May 20

Travel Health Category Expanded At OnlineClinic

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20 May 2012

London, UK (PRWEB UK) 20 May 2012

As technological advances have driven down the price of flying, paving the way for low-cost airlines to provide a cheaper way for people to take more regular holidays, more and more people are choosing to travel further around the world. Though this is enormously beneficial, as it allows people to enjoy new experience, there are also new risks involved for particular destinations and modes of travel. Jet lag, for example, is a very common complaint for people traveling across multiple time zones. Another example is altitude sickness, a potentially fatal condition that can affect people ascending to new altitudes. The Travel Health section at OnlineClinic, which already includes information on and treatments for malaria and traveler’s diarrhea, has been expanded to include conditions associated with travel such as jet lag, altitude sickness and motion sickness.

 

Jet lag is one of the most common adverse effects experienced by people who travel through time zones to a new destination. In simple terms, it occurs because the body gets used to the normal rhythm of your daily life, such as when to go to sleep and when to eat. Suddenly being in a new time zone throws off this normal rhythm, leading to symptoms such as difficulty sleeping and nausea. It is possible to minimise the chance of experiencing jet lag with the help of the Jet Lag Treatment Pack, now available at OnlineClinic, which contains a treatment that is melatonin-based to help prepare your body for sleep.

 

Altitude sickness is potentially far more serious than jet lag, as failing to acclimatise correctly to new altitudes can be fatal. Anyone traveling to altitudes higher than 2,500ft must take the necessary precautions while ascending to allow the body to acclimatise naturally. In addition to such precautions, some people find treatments such as Diamox useful to help them to avoid altitude sickness. Further information about altitude sickness and Diamox can be found at OnlineClinic.

 

Motion sickness can be a problem for people who are travelling even short distances. It can occur as a result of traveling by car, boat, train or aeroplane, and is caused by conflicting messages being sent to the brain from the vestibular system and the eyes relating to whether the body is actually in motion or not. This can cause symptoms such as nausea and a general feeling of sickness. There are treatments available in the form of tablets or patches, such as Avomine, Kwells and Scopoderm.

 

OnlineClinic.co.uk Company Information

 

Launched in 2002, OnlineClinic.co.uk offers prescription treatments for a number of common healthcare problems including mens and womens health problems, sexual health, obesity, smoking, travel treatments and general lifestyle health. Because OnlineClinic.co.uk specialise in treating sensitive conditions, they offer a simple yet discreet online consultation service with a registered doctor. Patients can complete their private consultation and receive their medication the following day via secure courier.

 

For more details, visit the website at http://www.onlineclinic.co.uk or contact OnlineClinic on 020 7084 7593.

 

OnlineClinic is a brand name of Hexpress Healthcare Ltd, 138 140 Mitcham Road, London SW17 9NH, United Kingdom. Phone: 020 7084 7060.

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May 05

hmv Launches Poll to Find Best British Film and Album

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5 May 2012

(PRWEB UK) 3 May 2012

Leading entertainment retail specialist hmv has launched a major online survey that aims to celebrate the remarkable achievements in British music and film presided over by The Queen during her sixty-year reign.

 

hmv, which itself has a heritage stretching back more than 100 years, is inviting its customers and the wider public to use a special voting app on its Facebook page (http://www.hmv.com/jubilee) to put forward their choice of the greatest British albums and films of the past six decades.

 

The app, which has been developed by hmv’s digital and social media agency MMK Media, features hmv’s Nipper mascot cloaked in a Union flag in ‘Britannia’ style in its design.

 

The national poll is part of a wider ‘Britain/Music is GREAT’ Industry initiative that, in this special Olympic and Jubilee year, seeks to highlight the far-reaching achievements and contribution of British culture and music.

 

Participants in the hmv survey, which closes 20th May, will be able to vote for up to five albums and five films, as well as nominate their own ‘other’ selection if not listed, from a longlist of sixty titles in each category compiled by hmv store and head office staff in a recent internal poll.

 

The two longlists that voters can choose from reflect our nation’s rich post-war cultural heritage, and feature a broad and diverse selection of iconic and contemporary artists, musical genres and cinematic styles ranging from Adele to Zulu and Cult Sci-Fi to Punk Rock.

 

Unsurprisingly, The Beatles head the albums list with five nominations, along with The Rolling Stones on three and David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, Oasis and Blur – who all have two, as well as Queen, Elton John, Kate Bush and Coldplay. The Clash and The Sex Pistols ensure that Punk and New Wave is well featured, and Manchester’s contribution from the Nineties is additionally represented by Joy Division, The Smiths and The Stone Roses.

