Orchid Aesthetics Medical Spa is Launching an Aesthetic and Anti-Aging Center to Open in Midtown Manhattan at 57 West …

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Dr. Roxana Kerns the owner of Orchid Aesthetics Medical Spa, a board certified anesthesiologist and licensed aesthetic physician, is also embarking on the scientifically proven path of anti-aging medicine. By practicing Anti-aging medicine in conjunction with Aesthetics, Dr. Kerns will not only address the wrinkles or sagging of the face but also the bodys functional regeneration like cognition or autoimmune diseases. From skin care to cellular regeneration a complete anti-aging package at Orchid Aesthetics Medical Spa. Dr. Kerns is a certified physician in the science of telomerase (Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn was Awarded Nobel Prize in 2009) and an EXPERT Botox injector : From Botox to Nobel Prize depth, rest assured under the care of Dr. Roxana Kerns.

Orchid Aesthetics Medical Spa is launching an Anti-aging center to open in Midtown Manhattan at 57 WEST 57 STREET in October 2012. The Center will feature aesthetic and cosmetic non-surgical face and body treatments under highly specialized anti-aging and regenerative medicine scrutiny. By practicing Anti-aging medicine in conjunction with Aesthetics, Dr. Kerns will address not only the vitality of the skin but also the functional regeneration of body cells eg. cognition or autoimmune diseases.

Since Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn earned the NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE for identifying telomerase, an enzyme that keeps our telomeres from shortening, a new natural remedy that contains activated telomerase was developed by TA-Sciences. Dr. Roxana Kerns of Orchid Aesthetics Medical Spa is a certified physician in the science of telomerase and a distributor for TA-65MD, a natural supplement (derived from astragalus root). Shortening of telomeres is associated with aging, disease states and death. Therefore TA-65MD, a concentrate of telomerase, by maintaining the telomeres (end divisions of our chromosomes) from getting too short, will prevent aging at structural and functional level.

At the opposite end, but extremely important for the busy New Yorker, Orchid Aesthetics, earlier this year, launched Dr. Kerns skin care line, which features medical strength natural products, tested and formulated in highly specialized pharmacies. Dr Kerns skin care was recently appreciated by customers as top of the line, since better skin means better health; it is based on botanical nutriceuticals, peptides and powerful anti-oxidants.

Dr. Roxana Kerns of Orchid Aesthetics Medical spa is committed to alleviate the aging pains of her clientele form the inside out. By combining science with innovative work Orchid Aesthetics Medical Spa and Anti-aging center is a nest for the ever-young New Yorker. Not only you can get a quick shot of Botox, as most walk- in clinics provide, BUT you can choose to have a complete anti-aging evaluation and treatment plan. Orchid Aesthetics Spa provides a soothing environment under the drapes of science.

57 west 57 street, the Mecca of Manhattan, easy accessible by foot, subway or bus is inviting you on! Experience a new YOU in the hands of Dr. Roxana Kerns, a true artist, as quoted by a patient in a recent testimonial. The difference between regular walk-in Botox Medi Spas and Orchid Aesthetics rests in the depth of evaluation and anti-aging treatment.

Testimonials and audio/video: http://www.orchidaesthetics.com/medspa-videos.html

About Orchid Aesthetics Medical Spa: opened in June 2008, features aesthetic and non-surgical cosmetic treatments like Botox/Dysport, Restylane, Fat Transfer and PRP, Laser skintight and hair removal, Sclerotherapy, Microdermabrasion, Chemical peels.

To learn more visit http://www.orchidaesthetics.com, http://ta-sciences.com/kerns/ta-65.html, http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2009/press.html.

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Digital Solutions Inc Released the English Version of DS ANATOMY H&N Musculoskeletal Anatomical App

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Digital Solutions Inc. announces the release of English version of DS ANATOMY Head & Neck musculoskeletal anatomical application for iPad. The original application was released in May, 2012 for the Japanese market, and there were huge requests for the English version of this product from the global market since then. The English version is now downloadable from the Apple App Store from Sep. 12, 2012.

