After television personality, Jade, died of cervical cancer, last year, the number of women coming forward for smear tests doubled, according to Mr Paul Carter, Consultant Gynaecologist and lead clinician for treating abnormal smears, at St Georges Hospital and in Harley Street. He voices his...
After television personality, Jade, died of cervical cancer, last year, the number of women coming forward for smear tests doubled, according to Mr Paul Carter, Consultant Gynaecologist and lead clinician for treating abnormal smears, at St Georges Hospital and in Harley Street. He voices his...
About 75% of women preferred to complete a chlamydia or gonorrhea test at home and mail the sample for analysis, compared with 16% who preferred testing at a no-cost clinic and 8% who wanted to visit their own health care provider, according to a study published in the April issue of Obstetrics...
The Institute of Medicine, a branch of the US National Academy of Sciences, is urging healthcare providers to take steps to battle liver-damaging hepatitis B and C, which are often overlooked viruses. Surprisingly, hepatitis B and C together infect three to five times more Americans than the...
Results of a new study in non-small cell lung cancer showed that patients with specific oncogenic rearrangements of the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene within the short arm of chromosome 2 of their tumors had a much greater response to a new therapy - an ALK-inhibitor. Findings were...
...DVD-drive (TSSTcorp TS-H653F DVD+-RW)? I have starting having great difficulty playing my DVD-movies, and suspect something is up with my drive. Something are read with no problem, but most of my DVD-movies -- which I've been able to play on the same drive/computer before -- will no longer...
What ways that we can observationally probe what is happening inside of stars as they evolve off the main sequence and thereby directly test the predictions of stellar evolution theory?
Question taken from Christopher M. Johns-Krull's Astronomy syllabus
gentlemen, is there such a software where I can draw my own electrical diagram that will include, switches, relays, fuses, diodes etc. and then at the end to virtually test the circuit on the screen before I start my wiring? There is something similar, but for AC voltage it is called "The...
Home Vs. Clinic Treatment of HIV In Uganda The New York Times reports on a Lancet study that found treating Ugandan HIV patients at home is cheaper and just as effective as treating them in a clinic.
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The Guardian examines the challenge of testing and treating some of the estimated 1.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya. "Deep-rooted stigma and patchy health education has led many to cower from the disease, which has seen the country's life expectancy rates shortened by 20 years in...
The Guardian examines the challenge of testing and treating some of the estimated 1.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya. "Deep-rooted stigma and patchy health education has led many to cower from the disease, which has seen the country's life expectancy rates shortened by 20 years in...
Sexually spread diseases continue to rise, with reported chlamydia cases setting yet another record in 2008, officials at the Centers for Disease Control recently reported. The CDC estimates that approximately 19 million new STD infections occur each year. Approximately half of them occur in...
Im planning on joining the air force in a few months and im wondering how many times do you get drug tested yearly?'
I have an extreme problem with urinating in front of people due to the fact that i was on diversion as a kid and when i was called to give a UA it would be quite the...
I am covered by my parents insurance technically they claim me since i am in college but if I go to get pap/std testing id rather not talk with my parents about it and was wondering how much this was going to cost me. thanks
I am taking about the HIV testing kits that you use on yourself at home, and then mail in for the results. Are they as good as the tests that are given at clinics?
i have been having major ear pain for the past 13 months. after many runarounds medications that dont help my ent is sending me for vestibular testing... i am scared bc the audiologist told me i may be sick afterwards... anybody get results from this test if u had it done?