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Virginity Rules-Meant To Be Broken?

... In abandoning abstinence education, states have largely said that comprehensive sex education programs, which discuss contraception beyond the failure rates, have a better scientific grounding. New laws in Colorado, Iowa and Washington state that sex education must be based on research or science which i...

China Closing in on US for Highest Number of Web-users

...iggest recent example, last month the Internet was largely responsible for exposing a scandal in which hundreds of people worked as slaves in two Chinese provinces that some local authorities had been complicit in. A letter posted on the Internet by 400 parents of children working as slaves in brickyards w...

Pediatric Use of ADHD Drug may Affect Developing Brain

...ped receiving Ritalin, the animals' neurochemistry largely resolved back to the pre-treatment state. "That's encouraging, and supports the notion that this drug therapy may be best used over a relatively short period of time, to be replaced or supplemented with behavioural therapy," Dr. Milner says. Dr. ...

Government Mulls Closure of Hospital Where a Woman Died Unattended in ER

... But this episode has drawn national attention, largely because of the videotape and the public release this week of two 911 calls in which Rodriguez's boyfriend and another onlooker unsuccessfully beg sheriff's dispatchers to send help. In an interview Friday, county health services Director Dr. Bruce...

Singapore's HIV/AIDS Cases Rise by Record Levels in 2006

...e Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), which is transmitted largely through unprotected sex and sharing intravenous needles. There is no cure for AIDS. It breaks down a person's immune system, rendering them vulnerable to infection and disease. Singapore has expressed alarm over the growth of HIV infections but the...

Frostbite can Be Treated by Bloodclot Drug

...s grown significantly in the last 25 years, it has largely remained the same for combating frostbite, say the authors of the article published in the journal Archives of Surgery. "Today, traditional therapy consists of tissue rewarming, prolonged watchful waiting and often delayed amputation," they wrote. ...

Severe Human Bite Wounds are 12 Times More Common in Men

...authors say: The incidence of human bite wounds is largely unknown because many minor injuries do not present to the emergency department for medical assessment. The human bite injury is a deceptive wound and because of the potential for infective, functional and aesthetic complications it requires prompt ...

IIT Delhi Scientist Finds Climate Models Consistent With Ocean Warming Observations

...Our analysis shows that the 2003-2005 'cooling' is largely an artefact of a systematic change in the observing system. The previous research was based on looking at the combined ocean temperature observations from several different instrument types, which collectively appear to have a cooling effect. But if ...

Wine Packaging: Bag-in-box, Plastic Bottles, Cork Comeback?

...how. BIBs, introduced in France in the 1980s, were largely ignored until recently when sales grew as buyers switched from older non-airtight "cubies", which once opened had to be transferred to bottles at home or drunk as soon as possible. New-age BIBs, plastic air-tight containers with a self-sealing tap, a...

Northern Forests Less Effective Than Tropical Forests in Reducing Global Warming

...s were a net source of 1.8 billion tons of carbon, largely because trees and other plants release carbon into the atmosphere as a result of widespread logging, burning and other forms of clearing land. The new research indicates, instead, that tropical ecosystems are the net source of only about 100 millio...

India to Get a Taste of 'British' Curries

...lar throughout the United Kingdom -- has remained largely a mystery on the subcontinent. Now one of Britain's most celebrated chefs, Manju Malhi, wants to change that by introducing this favourite and other British-and-Indian fused foods to Indian palates. Malhi is shooting a television cooking show in Ne...

Tibetans to Introduce Organic Farming

...ic farming is a form of agriculture that avoids or largely excludes the use of synthetic fertilizer and pesticides, plant growth regulators and livestock feed additives. Organic farmers rely on crop rotation, crop residues, animal manures and mechanical cultivation to maintain soil productivity. "The pol...

Russian Health Care Marred by Corruption

...lly rewarded doctors with money or gifts, but were largely guaranteed free treatment. The Soviet Union's public health system was, for a time at least, considered among the world's best. After the Soviet collapse, the health care system declined as it failed to keep up with the western medicine. Today, ma...

Patients With Alcohol Problem Need Mechanical Ventilation

...spiratory distress syndrome carry a high mortality largely because of limited treatment availability. In addition, noted de Wit, AUDs are very common in patients who require admission to the intensive-care unit. The rates of AUD are region dependent and thus vary from hospital to hospital, she said. At my ...

Same Sex Pair Get Relief in Pakistan

...kistan where homosexuality and trans-sexuality are largely taboo. <brIt could not be more bizarre than this. Shamile Raj,, 31, had sex-change surgery to become a man and then married Shahzina Tariq, 24, a cousin. That was in September last year. The couple said that it was the only way Tariq could ...

Pakistan to Launch World's Biggest Anti-measles Drive

...ent worldwide since 1999, from 873,000 to 345,000, largely due to a decline in Africa. Measles was the world's single most lethal infectious disease before an effective vaccine emerged in 1963....

UK to Support Third Phase of India's AIDS Control Programme

...aid: "The HIV epidemic in India continues to be largely concentrated in high-risk groups. However, there is evidence that more women are being infected and that the epidemic is expanding to rural areas. NACP III builds on lessons from NACP II and addresses these new trends". NACP III aims to prevent n...

Childhood Strokes Linked to Whiplash, Other Traumatic Injury

...l infections such as chicken pox, an important and largely unrecognized risk factor is a tear or other traumatic injury to arteries in the neck or spine. Carotid or vertebral artery injury can lead to small tears, which generate blood clots that travel to the brain and cause a fourth of all strokes in chil...

Resident Bacteria May Help Clean Phosphorous From Lakes

...n an era when 'wastewater treatment' meant dumping largely untreated sewage back into the lakes, says Katherine McMahon, a University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering. 'Phosphorus is something that, once it gets into the lakes, it's very hard to get out,' she sa...

The Forgotten Indian Medical Genius

...in India and also about his research in the US, is largely due to the efforts of veteran journalist and author S.P.K. Gupta who has untiringly ferreted out information on the scientist. He wrote a book on SubbaRow "Yellapragada SubbaRow: In quest of Panacia", and has used the proceeds from it to launch a web...

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