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 …
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Turkmenistan's president has slammed the nation's only mobile phone provider for poor service just weeks after the government forced out the company's only competitor.
The Neutral Turkmenistan state newspaper Thursday cited President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov as saying that "bungling" at state-owned Altyn Asyr was harming its efficiency.
Until last year, the Central Asian nation was served by two mobile phone …
After listening to many requests by the AAPC members who enter submissions to the Follie Awards, the AAPC Judging Committee has revisited the Follie categories and made changes and additions they hope will improve the Follie Awards competition.
Knowing that Democrats and Republicans use different strategies for producing television and direct mail pieces, the Judging Committee has broken down the direct mail categories for State Legislature into separate Democrat and Republican categories. The television-advertising category for Congressional ads has also been divided into Democrat and Republican categories.
This year's categories …
Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil's state-run oil company, said profits fell 4 percent in the fourth quarter and 20 percent in 2007 as the country's strengthening currency eroded soaring dollar profits amid record oil prices.
Net fourth-quarter income fell to 5 billion reals (US$3 billion, euro2 billion) from 5.2 billion (US$3.1 billion, euro2.04 billion) in the year-ago period, the company, known as Petrobras, said in earnings release. Net income for the year fell to 21.5 billion reals (US$12.9 billion; euro8.5 billion) from 25.9 billion reals (US$15.5 billion; euro10.2 billion) in 2006.
Brazil's real gained 20.6 percent in 2007, from $US0.47 on January 1 to …
Dear Rhona: I'm 15 and have been going out with my boyfriend forjust over six months (he's 19 but my parents really like him). Helives 17 hours away, so when he comes to visit we spend every minutetogether. I miss him so much when he leaves and cry every day.Someone from my school e-mailed me anonymously and said that he likesme. I don't know who this is because I'm new at school. My boyfriendsaw the e-mail (I gave him my password) and now he's really mad at meand crying. I wish I could be there to comfort him and make sure heunderstands that I don't know who this guy is. Please help me.
CRYBABY
Dear Crybaby: This is not a good situation. I don't care if yourmom and …
Abstract
Sexual experience and expression is of fundamental importance to most people. However, most people do not communicate effectively about sexuality even when it is important to do so. For example, many parents see it as their responsibility to talk to their children about sexuality and yet do not engage in in-depth discussions with their children about sexual topics. Most romantic partners have difficulty telling each other what pleases and displeases them sexually. Many health care professionals do not meet their patients' needs for information about the sexual changes they experience as a result of their disease or treatment. Many psychologists also are not doing a good …
NAPIER, New Zealand (AP) — John Kirwan is in no hurry to make a decision over his future role in rugby.
Kirwan has been in charge of the Japan national team since 2007 and his contract is up for renewal at the end of 2011.
Japan's Rugby World Cup campaign came to an end with Tuesday's 23-23 draw with Canada, leaving it without a win at the tournament since 1991. Japanese media reports after the match quoted Japan rugby general manager Osamu Ota as saying it was time to look for new leadership.
Kirwan told The Associated Press that "I'll make some decisions after the World Cup" because "I don't want to take anything away from this tournament."
Should he leave Japan, Kirwan hinted at a future in international, rather than club rugby.
A Village's youngest residents are digging in to help thecommunity keep its top gardening award.
Stuartfield won the first Buchan in Bloom honour this year, andnow aims to keep its crown in 2008.
Judges in the contest, run by Aberdeenshire Council, praiseddisplays in private gardens, at the school and the square in thevillage, also known as Crichie.
Now children at the local school have planted bulbs to helpkeep the village beautiful.
Local authority environment and landscape officer Ian Tilletsaid: "This summer's Buchan in Bloom contest was very successful."
A Vermont man charged with killing his son on the first day of spring turkey hunting season has pleaded not guilty.
Forty-five-year-old Kevin Kadamus, of Lyndon, entered his plea Monday to a manslaughter charge.
Kadamus' brother-in-law Tom Loftus says Kevin will suffer for the rest of his life for accidentally shooting his 17-year-old son, Jacob, on May 1. The family calls it a hunting tragedy.
