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Sperm washing helps couples – Breakthrough in focu
...s a 1 in 500 risk of transmitting the virus to the female partner and through her to the fetus. Sperm washin... washed free of virus before insemination into the female partner at the time of ovulation. Absence of detectable HIV is verified before insemination using a ...... used search engines. The team found that male and female condoms, vaginal sponges and diaphragms were widely available. From Web sites based outside the US, the researchers were able to purchase oral contraceptives and levonorgestrel IUDs without a prescription. Many of the oral contraceptives arrived in...Doctors at risk- the ugly side of the noble profession
...eat but even life threats were also reported. Even female doctors were not spared. But very few doctors, who were physically assaulted, actually reported the incident to the police.The report says hospitals should advice doctors on what causes aggression, how to deal with it, how to come out of such situati...Gene linked to early puberty in girls
...so scientists were keen on the role of estrogen, a female hormone, in attaining puberty.They were surprised to learn after their investigations, that the breakdown of testosterone, the male hormone, in the body and also the effects of a gene, which induces the onset of puberty, determine the age of puberty....IMA wants members not to do sex determination tests during pregnancy
...from conducting sex-determination tests and aiding female foeticide. No support would be extended to practi... Delhi. He was speaking at a regional workshop on female foeticide and infanticide organised by the IMA, Tambaram, with support from the IMA headquarters and......ia (MCI) if they were found guilty of indulging in female foeticide. The warning comes in the wake of the recent nation-wide Census, which has come out with a disturbing picture of male-female gender ratio, particularly in relation to children under the age of six. While there was slight improvement in th...Women suffer from sexual dysfunction too
... meeting in Chicago, said much of the problem with female sexual dysfunction is due to the failure of patients and doctors to communicate about this problem that both parties may be uncomfortable discussing. As women age and go through menopause, the lining of the vagina loses a robust pinkish to red color......gainst the same when the researchers identify that female smokers with breast cancer face an increased risk of their tumors spreading to the lungs and other organs than do nonsmokers "There is a relationship between smoking and the spread of the disease," says study author Susan Murin, MD, associate profe......ively as estrogen. In this study it is shown that female rats that had their ovaries removed and treated with vitamin E had much higher bone densities after eight weeks than the rats that received no treatment. Vitamin E is an antioxidant, meaning it soaks up so-called free radicals or substances that can ......heart attack. They found that 28.9 per cent of the female patients had // died within two years, compared with 19.6 per cent of the male patients. Age had a dramatic impact, with the risk of death for women compared to men increasing 15.4 per cent for every 10 year decrease in age."The interaction between ......heart attack. They found that 28.9 per cent of the female patients had died// within two years, compared with 19.6 per cent of the male patients. Age had a dramatic impact, with the risk of death for women compared to men increasing 15.4 per cent for every 10 year decrease in age."The interaction between s...... was the cause of 33% of all male deaths and 5% of female deaths in the 30 to 65 age group. When male smokers only are considered, tobacco causes half of the deaths in this group.// These risk are more than twice as large as has yet been seen in mainland China. But cigarette smoking peaked about 20 years ...Heart Attacks during Menstruation!