This app is very user friendly and it is sure that a user can be impressed with the reality of 3D models. A user can view the musculoskeletal systems in detail by zooming, hiding and rotating the realistic 3D models. And each musculoskeletal system has not only the explanation of features and action, but also the detailed pictures which help understanding. This app provides two contents of < Head and Neck Musculoskeletal system Anatomical model > and < Basic Knowledge of Myology > . Medical care beginner also can understand the basic knowledge of Myology.

View the single system at any angle even if it is overlapped. (Medical illustrations on the text cannot be viewed) Model the CG obtained from the CT scanned data of the real skull. Develop the accurate 3D models of bone, muscle, ligament, joint, membrane, salivary gland, endocrine, amygdala in detail by observing the actual donor body at the university. URL:http://ds-anatomy.com/eng/

This app can display the full model of head and neck anatomical structures and the muscles. A user can view the model at any angle as he likes. The all structures are displayed in full color. A user can switch the model in full view and in a single structure view, thus easily understand the accurate positional relationship of the structure.

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'Bubble babies' immune systems restored

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LOS ANGELES UCLA stem cell researchers have found that a gene therapy regimen can safely restore immune systems to children with so-called "bubble boy" disease, a life-threatening condition that if left untreated can be fatal within one to two years.

In the 11-year study, researchers were able to test two therapy regimens for 10 children with ADA-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), which has come to be known as "bubble boy" disease because some of its victims have been forced to live in sterile environments.

During that time, the researchers refined their approach to include a light dose of chemotherapy to help remove many of the blood stem cells in the bone marrow that were not creating the enzyme adenosine deaminase (ADA), which is critical for the production and survival of healthy white blood cells, said study senior Dr. Donald Kohn, a member of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA.

The refined gene therapy and chemotherapy regimen proved superior to the other method tested in the study, restoring immune function to three of the six children who received it, said Kohn, who is also a professor of pediatrics and of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics in UCLA Life Sciences Division. An even further-refined regimen using a different type of virus delivery system will be studied in the next phase of the study, which already has enrolled eight of the 10 patients needed.

The study appears today (Sept. 11) in the advance online issue of the peer-reviewed journal Blood.

"We were very happy that in the human trials we were able to see a benefit in the patients after we modified the protocol," Kohn said. "Doctors treating ADA-deficient SCID have had too few options for too long, and we hope this will provide them with an efficient and effective treatment for this devastating disease."

Children born with SCID, an inherited immunodeficiency, are generally diagnosed at about 6 months old. They are extremely vulnerable to infectious diseases and don't grow well. Chronic diarrhea, ear infections, recurrent pneumonia and profuse oral candidiasis commonly occur in these children. SCID occurs in about one of every 100,000 births.

Currently, the only treatment for ADA-deficient SCID calls for injecting patients twice a week with the necessary enzyme, Kohn said, a lifelong process that is very expensive and often doesn't return the immune system to optimal levels. These patients also can undergo bone marrow transplants from matched siblings, but matches can be very rare.

About 15 percent of all SCID patients are ADA-deficient. Kohn and his team used a virus delivery system that he had developed in his lab in the 1990s to restore the gene that produces the missing enzyme necessary for a healthy immune system. To date, about 40 children with SCID have received gene therapy in clinical trials around the world, Kohn said.

Two slightly different viral vectors were tested in the study, each modified to deliver healthy ADA genes into the bone marrow cells of the patients so the needed enzyme could be produced and make up for the cells that don't have the gene. Four of the 10 patients in the study remained on their enzyme replacement therapy during the gene therapy study. There were no side effects, but their immune systems were not sufficiently restored, Kohn said.

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Workshops available through WV Institute for Spirituality

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Workshops available through WV Institute for Spirituality

The West Virginia Institute for Spirituality has scheduled workshops for September and October.

"When Grief Gets Complicated: Making it Through the Impasse" is set for this Saturday at the institute, 1601 Virginia St. E. in Charleston.

Registration is 8:45 a.m. and the workshop is 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Suggested offering is $50 for continuing education unit applicants or $40 for others. Lunch will be provided. The presenter is Debra Beatty.