Police say it is a tragedy, but the law doesn't provide exemptions when family members are involved. They say the father violated an important rule of hunting by not identifying his target before shooting.
The St. Johnsbury courtroom was packed with about 150 supporters of Kadamus.
Today is Monday, September 15, the 259th day of 2008. There are 107 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
1590 - Giovanni Battista signs treaty with French Huguenots to bring army of 156,000 German and Swiss mercenaries into France.
1776 - British forces occupy New York City during the American Revolution.
1777 - Polish Count Casimir Pulaski is commissioned major general in American Revolutionary Army.
1810 - Mexico rejects Spanish rule.
1821 - Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador declare independence.
1882 - British forces occupy Cairo; Arab Pasha surrenders and is banished to Ceylon _ now Sri Lanka.
1916 - Tanks are used for the first time in war, in a British attack on German lines near the Somme in France.
1917 - Russia is proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky, the head of a provisional government.
1918 - Serb and French forces break through Bulgarian lines on the Salonika front. Bulgaria soon sues for peace.
1935 - The Nuremberg laws are passed, making discrimination against Jews part of Germany's national policy and making the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany.
1938 - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain visits Germany's Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden where Hitler states his determination to annex the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.
1940 - The Royal Air Force inflicts heavy losses on the Luftwaffe as the tide turns in the Battle of Britain during World War II.
1942 - German armies attack Russian city of Stalingrad in World War II.
1946 - People's republic is formed in Bulgaria after referendum rejects monarchy.
1950 - U.N. forces under U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur land at Inchon, South Korea, halting North Korean advance.
1953 - The U.N. General Assembly rejects Communist demands that China be admitted into the organization in order to help plan a Korean peace conference.
1959 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is welcomed by U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower as he arrives for an unprecedented two-week visit to the U.S.
1963 - Four children are killed when a bomb goes off during Sunday services at a black Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama.
1971 - Laotian forces recapture the strategic Boloven Plateau town of Paksong following a fierce battle with North Vietnamese troops that claims 481 lives.
1976 - The South African government begins removing 45,000 Bakalobeng tribesmen from a Transvaal area into the Bophutatswana homeland as part of its policy to assign black tribes to autonomous areas.
1982 - Iran's former foreign minister, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, is executed after being convicted of plotting against the government.
1988 - Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir says Hungary has agreed to renew ties with Israel after 21-year break.
1992 - Palestinian negotiators demand a commitment that Israel will withdraw from east Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza as part of a Middle East settlement.
1993 - Hijackers, brandishing grenades, force a Russian jetliner with 52 people aboard to land in Norway, then surrender to police and ask for political asylum.
1995 - Tanks, howitzers and other heavy weaponry roll away from Sarajevo as Bosnian Serbs begin complying with a U.S.-brokered agreement to ease the shattered city's siege.
1997 - An Egyptian military court convicts 72 Islamic militants of subversion and sentences four of them to death.
1998 - Rival Bodo and Santhal tribes clash with guns, machetes and traditional bows and arrows in India's remote northeast, killing at least 30 people.
1999 - Countries from France to Thailand promise to send soldiers to rescue starving refugees from slaughter in East Timor, as the U.N. Security Council authorizes an international peacekeeping force for the beleaguered province.
2000 - Mexicans are free to publicly toast their independence from Spain for the first time in 70 years. The sale of alcoholic beverages during patriotic Mexican events had been banned since President Pascual Ortiz Rubio was wounded in an assassination attempt in 1930.
2001 - Tropical Storm Gabrielle heads out to sea after leaving half a million Florida homes without electricity.
2003 - A fire at Saudi Arabia's largest prison, al-Hair, in Riyadh, kills 67 inmates and wounds 23 others. The blaze is the deadliest prison fire in Saudi history.
2005 - North Korea says it will not give up its nuclear weapons without receiving a reactor for generating power, stalling six-nation talks on Pyongyang's atomic programs.
