The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will award up $1.2 million in grants to projects that demonstrate the efficacy of Project CHOICES, a preconception intervention designed to prevent drinking and smoking during pregnancy.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will award grants of $200,000 to $350,000 to establish five Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Regional Training Centers across the nation.

In research published in Science and in Nature, scientists manufactured the top-ranking computer-designed proteins by figuring out their gene sequences, and giving bacteria these genetic directions to make the desired protein.

Although a variety of industrial chemicals, as well as several chemotherapeutic agents used to treat cancer or HIV, preferentially induce a peripheral sensory neuropathy what remains unclear is why these agents induce a sensory vs. a motor or mixed neuropathy.

Colonic perforation following mild abdominal trauma in patients with Crohns disease is a rare occurrence. We present a case of a 21 year old Crohns sufferer, who presented to the emergency department with signs of shock and peritonitis following minor

Background:A series of Rps (resistance to Pytophthora sojae) genes have been protecting soybean from the root and stem rot disease caused by the Oomycete pathogen, Phytophthora sojae. Five Rps genes were mapped to the Rps1 locus located near the 28

Background:SSeCKS (Src SupprEssed C Kinase Substrate) is a proposed protein kinase C substrate/A kinase anchoring protein (AKAP) that has recently been characterized in the rat peripheral nervous system. It has been shown that approximately 40% of small primary sensory neurons

IntroductionThe management of locally advanced inoperable malignant thymoma is difficult as there are no large randomized clinical trial data to guide treatment. However various case series have shown that malignant thymoma is often a chemosensitive disease. Cisplatin-based chemotherapy has been

Background:Illegal migration is an increasing problem worldwide and the so-called undocumented migrants encounter major problems in access to prevention and health care. The objective of the study was to compare the use of preventive measures and pregnancy care of undocumented

At various points, doctors have posited when her time will run out. In 2006, after recurring cancer had riddled her liver with tumours, the span was a few years; it narrowed to six months when drugs caused the cancer to

Their urgent call for action is being issued in the wake of a breast cancer screening scandal in St. John's that is the subject of judicial inquiry set to begin this week.

To do so, I encourage them to continue checking in with me - often for years after reaching their weight target.

The Statistics Canada study examined whether sexual preference was a factor in health-care use between 2003 and 2005 - it looked at things such as consulting health-care providers, having a regular doctor and using preventive procedures such as pap tests.

Canadians who land in the hospital with a heart attack, stroke or other circulatory disease account for the highest percentage of inpatient costs - at 19 per cent, with an average per-stay cost of $11,260 each - from April, 2004,

The probe, which opened Wednesday and is headed by Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court Justice Margaret Cameron, will examine why nearly 400 patients were given inaccurate results on their breast cancer tests.

HIV prevention and treatment programs do not consider the sexual needs of or desire to have children among women living with the virus, HIV-positive women attending the third Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights in Abuja, Nigeria, said. Beatrice

The Body Covers CROI 2008. Researchers on Sunday at the 15th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston discussed a study that examined the effect of male circumcision on female partners, the New York Times reports. Although the researchers

is celebrated in many countries around the world. It is a day when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political. It is an occasion for looking back on past

Senegal has a national sexual education curriculum, developed by the Senegalese government and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. The courses in sexual and reproductive health, or Education in Family Life as they are officially called, have become as integrated

The amount of water in the world is limited. The human race, and the other species which share the planet, cannot expect an infinite supply. Water covers about two-thirds of the Earth's surface, admittedly. But most is too salty for