"The Enneagram for Professional Helpers" will be on Oct. 12 with the Rev. Vernon McNear. Registration is 2 p.m. at WVIS, 1601 Virginia St. E. in Charleston. The program is 2:30 to 9 p.m. Dinner will be provided. Suggested offering is $50 for continuing education applicants and $40 for others.

"Spirituality of Story" is scheduled for Oct. 13 with the Rev. Christina St. Clair at Blessed John XXIII Pastoral Center, 100 Hodges Road in Charleston. Registration is 8:45 a.m. The program is 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Suggested offering is $50 for continuing education applicants or $40 for others.

The West Virginia Institute for Spirituality has scheduled workshops for September and October.

"When Grief Gets Complicated: Making it Through the Impasse" is set for this Saturday at the institute, 1601 Virginia St. E. in Charleston.

Registration is 8:45 a.m. and the workshop is 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Suggested offering is $50 for continuing education unit applicants or $40 for others. Lunch will be provided. The presenter is Debra Beatty.

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Global student space experiments transformed

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(Phys.org)Space experiments dreamed up by three teenage winners of an international contest that will be streamed live on YouTube from the International Space Station Sept. 13 were made flight-ready by a University of Colorado Boulder space center.

The two winning experimentsone of which tests the ability of spiders to learn how to catch prey in the low-gravity of space, and the other which investigates how nutrients and compounds affect virulent bacteria growth in spacewere announced in March. The contest is sponsored by YouTube, Lenovo and Space Adventures with the involvement of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Japanese Space Agency.

"We took the ideas of the two winning experiments and transformed them into actual experiments that could be conducted in space," said Stefanie Countryman, the business manager and outreach coordinator for BioServe Space Technologies, a NASA-sponsored center located in CU-Boulder's aerospace engineering sciences department. The CU team also manifested the payload on an unmanned Japanese HTV rocket, conducted safety verifications and trained the astronaut flight crew on using BioServe hardware aboard the International Space Station, or ISS, for the project.

The global initiative sponsoring the contest is a new program known as YouTube Space Lab. YouTube Space Lab is one component of YouTube for Schools, a program that allows educators to access YouTube's broad library of educational content from inside their school network. The contest generated more than 2,000 entries.

The student winners are Amr Mohamed, 18, of Alexandria, Egypt, who developed the idea for the spider experiment, and Dorothy Chen and Sara Ma, both 16, of Troy, Mich., who created the idea for the bacteria study. BioServe completed all of the mission integration and operations work for the two experiments and hand-delivered the loaded space flight hardware to the Tanegashima National Space Flight Center in Japan for launch to ISS on July 21.

The live, 45-minute YouTube Space Lab program stream from ISS, slated for 8:30 a.m. MDT on Sept. 13 will be hosted by Bill Nye "The Science Guy" and will include Mohamed, Chen and Ma. The winning experimentsselected by a panel that included British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, two NASA administrators, European Space Agency and Japanese Space Agency astronauts and Cirque de Soleil founder Guy Lalibertewill be performed by NASA astronaut Sunita Williams.

Countryman, who also will be part of the YouTube Space Lab live stream as she describes the role of BioServe in the project to Nye, said she was surprised by the sophistication of some of the experiments entered in the contest. "Seeing the level of intellect, not only from the top two winners but from six regional winners, makes us feel confident in the next generation of scientists and engineers," she said.

Countryman said BioServe worked closely with Paula Cushing at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and MaryAnn Hamilton of the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, Colo., to obtain the jumping spiders and analyze their behavior. BioServe designed, developed and built the flight habitat for the spiders. Once aboard ISS, the habitat will be placed inside a BioServe-built device known as a Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus, or CGBA.

In addition, BioServe worked with AgraQuest in Davis, Calif., a company that manufactures and sells the bacteria strain B. subtilis, which will be used in the experiment by Chen and Ma. BioServe researchers worked with the students to design the experiment, which included 48 fluid processing devices carried in six Group Activation Packs built by BioServe and which have flown on dozens of space missions.

