Ugandan First Lady Calls For Increased Efforts To Prevent Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Uganda's first lady Janet Museveni recently called for increased efforts to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in the country, Uganda's New Vision reports. MTC prevention efforts are a prerequisite in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Museveni said, adding that more than 90% of pregnant women have contact with a health care provider at least once during pregnancy.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comExperts Question Benefits Of Breast Cancer Screening US experts aiming to promote better-informed decision making in healthcare have questioned the benefits of mammography for breast cancer screening, saying that to save one life, nearly 3,000 women have to be tested. Women are often told that mammography saves lives, but the question "how often?" is rarely asked, they said.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSuccessful Family Planning Efforts Essential To Alleviating Global Poverty, Elevating Women, Opinion Piece Says Efforts to curb global poverty "won't get far" without more effective family planning efforts in developing countries with limited financial resources, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes in an opinion piece. "Global family planning efforts have stalled over the last couple of decades," resulting in "lost momentum" and increased poverty in nations such as Haiti, he says.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comHarris Corporation Redesigning Popular Radiology Web Site To Enhance Content Management And Accessibility (HIMSS'09, Booth #3974) -- Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) is re-engineering and redesigning the web site "CTisUS" to deliver intuitive navigation to state-of-the-practice medical imaging content for radiologic technologists and other allied healthcare professionals who access the site every day from more than 100 countries.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comThinking Of Others Causes Lapses In Our Self-Control Exerting self-control is exhausting. In fact, using self-control in one situation impairs our ability to use self-control in subsequent, even unrelated, situations. What about thinking of other people exerting self-control? Earlier research has shown that imagining actions can cause the same reactions as if we were actually performing them (e.g.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWeight Gain Early In Life Leads To Physical Disabilities In Older Adults Carrying extra weight earlier in life increases the risk of developing problems with mobility in old age, even if the weight is eventually lost, according to new research out of the Sticht Center on Aging at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. The study, funded by the National Institute on Aging and the Wake Forest University Claude D.
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