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A Joint Venture by Golfers And Military Forces To Combat AIDS

... march when it comes to HIV infections. The threat looms large over the north eastern parts of the // country, particularly over Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, and Tripura - has been declared as one of the country's high-risk zones. The idea to host the golf tournament to...

Cervical Cancer Recurrence Risk Even After Removal Of Pre-Cancerous Cells

Cancer is a dreaded word and more so when its risk looms large. Women who have had pre-cancerous cells removed remain at higher than average risk of developing cervical cancer in the 20 years following treatment, says research in this week’s BMJ.// Cervical cancer is one of the major causes of death from ...

Now,Swine-Flu!

While the threat of a bird flu pandemic still looms large, a new study warns that farmers, veterinarians, meat processing workers and other people who are exposed to pigs are at heightened risk of contracting swine influenza.// The study, which is published in the Jan. 1 issue of the journal Clinical...

Domestic Violence: The Silent Killer of Women Worldwide

...impact on a woman’s sexual and reproductive health looms large in underdeveloped countries with poor educational standards. In addition, this paves the way for increased risk of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. In fact, in many cases of domestic violence, the male partner had multiple sexua...

Canada: Time up for Health Care revamp

...lthcare system. An impending health care show down looms large if something is not done to salvage the system. ...

Aging in Place Concept Helps People Age Gracefully

...ion to nursing homes or assisted living facilities looms large. //Marilyn Rantz, nursing researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia calls this as a slippery slope and says that there is a way to prevent elderly people from getting onto this slope. Consumers say they never want to go to a nursing ...

Escalation of Nursing industrial dispute

...ective surgery the threat of an industrial dispute looms over surgery at two Tasmanian hospitals//. A unanimous vote has been passed by nurses at the Launceston General Hospital to implement work bans from today, cancelling elective surgery if the levels of staffing are deemed unsafe. Similar work bans a...

Diabetes- a Threat to Several Indigenous Populations

...aced by Western lifestyles and diets, diabetes now looms as a deadly threat to several indigenous populations across Asia, the Pacific// and the Americas, according to medical experts. Professor Martin Silink, head of the Brussels-based International Diabetes Foundation, said that indigenous people appe...

Unique Models Help Teach Nanoscience to the Blind

...fail// us. The smallest object we can see still looms thousands of times larger than a typical nano-sized structure. Even the most powerful microscopes can't peer into the nanoscale directly. That's why nanoscale experiments offer such great opportunities to teach blind and visually impaired students...

American State Lawmakers Make Moves To Tackle Autism

...ton mother of a 13-year-old autistic son, a crisis looms as children with autism approach adulthood without specialized services and with aging parents. Another recent study had found that less than 13 percent of people with autism in New Jersey attend day programs and 89 percent live at home. "We are w...

Global Warming: Lessons of History Help the Future

...aused by prolonged spells of drought and flooding, looms as a distant but serious worry. Experts pondering how to tackle the threat are delving into history, exploring how civilisations of the past, facing similar perils, either coped or were wiped out. US academic Jared Diamond, author of "Collapse: H...

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