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Student Biology Investigations Stream Live On YouTube Space Lab

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Image Caption: The jumping spider investigation, as part of the International Space Station YouTube Space Lab contest, includes the red-backed spider (left) and zebra spider (right) species. (BioServe). Credit: NASA

Several young researchers were incredibly excited when the latest Japanese cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station, in late July. Along with the usual food, clothing, and science investigations, the spacecraft delivered the two global YouTube Space Lab winning entries.

Dorothy Chen and Sara Ma (from Troy, Mich.) and Amr Mohamed (from Alexandria, Egypt) won this opportunity to do research in the orbiting laboratorys microgravity environment while attending high school.

These young scientists are working on some interesting hypotheses involving jumping spiders adaptation abilities, and how microgravity might affect the anti-fungal properties of Bacillus subtilis (also known as B. subtilis), which are naturally occurring bacteria.

Astronaut Sunita Williams, NASA flight engineer, is conducting the investigations aboard the station. The student experiments are scheduled to stream live via video from the space station on the YouTube Space Lab website Sept. 13, at 9:30 a.m. CDT.

Mohameds Salticus scenicus, or zebra spider, research looks at whether jumping spiders, like the zebra and red-backed species, can adapt their hunting abilities to microgravity. Jumping spiders do not build webs for catching their food. These particular spiders hunt using their excellent vision to track and stalk prey, jumping and striking with a lethal bite similar to cats hunting mice.

I have always been fascinated by science because with a handful of equations, I can explain the world around me, said Mohamed in his Meet the Winner YouTube video. The idea of sending an experiment to space is the most exciting thing that I have ever heard in my life.

Chen and Ma were inspired by previous Salmonella studies done aboard station, proving this type of bacteria grown in microgravity becomes more virulent. They are testing this theory on B. subtilis, to see if these bacteria will have increased anti-fungal properties when compared to the same bacteria produced on Earth. Their testing procedures involve introducing various nutrients and compounds, in particular phosphates and nitrates, separately to see if these additives affect growth and anti-fungal potency. If their hypothesis is correct, results may lead to stronger probiotics (as B. subtilis is highly stable in harsh environmental conditions), and increased knowledge concerning how bacteria cause disease.

In their Meet the Winners YouTube video, Ma said, When we first started brainstorming, we definitely wanted to do something to impact the human race. Its so cool how with science, everything relates to each other. Physics is used in chemistry, and chemistry is used in biology, and so on; everything is interrelated and its just really neat to find those relations. Chen added, The idea that something you made, something thats your experiment, being sent up into space and actually becoming a reality is pretty incredible.

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NASA Goddard To Host Live Student Session With International Space Station Residents

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GREENBELT, Md., Sept. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center will host a question-and-answer session between local students and residents aboard the International Space Station on Thursday, Sept. 13, beginning 12:40 p.m. EDT. The live 12-minute forum will provide a rare opportunity, via amateur radio, for students to talk directly to astronaut Sunita Williams ...

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All American Red Heads inducted into Hall of Fame

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The City of Caraway proclaimed Sept. 7 as All American Red Heads Day in honor of being named recipient of the national hall of fame honor. Pictured are, from right: Caraway Mayor Barry Riley, councilmen and clerk, John Boatman, Austin Zamora, Rick Stevens, Marvin Browning, Bo James and Mitchell Tipton. Not pictured - Mark Bell.

They were one of the nation's first professional women's basketball teams, playing from 1936-1986.

Tammy Harrison, daughter of the team's owner and manager Orwell Moore, gave the acceptance speech while receiving the prestigious award, surrounded by 65 members of the Red Head's team.

Last American Red Heads basketball team in 1986, pictured are, from left: Karen Riggs, Tammy Elkins, Marla Harroll, Kelli Horrell, Tammy Bledsoe, Shari Marshall and coach Burnie Moore

Caraway Mayor Barry Riley and other city officials declared Friday, Sept. 7, as All American Red Head's Day in Caraway and displayed the proclamation on their lighted marquee in front of city hall.

"The people of Caraway are very proud of the Red Heads," Riley said. "This is quite a prestigious honor, to be named to the National Hall of Fame. We hope to erect a historical sign at the entrances to Caraway soon."

