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There is no controversy, whatsoever, over the enormity of problems in relation to HIV and AIDS on the social, clinical, public health and on the economic frontiers. Globally, since the first AIDS case was detected in USA in 1981, the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues its expansion across the globe with approx. 16000 new infections a day. The most rapidly spreading virulent virus infection and its related syndromes are yet the most misunderstood issues in Science. With ...
Today, beyond the range of any previous global epidemic, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), has reached the proportions of a pandemic, having infected millions and promising to infect millions more. In many developing countries the HIV/AIDS epidemic is spreading rapidly. The present book focuses on the association between drug use and HIV infection and addresses the challenges that professionals ...
Biological weapons and related terrorism is the ugly face of civilization, a nightmare for public, a challenge for the diplomats, technical and military authorities, a mind bug for medical and intelligence communities. It has greater than nuclear missiles. Needless to say that the extent of bioterrorism is beyond the battlefield and has direct effect on the society. The theme has deep thrust on anthrax scare after 11 September, toxin warfare agents, terrorism and ...
Knowledge about hereditary phenomena has been important for a long time. Civilization itself became possible when nomadic tribes learned to domesticate plants and animals. Long before biology existed as a scientific discipline, people selected grains with higher yields and greater vigor and animals with better fur or meat. They puzzled about the inheritance of desirable and undesirable traits in human population. Despite this, the actual basis of inheritance was ...
HIV / AIDS is a fatal, sexually transmitted disease (STD). In many developing countries the HIV / AIDS epidemic is spreading rapidly. Because AIDS kills mostly prime-age adults, it increases the number of children who lose one or both parents: Some of these orphans suffer permanent consequences, due to poor nutrition or withdrawal from school. Numbers cannot begin to capture the suffering caused by the disease. AIDS is not alone in causing human suffering, ...
As every subject in biology, and in science generally, developmental biology also bears in it the excitement of discovery and of the excitement of discovery and of the birth and growth of ideas. In this book, fundamental principles are used as frameworks for presenting specific information, and research trends are included to provide a glimpse of future developments in the field. It makes effort to cover enough areas to give a sense of unity and diversity in ...
Sports medicine is a new and exciting medical discipline charged with the care of the injured and sick athletes. It is a multidisciplinary field involving many facets of the health care community. Exercise is one of the major component of sports medicine. The benefits of regular exercise are now well established for all groups in the community including the young, old, disabled and the unwell. The present volume provides authentic information of sports medicine ...
Biology, a living science, continually generates new perspectives for knowledge and wisdom and fresh opportunities for productive impacts on our society. This book concentrates on studies in the disciplines of Microbiology and Neurobiology. The concepts of the book is derived from scientific experiments. This book aims to provide the experimental basis of current understanding and the tools to participate in the development of future knowledge in both fields. It ...