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Singapore's Dr. Love Brings Good Sex to Indonesia

...mple sizes that are too small and answers that are unreliable as "talking about sex is pretty much taboo still in Asia." Indonesia already has mainstream relationship advice readily available in the media, as well as commercial public seminars offering advice on sexual health. But nothing packaged quite this ...

Australia Agonising Over the Problem of Cocaine Use by Lawyers

... that the two parties having the conversation were unreliable witnesses. Using cocaine would be a ground for complaint as it is illegal; if it were proved to be affecting a lawyer's performance, he could be suspended from practice immediately. But the bar has been partial to its members, it is charged. Ther...

New TB Vaccines in Could Protect Against All Drug Resistant Strains

...tion against severe forms of TB in children but is unreliable against pulmonary TB, which accounts for most TB worldwide. "New vaccines, along with new drugs and diagnostics, are essential to the elimination of TB as a public health threat," he said. "The work that we are doing will help save millions of live...

Masimo SET Pulse Oximetry Technology Significantly Reduce the Risk of ROP

...used to treat these patients, due in large part to unreliable oxygen level measurements from pulse oximeters not able to maintain accuracy during conditions of motion and low perfusion. In the study entitled Clinical Practice and SpO2 Technology in the Prevention of ROP in ELBW Infants, a team of neonatologis...

Bio-latrine Cleans Up Kenyan Slum and the Environment

...nce on firewood, charcoal and grid power, which is unreliable in many African cities and hard to come by in rural areas. The process is relatively simple. Residents pay about six cents to use the latrine. The waste is then collected in a bio-digester, a concrete tank where it's stored for several months until...

A More Convenient HIV Treatment Is as Effective as More Complex Regimens

...Researchers concluded that earlier analyses may be unreliable because their results differed dramatically from the analysis of head-to-head trials, even after excluding patients who had previously received HIV therapy and those who had received older NNRTIs, such as delaviridine, that are now used infrequently ...

Studies Show That Brain Cells Do Not Regenerate But Remain The Same Throughout

...xtremely complicated, especially in man, and gives unreliable and controversial results. Last year, stem cell researcher Jonas Frisén from Karolinska Institute presented a way to settle the issue with help from unexpected quarters – the nuclear tests of the cold war. He used a variation on the well-known carb...

Teenagers Often Deny Taken ‘Virginity Pledges

... self-reported history of sexual intercourse is an unreliable measure for studies examining the effectiveness of virginity pledges....

Male Contraceptives-Soon to be Reliable and Reversible

...re often unacceptable to most couples being either unreliable or as in the case of vasectomy, almost irreversible. Recent studies led by Dr. Peter Y. Liu, of the Department of Andrology at Concord Hospital and ANZAC Research Institute of the University of Sydney, in Australia have revealed important steps tow...

Retinal Hemorrhage: No More a Sure Sign of Child Abuse

...sms may result in retinal hemorrhage, making it an unreliable indicator of child abuse. The study was conducted on nearly than 700 cases that had presented for autopsy examination. Other conditions where retinal damage may be manifested include suffocation, SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome), head injury, st...

Stomach Beats Can Tell the Truth About Lying

...at the University of Texas found that the heart is unreliable as it's affected not only by the brain but also by factors such as hormones, "But the gut has a mind of its own - literally. It has its own well-developed nervous system that acts independently of almost everything except your unconscious brain," Pas...

Arsenic in drinking water

...an detect high levels of arsenic but are typically unreliable at lower concentrations of concern for human health. Reliability of field methods is yet to be fully evaluated. Effects Immediate symptoms on an acute poisoning typically include vomiting, oesophageal and abdominal pain, and bloody "rice water" di...

Pause as you please

...hese are not tolerated by all women, and are often unreliable at blocking menstruation over longer timespans.Taking the contraceptive pill continuously - without taking the monthly cycle of sugar pills - can delay periods in most women, but usually only for about four months. The new drugs were tested on rhes...

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