The fall issue of Delta Crossroads Magazine will feature an article about the All American Red Heads.

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NASA's New App 'Earth Now' Available For Android

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Image Caption: NASA's free "Earth-Now" app, now available for Android as well as iPhone, immerses cyber explorers in dazzling visualizations of near-real-time global climate data from NASA's fleet of Earth science satellites, bringing a world of ever-changing climate data to your fingertips. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

One of the top iPhone education apps in the iTunes store is now available for Android. The free NASA Earth Now Android app immerses cyber explorers in dazzling visualizations of near-real-time global climate data from NASAs fleet of Earth science satellites, bringing a world of ever-changing climate data to users fingertips.

Available at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/apps, Earth Now displays data on many of the key vital signs of our planet that NASA satellites track. The data, displayed on your smart phone in 3-D, include current surface temperature, carbon dioxide levels and global sea level.

The regularly updated data are displayed as color maps projected over a 3-D Earth model that can be rotated by a single finger stroke, or zoomed in and out by the pinch or spread of two fingers. Color-coded legends indicate the relative strength or weakness of environmental conditions. Descriptions provide background information on each data set.

Android users now have a new resource for accessing up-to-date information on Earths changing climate, said Michael Greene, manager, public engagement strategy at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Since its debut in February 2012, the iPhone version of Earth Now has been downloaded nearly 250,000 times. Additional NASA Earth science data sets will be added in the future.

Earth Now is closely integrated with NASAs Webby Award-winning Global Climate Change website, http://climate.nasa.gov, which is devoted to educating the public about Earths changing climate, providing easy-to-understand information about the causes and effects of climate change, and information about how NASA studies it. The app was developed by JPLs Earth Science Communications and Visualization Technology Applications and Development Teams, with support from NASA Headquarters.

For more information on NASAs Earth Science Program, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth. For a comprehensive list of NASA apps and other tools to connect and collaborate, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/connect.

JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

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U.S. boosts funding for nanotech deployment

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NSF (Arlington, Va.) said this week it is awarding $55.5 million to three university consortia to work with U.S. industry to advance nanotechnology science and engineering and transfer innovations to manufacturers. "Our understanding of nanoscale phenomena, materials and devices has progressed to a point where we can make significant strides in nanoscale components, systems and manufacturing, Thomas Peterson, NSFs assistant director for engineering, said in a statement on Monday (Sept. 10).

Along with research on electromagnetics and manufacturing, the new engineering research centers in North Carolina, Texas and California also will focus on the human health and environmental implications of nanotechnology.

A research center at the University of California Los Angeles will focus on reducing the size and increasing the efficiency of electromagnetic components and systems.

North Carolina State engineers will concentrate on wearable computers with integrated environmental and health sensors.

A third nanotechnology engineering center at the University of Texas (Austin) will pursue nanomanufacturing processes and demonstrate the manufacture of mobile nanodevices.

The new engineering centers will be linked to NSFs Network for Computational Nanotechnology for distribution of computational and simulation tools. The centers will also be a component of the National Nanotechnology Initiative launched in 2000.

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Evolutionary trees of traditional medicine plants provide hints for drug-makers | Not Exactly Rocket Science

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Theres a bizarre mindset that divides medicine into natural (made from plants; untainted by villainous pharmaceutical companies; delivered to your veins by forest animals) and everything else (man-made pills fashioned from profits and poisons). The reality, of course, is that many of the drugs used in our hospitals and pharmacies come from plants. Willow bark contains salicylic acid, the main ingredient in aspirin. Paclitaxel (taxol) was isolated from the bark of the Pacific yew tree; today, it is used to stop cancer cells from dividing. The rose periwinkle has given us vinblastine and vincristine, both used to treat leukaemia.

These examples scratch the surface of what the botanical world has given us, and what it might still offer. Of the tens of thousands of plants used in traditional medicine, a piddling proportion has been tested for chemicals with medical benefits. How do we find the rest? How do we go about the business of bioprospecting? One solution is to tap the knowledge of indigenous populations, who still rely on plants for traditional medicine. When they get sick, how do they heal themselves?

