Mar. 28, 2013 ? Poor children who move three or more times before they turn 5 have more behavior problems than their peers, according to a new study by researchers at Cornell University and the National Employment Law Project. The study is published in the journal Child Development.
Moving is a fairly common experience for American families; in 2002, 6.5 percent of all children had been living in their current home for less than six months. Among low-income children, that number rose to 10 percent. In addition, in 2002, 13 percent of families above poverty moved once, but 24 percent of families below poverty moved. Research has shown that frequent moves are related to a range of behavioral, emotional, and school problems for adolescents.
Using national data on 2,810 children from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a longitudinal, representative study of children born in 20 large U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000, researchers sought to determine how frequent moves relate to children's readiness for school. Parents were interviewed shortly after the birth of their children, then again by phone when the children were 1, 3, and 5; in-home assessments were done when the children were 3 and 5. The study also looked at the children's language and literacy outcomes, as well as behavior problems reported by mothers.
The study found that 23 percent of the children had never moved, 48 percent had moved once or twice, and 29 percent had moved three or more times. Among children who moved three or more times before age 5, nearly half (44 percent) were poor; poverty was defined based on the official federal threshold. Moving three or more times was not related to the children's language and literacy outcomes.
But children who moved three or more times had more attention problems, anxiousness or depression, and aggressiveness or hyperactivity at age 5 than those who had never moved or those who had moved once or twice. These increases in behavior problems occurred only among poor children, the study found, suggesting that frequent moves early in life are most disruptive for the most disadvantaged children.
"The United States is still recovering from the great recession, which has taken a major toll on the housing market," notes Kathleen Ziol-Guest, postdoctoral associate at Cornell University, who led the study. "As housing markets have collapsed across communities, highly mobile low-income families have moved in search of work and less expensive housing.
"The findings in this study suggest that the housing crisis and its accompanying increase in mobility likely will have negative effects on young children, especially poor children."
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Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest, Claire C. McKenna. Early Childhood Housing Instability and School Readiness. Child Development, 2013; DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12105
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A social network for young Londoners on the busesPublic release date: 28-Mar-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Katie Steels press@lshtm.ac.uk 44-020-792-92802 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Free bus travel has improved the social lives and independence of 12-18 year olds in London, according to research published today in the journal Mobilities.
Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and UCL (University College London) found that free bus travel which all young Londoners are entitled to by registering for a Zip Oyster Card increased young people's ability to travel independently and extended their opportunities through facilitating extra trips, trips further afield and/or exploratory trips with friends.
Travelling together was reported to be a key feature for young people. Researchers discovered that a 'code of honour' for bus travel has developed: travelling as a group is seen as a sign of loyalty and getting on a bus without friends or leaving them on the bus alone seen as a betrayal. While many adult travellers use a range of strategies to avoid others in shared space, young Londoners are embracing free bus travel as a site of sociability.
First author Dr Anna Goodman, Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: "Free bus travel has improved independent mobility by giving young people the freedom to get about without always having to ask their parents for money. This made a particular difference for social or recreational trips, which even more affluent parents might not always be willing to pay for. But to the young people these trips were important, a way to gain travel skills, spend time with friends, and come to feel more 'like a Londoner'.
"One key factor in realising these benefits was the fact that free travel is universally available, rather than means tested. Not only did this ensure free travel was not stigmatised, but it also meant groups of friends could travel together without anyone being left out. As such, free travel increased the independent mobility for whole groups of young people, not just for individuals"
The study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research Public Health Research (NIHR PHR) Programme, also found that free bus travel improved confidence because young people could take 'practice' journeys and could feel secure that they would not be stranded far from home without money to get back.
More than 100 young Londoners were interviewed in depth to examine how free bus travel has affected young people's independent mobility. The benefits for young people echo benefits of free bus travel for older people which have also recently been described by the same research group. Published in Ageing & Society in late 2012, this second piece of research found that free bus passes for over 60s provided older Londoners with a sense of belonging and visibility in society, improving wellbeing and tackling chronic loneliness.
Professor Judith Green from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and principal investigator of both pieces of research, said: "When funding is tight, free bus travel looks like an easy target for cuts. But we found many important benefits for the wellbeing of young people and older citizens that wouldn't have happened if free transport was means tested. Getting people out of cars, and out and about in public is good for their health, and good for the health of our cities. These schemes appear to do that for two age groups at real risk of social exclusion" Ends
Anna Goodman, Alasdair Jones, Helen Roberts, Rebecca Steinbach, Judith Green. "'We can all just get on a bus and go': rethinking independent mobility in the context of the universal provision of free bus travel to young Londoners". Mobilities. DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.782848
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A copy of the paper is available to media under embargo upon request from press@lshtm.ac.uk.
For further information and interviews, please contact the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine press office on 02079272802 or press@lshtm.ac.uk.
Notes to editors:
Free bus travel was introduced in 2005 for under-17 year olds by Transport for London, and has since been extended to include 17-18 year olds in full-time education. Young people access the free travel by applying for a photo-ID 'Zip card'. This simultaneously functions as a conventional 'Oyster card', the ticket-free electronic card system which all users of London's public transport can pre-load with money for travel.
The research on young people was based on qualitative, in-depth interviews with 118 young Londoners, aged 12-18, from a range of inner and outer London boroughs.