 

Scotland and Wales have their champions in the shape of Primal Scream and Teenage Fanclub and The Manic Street Preachers and Stereophonics respectively, while, along with Adele and the much-missed Amy Winehouse, more contemporary British artists include the Arctic Monkeys, Dizzee Rascal, Tinie Tempah and this year’s Mercury Prize winner PJ Harvey.

 

The films category is arguably even more diverse, with the James Bond, Harry Potter and Monty Python franchises well represented alongside a selection of Working Title romantic comedies such as Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually. Military films range from The Bridge on the River Kwai to The Great Escape, while classic comedies include the likes of A Fish Called Wanda, Shaun of the Dead and Ealing Studios’ The Ladykillers.

 

Historical dramas that shine a light on a Great Britain of Royalty and Empire include Lawrence of Arabia, Gandhi, A Room with a View and The King’s Speech, while modern-day society is reflected by the grittier offerings of Sexy Beast, Tyrannosaur and This is England. One of the most featured actors among the films nominated is Michael Caine, who stars in Alfie, Get Carter, The Italian Job and Zulu

 

hmv’s Gennaro Castaldo, comments: “The beginning of Elizabeth II’s reign, and the bright new future it represented, didn’t just coincide with a flowering of British popular culture, it helped to provide the very spark that lit the touch-paper for an explosion in music and film talent. Since then, the Queen has presided over the richest period of cultural achievement in our nation’s history, so it’s only right that her Diamond Jubilee – which ironically also encapsulates sixty years of the official charts, should also be a period when we reflect on the greatest British albums and films of the past six decades.”

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Apr 24

Tradewind Recruitment Supports Government Crackdown on Primary School Absence

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24 April 2012

London (PRWEB) April 23, 2012

According to statistics released by the Department for Education for the 2010/11 school year, almost 400,000 pupils miss 15% of schooling each yearthat’s the equivalent of taking a whole month off from school. In answer to Charlie Taylor’s call to prevent this habit of absenteeism from following children as they move up through the school system, Tradewind Recruitment, the premier provider of teachers and support staff to schools, colleges, and nurseries, vows to help their client schools support government initiatives to improve student attendance. As a major provider of London teaching jobs, the recruitment agency tasks its highly qualified supply teachers to take the Governments education efforts to heart and act with the best interests of the student population in mind.

 

Recent figures have shown that from primary school onwards, the number of children who are persistently absent increases, especially towards the final years of secondary school. Once the children reach their mid-teens, parents and school staff find it increasingly difficult to get them to attend their classes.

 

Poor attendance patterns leave students at a significant learning disadvantage, especially since most of the school work missed during the time they are away are never made up. The Departments absence data for the 2009/10 school year also shows clear evidence that poor attendance and low levels of achievement are connected: Of students who miss between 10% and 20% of their school days, only 35% are able to achieve five or more General Certificates of Secondary Education (the main qualification taken by 14- to 16-year-olds) at grades A* to C, including English and math. This is a strikingly poor performance compared to pupils who attend 95% of school days73% of them are able to achieve the same feat.

 

Taylor calls on all primary schools to review their attendance records and identify the students who are developing recognisable patterns of absence without valid reasons as well as extended term-time holidays. “The earlier schools address poor attendance patterns, the less likely it is that they will become a long-term issue. The best primary schools realise this and take a rigorous approach to poor attendance from the very start of school life.”

 

Tradewind Recruitment, one of the primary U.K. teaching agencies recently re-accredited with the Department for Education’s Quality Mark for the eighth consecutive year, continues to achieve the highest possible standard of recruitment and vetting of supply teachers who make an increasingly important contribution to the smooth running of schools. Under the Quality Mark, the recruitment agency observes a strict standard of continually monitoring the performance of their hired teachers, ensuring that legal obligations are observed, and staying at the forefront of changes in the teaching sector.

 

School improvement measures, like Taylors recommendations for addressing school attendance problems, are important responsibilities of school administration and support staff alike, and are therefore among the duties and responsibilities that Tradewinds pool of skilled and experienced teachers and teaching assistants are tasked to uphold. (The Quality Mark’s) recognition of Tradewinds high standards of recruitment and vetting…gives increased confidence to our schools that our standards are of the highest in the industry, says Kati Pilkington, Tradewind Recruitment’s Operations Director.

 

The Government has accepted Taylor’s recommendations of publishing attendance data along with local and national averages, primary schools’ analyses of their data and identification of students with absence patterns, and schools supporting parents in nursery and reception who are unable to get their children to attend classes. Tradewind Recruitments teaching staff will contribute to promoting these positive changes for their clients, which include mainstream state schools and independent schools in London and the Home Counties, as well as Birmingham and the West Midlands, and Manchester and the North West.

