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Also In Global Health News: HIV In Philippines; Birth Control, Child Health In Afghanistan; Guatemala's Progress On MDGs
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +0100 | Health News from Medical News Today
Philippines' Health Secretary Seeks To Boost Condom Distribution After Increase In HIV Diagnoses The Philippines' Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral on Thursday announced she would seek additional public funds to support the distribution of condoms among high-risk groups, after the country recorded 143 new cases of HIV in January - its highest number of diagnoses in an individual month on record, Reuters reports. "Since the start of 2009, Cabral said, an average of about 60 Filipinos had been diagnosed as HIV-positive each month... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Also In Global Health News: HIV In Philippines; Birth Control, Child Health In Afghanistan; Guatemala's Progress On MDGs
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +0100 | HIV / ---- News From Medical News Today
Philippines' Health Secretary Seeks To Boost Condom Distribution After Increase In HIV Diagnoses The Philippines' Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral on Thursday announced she would seek additional public funds to support the distribution of condoms among high-risk groups, after the country recorded 143 new cases of HIV in January - its highest number of diagnoses i... (Source: HIV / ---- News From Medical News Today)

High prevalence of low HDL-c in the Philippines compared to the US: population differences in associations with diet and BMI.
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:10:04 +0100 | Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Authors: Rutherford JN, McDade TW, Feranil AB, Adair LS, Kuzawa CW Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death in the Philippines, although few studies here have examined the lipid profiles underlying disease risk. The isolated low high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c) phenotype has been implicated as a CVD risk factor, the prevalence of which exhibits significant variation across populations. To assess population variation in individual lipid components and their associations with diet and anthropometric characteristics, we compare lipid profiles in a population of adult Filipino women (n=1877) to US women participating in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES, n=477). We conducted multiple regression models to assess the relationship between...

Philippines HIV cases spike to record in January
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:57:41 +0100 | Reuters: Health
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines diagnosed 143 people with HIV in January -- a national high -- and the country's health secretary said on Thursday she would seek more public funds to distribute condoms among high-risk groups. (Source: Reuters: Health)

The Chilean Earthquake: The plate tectonics
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 | Physics Today News Picks
Physics Today: Chile is a highly seismic area because of its proximity to the stressed Nazca and South American tectonic plates which are converging at a rate of 80 mm per year, one of the fastest rates on Earth. Since 1973 there have been 13 events of magnitude 7.0 or greater on the richter scale. Sometimes the earlier quakes in the region, such as the 1960 9.5 earthquake of May, 1960—the largest earthquake worldwide in the last 200 years or more—can cause increased stress that leads to other earthquakes. Geologist Jian Lin of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution says this is what happened on Saturday, 27 February, when a 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile in an offshore zone about 230 km north of the source region of the 1960 quake. The quake was approximately 300-50...

Genetic Divergence and Evolutionary Relationship in Fejervarya cancrivora from Indonesia and Other Asian Countries Inferred from Allozyme and MtDNA Sequence Analyses.
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 | Zoological Science
Authors: Kurniawan N, Islam MM, Djong TH, Igawa T, Daicus MB, Yong HS, Wanichanon R, Khan MM, Iskandar DT, Nishioka M, Sumida M To elucidate genetic divergence and evolutionary relationship in Fejervarya cancrivora from Indonesia and other Asian countries, allozyme and molecular analyses were carried out using 131 frogs collected from 24 populations in Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and the Philippines. In the allozymic survey, seventeen enzymatic loci were examined for 92 frogs from eight representative localities. The results showed that F. cancrivora is subdivided into two main groups, the mangrove type and the large- plus Pelabuhan ratu types. The average Nel's genetic distance between the two groups was 0.535. Molecular phylogenetic trees based on nucleotide sequences ...

Philippines raises tsunami alert, orders evacuation
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:32:00 +0100 | Scientific American - Official RSS Feed
MANILA, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The Philippines ordered alimited precautionary evacuation on Sunday in coastal areas of [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

Philippines to Lower Prices on More Medicines
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:46:18 +0100 | Drugs.com - Pharma News
From Associated Press (February 26, 2010) MANILA, Philippines -- The Philippine government announced price cuts Friday on 97 medicines that officials say will result in at least 1 billion pesos ($21.7 million) in annual savings for Filipinos. The... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)

The Philippines triples its rice yield
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:00:00 +0100 | ScienceDaily Headlines
In the last 50 years, the Philippines has more than tripled its rice yield, while the world average rice yield has increased only about 2.3 times. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)