As of 25 December 2008, a total of 26 497 cases, including 1 518 deaths, have been reported by the Ministry of Health in Zimbabwe. Cases are now being reported from all 10 of the country’s provinces. Harare, particularly Budiriro suburb in the south west, accounts for the majority of cases, followed by Beitbridge in […]
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Prisons should have needle and syringe programmes (NSPs), opioid substitution therapy (OST) and other preventive measures in place to prevent HIV transmission between inmates. These are the conclusions of a Review published in the January edition of Lancet Infectious Diseases, written by Dr Ralf Jürgens, a consultant for HIV/AIDS based in Quebec, Canada, and colleagues […]
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To many young drivers think they will not get caught if they drink and drive during this Christmas holiday period, according to a report published today by Brake and Green Flag Motoring Assistance. The study looked at the opinions of older and younger drivers. The researchers found that younger drivers are twice […]
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A national alcohol research group is concerned that the media’s misinterpretation of a recent British research study could encourage pregnant women to be more at ease with temperate alcohol consumption. Some media reports erroneously stated that the study by The University College London researchers revealed that light drinking by pregnant women could […]
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The right of federally funded health care providers to decline to participate in services to which they object, such as abortion, is affirmed by a final regulation that has been issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and is on display today at the Federal Register. Over the past […]
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The Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) research team at Singapore’s Infocomm Research (I2R) has won first place in the worldwide BCI Competition IV, 2008, in all three electroencephalogram (EEG) based non-invasive BCI categories. The results were announced on Dec. 12 at the international Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference in Vancouver, Canada.
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Before Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) leaves office to take a position as President-elect Barack Obama’s secretary of state, she “needs to help preserve the abortion rights and access to birth control that the Bush administration is trying to restrict on its way out of power,” an
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I am feeling a little uncomfortable,” says the middle-aged man lying in the dirt behind the main hospital in Beitbridge, Zimbabwe. His name is Henry. He is so dehydrated his cheeks look collapsed and his eyes protrude from his closely cropped skull.
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A grand jury in Marion County, Ind., will investigate whether an undercover video filmed at an Indianapolis clinic operated by Planned Parenthood of Indiana contains evidence of any criminal violations, the county prosecutor’s office announced last week, AP/Google.com reports.
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