2006 - Ivory Coast protesters angry over toxic waste dumping blamed for six deaths set fire to a port official's home, beat a former transport minister and blockade streets in Abidjan, the country's commercial center.
2007 - The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq offers money for the murder of Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks and his editor who recently produced images deemed insulting to Islam.
Today's Birthdays:
James Fenimore Cooper, U.S. writer (1789-1851); Robert Benchley, U.S. drama critic (1849-1945); Agatha Christie, British writer (1890-1976); Jean Renoir, French film director (1894-1979); Jessye Norman, U.S. soprano (1945--); Tommy Lee Jones, U.S. actor (1946--); Oliver Stone, U.S. film director (1946--); Britain's Prince Harry (1984--).
Thought for Today:
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play _ Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844-1900).
WASHINGTON A leading moderate on the Federal Reserve Board warnedThursday that the economy may be overheating, underscoring thewidespread expectation that the central bank will raise interestrates further.
"The economy appears to be growing at an unsustainableabove-trend pace," said Laurence H. Meyer, a Clinton appointee.
Before the Fed's last tightening move, on March 25, FederalReserve Chairman Alan Greenspan dropped broad hints it was coming.The quarter-point increase in the benchmark rate charged on interbankloans, and the anticipation of more, roiled markets for weeksafterward. The Dow Jones industrial average fell steadily to as muchas 10 percent below its mid-March peak before recovering some.Meyer's remarks, though barely disturbing the market, were seenas a warning of more to come when Fed policymakers meet on May 20.The comments are especially significant coming from a board memberviewed on his appointment last year as a bit more willing than theboard's Republican holdovers to risk an inflation outbreak for thesake of lower unemployment.Meyer described the March 25 rate increase as "a small, prudentand pre-emptive step to . . . increase the prospects of acontinuation of an expansion with healthy but sustainable growth andcontinued modest inflation."He said he recognized that inflation, excluding the volatilefood and energy sectors, is at a 30-year low. But he said inflationoften starts in the labor market, as wage increases accelerate, thentransfers to product prices.Meyer said he suspected the nation's unemployment, at 5.2percent in March, already is below a level that can be sustainedwithout inflation accelerating.In such an environment, with the economy starting its seventhyear of expansion, failing to tighten rates when needed would be abigger mistake than raising them unnecessarily, he said.
NEW YORK (AP) — The dollar fell Thursday against other major currencies after a new report confirmed sluggish U.S. economic growth in the first three months of the year as high gas prices hurt consumer spending.
The euro rose to $1.4140 during late trading in New York, up from $1.4079 late Wednesday. The euro rose as high as $1.4206 earlier in the day.
Investors had been thinking that the risk of a debt default in Greece was at least a year away, but recent comments by European officials have led some traders to suspect there could be a default as soon as mid-July, said UBS currency analyst Brian Kim.
Traders "are pretty uncertain, pretty scared about what could happen" in Greece, Kim said. "We don't know what officials are truly thinking."
At a conference in Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker, chairman of the group of 17 finance ministers from countries that use the euro, warned that the International Monetary Fund might not send Greece the €12 billion ($17 billion) it expects in June from its bailout package approved last year, JPMorgan economist David Mackie said in a research note.
Getting aid from the IMF is contingent on Greece sticking to its economic reforms, but politicians in Greece are fighting over new cuts in government spending as thousands of citizens demonstrate against austerity measures.
Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou has warned that a halt in the foreign cash flow would force Greece to default.
Elsewhere, the dollar remains weaker on concerns about a weakening U.S. recovery. The Commerce Department says the economy grew at an annual rate of 1.8 percent from January through March, unchanged from its previous estimate.
Expensive gas, a troubled housing market and high unemployment are making shoppers cautious about spending.
The Labor Department said more people applied for jobless aid last week, a sign that the job market is still weak. The number of people seeking benefits rose by 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 424,000. A level below 375,000 claims is consistent with steady job growth.
The British pound rose to $1.6389 from $1.6279, while the dollar slipped to 81.30 Japanese yen from 81.97 yen.
