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Comprehensive Free, Online Expert Resource About Learning Difficulties and Disabilities Created in Collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners NEW YORK, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) today announced the launch of the LD Navigator, a free comprehensive, online resource guide about learning difficulties and disabilities for pediatric healthcare professionals. As...
WASHINGTON, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. jail population increased after three consecutive years of decline, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. The number of inmates confined in county and city jails increased by 1.2 percent, from 735,601 at midyear 2011 to 744,524 at midyear 2012. Local jails, unlike prisons, are confinement facilities mainly operated by a local law enforcement agency. Jails typically hold inmates while...
WASHINGTON, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In advance of Memorial Day, the Respect for Marriage Coalition hosted a call featuring Former Congressman, Army Captain and Iraq War Veteran Patrick Murphy, Outserve-SLDN Executive Director Allyson Robinson, American Military Partner Association Director of Family Affairs Ashley Broadway and military widow Karen Morgan to highlight the harms of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) on the nation's military and to urge the Supreme Court...
SAN RAMON, Calif., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The GENIVI Alliance today announced it has entered into a liaison agreement with JASPAR (Japan Automotive Software Platform and Architecture) to align networking software requirements for automotive Bluetooth and Ethernet, specific to in-vehicle infotainment systems and related applications by year-end. This agreement between JASPAR and GENIVI, an automotive and consumer electronics industry association driving the...
The integration of mental health interventions into HIV prevention and treatment platforms can reduce the opportunity costs of care and improve treatment outcomes, argues a new Policy Forum article published in this week's PLOS Medicine. Syvia Kaaya from the School of Medicine at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and her international colleagues say that effective interventions exist for recognition and treatment of co-morbid mental disorders...
Study supports idea of 'suicide contagion,' especially in 12 and 13 year olds Youth who had a schoolmate die by suicide are significantly more likely to consider or attempt suicide, according to a study in published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). This effect can last 2 years or more, which has implications for strategies following schoolmate suicides. "We found that exposure to suicide predicts suicidality," writes senior author Dr. Ian Colman, Canada Research Chair in...
"This terrible decision from the 9th Circuit ignores the growing body of evidence that late-term abortions are dangerous for women" noted AUL's Dr. Charmaine Yoest. "And yet a woman receiving an abortion at 20 weeks is 35 times more likely to die than she was in the first trimester." WASHINGTON, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ignoring the growing body of evidence detailing abortion's harms to women, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Arizona's prohibition of...
Wheelchair users from across the USA will voice policy concerns to pols in D.C. 6/16-18 #ROCH2013 http://ow.ly/lctsR NEW YORK, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- United Spinal Association and leaders from its membership division, National Spinal Cord Injury Association (NSCIA), will gather in Washington, D.C. on June 16-19 for Roll on Capitol Hill, to directly express to legislators the need for greater access to health care, wheelchairs, and policymakers -- critical to the...
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Line Screening (LLS), a leading national provider of health screening services announced today the creation of a unique partnership with MCM Solutions for Better Health (MCM). MCM is a population health management organization. LLS will provide health screening services to MCM's growing list of clients. These important expanded services will help MCM and its clients intervene in costly chronic conditions earlier. Effective...
BALTIMORE, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Council on Disability (NCD), an independent federal agency that advises the President, Administration, Congress, and other federal agencies on disability policy, is releasing two new Medicaid policy publications at the Medicaid Managed Care Congress in Baltimore, MD Wednesday, May 22 - one on the topic of Medicaid block granting and the other on Medicaid self-direction. NCD's Entitlements Committee Chair, Ari Ne'eman,...
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A salt marsh, also otherwise known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone that lies between the land and the open salt water or brackish water that is routinely flooded by the tides. It’s dominated by dense stands of salt-tolerant plants, for example, herbs, grasses, or low shrubs. These plants originate from all around the globe and are important to the stability of the salt marsh in trapping and binding sediments. Salt marshes...
A social networking service is an online service provided to the public for social interaction between families, friends, and also for gaining new friends over the internet. These networks often include such services as e-mail and instant messaging. Social networks are found worldwide and used by half of the world’s population in some form or another. In 2011 a survey revealed 47 percent of adults and 73 percent of teens use a social networking service. You can use these services to...
Symbol: SITH2 Group: Dicot Family: Sapotaceae Duration: Perennial Growth Habit: Shrub Native Status: L48 N Synonyms: BUTH Bumelia thornei Cronquist Distribution: County distributions for the following U.S. states are available at PLANTS:FL, GA Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division ...
Symbol: SITE2 Group: Dicot Family: Sapotaceae Duration: Perennial Growth Habit: Tree Shrub Native Status: L48 N Synonyms: BULA4 Bumelia lacuum Small BUME Bumelia megacocca Small BUTE Bumelia tenax (L.) Willd. Distribution: County distributions for the following U.S. states are available at PLANTS:FL, GA, SC Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants...
Symbol: SISA6 Group: Dicot Family: Sapotaceae Duration: Perennial Growth Habit: Tree Shrub Native Status: L48 N PR N VI N Synonyms: BUSA2 Bumelia salicifolia (L.) Sw. DISA2 Dipholis salicifolia (L.) A. DC. Distribution: County distributions for the following U.S. states are available at PLANTS:FL Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta –...
