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Protecting The Food Crops Of The Future
Biologists are investigating how to control when plants flower - to help farmers reap a bumper harvest.
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Wal-Mart Backs Employer Mandate On Insurance
"In a major break with most other large companies, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Tuesday told the White House that it supports requiring employers to provide health insurance to workers, a centerpiece of President Barack Obama"s effort to provide near-universal coverage to Americans," The Wall Street Journal reports. "Wal-Mart -- which provides insurance to employees and wants to level the playing field with companies that don"t -- on Tuesday delivered a letter to President Obama taking a different stance." The letter was signed by Wal-Mart Chief Executive Mike Duke, as well as Andrew Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, and John Podesta, "who led President Obama"s transition team and is chief executive of the Center for American Progress, a liberal-leaning think tank." Wal-Mart"s new stance is "a shift from its previous stance on health-care overhaul and follows years of tussles with organized labor." The Journal adds a caveat: Wal-Mart "isn"t changing its policies. The company says it supports the employer mandate because all businesses should share the burden of fixing the health-care system. ... Wal-Mart"s support for a broad mandate also appears to be aimed at beating back an alternative that may be less favorable to the company. The Senate Finance Committee is considering a measure expected to result in a more burdensome health-insurance requirement for companies that have lower-wage workers" (Adamy and Zimmerman, 7/10).
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Replacing Both Hips At The Same Time - Is It Safe?
Research published on 1st March 2009 investigates whether "simultaneous bilateral sequential total hip replacement (THR) would increase the rate of mortality and complications compared with unilateral THR", for both low and high risk patients.
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CEO Of Black AIDS Institute Discusses HIV/AIDS At Newspaper Conference; Group Releases Report Examining HIV Testing In Black Community

Phill Wilson, CEO of the Black AIDS Institute (BAI), last week addressed the annual convention of the National Newspapers Publishers Association where he discussed the reasons blacks "were so slow to grasp the severity of the threat" of HIV, the NNPA/Seattle Medium reports. According to Wilson, many blacks believed that HIV/AIDS was not directly affecting their communities in the early years of the epidemic. In addition, he said when AIDS reached its peak between 1980 and 1982, blacks also were dealing with unemployment, poverty and welfare reform and, as a result, addressing HIV/AIDS was not a priority. Wilson also noted the reluctance by blacks to deal with the stigma related to the virus. Wilson said, however, "I"m more optimistic now around mobilizing black folks around HIV than [ever] before. I think we"ve made tremendous stride[s] and our institutions across the board are at a different place than they were" (Curry, 7/1). In related news, a report that BAI recently released found that blacks are more likely than other racial and ethnic groups to have been tested for HIV, but need to be tested at much higher rates to curb the spread of the virus, the NNPA/Westside Gazette reports. The report titled, "Passing the Test: The Challenges and Opportunities of HIV Testing in Black America," also cited four major reasons HIV continues to spread in the black community - stigma, lack of routine testing in medical exams, written consent requirements and a failure to increase testing rates though effective marketing efforts. The report makes recommendations for improving HIV awareness, treatment and testing in the black community (Curry, 7/1). This information was reprinted from dailyreports.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily U.S. HIV/AIDS Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at dailyreports.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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