While chronic picking or irritation ( by clothing ) of a mole can be detrimental in many ways, it has not been associated with a higher incidence of cancer.

While the two drugs mentioned above are available over the counter in most countries, the effectiveness of these agents may decrease over time, and the incidence of next-day sedation is higher than for most of the newer prescription drugs.

While all intersection types in general reduce the incidence of fatal crashes, four-way intersections, which occur regularly in a grid, increase total and injurious crashes significantly.

While the precise mechanism of action is still poorly understood, there is evidence that application of gel sheeting may reduce the incidence of abnormal scarring.

While circumcision prevents phimosis, studies of the incidence of healthy infants circumcised for each prevented case of potential phimosis are inconsistent.

While this is a dramatic increase in risk, the incidence of Möbius syndrome without misoprostal use is estimated at one in 50000 to 100000 births ( making the incidence of Möbius syndrome with misoprostal use, less than one in 1000 births ).

While some groups advocate PES for risk stratification in all individuals under 35 years old, others only offer it to individuals who have history suggestive of a tachydyshythmia, since the incidence of sudden cardiac death is so low ( less than 0. 6 percent in some reports ).

While all intersection types in general increase the incidence of fatal crashes, four-way intersections, which rarely occur in a network with cul-de-sac or loop streets, increase total and injurious crashes significantly.

While historically known as a crisis only of urban centres such as Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, and Montreal, the increasing incidence of homelessness in the suburbs is necessitating new services and resources.

While endoscopic evidence of gastrointestinal damage is frequently seen in studies of nonspecific NSAIDs, the actual incidence of clinically evident symptoms and patient discomfort is much lower ; furthermore, in cases of short-term therapy, any such damage generally reverses itself quickly after termination of the drug.

While debriefing people immediately after an event has not been shown to reduce incidence of post-traumatic stress, coming alongside people experiencing trauma in a supportive way has become standard practice.

While some non-military families may share some of these same attributes and experiences, military culture is unique because of a much higher incidence and concentration of these issues and experiences in military families as compared to civilian populations.

While this opens the possibility for serious debate and collaboration, it also increases the incidence of " spamming " and " trolling " by unscrupulous or less mature users.

While it is likely that population pressures caused tensions between various groups, the primary force that seems to have driven unity or division among tribes and family groups is geophysical: on low islands, where communications are essentially unimpeded, there does not appear to have developed any widely observable incidence of conflict.

While lenalidomide is not approved for first-line treatment of multiple myeloma in Australia, in clinical trials of newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, a four-fold increase in the incidence of second primary malignancies has been observed in patients receiving lenalidomide ( 7. 0 %) compared to controls ( 1. 8 %).

While outgoing president of the Behavior Genetics Association in 1995, some members of this group demanded his resignation after his presidential address suggested the need to investigate the possibility of genetic factors behind the high incidence of black crime in America.

While many normal brains will show a few dilated VRS, an increase in dilated VRS has been shown to correlate with the incidence of several neurodegenerative diseases, making the spaces a popular topic of research.

While the applicability of the quasispecies model to real organisms is still a matter of debate in the scientific community, some researchers believe that it accurately represents the evolution of high-mutation-rate viruses such as HIV and sometimes single genes or molecules within the genomes of other organisms.

While everyone busies themselves with their personal issues, Grace discovers that Sascha and Sofie are in fact terrorists who intend to bomb a local insurance agency that is denying medical coverage to people with HIV and AIDS.

While AIDS denialists focus on individual components of HIV testing, the combination of ELISA and Western blot used for the diagnosis of HIV is remarkably accurate, with very low false-positive and-negative rates as described above.

While this virus is the underlying cause of AIDS, not all HIV-positive individuals have AIDS, as HIV can remain in a latent state for many years.

While it is agreed that oral sex has a much lower HIV-infection risk than vaginal and anal sex, HIV can be transmitted through both insertive and receptive oral sex, when there is contact between semen or vaginal fluid and the mucus membranes of the mouth.

While HIV is most likely a mutated form of simian immunodeficiency virus ( SIV ), a disease present only in chimpanzees and African monkeys, highly plausible explanations for the transfer of the disease between species ( zoonosis ) exist not involving sexual intercourse.

While infection with HIV was once considered an absolute contraindication, this has been changing recently.

While many of Capitol Hill's churches began as suburban congregations serving to establish the newest neighborhood of young Seattle, they have changed with the neighborhood to reach out to the poor and homeless and those living with HIV, as well as continuing their work of encouraging the faithful.

While homeless, Ali Forney protected other LGBTQ homeless youth by performing HIV prevention and awareness work.

While there is compelling data to suggest that PEP after HIV exposure is effective, there have been cases where it has failed.