The research on older people was based on qualitative, in-depth interviews with 47 Londoners aged 60 or over, from a range of inner and outer London boroughs. It was published as: Judith Green, Alasdair Jones and Helen Roberts "More than A to B: the role of free bus travel for the mobility and wellbeing of older citizens in London". Ageing and Society, DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X12001110
Both research publications form part of the On The Buses study, which has combined quantitative and qualitative data collection to examine the health impacts of free bus travel in London. For more details, visit http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/php/hsrp/buses/index.html
The On The Buses study was funded from 2010-2012 by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Public Health Research Programme (project code 09/3001/13). Anna Goodman contributed to this work while funded by a postdoctoral fellowship from the NIHR. The views in the journal publications and in this press release are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the NIHR, the Department of Health or the National Health Service.
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The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is funded by the Department of Health to improve the health and wealth of the nation through research. Since its establishment in April 2006, the NIHR has transformed research in the NHS. It has increased the volume of applied health research for the benefit of patients and the public, driven faster translation of basic science discoveries into tangible benefits for patients and the economy, and developed and supported the people who conduct and contribute to applied health research. The NIHR plays a key role in the Government's strategy for economic growth, attracting investment by the life-sciences industries through its world-class infrastructure for health research. Together, the NIHR people, programmes, centres of excellence and systems represent the most integrated health research system in the world. For further information, visit the NIHR website (http://www.nihr.ac.uk)
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About the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a world-leading centre for research and postgraduate education in public and global health, with 3,500 students and more than 1,000 staff working in over 100 countries. The School is one of the highest-rated research institutions in the UK, and was recently cited as one of the world's top universities for collaborative research. The School's mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice. http://www.lshtm.ac.uk
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A social network for young Londoners on the busesPublic release date: 28-Mar-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Katie Steels press@lshtm.ac.uk 44-020-792-92802 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Free bus travel has improved the social lives and independence of 12-18 year olds in London, according to research published today in the journal Mobilities.
Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and UCL (University College London) found that free bus travel which all young Londoners are entitled to by registering for a Zip Oyster Card increased young people's ability to travel independently and extended their opportunities through facilitating extra trips, trips further afield and/or exploratory trips with friends.
Travelling together was reported to be a key feature for young people. Researchers discovered that a 'code of honour' for bus travel has developed: travelling as a group is seen as a sign of loyalty and getting on a bus without friends or leaving them on the bus alone seen as a betrayal. While many adult travellers use a range of strategies to avoid others in shared space, young Londoners are embracing free bus travel as a site of sociability.
First author Dr Anna Goodman, Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: "Free bus travel has improved independent mobility by giving young people the freedom to get about without always having to ask their parents for money. This made a particular difference for social or recreational trips, which even more affluent parents might not always be willing to pay for. But to the young people these trips were important, a way to gain travel skills, spend time with friends, and come to feel more 'like a Londoner'.
"One key factor in realising these benefits was the fact that free travel is universally available, rather than means tested. Not only did this ensure free travel was not stigmatised, but it also meant groups of friends could travel together without anyone being left out. As such, free travel increased the independent mobility for whole groups of young people, not just for individuals"
The study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research Public Health Research (NIHR PHR) Programme, also found that free bus travel improved confidence because young people could take 'practice' journeys and could feel secure that they would not be stranded far from home without money to get back.
More than 100 young Londoners were interviewed in depth to examine how free bus travel has affected young people's independent mobility. The benefits for young people echo benefits of free bus travel for older people which have also recently been described by the same research group. Published in Ageing & Society in late 2012, this second piece of research found that free bus passes for over 60s provided older Londoners with a sense of belonging and visibility in society, improving wellbeing and tackling chronic loneliness.
Professor Judith Green from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and principal investigator of both pieces of research, said: "When funding is tight, free bus travel looks like an easy target for cuts. But we found many important benefits for the wellbeing of young people and older citizens that wouldn't have happened if free transport was means tested. Getting people out of cars, and out and about in public is good for their health, and good for the health of our cities. These schemes appear to do that for two age groups at real risk of social exclusion" Ends
Anna Goodman, Alasdair Jones, Helen Roberts, Rebecca Steinbach, Judith Green. "'We can all just get on a bus and go': rethinking independent mobility in the context of the universal provision of free bus travel to young Londoners". Mobilities. DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.782848
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A copy of the paper is available to media under embargo upon request from press@lshtm.ac.uk.
For further information and interviews, please contact the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine press office on 02079272802 or press@lshtm.ac.uk.
Notes to editors:
Free bus travel was introduced in 2005 for under-17 year olds by Transport for London, and has since been extended to include 17-18 year olds in full-time education. Young people access the free travel by applying for a photo-ID 'Zip card'. This simultaneously functions as a conventional 'Oyster card', the ticket-free electronic card system which all users of London's public transport can pre-load with money for travel.
The research on young people was based on qualitative, in-depth interviews with 118 young Londoners, aged 12-18, from a range of inner and outer London boroughs.
The research on older people was based on qualitative, in-depth interviews with 47 Londoners aged 60 or over, from a range of inner and outer London boroughs. It was published as: Judith Green, Alasdair Jones and Helen Roberts "More than A to B: the role of free bus travel for the mobility and wellbeing of older citizens in London". Ageing and Society, DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X12001110
Both research publications form part of the On The Buses study, which has combined quantitative and qualitative data collection to examine the health impacts of free bus travel in London. For more details, visit http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/php/hsrp/buses/index.html
The On The Buses study was funded from 2010-2012 by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Public Health Research Programme (project code 09/3001/13). Anna Goodman contributed to this work while funded by a postdoctoral fellowship from the NIHR. The views in the journal publications and in this press release are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the NIHR, the Department of Health or the National Health Service.
