Largest Generation Of Adolescents Faces Reproductive Health Risks
...ers toacknowledging them openly and, above all, to addressing their root causes. The articles in this special issue of Studies in Family Planning analyze thecauses and consequences of reproductive behavior among adolescents in thedeveloping world and offer policy options to address the urgent needs ofadolescen...Report Focuses On Managed Care Impact In Clinical Microbiology Labs
... urgently needed to studyand implement methods for addressing the issues we have identified."Changes in health care that affect clinical microbiology are taking place onmultiple levels. One of the most important involves the ongoing changes ininfectious disease pathogens, patient populations, and clinical prese......fects 110 million women in the region. The task of addressing these and other social needs is doubly onerous in countries--such as in sub-Saharan Africa--with rapidly growing populations. Today, fewer than half of Africans have access to basic health care. The proportion of children enrolled in primary school h...Researchers Construct Genetic Map For Dogs
... first laboratory in the world dedicated solely to addressing the health needs of dogs through basic and applied research. The Institute is renowned for its contributions to the control of canine infectious diseases through the development of vaccines against canine distemper, infectious hepatitis, parvovirus, ...Banning Chemicals To Protect Ozone May Aggravate Global Warming
...ty of Illinois researcher says. "By independently addressing the issues of ozone depletion and globalwarming, we are jeopardizing desirable options for one effect based on lesser-- or even inconsequential -- impacts on the other," said Don Wuebbles,director of the Environmental Council at the U. of I. and a pr...Restoring Farm Land To Natural Wetlands Key To Stemming Flood
...mittee charged with recommendingeffective means of addressing flooding problems on the Illinois River. Amongthe most obvious solutions identified by the group, he said, is "incooperation with landowners, restoring natural wetlands in the floodplain." And while that may be a logical solution in theory, implemen...... and five departments will report theirprogress in addressing some of the nation's most troublingpollution problems during a <AHREF="http://www.niehs.nih.gov/sbrp/97conf/">specialconference Feb. 24-26 inChapel Hill, North Carolina. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences issponsoring th...