1-These include drug _________, those suffering from sexually transmitted diseases and people who travel abroad frequently.
2-Some US officials have argued that treatment is only a small part of an anti-Aids programme and that Brazil should look more to ___________. This has produced an ___________ response from Brazilian doctors.
3-The case followed ___________ lodged by families of some 170 people, many of them children, suffering from haemophilia and the blood disease thalassemia.
4-The ___________ at the time said hundreds of people had contracted diseases including HIV and hepatitis through contaminated transfusions.
5-He said: "Currently our most ill patients on __________ care are given tube feeding immediately after operation because of the theoretical advantages shown I presume in the BMJ article.
6-However, there is no evidence that bowel rest and a period of ____________ aid the healing process after the operation.In fact, some doctors now think that the presence of a small amount of food may help to increase the _____________ of the tissues.
7-The findings, published in the British Medical Journal, question the conventional __________ that patients should be starved in the period immediately following surgery on their intestinal tract.
8-Dr Thomas said a larger clinical _________ was needed before it could be determined whether current practice should be changed.
9-A spokeswoman for the Department of Health said improving ambulance services was a high government __________.
10-According to the __________, tianeptine works in a different manner than many other antidepressants, and its activity remains to be clarified, but it has a ''well-documented'' therapeutic activity.
11-Workplace productivity is increased and ___________ is decreased among workers who kick their smoking habit. 12-Scientists used to think that deadly ___________ of the flu such as the 1918 pandemic were caused by flu strains that had new genes from bird strains of the flu
13-The study results suggest that a real ___________ exists for employers to cover the cost of smoking ___________ programs such as counselling and pharmaceutical aids to help employees quit, he concluded.
14-When it comes to alcohol's ___________ on older people's brains, there is good and bad news, researchers say. 15-Some studies have shown that the volume of a brain area called the hippocampus is reduced in stress-related psychiatric __________ such as depression.
16-Certainly Brazil, which has cut deaths from the disease by 60%, is way ahead in both the controversial issues likely to dominate the world Aids ___________ in New York, which starts Monday.
17-It is thought that foot-and-mouth disease may have entered the country in __________ of illegally imported meat. 18-It acknowledges that many heart attack ___________ would be more likely to live for more than a year if emergency services were better.
19-"Whilst there are particular difficulties in London, there is a general recognition that ambulance ____________ times need to be improved and we expect that to happen."
20-The risk of HIV/Aids is undoubtedly high among the truck drivers and it is a risk that will be passed on to their ___________ and partners back home.
21-One of the ____________ of providing universal treatment is that it will create resistance, because people in the third world will not take the medicines properly.
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