The National Institute for Health Research Public Health Research (NIHR PHR) Programme was launched in autumn 2008. It commissions research to evaluate public health interventions, providing new knowledge on the benefits, costs, acceptability and wider effect of non-NHS interventions intended to improve the health of the public and reduce inequalities in health. The scope of the programme is multi-disciplinary and broad covering a range of public health interventions. The PHR Programme is funded by the NIHR, with contributions from the CSO in Scotland, NISCHR in Wales and the HSC R&D Division, Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland.http://www.phr.nihr.ac.uk
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is funded by the Department of Health to improve the health and wealth of the nation through research. Since its establishment in April 2006, the NIHR has transformed research in the NHS. It has increased the volume of applied health research for the benefit of patients and the public, driven faster translation of basic science discoveries into tangible benefits for patients and the economy, and developed and supported the people who conduct and contribute to applied health research. The NIHR plays a key role in the Government's strategy for economic growth, attracting investment by the life-sciences industries through its world-class infrastructure for health research. Together, the NIHR people, programmes, centres of excellence and systems represent the most integrated health research system in the world. For further information, visit the NIHR website (http://www.nihr.ac.uk)
About UCL (University College London): Founded in 1826, UCL was the first English university established after Oxford and Cambridge, the first to admit students regardless of race, class, religion or gender and the first to provide systematic teaching of law, architecture and medicine. We are among the world's top universities, as reflected by our performance in a range of international rankings and tables. According to the Thomson Scientific Citation Index, UCL is the second most highly cited European university and the 15th most highly cited in the world. UCL has nearly 25,000 students from 150 countries and more than 9,000 employees, of whom one third are from outside the UK. The university is based in Bloomsbury in the heart of London, but also has two international campuses UCL Australia and UCL Qatar. Our annual income is more than 800 million.
About the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a world-leading centre for research and postgraduate education in public and global health, with 3,500 students and more than 1,000 staff working in over 100 countries. The School is one of the highest-rated research institutions in the UK, and was recently cited as one of the world's top universities for collaborative research. The School's mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice. http://www.lshtm.ac.uk
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Marketing software company HubSpot is announcing that it has acquired two small startups ? Chime and PrepWork. The financial terms of the deals aren't being disclosed, but HubSpot says it's bringing on the full Chime and PrepWork teams and moving them from Toronto and New Haven, Conn., respectively, to the company headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. And these aren't just talent acquisitions. I spoke to Vice President of Product Strategy and Corporate Development Brad Coffey and Chief Product Officer David Cancel about the deal, and while they didn't get too specific about their product integration plans, they did say HubSpot is going to incorporate the Chime and PrepWork services to its offerings in some form.
This photo taken Thursday, March 28, 2013 shows the office of oral surgeon W. Scott Harrington in Tulsa, Okla. Health officials have urged Harrington?s patients to undergo hepatitis and HIV testing, saying filthy conditions at his office posed a threat to his 7,000 clients and made him a "menace to the public health." (AP Photo/Justin Juozapavicius)
This photo taken Thursday, March 28, 2013 shows the office of oral surgeon W. Scott Harrington in Tulsa, Okla. Health officials have urged Harrington?s patients to undergo hepatitis and HIV testing, saying filthy conditions at his office posed a threat to his 7,000 clients and made him a "menace to the public health." (AP Photo/Justin Juozapavicius)
Map locates city where health officials are urging 7000 patients of Oklahoma dentist Dr. W. Scott Harrington to seek testing for hepatitis or HIV.
Susan Rogers, executive director of the Oklahoma Board of Dentistry, speaks during a news conference regarding the practices of Tulsa oral surgeon Wayne Harrington, at the Tulsa Health Department's James O. Goodwin Health Center in Tulsa, Okla., on Thursday, March 28, 2013. Health officials said that thousands of Harrington's patients should undergo testing for HIV and hepatitis after officials looking into the source of a patient's viruses discovered the dentist's instruments weren't being cleaned properly. (AP Photo/Tulsa World, Cory Young) ONLINE OUT; TV OUT; TULSA OUT
TULSA, Okla. (AP) ? Health officials on Thursday urged an Oklahoma oral surgeon's patients to undergo hepatitis and HIV testing, saying filthy conditions behind his office's spiffy facade posed a threat to his 7,000 clients and made him a "menace to the public health."
State and county health inspectors went to Dr. W. Scott Harrington's practice after a patient with no known risk factors tested positive for both hepatitis C and the virus that causes AIDS. They found employees using dirty equipment, reusing needles and administering drugs without a license.
Harrington voluntarily gave up his license and closed his offices in Tulsa and suburban Owasso and is cooperating with investigators, said Kaitlin Snider, a spokeswoman for the Tulsa Health Department. He faces a hearing April 19 where his license could be permanently revoked.
"This is an unprecedented event," Susan Rogers, executive director of the state Board of Dentistry, said in an interview. "To my knowledge, this has never happened before as far as a public notification of a (hepatitis C) case involving a dental office."
The Oklahoma Board of Dentistry said the inspectors discovered multiple sterilization issues at Harrington's offices, including the use of a separate, rusty, set of instruments for patients who were known to carry infectious diseases.