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Apr 13

Max Studio Opens its First European Flagship Location in London

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13 April 2012

London, United Kingdom (PRWEB UK) 10 April 2012

Brightening up what has been a particularly cold and dreary London Winter is the arrival of some California sunshine in the form of Los Angeles based clothing label Max Studio. Opening just as the Spring 2012 collection hits the store, customers can look forward to goddess worthy chiffon gowns in bright, saturated hues, romantic watercolour floral frocks and a selection of sleek black dresses to suit every mood. Along with these party perfect pieces are cleverly designed essentials from decadent knits and chic workday suits, to dressed up tees and casually cool shorts.

 

Located at 229 Westbourne Grove, the 3,000 square foot store carries a selection of both the limited edition Leon Max Collection and the Max Studio line, with new styles brought in every two weeks. Based around smart casual items, the Max Studio line includes tops, knitwear, outerwear, trousers, footwear and accessories, retailing at

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Apr 05

Parker Waichman LLP Warns of High Revision Rate with Stryker Accolade Femoral Stems when used in combination with DePuy Mitch TRH Metal-on-Metal Hip Replacement Component

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5 April 2012

New York, New York (PRWEB) April 04, 2012

Parker Waichman LLP, a national law firm representing victims of defective hip implants and other medical devices, is warning metal-on-metal hip implant patients that Stryker Corp.’s uncemented Accolade Femoral Stems have been associated with a high failure rate when used in combination with DePuy Orthopaedic’s Mitch TRH Cup/Heads in total hip replacement procedures. According to an April 2 advisory issued by the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), data from the England and Wales National Joint Registry indicated that the revision rate for patients with this type of metal-on-metal total hip replacement was 10.7 percent four years after implantation. [mhra.gov.uk/home/groups/dts-bs/documents/medicaldevicealert/con149604.pdf]

 

According to Parker Waichman LLP, it is thought that 271 people in England and Wales have this combination of hip components. Both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients are to be monitored on an annual basis, with additional investigations to be carried out in those experiencing symptoms, the MHRA said.

 

This new warning comes a little more than a month after the MHRA advised that patients with large diameter metal-on-metal hip joints (bearings greater than 36mm) should have annual blood tests and possibly MRI scans for the lifespan of the joint. [mhra.gov.uk/Publications/Safetywarnings/MedicalDeviceAlerts/CON143782]

 

About Metal-on-Metal Hip Implants

Parker Waichman LLP is already representing scores of plaintiffs in personal injury lawsuits filed against the makers of all-metal hip implants, including DePuy Orthopaedics’s recalled ASR Acetabular Hip Implant System, as well as a metal-on-metal version of the DePuy Pinnacle Acetabular Cup System. Lawsuits involving the ASR hip implant have been consolidated in a multidistrict litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio (MDL 2197). Meanwhile, DePuy Pinnacle hip implant lawsuits have been consolidated in a multidistrict litigation in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (MDL 2244).

 

The ASR hip implants were recalled from the global market in August 2010. However, the all-metal Pinnacle hip implant and many other metal-on-metal hip replacements remain on the market. In February, an investigative report in the British Medical Journal warned that hundreds of thousands of people around the world may have been exposed to dangerously high levels of toxic and potentially cancer-causing metals from failing metal-on-metal hip implants. A large study published last month in The Lancet showed that there is a 6.2 percent chance patients with all-metal hips will need a replacement within five years, prompting the authors of the study to call for an end to their use. [bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e1539/rr/571634; thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2960353-5/fulltext]

 

In May 2011, the U .S. Food & Drug (FDA) directed 21 companies that market all-metal hip replacements, including DePuy and Stryker, to conduct post-market studies of their products to determine if they were shedding dangerous amounts of metallic debris in patients. Last week, the agency announced its Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Devices Panel will meet over June 27 and 28 to discuss the risks and benefits of metal-on-metal hip systems, as well as potential patient and practitioner recommendations for their use. [fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/ImplantsandProsthetics/MetalonMetalHipImplants/default.htm; fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm297745.htm]

 

Parker Waichman LLP continues to offer free legal consultations to victims of metal-on-metal hip implant injuries. If you or a loved experienced premature failure of your implant or other health problems associated with metal-on-metal hip replacement devices, please contact their office by visiting the firm’s defective hip implant page at http://www.yourlawyer.com. Free case evaluations are also available by calling 1 800 LAW INFO (1-800-529-4636).

 

For more information regarding defective hip implant lawsuits and Parker Waichman LLP, please visit: http://www.yourlawyer.com or call 1-800-LAW-INFO (1-800-529-4636).

 

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