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Natural Selection in Butterflies

...or Savaii, the population was initially 99 percent female at the beginning of 2006. By the end of the year, ...or Savaii, the population was initially 99 percent female at the beginning of 2006. By the end of the year, researchers found that males made up 39 percent of...

Gender Equality, the Key Factor to Curb Foeticide: Dr. Ramadoss

...madoss said a long-term solution to the problem of female foeticide lies in creating the right socio-economic environment, where sons and daughters are equally valued. This can be achieved by creating awareness about the gender equality through advocacy and communication efforts along with empowering the wo...

Study Shows Positive Results for Zestra(R) Feminine Arousal Fluid

...h demonstrate our intent to advance the science of female sexual health and provide a meaningful and safe so... decade of prescription pharmaceutical research in female sexual disorders, and several effective prescription treatments for erectile dysfunction (ED), there...

India to Monitor Pregnancies to Check Girl Foeticide: Report

...ting outlawed sex-determination tests and aborting female foetuses. In a gruesome discovery last month, dozens of tiny bones were found in the septic tank of a clinic belonging to a man posing as a doctor in wealthy Gurgaon, a suburb of the Indian capital. The suburb is part of a state with one of the c...

Inquest of Date-rape Drug Victim Attracts Wide Attention in Australia

...d favourably and unfavourably on the appearance of female passengers. He said he'd only come to know two o...on the cruise allegedly propositioning a number of female passengers of varying ages. Among numerous acts of alleged sexual harassment were asking a 15 year...

Poor Short Term Recovery from Knee Surgery in Women

...s on short-term recovery. They found that being female and the extent of osteoarthritis were associated w...e investigators say that it is unclear exactly how female gender complicates surgical recovery. Fabricant notes that there are gender differences both in surg...

Diaphragms offer no extra protection Against HIV

...'s Global Health Imperative, and team say that the female condom used in conjunction with the male condom is...y a diaphragm - is the most vulnerable part of the female reproductive tract to HIV infection. Yet now, the diaphragm in the use of HIV-prevention, may well b...

Brain Tumor Children Poor Performance in Schools

...age, especially for girls. More than 58 percent of female patients received grades below an eight (four = fail, 10 = excellent) in foreign language compared to 38 percent of healthy children. It appears verbal performance is the area most seriously affected for brain tumor survivors. said Lhteenmki. This ...

Differences in Brain Functions Results in non-contact Knee Injuries

...ars of experience at the college level. Male and female athletes in 10 intercollegiate sports were represented, including football, soccer, lacrosse, basketball, volleyball, field hockey, gymnastics, wrestling, fencing and softball. Then the preseason test results from the two groups of athletes were co...

Female Doctors Facing Barriers to Careers in Education and Research, Study Finds

...ors is a woman, One in five medical schools has no female professor, Academic medicine is failing to attract...: The promotion of positive action, such as more female role models, The active discouragement of the long hours culture, Appointments committees to reflect...

New Book Gives Gruesome Account of India Girl Killings

..."Female infanticide is akin to serial killing. But female foeticide was more like a Holocaust. A whole gender is getting exterminated. It is a silent and smoothly executed crime which leaves no waves in its wake," Aravamudan writes. The author said it was not an easy subject to tackle. "Some of the comm...

Obesity, a Risk Factor for Developing Multiple Myeloma

...l-based Nurses Health Study followed the health of female registered nurses since 1976, and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, based at Harvard School of Public Health, followed males from several health professions since 1986. The studies recorded height, weight and physical activity for each per...

Police Raids Hospitals and Labs in Orissa

...cal laboratories after recovery of seven bodies of female infants near Duburi foothills in Orissas Nayagarh...ocial activists yesterday, and registered cases of female infanticide. They also sealed several unregistered pathological clinics and private hospitals in Nay...

Sienna Sizzles in Wet T-shirt to Spread Global Warming Awareness

...y set to go bald and donate her hair for a wig for female cancer patients....

Report Shows How Children With Brain Tumors Perform at School

...age, especially for girls. More than 58 percent of female patients received grades below an eight (four = fail, 10 = excellent) in foreign language compared to 38 percent of healthy children. It appears verbal performance is the area most seriously affected for brain tumor survivors. said Lhteenmki. This ma...

Wealthy Australian Women More Prone to Breast Cancer New Study

...wn as "hormone dependent" because it relies on the female hormone, oestrogen, to grow. Increased public awareness of breast screening may mean women in more affluent areas are more likely to have mammograms, leading to better detection rates. Exposure to high amounts of ionised radiation, such as X-ray...

Orissa CM Orders Probe into Female Foeticides

...dered police to probe into the recent incidents of female foeticide in the state's Nayagarh district, officials said . On July 14, seven female foetuses, about eight months old, were found in polythene packets at Pratapgarh cave near Duburi in ...

Japanese are Weighed Down by Deviating from Their Traditional Diet

...y estimates that every second male and every fifth female over the age of 40 is obese and experts have identified a change in lifestyle as the main cause of the problem. "The everyday habits among the Japanese have become rather chaotic," explained healthcare expert Masayo Kaneda of Tokyo's University for...

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

...riteria for RA. Individuals were matched with four female controls for every case. Controls were identified as those alive and free from diagnosed RA when the index individual was diagnosed with RA. The median age of the onset of RA in the sample population was 63.3 years, with an average length of 5.5 y...

Website Offers to Help Women Raise Money for Breast Enhancement

...variety of cosmetic surgeons and often provide our female clientele with other cosmetic surgeries at no cost. We are dedicated to providing women, of all legal ages, with the opportunity to boost their self esteem & enhance their physical appearance through cosmetic surgery at no cost. While we at MyFreeI...

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