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New realities?

Falling oil prices and sliding interest rates pose a potentialshock to this nation's economic, social and political fabric as greator greater than any events during the past decade. For better orworse, we're facing changes as signficant as any since we wereconfronted by the 1970s energy crisis and the Vietnam War.

If the prices of fuel and money continue to stay low or decline,the changes will reverberate not just through the economy. They willaffect where and how we live, work and play. More basically, theywill affect our view of the world and how we regard ourselves inrelation to each other and to the resources and environment of planetEarth. For …

New findings from National Cheng-Kung University in the area of cancer vaccines described.(Report)

"The high burden of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and Subsequent cervical cancer in the presence of screening in Taiwan suggests the need for further prevention strategies. Epidemiology and screening practices vary considerably between countries, and specific analyses are required to estimate the impact of HPV vaccination," scientists writing in the International Journal of Gynecological Cancer report (see also Cancer Vaccines).

"This study adapted a computer-based health economic model to Taiwan to project the clinical impact of the introduction of a prophylactic vaccine against persistent HPV 16/18 infection on cervical disease. A Markov model based oil the natural …