But this approach has problems. Traditional use doesnt always imply an actual medical benefit, and the chosen plants might not yield interesting chemicals any more readily than the species around them. Many attempts to follow such leads have ended in the drug-development cul-de-sac. To make matters worse, collating traditional knowledge involves fieldwork and training, and is both expensive and time-consuming.

Meanwhile, the tools of molecular biology have become faster and cheaper. Companies can afford to gather large collections of plants, and screen their constituent chemicals en masse. Why filter them any further when you can test thousands of samples at once? But Haris Saslis-Lagoudakis from Imperial College London thinks that this scattershot approach to bioprospecting is a mistake. To him, traditional knowledge still has great value in honing our search for tomorrows drugs.

He made his point by creating a family tree (a phylogeny) of over 20,000 plant species from New Zealand, Nepal, and the Cape of South Africa. Around 1,500 of these are used in traditional medicine and these, rather than being spread out throughout the family tree, are actually clustered in certain branches. The hottest branches contained 60 per cent more traditionally used plants that youd expect if they were distributed randomly.

As one example among many, rushfoil (Croton) and physic nut (Jatropha) are close relatives form the spurge family, and are both used to treat malaria in Nepal. We know that close relatives can share many of the chemical compounds they produce, says Saslis-Lagoudakis, so our results suggest thatthe use ofCrotonandJatrophato treat malaria is due tounderlying shared chemistry between them.

Saslis-Lagoudakis also found that people tend to use related plants from the three continents to treat medical conditions that afflict the same organs. For example, members from the soapberry family (Sapindaceae) are used to treat digestive problems in New Zealand (Alectryon), Nepal (heartseed and Ceylon oak) and South Africa (jacket plum). Since these places are so distant, and their native floras are so radically different, its likely the people there discovered the properties of their local plants independently.

To Saslis-Lagoudakis, these trends suggest that plants dont make their way into a healers repertoire through superstition or chance. Instead, its their medical properties their bioactivity that makes them useful. And since drug manufacturers search for those same properties, the evolutionary relationships between traditionally used plants could help to guide their search.

But Michael Heinrich from University College London cautions that there could be other explanations for the results. Saslis-Lagoudakis thinks that the close relationships between traditionally used plants reflect their chemistry. Heinrich wonders if it reflects their weediness. Weeds are more likely to be found and used, and families that are rich in weeds such as daisies and mints are a common part of traditional repertoires. If you have to search for something to treat your diarrhoea, would you walk up to the Welsh mountains and try to get a rare endemic species or just use what grows in your backyards? says Heinrich.

Still, it seems that bioprospectors are already on the path of using traditional knowledge, even if theyre not aware of it. When Saslis-Lagoudakis listed all the plants that have yielded chemicals either already in use, or going through trials, he found that theyre more likely to belong to groups being used in traditional medicine, and to the hot branches of his family tree.

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A newly-launched medical school program in State College will be highlighted Wednesday during the annual open meeting of the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center board of directors. The program presently involves 13 medical students who are in their third year, and spent their first two years at Derry Twp.-based Penn State College of Medicine.

The purpose is to train doctors closer to rural communities where they will eventually work, and help remedy shortages in those areas. The program is a collaboration involving Penn State-Hershey, Mount Nittany Medical Center and other medical providers based in the State College area.

According to a news release, the meeting also will highlight items including the record $107 million in research funding received by the medical center and Penn State College of Medicine during the most recent fiscal year. The figure represents a $1.5 million increase from last year, with about $65 million coming from the National Institutes of Health.

The meeting is expected to further highlight the center's new Institute for Personalized Medicine. The goal of personalized medicine is to tailor treatments based on the patient's biologic and genetic makeup.

Penn State-Hershey, which was founded in 1963, has 491 beds and admits about 27,000 patients annually. Its most recent class of medical school graduates included 131 doctors, and it annually gets about 7,300 applicants for 145 medical school slots, according to the medical center.

