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Strange Sex Life of Mole-rats may Provide Clues About Human Infertility

...ueen reproduces, suppressing fertility in both the females and the males around her by bullying them. The q...licle stimulating hormones). In the non-breeding females this has the effect of suppressing the ovulatory cycle, while in the non-breeding males it causes lo...

Prescription Costs More for Older Men Than Women

...individual was similar for males (196.13 euro) and females (195.12euro). However after 65 years of age, the mean prescribing costs for males were significantly higher than females. On average, costs for a 75-year-old man would be 12 times the costs for a 25-34 year-old subject if male, 8 times if female. S...

Liver Cancer More Prevalent in Males

...e. Males show a higher rate of inflammation than females in the same diseases, including cancer, said Wills... when knockout mice were given DEN, both males and females developed liver cancer at the same, lower, rates. By eliminating IL-6, we reduced the incidence o...

The Chattier Gender

...f Science . Refuting the popular stereotype that females talk more than men, researchers at The University ... Although many people believe the stereotypes of females as talkative and males as reticent, there is no large-scale study that systematically has recorded t...

Chromosone Disorders - Unrevealed Facts

...elters syndrome. Turners syndrome only occurs in females and is caused when one of the two X chromosomes is missing. Girls with Turners have arrested development and if no treatment is given do not enter puberty. Klinefelters syndrome affects males, who receive an extra X chromosome. Symptoms include con...

Amorous African Fish Exchange Electric Pulses While Mating

...ence as "electrical duetting", said both males and females seemed to make specific "sounds" before, during, a...p" and "medium burst" patterns when they were near females and during courtship, suggesting that the signals "advertise" the males' quality as mates. Females w...

Natural Selection in Butterflies

... next step. The suppressor gene allows infected females to produce males, these males will mate with many,..., the number of mating sessions for both males and females jumps, possibly as an attempt to sustain the population despite the odds. Charlat added that the r...

Trial of VivaGel in Sexually Active Young Women Commences

...re women, and among 15- to 24- year-olds with HIV, females account for 60 percent. In the U.S., 43 percent of AIDS cases in the 13- to 19-year-old age group are female....

Sex Survey Reveals That Most People Want Sex Thrice a Week

...artners, while their male counterparts desired for females to take the lead a bit more often. Half of British women quizzed during the survey conducted by Cosmopolitan magazine also said that men with a good sense of humour turned them on, while 80 per cent said that they would snub a bloke with bad manne...

India to Monitor Pregnancies to Check Girl Foeticide: Report

...said, according to a report. India has only 927 females for every 1,000 males -- far lower than the worldwide average of 1,050 females -- mainly due to selective abortion in the country where many people prefer to have male children. ...

Kashmir Battles Alarming Increase in Suicides

...out. Quoting data, he said the ratio of males and females in suicide cases was 3:1, in para suicide it was 1...-harm it was 1:7, indicating that males outdid the females in committing suicides in the valley while more females made attempts to end their lives and deliber...

New Book Gives Gruesome Account of India Girl Killings

...on of generations of females. India has only 927 females for every 1,000 males -- far lower than the worldwide average of 1,050 females -- and last year a report by Unicef said India continued to lose almost 7,000 girls every day throug...

Japanese are Weighed Down by Deviating from Their Traditional Diet

...ve 85 centimetres for males and 90 centimetres for females is considered obese and at high risk of developing... obesity among older Japanese citizens, many young females have the problem of weighing too little. An estimated 20 percent of Japanese females in their 20s ...

Longer Term Breast-feeding Reduces the Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Women

... team from Malm University Hospital, Sweden. All females with RA utilised in the case control group of the study were diagnosed according to the 1987 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for RA. Individuals were matched with four female controls for every case. Controls were identified as those ...

Twin Brother may Reduce Sister's Fertility by 25 Percent

...rn societies. It was observed that of 754 twins, females with a twin brother were 25 per cent less likely to have children than females with a twin sister. The researchers also noted that women with a male twin were 15 per cent less lik...

Women With Few Older Female Relatives Face Cancer Threat

...f those cases -- 153 women -- there were few older females in the family. The BRCA gene mutations were detected in 13.7 percent of those with few older female relatives compared to 5.2 percent among women with plenty of female relatives....

Autistic Kids can Understand Other People Through Stereotypes

...questions based on drawings representing males and females coloured in either pink or brown. The researchers asked questions such as: "Here are two children, David and Emma. One of them has four dolls. Which one has four dolls"" The answer Emma conforms to gender stereotypes, the answer David does not. Eac...

Male Circumcision Overstated as Deterrent to Global AIDS Pandemic

...countries have as many as 7 percent of their adult females infected and working as prostitutes while in the developed world typically this percentage of infected prostitutes is less than .1percent. If these infected prostitutes in Africa sleep with five men in a week that means they are subjecting 35 perce...

New Vaccine for CMV Infection

...inistered to specific at-risk populations, such as females prior to child-bearing years, day care providers, organ transplant recipients, or as part of regular childhood immunizations. This approach may also be valid for a number of diseases associated with persistent or latent infections, including all ty...

Another Sexual Attraction is Possible ...

...nspicuous for us humans, are also signals by which females guide males towards them, even on the darkest nigh...new species. The fact that conspecific males and females recognize each other by their common use of a highly specific "language" is likely to decrease the f...

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