"The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) has determined that rusted instruments are porous and cannot be properly sterilized," the board said in a 17-count complaint against the dentist.
Officials are sending letters to 7,000 people who are known to have been patients of Harrington, but they noted that they do not have information for patients before 2007. The letters urge the patients to be tested for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV. ? viruses typically spread through intravenous drug use or unprotected sexual contact, not occupational settings.
"It's uncertain how long those practices have been in place," Snider said. "He's been practicing for 36 years."
Harrington could not be reached for comment Thursday. A message at his Tulsa office said it was closed and the doctor's answering service referred callers to the Tulsa Health Department. Phone numbers listed for Harrington were disconnected. A message left with Harrington's malpractice attorney in Tulsa, Jim Secrest II, was not immediately returned.
Harrington's practice in Tulsa is in a tony part of town, on a row of some of the city's most upscale medical practices. The white-and-green stucco, two-story dental clinic has the doctor's name in fancy letters on the facade.
Inside, the Dentistry Board said, Harrington ran a clinic that paid little attention to ensuring items were sterile. Dental assistants needing an extra dose of an anesthetic would re-insert used needles into drug vials, drug vials were used on multiple patients, the office had no written infection-protection procedure and Harrington told officials he left questions about sterilization and drug procedures to his employees.
"They take care of that, I don't," the board quoted him as saying.
The doctor is also accused of letting his assistants perform tasks only a licensed dentist should have done. Also, the complaint says that the doctor's staff could not produce permits for the assistants when asked for them.
Rogers said that as an oral surgeon, Harrington routinely does invasive procedures that involve "pulling teeth, open wounds, open blood vessels." The Dentistry Board complaint said Harrington and his staff told investigators that a "high population of known infectious disease carrier patients" received dental care from him.
According to the complaint, a device used to sterilize instruments wasn't working properly. A test is supposed to be performed monthly and sent to a lab to determine that the equipment is successfully sterilizing instruments, but "no such test had ever been performed in the 6 years one dental assistant had been working at the office," the complaint said.
The doctor also apparently used outdated drugs, as one vial found this year had an expiration date of 1993, and didn't properly keep track of drugs, the complaint said. It noted that a drug cabinet was unlocked and unattended during the day and that dental assistants administered IV sedation for procedures without the doctor being present.
It also said that although U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration records show Harrington had not received morphine from a distributor since 2009, the drug logs kept by his assistants said morphine had been used on patients intermittently throughout 2012.
Officials said patients will be offered free medical testing at the Tulsa Health Department's North Regional Health and Wellness Center.
Most people who become infected by hepatitis C get it by sharing needles or other equipment to inject drugs, according to the CDC's website. The infection can last a lifetime and lead to scarring of the liver or liver cancer.
Most people who get hepatitis B have it for a short time, though it can cause a long-term infection that can damage the liver. It can be transmitted through unprotected sex and sharing needles.
Headaches are a frustrating reality for 50% of the population each year, and are one of the most common causes of missed work.? They frequently interfere with sleep, family life, sports and leisure activities. Some of the more common types include:
Tension Headache ? these are headaches caused by spasm in the muscles around the head and neck, which creates tension on the Dural Sheath (a thin layer, like cellophane, around your brain).
Migraine Headache ? these are associated with the nerves and blood vessels of the head and neck.?
Cervicogenic Headache ? nerves in the neck vertebra causing headaches
Sinus Headache ? congestion in the sinuses causing pressure in the head.
Causes of Headaches
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Some of the common causes of headaches include: tight muscles, stress, prolonged computer work, weak posture, poor ergonomics, studying, car accidents, muscle imbalances, poor motion in the joints, food sensitivities, vascular and neurological conditions, and many more.? Most headaches are benign and respond well to chiropractic care.? However, due to the potential complexity of determining the cause of headache symptoms, it is always best to seek treatment with a health care professional familiar with all the different kinds of headaches. The doctors at Hosmer Chiropractic Health can help determine the cause of headache symptoms, and help you decide if chiropractic care for your headaches is the right choice.
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Symptoms
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Headaches frequently begin as pressure or aching at the back of the head, and may radiate forward towards the eyes.? There may be light or sound sensitivity, and the intensity of the headache frequently increases as the day progresses.? Headaches can be severe with sharp, stabbing, or throbbing pain and can be accompanied by dizziness, nausea, vision changes and a variety of other unpleasant symptoms.? Many people also experience tenderness in the muscles of the neck and shoulders, stiffness when looking over your shoulders, and feeling like your neck needs to ?pop?. These are all indicators that you may need to see a chiropractor to evaluate the cause of your headache.
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Evaluation
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While many medical doctors will listen to the symptoms and provide medications that temporarily relieve pain, chiropractic for headaches includes a thorough examination of the muscles, ligaments, joints and posture, as well as discussing past injuries and lifestyle habits that may be contributing to your condition.? The chiropractors at Hosmer Chiropractic Health also have specialty training in complex joint and soft tissue problems that may cause headaches. ??
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Treatment
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Chiropractic care for headache relief generally includes several techniques, each chosen to relieve specific causes of headaches.? Chiropractic treatment has been studied as one of the most effective methods of treating many different kinds of headaches. At Hosmer Chiropractic Health our treatment for headaches incorporates:
??????? Chiropractic Adjustments: Gentle, controlled, and directed adjustments delivered to your spinal joints and tissues to restore optimal movement and function. This technique is proven particularly effective for headaches caused by neck muscle tightness and migraine headaches.
