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... Many Spanish-speaking countries have been badly hit by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In Latin America, an estimated 2.1 million people are infected with HIV, with 230,000 new cases in 2005. In Spain, 71,000 people were infected with HIV in 2005. Hepatitis B, which can also be sexually transmitted, is another...Drivers on cell phones are as bad as drunks
...es drove slightly slower, were 9 percent slower to hit the brakes, displayed 24 percent more variation in...econds before a collision would have occurred, and hit their brakes with 23 percent more force. "Neither accident rates, nor reaction times to vehicles bra...University of Kentucky Gill Heart researchers study abdominal aortic aneurysms
...aneurysm that has proven of benefit. The expected hit to the Medicare system from the influx of aging baby boomers means that surgical treatment for every case of abdominal aneurysm expected to be diagnosed in coming years would be prohibitive. Aside from costs, the number of surgeons, support staff an...New World Cup soccer ball will unsettle goalkeepers, predicts scientist
... it aerodynamically closer to a baseball and, when hit with a slow spin, will make the ball less stable, giving it a more unpredictable trajectory in flight. "With a very low spin rate, which occasionally happens in soccer, the panel pattern can have a big influence on the trajectory of the ball and mak...Some patients with heart attack shock survive years after aggressive treatment
..., people with a heart attack who survive the first hit and get to a hospital remain in danger. Almost one out of 10 of these patients will develop cardiogenic shock in which the heart malfunctions, causing an inadequate amount of blood to be pumped to the vital organs. As blood pressure plummets, the ski...Students' device may improve chest closure after heart surgery
...The students came up with a working prototype that hit all of the engineering requirements we proposed. The end result was better than my partner and I expected, particularly given the limitations they had in terms of resources." The students produced their prototype, which resembles a stapler and uses s...Intermittent explosive disorder affects up to 16 million Americans
...ollarshit or tried to hurt someoneor threatened to hit or hurt someone." People who had three such episodes within the space of one year a more narrowly defined subgroup were found to have a much more persistent and severe disorder, particularly if they attacked both people and property. The latter gr...A fundamentally new approach to improving cancer chemotherapy
...aired ability to isolate basic substances, and get hit with a full blast of toxicity. "It could allow cancer patients to tolerate higher and more effective doses of chemotherapy before normal cells are damaged to an extent that causes serious side effects and cessation of therapy," Krise said. "The appro...Utah study shows minivans, trucks pose greater risk of backing over children in driveways
...dren are seriously injured and killed when they're hit by a vehicle backing out of a driveway. But a chil...e struck by a van and 53 percent more likely to be hit by a truck than by a car. The study, conducted by the U's Intermountain Injury Control Center, also...New understanding of Ewing's sarcoma suggests novel treatment strategy
...s sarcoma functions. And in the process, they have hit upon a possible strategy for treatment of the cancer, which is a rare and highly malignant cancer that most often strikes teens and young adults. In the June 1st issue of the journal Cancer Research, published by the American Association for Cancer R...Cure for reading glasses may be in view
...ular lens. Before the bubbles diffuse, researchers hit them with high frequency sound waves, which push the bubbles against neighboring lens fibers. "Part of the sound is reflected, and from the characteristic of the reflection, you know where the bubble is," O'Donnell said. "It uses exactly the same te...Novel therapy combinations gain ground in treating hepatitis
...t therapeutic dosages, is responsible for a second hit in viral hepatitis and explains why some patients develop acute liver failure and death in this setting," said William M. Lee, M.D., of the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Texas, and senior study author. "Warnings regarding use of acetaminophen sho...Children's emotional distress after hurricane linked with parents' stress levels
...pril 2005. The rural county was particularly hard hit by Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 hurricane that ...ess disorder," Dr. Barnett said. "Many communities hit by Katrina are similar to DeSoto County rural, agricultural, small-town and blue-collar. And, many ...M. D. Anderson: Setting the benchmark in brain tumor treatment
... prefect many different avenues for treatment, and hit the right combination of multiple drugs and therapies that works best for each individual patient." "We are just now on the cusp of understanding much more about the molecular biology of the disease," says W. K. Alfred Yung, M.D., professor an...Small Business grant helps Chadwick Optical bring Schepens Institute invention to patients
...wn by young children with hemianopia, Peli finally hit upon a concept that he believed might work better. It was a pair of glasses with small additional prisms attached to the top and bottom of one lens, leaving the center of the lens untouched. The prisms pull in images missing from the visual field abo...Pediatricians don't often refer patients to community resources for childhood aggression
...ssion is defined as using your body to push, shove hit or bite to express frustration. The rate of childhood aggression is increasing and it occurs more frequently with boys than girls. Parents often turn to their pediatricians for help, Barkin said....Look out! Eyeglass injuries may lead to hospital visit
...e much more likely than younger adults to fall and hit their head, thus causing a glasses-related injury. Sports-related eyeglass injuries were more common in children 17 and younger. The researchers also found that injuries to the eyeball were much more prominent among people age 18 to 64, compared to ...There's more than meets the eye to catching a fly ball in the outfield
...mple catching a fly ball. But of all of the balls hit into the outfield, the straight shot is the most d...ct for slight errors," Fuld says. Of all the balls hit into the outfield, those hit directly to a fielder are the most difficult to catch. As Fuld explains......perhaps "trying out" possible solutions until they hit on the correct one (in this case, top: tank top, hilltop, top secret). In two parallel experiments, participants solved these problems while brain activity was monitored either with electroencephalograms (EEG), which provide precise timing informatio...HIV infection rates down one-third in south India, University of Toronto study
...e-third decline in new HIV infections in the worst hit regions of India, indicating that with condom use and awareness programs, the country's AIDS epidemic is far from hopeless. The study, which appears online in the Lancet's March 30 issue, tracked HIV prevalence among young women attending pregnancy ...