The hour-long board meeting, which is open to the public, is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. in the Edward P. "Ted" Junker III Auditorium at the medical center.

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Liberty Global Launches Horizon TV Using SeaChange Next Gen Adrenalin™ Video Back Office Software and Professional …

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SeaChange International, Inc. (SEAC), a leading global multi-screen video software innovator, today announced its Adrenalin Back Office software is enabling Liberty Global, Inc.s (Liberty Global) (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) Horizon TV, a new family of media products that allow customers to view and share all of their favorite content across the TV, computer, tablet and smartphone. The Horizon TV platform is powered by a user interface that navigates and recommends digital content from cable, on demand libraries, personal devices, selected apps and online sources. The Horizon TV gateway also serves as a full triple-play box delivering not only video, but also the fastest internet and voice connections along with a wireless network for the home. Horizon TV is now available from Liberty Globals Dutch cable operation, UPC Netherlands, and will be rolled out in Switzerland, Germany and Ireland over the next three to six months.

SeaChangesAdrenalin video back office, the on-demand foundation for several Liberty Global operations worldwide, is deployed to automate Horizons Video On Demand offering and serve as the platform for all of its multi-screen video services. In addition, Liberty Global's systems also use SeaChangeProfessional Servicesfor systems planning, integration and deployment. SeaChange provides a range of video back office and multi-screen software solutions for Liberty Global systems in Europe including UPC Netherlands, UPC Cablecom (Switzerland) and UPC Poland and, in Latin America, for Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico and VTR in Chile.

Aamir Hussain, managing director, chief technology officer Europe for Liberty Global, commented, We selected SeaChange software and services as a key contributor to the overall Horizon experience. SeaChanges Adrenalin provides the back office systems to support seamless content to TV and online devices.

Horizon is one of most innovative video platforms anywhere and SeaChange is very proud to provide its products and capabilities to help Liberty Global expand its global business yet again, said Andrei Noppe, senior vice president and general manager for SeaChanges EMEA/APAC region.

Liberty Global selected SeaChange for a 2011 Vendor Award for Best Innovation/Breakthrough Supplier as part of a group of eleven partners who jointly contributed to the innovations of Horizon with exceptionally strong collaboration on this breakthrough product suite.

SeaChanges Adrenalin video back office software is a next generation, open service-oriented architecture software that serves as a platform for multi-screen video services. Adrenalin scales to serve millions of assets to any video device across multiple network types deployed in a network or hosted model. The latest version of Adrenalin includes the ability to deploy from a centralized location, has a new Linux-based platform, and supports a virtualized environment enabling automatic installations and upgrades. For additional information about Adrenalin, please visit http://www.schange.com/Products/BackOffice/Adrenalin.

SeaChanges Adrenalin back office has now been selected by 36 video service providers worldwide serving more than 40 million subscribers on televisions, PCs, tablets and mobile phones.

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Ranked among the top 250 software companies in the world, SeaChange International (SEAC) enables transformative multi-screen video services through an open, cloud-based, intelligent software platform trusted by cable, IPTV and mobile operators globally. Personalized and fully monetized video experiences anytime on any device, in the home and everywhere, are the product of the Companys superior back office, advertising and in-home offerings.

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Libertarian Party vice presidential nominee plans Sioux City stop

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SIOUX CITY | The Libertarian Party vice presidential nominee is scheduled to appear in Sioux City on Tuesday night.

Jim Gray will be at Scotty's Pub, 1012 Fourth St., from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Gray is a former California Superior Court judge and advocate for marijuana legalization.

Gary Johnson is the Libertarian Party's candidate for president

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‘Panic in the Republican Party’ over Romney’s health care stance – Video

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11-09-2012 12:16 Bill and Judd Legum of Think Progress take on Mitt Romney's latest stance on health care. In the wake of Romney's appearance with David Gregory on Meet the Press, both sides of the aisle are scratching their heads. Legum says, "I think ultimately there is panic in the Republican Party that as soon as (health care reform) gets implemented, the whole thing will be different." According to Legum, Romney's position is now to fully appeal the latest health care legislation. Every weekday morning on Current TV at 6e/3p

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