A new study in the current issue of Comparative Education Review reveals the discrepancy between the actual state of education in sub-Saharan Africa and the educational goals outlined in the United Nation’s Education for All (EFA) and Millennium Development Goals (MDG) programs a decade ago.
A high-flying K-12 education effort by the University of Colorado at Boulder will feature two science investigations launching on a NASA space shuttle this week and continuing on for extended stays aboard the International Space Station.
Bill Clinton, former President of USA, says India is the new epicenter of the global pandemic of HIV. He commented this with British interviewers on the World AIDS Day.
Gram Bharati Samiti, the first NGO initiating work on HIV/AIDS in Rajasthan in the year 1991, has been involved in many activities i.e. awareness, education and counseling, treating STIs/RTIs, peer education, condom promotion etc. during past 15 years.
Eighty-six percent of the recent decline in U.S. teen pregnancy rates is the result of improved contraceptive use, while a small proportion of the decline (14%) can be attributed to teens waiting longer to start having sex, according to a report by John Santelli, MD, MPH, department chair and professor of Clinical Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health and published in the January issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
American Journal of Public Health study claims the declining teenage pregnancy rate in the US is down to better use of contraception rather than young people abstaining from sex.
Researchers at Rush University Medical Center found that having complaints about memory problems is associated with changes in the brain related to Alzheimer’s disease. They reported their findings in the November 2006 issue of Neurology.
Helping caregivers take care of themselves is key to enabling them to better deal with family members with dementia, a recent study by Thomas Jefferson University researchers shows. In fact, those caregivers who were provided extra, individualized support had less depression and were able to keep family members in adult day services — and out of nursing homes — much longer than those who did not get the extra attention.
Black patients are more likely than white patients to prefer life-sustaining care when confronted with an incurable illness or serious mental and physical disabilities, according to a study by University of Rochester Medical Center researchers.
People with auto-immune conditions like MS, arthritis and lupus can benefit from low impact aerobic exercise — including walking and cycling — that increases in intensity, duration and frequency. A review of studies between 1987 and 2006 shows that 12-week programmes that involved exercising for 30 to 60 minutes, three times a week, yielded the most effective results.