...rch shows light to understanding the key role that female sex hormones play in a wide range of functions. Research has already shown that the time of the month can profoundly affect the symptoms of migraine, asthma and cardiac arrhythmia.The early follicular phase - the week during or immediately after a pe......es. This new research bolsters the theory that the female hormone estrogen might protect women from colorectal cancer. Dr. Carlo La Vecchia, who led the study said "For a while now we have suspected that estrogen in the pill could protect against bowel cancer and our research has gone some way to confi...A new study suggests that flaxseed lowers female hormone levels and may thereby reduce breast cance....The seeds are rich in lignans, which resemble the female hormone oestrogen.// High levels of oestrogen are linked to breast cancer and lignans may lower le......ntains a new hormone - progesterone - based on the female hormone, not the male, and its rubbed into the tummy. It's absorbed into the skin and acts as a contraceptive". Each month, hormone levels are tested and an ultrasound done to see how much of the gel is needed to stop ovulation occurring."The gel is...Drug abuse leads to long standing changes in the brain
...r private clubs, motorcycle gang members, male and female commercial sex workers, and bisexual and homosexual men. In one study, researchers led by Dr. Nora D. Volkow of Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook used an imaging technique called positr...Decrease in testosterone levels lead to Alzheimer's
...ncentrations of amyloid increased significantly in female guinea pigs whose ovaries had been removed. Once hormone replacement therapy had been administered, the brain amyloid levels decreased. Dr Chater said that people with a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s disease might have borderline amyloid le...Contraceptives have dual effects
...efits of the Pill are due to the way oestrogen - a female sex hormone - works in the body.// When oestrogen ...one some way to confirm this. "Mortality rates for female bowel cancer have steadily dropped over the last 20 years - we believe this is partly due to the Pil...The phenomenon of sexual attraction
...be more truth to this than meets the eye. They say female chemical messengers known as pheromones may help dupe men into thinking plain women are more attractive and beautiful women are less attractive than they actually are.// Pheromones - the colourless, odourless chemical signals given off by the body ......s in turn may lead to an increase in levels of the female sex hormone oestrogen, which has been linked to breast cancer. The results of the latest study were based on the work history of 822 women with breast cancer and 671 without. Scott Davis, an epidemiologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Cent...Morning sickness maybe pronounced
...isk of the condition for women who were carrying a female child. Though there were more births of boys dur...uring the first three months of pregnancy.// The female to male ratio of hospital admissions was 56:44, according to the research carried out by Dr Johan As...Women more susceptible to brain damage from ecstasy
...found substantial decreases in density among heavy female users of the drug but not in the men. Women who ha...ced neurotoxic changes in several brain regions of female ex-MDMA users are reversible....ZYDUS enters female health care segment
...e hydrochloride) consolidating its presence in the female healthcare segment. Bonmax is used in the prevention and treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis (PMO). The drug comes as third generation drug which not only safe but can also be used for long term. // PMO primarily occurs due to the deficiency o...Step Aerobics Increases good cholesterol
...ining mode for modifying (cholesterol) profiles in female college-aged students. They offer no explanation for why step aerobics proved more beneficial for HDL levels. However, they point out, these findings are limited since the study group was small and, although the women were told not to change their di......had received heart transplants from women. Because female cells lack the Y chromosome that carries the genet...s were able to determine which cells came from the female donor and which belonged to the male recipient. But the researchers found cells throughout the fem......called insulin-like growth factor, and more of the female sex hormone oestrogen. Both can promote breast cancer. Another factor important in cancer is exposure to sunlight. Having more UVB radiation, which means higher levels of vitamin D, seems to be protective....Lengthy Fingers could predict heart attacks
...onsible for the production of testosterone and the female hormone oestrogen also control the development of the fingers.......put some females in tubes with seven males so that female choice and male contest could come into action. The experiment was carried out on fruit flies of a wide variety of age groups. The scientists measured offspring in terms of their viability, their wing size, asymmetry of features and the number of too......s around the mouth and eyes begin to appear. Young female smokers are likely to be wasting money on anti-ageing face creams if they continue to smoke. The best beauty treatment by far is to quit smoking....Reduced POD linked to fatal asthma attacks
