BACKGROUND In the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA), migrants from high-endemic countries are disproportionately affected by HIV. Between 2007 and 2012, migrants represented 39 % of reported HIV cases. There is growing evidence that a significant proportion of HIV acquisition among migrant populations occurs after their arrival in Europe. DISCUSSION Migrants are confronted with m...

Phobias complicating treatment of uterine carcinoma Many people fear medical procedures and sometimes need considerable reassurance from their doctor. Only rarely are they of phobic intensity and lead to avoidance of appropriate treatment but then they constitute a major health hazard. We describe the rapid response of one patient's phobias to behaviour therapy so that urgent surgical treatment...

This work is a textbook of Urology in one volume covering the field of Ur.ology very thoroughly and, in fact, including a chapter devoted to nephritis, a subject into which the Urologist is often unwillingly drawn, although best treated as a medical problem. This book is best adapted to the student, since its discussions are such that anyone without special training in Urology could not help bu...

Many consumers encounter and interact with digital artifacts and services on a daily basis, either willingly or unwillingly. This paper conceptualizes consumer online behaviors into more refined categories in the context of online advertising. Behaviors can be differentiated by their directions and intensities. Approach and avoidance are two directions of behavioral responses when consumers enc...

Breathing combines for us the functions of carburettor and exhaust. It provides a means of taking in sufficient oxygen to satisfy metabolic needs, and of expelling carbon dioxide, the product of organic combustion. It is, therefore, rational that respiratory activity should be controlled by the stimuli of oxygen need and carbon dioxide accumulation. Carbon dioxide, however, is also an essential...

©2003 EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY ORGANIZATION EMBO reports VOL 4 | special issue | 2003 S57 Rapid developments in biotechnology, genetics and genomics are undoubtedly creating a variety of environmental, ethical, political and social challenges for advanced societies. But they also have severe implications for international peace and security because they open up tremendous avenues for the crea...

tions of witchcraft and of a policy of dampening, rather than fostering, such panics. This development was not, of course, achieved by Salazar single-handed, important though his activities were; he was helped by the sceptical Bishop of Pamplona, Antonio Venegas de Figueroa, who carried out investigations in his own diocese and communicated the results to the Suprema, and, still more important,...

Reviewed by: De la Guerra Fría al calentamiento global: Estados Unidos, España y el nuevo orden científico mundial [From Cold War to global warming: United States, Spain, and the new world scientific order] ed. by Lino Camprubí et al. Jaume Valentines-Álvarez (bio) Edited Camprubí, Xavier Roqué, Francisco Sáez de Adana. Madrid: Catarata, 2018. Pp. 286. Military bases, secret treaties, submarine...

identity, which forms the personality of every society, is the cultural and social values that has today been kept by the academicians and is transferred to the next generation according to timely revolutions current needs. it is upon different codes of conduct and especially higher education systems to come up with the most suitable strategies in order to keep, revise and transfer cultural ide...

For any disease nearing elimination, adding precision to data is a must. In The Lancet Global Health, the Local Burden of Disease (LBD) 2019 Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Collaborators have presented geospatial estimates global prevalence lymphatic filariasis at welcome level precision, with aim identify areas where additional programme investment (data and treatment) might be needed reach ...