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Peter Munyao, a village elder, is one of the farmers who experimented with the new crop. He planted jatropha in 2006 and encouraged other farmers to follow his lead. But today, the plants on his farm have all dried up and lost their seeds and leaves. "The people who did...
On Sept. 22, England's National Health Service (NHS) released the first study of autism in the general adult population. The findings confirm the intuitive assumption: that ASD is just as common in adults as it is in children. Researchers at the University of Leicester, working with the NHS Information...
Brugha's study was part of a larger national survey of psychiatric disorders among adults. In the first phase, researchers conducted 90-minute interviews with 7,461 people in 4,000 randomly selected British households; the interview included a 20-item questionnaire designed to screen for autism. (Sample yes-or...
Macapagal-Arroyo is not the first Philippine president to come out in support of breastfeeding. In 1986 President Corazon Aquino signed into law Executive Order 51, the National Milk Code - designed to implement the objectives of the WHO's 1981 International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, which bans...
In reality, after the signing of the Philippines' own National Milk Code, "the implementation was spotty, irregular, not done consistently," says Health Undersecretary Alexander Padilla. Held up by legal complaints from milk companies who saw the code as an unlawful affront to their industry, the domestic law went through 12...