...n. The patients with low POD tended to be older, female and generally had suffered from asthma for a longer period of time than the patients with normal or high POD. Low POD patients also used less beta-agonist medication than high POD patients. Fatal or near-fatal asthma is not always accompanied by seve......s. Luckily due to health campaigns and education, female circumcision has been falling in some countries in the last decade. In Kenya, a 1996survey found that 76% of teenagers had been circumcised, compared to 100% of women over 45. Several governments have introduced legislation to ensure the process is ...Tongue piercing leads to bacterial infection
...unal of medicine. Conforming to the survey, among female students, the navel was the body site most often reported pierced, followed closely by the ear (not including earlobes). Seventeen percent of the females students had pierced tongues. In males, the ear was the body site with the most reported piercin......f colon cancer. The research covered nearly 50,000 female nurses whose family history of dietary habits were known. This showed that those who had a genetic risk of colon cancer were two and a half times more likely to develop the disease, compared to the general population, if they consumed a diet low in f...Contraceptive pill to reduce PMS
...ve pills work by artificially raising the level of female hormones in the blood. This overrides the normal hormonal signal from the ovaries and prevents the shredding of the lining of the uterus which is the bleeding seen during menstruation. If things go according to plan, the pill, named Seasonale, could ......The research is based on the sex lives of male and female sea urchins - spiny, purple invertebrates found in the Pacific Ocean just a few yards from Epel's laboratory on California's Monterey Bay. Experiments reveal that normal sea urchin sperm contains an enzyme called nitric oxide synthase, which remains ...Ethnic discrepancy in ovarian cancer
...er causes more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive organs. It is now obvious that ethnicity is an independent risk factor in prognosis. US researchers have studied the fate of 10,003 Caucasian women and 600 African American women with ovarian cancer. They find that the mean age at diagn...Young women prone to heart attack
...heart attack. They found that 28.9 per cent of the female patients had died within two years, compared with 19.6 per cent of the male patients. Age had a dramatic impact, with the risk of death for women compared to men increasing 15.4 per cent for every 10 year decrease in age."The interaction between sex...Breast cancer risk seen in twins
...ancer Research UK, has been analyzing data from US female twins. These were identical and non-identical twins where one twin already had breast cancer.// The twins without cancer were then followed up for several years to see who developed the disease. One third of the identical twins were destined to get...Anorexia in boys is common too
...their peers. The same effect has been observed in female adolescent anorexics, although studies indicate that female adult anorexics are unable to fully regain bone mass after recovering a normal weight. Castro said ...Heart may pull Cells from Body to Self-repair
...ysis of cells in men with transplanted hearts from female donors, the proof is the piling up that the heart ...found only in men, researchers determined that the female donor hearts had recruited cells from the male recipients in an effort to repair the organ. The find...Hormone therapy provides no heart benefit
... problems. It has long been assumed that replacing female sex hormones after menopause will protect// a woman from heart disease. For women have far lower rates of heart problems than men - until after menopause. But a new report from the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Follow Up Study (HERS II) su...Physical activity less among black girls
... the existence of obesity has more than doubled in female children and adolescents with the greatest increase// among black girls. On an average, surveys show girls are not eating more. Instead, the problem appears to be physical activity level. New research shows the activity levels of white and black girl...Importance of type of sex in organ transplantation
...g been suspected - kidneys, hearts and livers from female donors are more likely to be rejected// by the rec...e likely to fail than those coming from men. Also, female heart recipients were more likely to reject the organ than their male counterparts. When it came to ...Myth of 'female impotence' created to boost sales
...maceutical companies have created a disease out of female sexual disorders and are defining the condition in...ng its launch in 1998. Doctors however claim that female sexual disorders are being unduly medicalised and the coining of the term "female sexual dysfunction...Migraine & Juvenile stroke could be associated
...r the subgroups - below the age of 35years and the female subgroup - the odds ratio was higher at 3.26 and 2.68 respectively. The investigators believed that the data suggested that migraine was an even more significant risk factor for patients aged less than 35 years of age. They added that migraine was fo...Hair loss - What happens behind ?
