In the western United States, pesticides used in agricultural and urban areas are often detected in streams and rivers that support threatened and endangered Pacific salmon.Although concentrations are rarely high enough to cause direct salmon mortality, they can reach levels sufficient to impair juvenile feeding behavior and limit macroinvertebrate

Hypertension is one of the most common chronic diseases in older people, and the prevalence is on the rise as the global population ages.Hypertension is closely associated with many adverse health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease and mortality, which poses a substantial threat to global public health.Reasonable blo

The Smart Defence concept was introduced in the NATO policy in a time when the Alliance is confronted with new challenges generated by the global economic crisis, a lack of balance in the participation of the member states in the financing of common operations, threats coming from states that do not adhere to nuclear non-proliferation treaties, Lit

South Africa was ill prepared for the Second World War.Her war potential was limited and Hitler is reputed to have laughed when the South African declaration came on 6 September 1939.The Permanent and Active Citizen Forces were under strength: the first comprised only 350 officers and some five thousand men.There were a further 122 000 men in the C

BackgroundSevere acute malnutrition (SAM) is the most serious form of malnutrition affecting children under-five and is associated with many infectious diseases including Tuberculosis (TB).In India, nutritional rehabilitation centres (NRCs) have been recently established for the management of SAM including TB.The National TB Programme (NTP) in Indi