??????? Myofascial Release (MFR): Many headaches are associated with overly tight and over worked muscles in the head, neck and upper back. ?MFR works with the muscles and the soft tissues between the muscles to relax them and optimize their function. This treatment has been found to be particularly effective for tension type headaches, migraines and sinus headaches.? Similar to massage, MFR is a more focused and deep treatment of the soft tissues to relieve pain and restore movement.
??????? Active Release Technique (ART): This is a very targeted treatment of specific regions in the muscles and other soft tissues to release scar tissue, and impure muscle function.? This can also ease nerve compression, directly relieving headaches.
??????? Rehabilitation: Teaching you methods to help prevent your headaches in the future! Rehabilitation incorporates stretches, exercises and foam rolling, which can be performed in the comfort of your own home or at your work place.
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Things you can do to help prevent Headaches
When you work on a computer, set the screen at eye level.
Take micro breaks at least every hour to move your head, neck and upper back.
Avoid processed food with colors, dyes, preservatives, nitrites and nitrates.
Exercise 3-5 times per week with a combination of cardiovascular, flexibility and strength training.
Manage stress levels.
Maintain adequate hydration.
Schedule an appointment at Hosmer Chiropractic Health if you frequently suffer from headaches and are interested in finding out whether you are a candidate for chiropractic care for headaches.
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Evidence
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The evidence is piling up that seeing a chiropractor for headaches is one of the best options.? A recent study by?Duke University Evidence-Based PracticeCenter?found chiropractic care for headaches to be an immediate and effective treatment in helping tension and cervicogenic headaches with fewer side effects than current medications (Evidence Report: Behavioral and Physical Treatments for Tension-Type and Cervicogenic Headaches).
According to a recent review in the Journal of Manipulative and Therapeutic Physiology:Evidence suggests that chiropractic care, including spinal manipulation, improves migraine and cervicogenic headaches? (Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics, 2011)
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References
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??????? McCrory DC, et al. "Evidence Report: Behavioral and Physical Treatments for Tension-type and Cervicogenic Headache." Duke University Evidence-Based Practice Center, Durham, North Carolina, January 2001. Retrieved from: http://www.masschiro.org/upload/research/16_0.pdf
Kojima Productions head Hideo Kojima this morning announced that The Phantom Pain and Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes combined is actually Metal Gear Solid V, the first next-gen game from Kojima Productions running on its powerful FOX Engine. The news was revealed today during a FOX Engine panel at the Game Developers Conference. Kojima announced the combination of the previously announced concepts in a dramatic fashion, with his head wrapped in bandages, presumably as his alter ego Joakim Mogren. They provided a sneak peek trailer at the game's opening sequence, where Snake is attempting to escape from a hospital -- the trailer previously teased in late 2012. As FOX Engine is a next-gen platform, we're assuming that the game is heading to next-gen consoles, but Kojima's not saying anything solid just yet.
Update: GamesHQMedia managed to snag a trailer of the game, which we've embedded below.
For those of you unfamiliar with the notion of our Universe, here's a quick overview of the entirety of creation. We Are Yeti produced this 100-frame short. More »
Facebook is holding another mobile-centric event, this time seemingly specifically for Google's Android operating system. Invitations for the April 4 -- not April 1! -- event went out earlier today:
Come see our new home on Android.
This, of course, has resulted in everything from yet more rumors and speculation about a Facebook phone like the supposed HTC Myst, to rumors and speculation of deeper integration, to rumors and speculation of next generation Facebook apps, to... you get the idea.
Personally, I'd love to see HTC get some more Facebook money. They did great work as an ODM in the past, and, frankly, anything to help keep them solvent and in the race would be great. Facebook is one of the very few companies on earth that could potentially launch a new, even Amazon-style forked, successful mobile operating system at this point. I've long said they'd be stupid not to have at least considered it and worked on it in the labs. Whether they ever choose to pull the trigger on it or not is another thing. They have immense mobile talent at their disposal, and that talent could also just as easily continue to work on great apps and integration for every platform.
Has anything changed in the last few months or the last year to make Facebook decide to go all in on a phone? Or are we just going to see what's next for their existing Android strategy? Like Jerry Hildenbrand of Android Central said:
We're not sure exactly what to expect, but we know Facebook does things in grand style. We'll know more next week.
Director Lynn Shelton is rounding up a rather impressive cast for her next film.? Deadline reports that Anne Hathaway, Chloe Moretz, Sam Rockwell, and Mark Webber (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) are in negotiations to star the Touchy Feely and Your Sister?s Sister filmmaker?s dark comedy Laggies.? The story centers on a 28-year-old woman named Megan who is unable to cope with the pressures brought on by her boyfriend?s recent marriage proposal. In turn, she escapes into the comfort of adolescence by befriending a group of high schoolers.? Recent Oscar-winner Hathaway will lead the film as Megan, with Moretz eyed to play 16-year-old Annika, Webber in talks to play Megan?s boyfriend, and Rockwell set as an older character named Craig.
Andrea Seigel wrote the screenplay for Laggies, and the film marks the first time Shelton will direct something she hasn?t also written. ?She most recently directed the drama?Touchy Feely, which debuted at Sundance earlier this year.? This is one hell of an ensemble that Shelton has put together, and I look forward to checking out the finished product.