...an's male hormone production increases or when her female hormone production decreases, her hair follicles respond by shedding their hairs and refusing to grow new hairs in their place. This happens to all women, but some are so minimally affected that it's not noticeable. Women's hair loss, unlike the male...Age should not rule out visectomy reversal
...e partner had undergone vasectomy reversal and the female partner was at least 35. The average time between ...from consideration for reversal simply because the female partner is 35 years old or older," the authors note. However, "in our series there was only one li...Herbal Remedy Risky for Cancer Patients
...iversity studied how the herbal treatment affected female mice. Results show black cohosh did not increase the incidence of new tumors but did increase the number of tumors that spread to the lungs. Researchers say the supplement may not increase or decrease a woman’s //risk of developing breast cancer, but......factor was to blame for substance abuse in male or female teens. In both girls and boys, genetics and environment were factors, but their degree of influence varied for boys and girls. The study findings could affect the way that teens are treated for substance abuse. "Because girls' use of substances is c...Valium hits 40 years old, anxiety-free
...erred to as a "doll" -- one of the pills popped by female characters in novelist Jacqueline Susann's racy 1966 best-seller "Valley of the Dolls." Most of the prescriptions were written by family doctors rather than psychiatrists, and the majority of users were women. With Valium, Sternbach gave the company......th. “My mother’s mother died at the age of 32 of a female disease," Pistelli says. "Then my mother had breast cancer. Then, 10 years later, she got ovarian cancer.” Both Pistelli and her sisters know they are susceptible to the cancers, so when Daria's mammogram showed a spot, there was reason to be concer...Teen brain changes increase cigarette addiction
... rats help themselves to nicotine, they found that female teen rats - at an age equivalent to 14-year-old girls - take twice as much as rats only exposed to nicotine in adulthood. And this insatiable use carries on when they grow up. "The results indicate that early nicotine exposure can leave a lasting im......ort the risk of drug-related death was lower among female injecting drug-users than male injecting drug-users. It was also found that injecting drug-users over the age of 34 were between two- and six-times more likely to die of drug-related causes than younger drug users. Researchers say the public health...Rat joins list of cloned animals
...thered normal offspring, and have since cloned two female rats, as well.......s but in profound differences between the male and female brain -- and scientists now have the technology to...or themselves the differences between the male and female brain. I think that alters life and marriages," said Gurian . The science part Such are the advan...Exercise to Prevent Early Breast Cancer
...ise reduces the risk of BCIS by lowering levels of female hormones. Leslie Bernstein, Ph.D., co-author of the study, says, "Although we presume that physical activity works through a hormonal means to reduce BCIS risk, this may not be an important mechanism for women who may have a hereditary form of the di...Genetic differences found between Male and Female brains
...xplain the different organization between male and female brains.Researchers offer evidence in their report ...ests comparing the production of genes in male and female mice brains before the animal developed sex organs. They discovered 54 genes that were produced in d...Just standing next to a large person can be bad for one's image
...ist.In the English study, psychologists tested 144 female students reactions to two prom photos.// One showed a dapper, thin young man standing next to a svelte ringlet-haired woman. The other was the same photo altered to show the guy arm-in-arm with a very large, nicely dressed woman. The volunteers to......ied in mice. For the research, scientists studied female mice and how they remembered their mating partner....r recognize their partner’s scent. After mating, a female mouse exposed to the scent of a strange male will not continue her pregnancy. On the other hand, a f...Other ContentswrappingwrappingwrappingwrappingtolerancetolerancetolerancetolerancetolerancetolerancetoleranceinducedinducedinducedinducedinducedinducedinducedinducedinducedinducedmarginmarginmarginmarginmarginmarginmargincleancleancleancleancleancleancleancleancarecarecarecarecarecarecarecareOther TagsPuncture
(Date:7/25/2008)... life expectancy for patients with human immunodef...years since the late 1990s thanks to advancements ...s at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)... Columbia. , Improved survival has led to a near...-positive study participants in Europe and North A...
(Date:7/25/2008)...reen, can potentially contain a naturally occurrin... to public health according to a review paper publ... of the Science of Food and Agriculture (JSFA). ,... ,green, affected area is enough to eliminate most...o suggests that the levels of GA in potatoes can b...
(Date:7/24/2008)...scope promise to make it easier for people with im...uiring sharper distance vision. Schepens Eye Resea...f these innovative glasses over earlier devices in...urnal of Biomedical Optics , mailed in print form...has several advantages," says the inventor of the ...
(Date:7/24/2008)...In the life of a cell, the response to DNA damage ...repair itself, commit suicide, or grow uncontrolla...blished in the July 25th issue of Cell , scientis... way that cells respond to DNA damage through a pr...ing points to a new pathway for the development of...
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