Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier in the history of the disease, hemophiliacs and other frequent users of the blood pool were particularly vulnerable because donors were not screened for HIV. But in 1985 the Red Cross developed a simple antibody test that virtually stopped contaminated blood from entering the pool. There is no risk in donating blood when equipment is sterile and needles are not re-used...
...recent survey showed only 3 percent of Massachusetts 16- to 19-year-olds began using condoms or abstained from sex because of AIDS--although those are the two most effective means of reducing risk. The others said they mostly became "more selective of their partners" and "careful...
This hidden spread of AIDS means that college-aged students may be another group at risk, some have suggested...
...rise of less than 4% during that same period. Congress should weigh such numbers as it considers revising Medicare fee schedules. Nor are the patients blameless: Americans must come to learn that more expensive machines and elaborate procedures are not always better and that their demands for risk-free care risk pricing medicine beyond everyone's reach...
...there is no undisputed evidence that radioactive materials released into the environment around DOE facilities have harmed anyone. In general, such contamination is believed to fall into a category that, according to Jacob Fabrikant, an expert on the biological effects of radiation, is "far too low to pose a risk to the health of individuals." Yet there is agreement that radiation doses of more than 50 rems, a measure of the effect of radiation on the body, can sicken and even kill. It may do so by changing the chemical makeup of cells. A large enough dose can cause genetic...