An 8-year-old ?girl on a school field trip to the University of California science museum in Berkeley was hit by an arrow while she played on a whale sculpture.
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Arrow that hit 8-year-old girl on Tuesday.
The girl, who was hit in the leg Tuesday, had to have the arrow surgically removed. She spent the night in the hospital and was released on Wednesday afternoon, according to NBCBayArea.com.
Who fired the arrow, which came from a crossbow, remains a mystery. Police were tracing the projectile's trajectory to determine where it came from, but have not located a suspect. It remained unclear if the arrow shooting was an accident or a malicious act.
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The whale sculpture is located in a plaza outside the Lawrence Hall of Science. Other students in the area were taken inside after the girl was hit.
UC Berkeley does have an archery group, but its members practice on the other side of the campus.
Field trip chaperone Geoff Vassallo said the girl cried as she waited for an ambulance, but ?was a pretty brave little girl.?
This isn't quite the BlackBerry earnings story you're waiting for -- after all, the US figures covering the success (or otherwise) of the Z10 won't arrive until the next quarter. Instead, we're looking at the company's results from the end of the fiscal year to March 2nd, which shows that the smartphone maker made $94 million in GAAP income on revenues of $2.7 billion -- in contrast with the $125 million net loss it made in the same quarter last year. More importantly, however, it shipped out almost one million BlackBerry 10 devices during the three weeks of the quarter that they were available. In addition, it managed to push five million of its older smartphones and 370,000 PlayBook tablets out of the door, but saw user numbers fall from 79 million last quarter to 76 million now.
As revenue has remained relatively flat, the surge in profits can only be attributed to Thorstein Heins' aggressive cost-cutting measures, with the CEO remarking that the "numerous changes" he has implemented at the company have "resulted in [BlackBerry] returning to profitability." At the same time, Mike Lazaridis has announced that he'll retire from his position as vice-chair and director of the outfit he founded the better part of three decades ago. He'll exit the business on May 1st so that he can concentrate on his new enterprise, Quantum Valley Investments.
Update: During the conference call, Thorsten Heins has revealed that around two-thirds or three-quarters of the one million BB10 devices shipped have been sold.
VIENNA (Reuters) - A month after North Korea's nuclear test, a monitoring agency said on Tuesday it was highly unlikely to find any "smoking gun" radioactive traces from the blast, potentially leaving important questions about the device unresolved.
The lack of this kind of telltale scientific evidence would likely make it hard to determine what fissile material was used in the isolated Asian state's third nuclear test, which was detected by seismic monitors.
"Without detecting radioisotopes it will indeed be impossible to distinguish" between a device with highly enriched uranium as the fissile core and one with plutonium, said nuclear expert James Acton of the Carnegie Endowment think-tank.
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), which has a global network of monitoring stations designed to pick up radioactive traces emitted from tests, said it had yet to find any such signs.
"It is very unlikely that we will register anything ... at this late stage," CTBTO spokeswoman Annika Thunborg said.
Thunborg did not give details, but the failure to detect radioactive particles could indicate that North Korea managed to prevent any such release from the February 12 underground explosion.
The test-ban treaty was negotiated in the 1990s but has not taken effect because some holders of nuclear technology have not yet ratified it, including the United States and China.
But the organization already monitors possible breaches, deploying more than 270 stations worldwide to look out for signs of atomic tests, including seismic waves and radioactive traces.
It can take weeks to pick up radioactive so-called noble gases, depending on the weather.
"We are confident that the system works very well," Thunborg said. A senior CTBTO official last month said the "smoking gun" of any nuclear test would be the detection of radionuclide traces.
STRONGER EXPLOSION
North Korea's third test yielded a stronger blast than its previous explosion four years ago, and Pyongyang said it had made progress in miniaturizing an atomic weapon.
While estimates of the explosive power of the latest test vary, most officials and experts estimate it was at least five kilotons, which is still smaller than the power of the atomic bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima in World War Two.
U.S. nuclear expert Siegfried Hecker said the February test would allow North Korea to eventually make smaller nuclear weapons to mount on missiles, but that it would not fundamentally change the security threat Pyongyang poses.
It "has very little plutonium and highly enriched uranium, limited nuclear test experience, and limited success in testing its long-range missiles," he said in a New York Times article co-written with political science professor Scott Sagan.
In its 2006 and 2009 tests, North Korea is believed to have used plutonium. It abandoned plutonium production six years ago, following international pressure, but later acknowledged that it had built facilities to produce enriched uranium, which can also be used in bombs if refined to a high degree.
Without the trace evidence, however, U.S. and allied officials have said it would be very difficult to determine whether the latest test involved a plutonium or uranium core.
Experts say plutonium, a by-product of nuclear reactors, can be difficult to use as bomb material because specifications have to be precise. It would be easy for North Korea to make large quantities of highly enriched uranium.
Despite the lack radioactive traces, Carnegie's Acton and others said they were still confident that it had been a nuclear test, because of the magnitude of the blast.
"The North Korean device was definitely nuclear. The size of the explosion was far too large to be conventional," Yale University geology professor Jeffrey Park said.
