Bangladesh's Health Ministry says the nation's first human case of H5N1 strain of bird flu infection has been detected.
A health ministry statement says a child was infected by the virus in January.
The statement released by the Directorate General of Health Services on Thursday did not give the …
'Rural characters are so under-represented," says actor AidanQuinn. That's one reason he did "Plainsong," the quietly, eloquentCBS movie airing at 8 p.m. Sunday on WBBM-Channel 2.
The story itself could be universal: A high school teacherstruggles with the problems of his depressed wife, their two sons anda pregnant teenager in his class. Then his wife leaves him and theboys. The settings and reactions, however, are richly rural. Wordsand emotions are parceled carefully.
"He's struggling to hold up his responsibilities to all thesepeople," says Quinn, 45. "Deep down, he's probably angry at his wife.But he knows he's got to go on."
Produced under the "Hallmark …
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Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Prenatal Care
Providers in a Province with Low Testing Rates
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ABSTRACT
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Objective: To describe the knowledge, attitudes and practices of prenatal care providers in relation to prenatal HIV testing.
Methods: A stratified random sample of 784 family physicians, 200 obstetricians and 103 midwives providing prenatal care in 3 health planning regions in Ontario received a questionnaire.
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Results: Response was 622/1087 (57%). Almost half of participants (43%) were not aware of Ontario's prenatal HIV testing policy. Eighty-five percent of participants …
The New York Times Co. is slashing its quarterly dividend by 74 percent amid a worsening advertising slump, a move that will save the company money but also curtail the income of the Sulzberger family, the controlling shareholders of the storied newspaper publisher.
The company on Thursday cut its quarterly dividend to 6 cents per share, from 23 cents per share, which will result in annual savings of $98 million. The cut applies to both publicly held Class A shares as well as nonpublic Class B shares, which hold powerful voting rights and are largely controlled by the Sulzberger family.
The Sulzberger family, through a trust and various family members, …
A TRAINING provider from St George has won an Investors in Peopleaward for the third year running.
Employees at Brunel Training Group are celebrating, pictured left,after achieving the recognition for the third consecutive year fortheir training course and their modern apprenticeship scheme.
The company specialises in providing training solutions forcompanies on health and safety, IT, team development skills andmanagement solutions. …
PRAGUE (AP) — Czech police say they have arrested a Serbian national who secretly sold powerful plastic explosives.
Spokesman Pavel Hantak says undercover officers apprehended the 59-year-old man after receiving tips that a large amount of plastic explosives was available for sale in the criminal underworld.
Hantak said Wednesday that the suspect, who was not identified, sold the officers some …