While most of the $ 15 billion for this program will be spent on these focus countries, $ 4 billion is allocated for programs elsewhere, and for HIV / AIDS research.

While still enjoying the success of Junoon, he was involved in two documentaries with the BBC and is also a UN Goodwill Ambassador for HIV / AIDS.

While CCR5 has multiple variants in its coding region, the deletion of a 32-bp segment results in a nonfunctional receptor, thus preventing HIV R5 entry ; two copies of this allele provide strong protection against HIV infection.

While some research has found that gay men have more sexual partners than straight men ( other research has not ), Cameron's figures were over five times those found in other studies, and while some research has found that gay men do not live as long as straight men, this research is out of date due to the spread of safer sex practices and HIV treatments, and its authors have rejected its use for political purposes.

While the donor may test negative for HIV, such testing does not exclude the possibility that the donor has contracted HIV very recently, so the recipient faces a residual risk of exposure.

While these early articulations of barebacking expressed a concern for HIV prevention, in that they generally referred to dispensing with condoms in the context of sex between people of the same HIV status, the moral panic which ensued was so pronounced that barebacking came to be framed as a rebellious and transgressive erotic practice for HIV positive and HIV negative people alike, irrespective of the risks of HIV transmission.

While CD4 counts are not a direct HIV test -- e. g. they do not check the presence of viral DNA, or specific antibodies against HIV -- they are used to assess the immune system of a patient.

While humans and other organisms generally place less value on future costs / benefits as compared to those in the present, some have shorter time horizons than others and these people tend to be less cooperative.

While the improvements are attributed primarily to changes in the brain and not just the hip and / or ankle joints, it is still unknown whether the improvements are due to adaptations in the cerebellum or compensation by other areas of the brain.

While many of Alcott's ideas continue to be perceived as being on the liberal / radical edge, they are still common themes in society, including vegetarian / veganism, sustainable living, and temperance / self-control.

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While over the far side of the Moon, the Command / Service Module's Service Propulsion System engine burned for six minutes and fifteen seconds, braking the spacecraft into an orbit around the Moon with a low point ( pericynthion ) of 58. 3 and a high point ( apocynthion ) of 170. 4 nautical miles ( 108. 0 and 315. 6 km, respectively ).

While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two die from the British / Indian troops.

While the inning is still being played, this last scenario can cause a temporary situation where a run has already scored, but its earned / unearned status is not yet certain.

While some sources have rated the lagoon water as non-potable, testimony from the crew of the tuna clipper M / V Monarch, stranded on Clipperton for 23 days in 1962 after their boat sank, indicates otherwise.

While virtually independent, at the federal level, the parties form a common CDU / CSU fraction.

While most traditional Spanish style builders use the one piece neck / heel block, Fleta a prominent Spanish builder used a dovetail joint due to the influence of his early training in violin making.

While there were still a number of loud / fast songs, much of the music featured an eclectic mix of instruments including trumpets and synthesizers.

While Western philosophical traditions, as exemplified by Descartes, equate mind with the conscious self and theorize on consciousness on the basis of mind / body dualism ; some Eastern philosophies provide an alternate viewpoint, intimately related to substance dualism, by drawing a metaphysical line between consciousness and matter — where matter includes both body and mind.

While masculine, feminine, and neuter genders are recognized, nouns do not normally decline for gender, though some nouns, especially Latin words and personal names, exist in multiple forms corresponding to different genders: Alumnus ( male, singular )/ Alumna ( female, singular ); Andrew / Andrea, Paul / Paula, etc.

While low-quality at first, consumer digital video increased rapidly in quality, first with the introduction of playback standards such as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 ( adopted for use in television transmission and DVD media ), and then the introduction of the DV tape format allowing recording direct to digital data and simplifying the editing process, allowing non-linear editing systems ( NLE ) to be deployed cheaply and widely on desktop computers with no external playback / recording equipment needed.

While dominatrices come from many different backgrounds, it has been noted that a considerable number are very well-educated, with a recent survey of New York dominatrices revealing that 39 % had attended graduate school / university, including well-regarded institutions such as Columbia University.

While most small corporations do not have a 2 / 3 vote requirement, in the exact opposite, most large corporations especially those incorporated in Delaware, do have a 2 / 3 vote requirement.

While at Villanova he became friends with singer / songwriter Jim Croce.

While unfamiliar with the internalist / externalist debate himself, many point to René Descartes as an early example of the internalist approach to justification.

While it is almost impossible to prevent anode / cathode formation, if a non-conducting material covers the metal, contact with the electrolyte is not possible and corrosion will not occur.

While IBM was a chief proponent of the ASCII standardization committee, they did not have time to prepare ASCII peripherals ( such as card punch machines ) to ship with its System / 360 computers, so the company settled on EBCDIC.