Multinational companies need to increase their efforts to address development issues worldwide, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Tuesday ahead of a conference on global businesses and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, AFP/Google.com reports. The MDGs include targets to curb the spread of diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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AFP/Google.com on Tuesday examined the increasing number of gay male couples who are having children through surrogacy services. According to AFP/Google.com, the number of gay couples in the U.S. who have children through surrogacy or adoption is increasing.
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The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday examined how the “ailing economy” has prompted many nurses to work additional shifts, delay retirement or return to the work force from retirement — all of which have helped “ease the nursing shortage.
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday launched U.N. Cares, a new workplace HIV program that will provide such services as training, counseling and testing for U.N. staff and their families, Xinhua/China View reports.
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Hospitals and other medical settings are becoming a “hunting ground for identity thieves” who “use medical information to get credit card numbers, drain bank accounts or falsely bill Medicare and other insurers,” according to some experts, USA Today reports.
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Despite the general success of left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) used in critically ill heart failure patients, implantation of these devices often leads to increased bleeding and a need for high-volume blood transfusions during and immediately after surgery.
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Ontario’s youth are experiencing a different kind of high — approximately seven percent (an estimated 79,000 students in grades 7 to 12) report participating in a thrill-seeking activity called the “choking game”, which involves self-asphyxiation or having been choked by someone else on purpose.
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Networks — used throughout the sciences in the study of biological, technological, and social complexity — can often be too complex to visualize or understand.
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New research by Scott Phillips, associate professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Denver, finds that in Harris County, TX the District Attorney (DA) was more likely to pursue the death penalty when the defendant was African American and less likely to pursue the death penalty when the victim was African American.
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Three studies in the May 2008 issue of Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, shed new light on important eye health issues: the role of antioxidant supplements, the relationship of visual acuity and mortality, and the complex causes of glaucoma.
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