Chinese Communist Party chief and incoming-President Xi Jinping, center, walks in with Chinese incoming-Premier Li Keqiang to attend a plenary session of the National People's Congress where delegates are expected to elect Xi officially as president at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, March 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Chinese Communist Party chief and incoming-President Xi Jinping, center, walks in with Chinese incoming-Premier Li Keqiang to attend a plenary session of the National People's Congress where delegates are expected to elect Xi officially as president at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, March 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Chinese Communist Party chief and incoming-President Xi Jinping, arrives at a plenary session of the National People's Congress where delegates are expected to elect Xi officially as president at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, March 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
BEIJING (AP) ? China's new leader Xi Jinping is capping his rise by adding the largely ceremonial title of president in an expected vote Thursday by the rubberstamp national legislature.
His elevation to the presidency will give him the last of the three titles held by his predecessor, Hu Jintao.
The move was expected after Xi was named head of the Communist Party and chairman of its military, positions of true power, last November in a once-a-decade handover to a new group of leaders that has been years in the making.
The National People's Congress gathered Thursday in Beijing's Great Hall of the People for the vote for president in balloting that amounts to a political ritual echoing the party leadership's decisions. They also were voting on the vice presidency and other key positions.
Ahead of those votes, the legislators approved a government restructuring plan only four days after it was introduced.
The streamlining, among other things, abolishes the Railways Ministry, combines two agencies that regulate newspapers and broadcasters into a super media regulator and merges the commission that oversees the much-disliked rules that limit many families to one child into the Health Ministry.
It also joins four agencies that police fisheries and other maritime resources into one bureau to better assert China's claims over disputed waters, potentially sharpening conflicts with Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines.
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FILE - Mary Joe White stands by as President Barack Obama announces in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, in this Jan. 24, 2013 file photo, that he will nominate White to lead the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). Mary Jo White, President Barack Obama's pick to be chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, will likely face tough questions Tuesday March 12, 2013 from senators about her decade of legal work representing some of the nation's largest banks and corporations. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
FILE - Mary Joe White stands by as President Barack Obama announces in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, in this Jan. 24, 2013 file photo, that he will nominate White to lead the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). Mary Jo White, President Barack Obama's pick to be chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, will likely face tough questions Tuesday March 12, 2013 from senators about her decade of legal work representing some of the nation's largest banks and corporations. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Mary Jo White, President Barack Obama's pick to be chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, will likely face tough questions Tuesday from senators about her decade of legal work representing some of the nation's largest banks and corporations.
But after the Senate Banking Committee hearing is over, White is ultimately expected to win confirmation from the full Senate and become the first former prosecutor to lead the top federal regulator overseeing Wall Street.
White would replace Elisse Walter, who has been interim SEC chairman since Mary Schapiro resigned in December.
The Senate panel will also question Richard Cordray, who was re-nominated by Obama to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
White, 65, would step into the job at a critical moment for the SEC.
Critics have complained that the agency has failed to act aggressively to charge top executives at the biggest U.S. banks who may have contributed to the 2008 financial crisis. The appointment of a former prosecutor could signal that Obama wants the government to get tougher with Wall Street.
White's responsibilities will also include enforcing complex regulations written in response to the worst crisis since the Depression of the 1930s. The SEC chairman and commissioners must vote to approve enforcement actions against specific companies or individuals as well as new rules that apply generally.
White would bring impressive legal credentials to the job. She was the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney in Manhattan, where she built an extensive record of prosecuting white-collar crime from 1993 through 2002. She also won high-profile convictions in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 1998 terrorist attacks on two U.S. embassies in Africa, and put crime boss John Gotti away.
Since then, White has led the litigation department at Debevoise & Plimpton, a prominent New York-based law firm. Her list of clients includes JPMorgan Chase, General Electric, Microsoft and Toyota. That could raise questions about her possible conflict of interest, although previous SEC chairmen have faced similar questions.
White has promised in writing to step aside from any decision affecting a former client for one year after she represented them. That's in line with federal ethics guidelines for agency officials.
In addition, White has pledged to abstain from all decisions before the SEC brought by the law firm of her husband, John White, is a corporate attorney for Cravath, Swaine & Moore.
John White has also committed not to directly engage with the SEC in its rule-writing, to sell his shares in several investment funds and to change his partnership in Cravath so that he doesn't share in the firm's profits but receives fixed compensation.
While White's confirmation appears assured, the fate of Cordray is far less certain. The consumer agency, created by the 2010 financial overhaul law in response to the crisis, was fiercely opposed by Wall Street interests and Republicans in Congress.
Obama resorted to a recess appointment last year to circumvent the Republicans and install Cordray as agency director. The appointment expires at year's end.
Questions were raised about the legitimacy of Cordray's appointment when a federal appeals court ruled in January that Obama violated the U.S. Constitution by using a recess appointment in the same way to place two people on the National Labor Relations Board.
Dell's XPS 14, like the 13-incher that preceded it, presented us with an ice-cool design that showed the company's artists had worked overtime on getting the small things right. That said, it was a little sluggish in the performance stakes, and while it didn't set our socks on fire, it was at least a solid purchase. Welcome to How Would You Change, where we delve into the gadgets that were loosed upon the world six months ago and determine what you loved, loathed and what you'd have done differently.
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MOORHEAD, Minn. ? Concerned about a potential environmental hazard, government regulators and researchers are studying the presence of nanoparticles in consumer products.
Nanoparticles are tiny bits of material shaped at the molecular level that can change the properties of common materials. Increasingly, manufacturers are using them to design goods that make life easier.
