Tailored HIV-prevention program effective for Latino youth
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...ministration, law, and accounting and is currently focusing on nursing. The review is sponsored by the Hussein Fund for Excellence. A nonprofit organization supported by Jordan's banking sector, the fund was established in 1999 to enhance and improve the quality of the country's higher education among othe...'Environmental Forensics' could cut the cost of brownfield development
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...ional Institute of Health supported study which is focusing on cardiovascular disease among the black residents in and around Jackson, Miss., will yield important data. This study, he said, may provide advances in the manner of the classic Framingham Heart Study, which began in 1948 and still continues, thoug...