plane. He served as baseball team manager and was the guidon for his squadron, carrying his squadrons colors in marches and at formal occasion. He participated in a Portugal Language Immersion Summer Program and enjoyed his junior fall semester as an exchange student to the Naval Academy in Annapolis. He has consistently maintained Deans List for academics and earned the Athletic Directors List for outstanding physical fitness. He ran his first marathon at the academy.

At graduation, Andrew has been selected to lead his squadron at their final parade as Flight Commander. After graduation, Andrew will receive a sixty day leave and will be travelling with academy friends to Europe and Hawaii. He has been selected to attend flight school and will begin training in Pueblo, Colorado and then Columbus, Mississippi. His family includes John and Susan Carpenter of Garnet Valley, Jennifer, of Austin, Texas and Eric in Richmond, Virginia.

While at the academy, Andrew received his jump wings after completing five solo jumps and after flight training completed his solo in a plane. He served as baseball team manager and was the guidon for his squadron, carrying his squadrons colors in marches and at formal occasion. He participated in a Portugal Language Immersion Summer Program and enjoyed his junior fall semester as an exchange student to the Naval Academy in Annapolis. He has consistently maintained Deans List for academics and earned the Athletic Directors List for outstanding physical fitness. He ran his first marathon at the academy.

At graduation, Andrew has been selected to lead his squadron at their final parade as Flight Commander. After graduation, Andrew will receive a sixty day leave and will be travelling with academy friends to Europe and Hawaii. He has been selected to attend flight school and will begin training in Pueblo, Colorado and then Columbus, Mississippi. His family includes John and Susan Carpenter of Garnet Valley, Jennifer, of Austin, Texas and Eric in Richmond, Virginia.

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Middle East Update , Syria , Israel , Iran , and Nukes (SCO vs NATO) May 23 2014 – Video

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28. NATO-Musikfest – 24. Mai 2014 Parade in der Innenstadt von Mnchengladbach Teil 02 – Video

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Interview mit Glenn Greenwald ber den NSA Skandal / Glenn Greenwald talks about the NSA scandal – Video

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NSA does not administer defence spendings -Presidency

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The Office of the National Security Adviser has said it does not supervise or administer defence spendings, as reported by a national magazine.

The ONSA stated that it has no responsibility for salaries of military personnel, allowances, capital projects and other spendings, stressing that the military alone controls its budget and funds.

A statement by the Special Assistant to the NSA, Karounwi Adekunle, in Abuja on Tuesday, insisted that the NSAs office is separate from the Ministry of Defence in all budgetary affairs, adding that it defends its budgets before the National Assembly just as the ministry does for its own.

It advised journalists to cross-check their facts and get across to the NSA on any allegation or issue before publishing same.

It said,The ONSA defends its budgets before the National Assembly and MOD does for its own and all budgetary provisions are clearly spelt out and within the public domain.

ONSA has no responsibility for military personnels salaries and allowances, capital projects or otherwise. All are within the domain of MOD. So how can ONSA be accused of managing defence funds?

We request that, any allegation from any source about ONSA, please recourse be made to the NSA for his own side of the story before publishing as in this case where ONSA is blamed outright with no right of its side being heard. There is need for a holistic and balanced report at all times.

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High court dismisses Portland protester case against Secret Service

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed protesters free-speech claims against two Secret Service agents who were guarding President George W. Bush during a 2004 campaign trip to Oregon.

In a unanimous decision, the justices said the agents did not violate the protesters' First Amendment rights by moving them farther away from the president while allowing pro-Bush demonstrators to stay nearby.

The protesters claimed the agents moved them only because their loud chants were disturbing Bush's dinner on an outdoor patio and not for genuine security reasons.

The Obama administration said the actions were proper crowd control tactics and argued that agents who make on-the-spot decisions about the president's security should be shielded from liability.

Writing for the court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said no legal precedent would have alerted the agents "that they bear a First Amendment obligation to ensure that groups with different viewpoints are at comparable locations all times."

Ginsburg said the protesters' claims are also undermined by a map of the area, which showed that their location presented a potential security risk to the president while the location of pro-Bush supporters did not. The agents, therefore, had a valid security reason for their actions and are entitled to immunity from private lawsuits, she said.

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