The antibacterial properties of silver, for example, make it a useful material to add to the fibers of some bandages and socks. But washing a pair of socks that contain nanoparticles could pose a risk to the environment.
"There's a big concern about whether these nanoparticles are going to be toxic, whether they move around in the food chain, whether humans might eventually start ingesting them in our food," said Donna Jacob, a research assistant professor of biological sciences at North Dakota State University.
Jacob, who specializes in studying wetlands and metal contaminants, is working with a team of engineers who create nanoparticles to study the potential risk.
GREAT PROMISE, GREAT RISK
Nanoparticles have great promise and great risk because the tiny particles are so much more powerful than the material they are made from, said Achintya Bezbaruah, an assistant professor of civil engineering who designs iron nanoparticles to clean polluted waters.
"A nanoparticle is 1,000 times more reactive," he said. "So even though we'll have small amount of nanoparticles, the impact may be very big."
Bezbaruah said many scientists are concerned about the potential risk of nanomaterial. That's why NDSU has put together a research team to study the entire life cycle of nanoparticles.
"As engineers we are concerned because we are taught and we teach people that we need to be the life cycle from cradle to grave," he said. "We need to be sustainable."
Part of the research is happening in a small greenhouse near Jacob's office, where she is studying what happens when plants are grown in water containing nanoparticles.
She's already learned that plants absorb nanoparticles along with nutrients in the water.
As nanoparticles could kill the microbes plants need for healthy growth, or damage plant DNA, Jacob is starting a new research project to study how plants like rice and spinach are affected by nanoparticles.
There's a good chance, she said, that the effects won't be obvious.
"A lot of the times it doesn't make any visible difference, so you have to start looking deeper into the tissues to understand if there is some genetic effect that is not showing up on the surface," Jacob said. "But it might have some effect on nutrition, or it might have some effect on the next generation."
ABSENCE OF REGULATIONS MAKE STUDY DIFFICULT
Many scientists say only a few nanoparticles are being released into the environment now. But that is largely an educated guess.
There are informal efforts to track nanomaterials in products, but some scientists doubt the accuracy of those lists.
Companies are not required by law to include nanoparticles on labels, making detailed product information is hard to come by.
That makes assessing risk more difficult for scientists and consumers, said Steve Diamond, a Duluth-based research biologist for the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
"The more aware the public is of both the benefits and the risks of any new technology or activity in the environment the better able they are able to make their own judgment on what is an acceptable level of risk," said Diamond, who leads an EPA initiative to understand the environmental risk of nanoparticles.
But there isn't yet enough information now for consumers to make intelligent choices, he said.
Diamond said the EPA needs to know several things before it can decide how dangerous nanoparticles are, among them how common the materials are and their toxicity.
How the nanomaterials will be used also is important. Studies suggest carbon nanotubes pose environmental and human health risks. If they are used to make car tires more durable, for example, they could be released into the environment as the tires wear.
But if those same nanotubes are used in the composite material for a pair of cross country skis, it's unlikely they would ever pose a danger.
DOWN THE DRAIN, LITERALLY
The most common way for nanoparticles to enter the environment is when they're washed down the drain, Diamond said.
For example, the nano silver in socks, and the nano titanium in sunscreen or cosmetics ends up in sewage treatment plants. Diamond said it appears most of those particles are trapped in the sludge that remains after wastewater is treated.
"In that scenario, we would be more concerned about the application of sludge from wastewater treatment plants on crop lands which is a prevalent activity in the United States," he said.
In Minnesota about 46,000 tons of dried sewage sludge from wastewater treatment plants were spread on about 16,000 acres of farmland last year before farmers planted corn or soybeans. According to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, 91,000 tons are incinerated and 20,000 tons are put in landfills.
There's no easy way to test that sludge for nanoparticles.
MEASURING IMPACT
With nanoparticle production and use in products expected to grow rapidly in the next decade, scientists hope to better understand the risk of their use before they become ubiquitous in the environment.
Still, nanomaterials are not likely to cause dramatic environmental damage, said Christine Hendren, executive director of the Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology at Duke University.
Whatever happens will likely be subtle and long term, she said, which makes it much more difficult to assess risk.
A big question for consumers is whether they should be concerned.
"Only the public can express public demand for information that will help keep them safe."
- Christine Hendren, Duke University
"It would be similar to saying, 'should we be worried about chemicals?' Sure, some of them," Hendren said. "We don't know much about most of the chemicals that are in the environment."
Scientists are just starting to learn about the risk posed by some chemicals that have been in the environment for decades.
Based on past experience with chemicals, Hendren said, it might be time to develop a new way to assess environmental risk. She thinks there's still a chance to get ahead of any danger posed by nanoparticles.
"I think that nanomaterials offer us a really great chance to consider whether as a society we might want to act in a more precautionary manner," she said, "and not let markets drive the release of materials as much as our intelligent, intentionally weighed values of whether we want to take some risks and what benefits this offers."
Hendren said as a scientist and a consumer, what she most needs is information: How much nanomaterial is being produced? Who's using it? Where is it going?
But that information is not available because nanotechnology is not regulated.
"The market drives the economy in North America," she said. "And I think public involvement and public demand of information is a really valuable tool. Only the public can express public demand for information that will help keep them safe."
Hendren said regulation and labeling of nanomaterial will be even more important as nanotechnology expands to more products, and scientists try to understand the potential risk.
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