Mute in Medical News

'Enormous Progress' in Reducing Cancer Does Not Include Lung Cancer

... trials and the US government gives both screening tests the same "I" rating: insufficient evidence to recommend for or against. However, while mute on lung cancer screening, ACS strongly supports offering a PSA test to all men over 50 and urges that they be given information on prostate cancer ...

Men are from Mars and Women from Venus, but why on Earth are Women so Woefully Wronged?

... absolutely'! As a result of being physically weaker, women are often mute subjects to ill treatment, violence, and discrimination from the so-called ... is the grim scenario reported by WHO; 115 million girls and women are mute victims of various forms of genital mutilation, and are still grappling ...

HIV Awareness Hazy in 73% of Youth

... of infected parents. The vulnerable also included young brides, who are unable to stand for themselves and firmly deny unprotected sex, often are mute subjects to HIV and sexually transmitted infections, in contrast with their unmarried counter parts. The other vulnerable lot includes street ...

Mental Health: Mind at Peace or in Pieces?

... newer excitement propelled by desires of a ‘picture-postcard’ life is the present age magnificent obsession. Today, ‘failure’ is unacceptable - a mute submission to the vagaries of competition and stress, throwing asunder the delicate balance between the mind and body. What happens next is anybody’s ...

Bird Flu Swan In Scotland Was A Migratory Bird

... bird came from, but say that the swan died at sea and was washed up on the Scottish coast. It was initially thought that the infected species was a mute swan, a bird that does not migrate. However, it is now clear that the bird was not native. Poultry industry feared a pandemic in wild birds, which ...

Sati Raises its Ugly Head in Madhya Pradesh

... of committing sati as she had already told them a few days before when she realised that her husband would soon die. The superstitious villagers were mute spectators and did not try to stop her," stated the National Commission for Women (NCW), which took suo motu cognisance of the episode and ...

AIDS control requires co-coordinated move regarding safe sexual practices

... sex morality to help face the AIDS challenge, according to Union Information and Broadcasting Minister S. Jaipal Reddy. 'We have been mute spectators to the colossal tragedy of AIDS that continues to unfold across many countries ... AIDS pandemic is closer to us than we ...