Virgin Trains has once again topped the performance league among companies operating long-distance rail franchisees. The rail watchdog Passenger Focus carries out large-scale independent research across the industry twice a year. Continuing an upward trend, 90% of Virgin Trains passengers were ‘satisfied’ or ‘very satisfied’ with the overall service they received. This is the highest [...]

AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AAI), today announced the continued expansion of its burgeoning Caribbean flight schedule while unveiling its seasonal travel schedule. The Caribbean expansion includes daily service to Aruba and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, from the low-cost carrier’s hub in Atlanta as well as new, non-stop flights from Milwaukee to [...]

Breast augmentation: Everything a woman needs to know about breast augmentation and breast implants is included in a new website by Dr. Michael Law a board certified plastic surgeon in Raleigh, NC. The new website includes a breast augmentation before and after gallery. Breast Augmentation surgery remains a top plastic surgery procedure. Raleigh Plastic Surgeon [...]

Join the Every Body Walk! Movement Walking 30 minutes a day, five days a week is the first step toward better health. This simple, take-charge message comes from health advocate Kaiser Permanente who today announced Every Body Walk!, a public awareness project aimed at starting a national conversation about the health benefits of walking. Presently, [...]

Reclaim New Year’s Resolutions with Freshii’s innovative eating plan Just weeks after ringing in 2011, many people have already broken their New Year’s resolutions to ‘lose weight’ and ‘get in shape.’ After admirable starts, the promises to shed pounds are broken because dieters simply feel trapped into counting calories and rigid menus. That is, until [...]

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified a therapy that may enhance memory and prevent the loss of long-term memory. The research is published in the January 27th issue of Nature. Led by Cristina Alberini, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai, the research team evaluated how a protein called insulin-like growth factor [...]

A new study provides insight into how stress impacts the brain and may help to explain why some individuals are predisposed to depression when they experience chronic stress. The research, published by Cell Press in the January 27 issue of the journal Neuron, reveals complex molecular mechanisms associated with chronic stress and may help to [...]

Misaligned research, medical challenges and harsh economics are thwarting efforts to slow the destructive course of Alzheimer’s disease in the United States, according to a trio of nationally regarded Alzheimer’s researchers writing a “Perspective” in Thursday’s (Jan. 27) issue of the journal Neuron. The foremost obstacle is that the most promising preventive strategies are being tested [...]

Researchers from the universities of Navarra and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria have demonstrated that the ingestion of trans-fats and saturated fats increase the risk of suffering depression, and that olive oil, on the other hand, protects against this mental illness. They have confirmed this after studying 12,059 SUN Project volunteers over the course of [...]

Employers Focus on Supporting Employee Accountability and Actions in Savings Plans for 2011 According to a report released by Aon Hewitt, the global human resources consulting and outsourcing business of Aon Corporation (NYSE:AON), companies have little confidence that workers are taking the actions necessary to meet their retirement savings needs. Aon Hewitt’s survey of 210 [...]