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EXPERT ALERTS
- Helping Children Understand the Tragedy in Colorado
- Boost Your Apartment Safety
- Caution Warranted for New Weight-Loss Pill
- Court May Affirm Gene Patent
- Financing Your Dental Care
- How to Turn Off Your Bullying Tendencies
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- Freelance Focus: Query Letters
- Car Blogs: Start Your Engines!
- Grammar Hammer: Is It Presently or Currently Storming?
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EXPERT ALERTS
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Helping Children Understand the Tragedy in Colorado
Susan Kaneshiro, PsyD
Clinical Psychologist and Program Chair of Counseling Programs
Argosy University in Orange County, Calif.
"The senseless shootings in Colorado have left many adults struggling to find meaning and understanding in the wake of the tragedy. For parents, it can be even harder to know what, how much and how often to discuss these matters with our children. It's important to help your children understand the information in a way that is relevant to them and that they can comprehend."
Kaneshiro is available to discuss the effect of such tragedies on children and offer parents advice on how they can address this difficult subject with their children.
News Contact: Anne K. Dean, adean@argosy.edu or +1-714-620-0910
Boost Your Apartment Safety
John McGrail
Founder and CEO
Mayo Group
"Living in an apartment is different from living in a freestanding house, where you can install a home security system and implement building-wide safety devices like redundant smoke detectors and radon-detection tools. But just because you live in an apartment doesn't mean you can't take measures to protect yourself while you're at home. Don't overcrowd your apartment with furniture and belongings that could impede easy access to escape routes in the case of fire. Be extra careful with space heaters or anything other devices that contain a heating element. Never leave these appliances on when you aren't at home or when you are sleeping, and make sure they are located a safe distance from any fabrics or other flammable materials."
News Contact: Anna Steinbock, anna@exposeyourselfpr.com
Caution Warranted for New Weight-Loss Pill
Rick Meadow
Attorney/Head of Lanier's Pharmaceutical Litigation Division
The Lanier Law Firm in Houston
"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved Vivus Inc.'s highly anticipated diet drug Qsymia. But FDA approval isn't a golden ticket. The FDA is limited in what it can review in new drug approvals and doesn't do its own testing, simply relying instead on the testing and 'good faith' of drug companies. Based on historical problems with weight-loss pills, and the facts we've uncovered about drug companies in other instances, doctors and potential patients should closely monitor aftermarket testing, marketing and adverse event reports for Qsymia, which is a combination of the drugs Phentermine and Topomax, both of which have been linked previously to safety concerns."
News Contact: Alan Bentrup, alan@androvett.com or +1-800-559-4534
Court May Affirm Gene Patent
Paul Skiermont
Attorney
Skiermont Puckett in in Dallas
"A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., is reviewing its ruling of last year that Utah's Myriad Genetics, which currently holds patents on two genes that can signal if a woman faces greater risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer, can be the exclusive U.S. provider of genetic screenings of these diseases. The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Federal Circuit to reconsider the case in light of its ruling in a different case that tightened rules on medical-testing patents. The Myriad case illustrates the enormous role the federal judiciary will play in defining the direction of the life sciences market. This case could resolve the multibillion-dollar question of whether a potential cure for cancer from DNA sequencing and extraction is a patentable invention, or a patent-ineligible discovery of a law of nature."
News Contact: Barry Pound, barry@androvett.com or +1-800-559-4534
Financing Your Dental Care
Dr. Todd Pizzi, DDS
Owner
Modern Dentistry in Shrewsbury, Mass.
"Most people are aware of the benefits of good dental habits on overall health. Keeping your teeth in top shape will benefit you as you age and can eliminate the risk of oral infection that can lead to a variety of wide-ranging health problems. I'd much rather detect dental problems early than play catch-up with deep-seated oral health issues that are more involved and expensive. While some patients are fortunate enough to be covered by dental insurance, I know that not everyone has this option. Most preventative dentistry insurance coverage allows for biannual visits to check for tooth decay and to identify any other potential dental problems. I applaud this model because more frequent checkups lead to less frequent problems."
News Contact: Anna Steinbock, anna@exposeyourselfpr.com
How to Turn Off Your Bullying Tendencies
Dr. Ronda Beaman
Director of Leadership Studies at California Polytechnic University
Chief Creative Officer for Research and Consulting at PEAK Learning, Inc.
"From kids on a bus to parents at hockey games, in every Fortune 500 company and down your own street -- we've become a society of victims, many of us blaming past injustices for our own irresponsible adult behavior. If you're like me, and you grew up with a parent who was a bully, there's a good chance that you might lean toward those tendencies as a way to 'get back' at those who made you feel small. Sure, it can seem empowering to take on that potent, bullying role. It may make you feel like you're towering over others instead of cowering under the covers -- but all it really does is subject someone else to the treatment you suffered when you were growing up."
Beaman is an author, teacher and motivational speaker.
News Contact: Anna Steinbock, anna@exposeyourselfpr.com
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MEDIA JOBS:
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See more listings here.
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OTHER NEWS & RESOURCES:
Following are links to other news and resources we think you might find useful. If you have an item you think other reporters would be interested in and would like us to include in a future alert, please drop us a line at profnetalerts@prnewswire.com
- FREELANCE FOCUS: QUERY LETTERS: ProfNet Director Maria Perez turns to two freelancers to find out how to write a query letter: http://bit.ly/P64dsK
- CAR BLOGS: START YOUR ENGINES!: PR Newswire's Thomas Hynes shares some of the best car blogs he's seen lately: http://bit.ly/PF6wHa
- GRAMMAR HAMMER: IS IT PRESENTLY OR CURRENTLY STORMING?: ProfNet Editor Grace Lavigne explains the difference between "presently" and "currently": http://bit.ly/NuJ7JW
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