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Europe's Last Dancing Bears Sheltered After Years of Abuse

...ut his 19-year-old male bear Misho and 17-year-old female Svetla by their chains. At the sight of the crowd of strangers, the two nuzzled close to their master, gently biting and licking his hand while he petted them. "How would I live without my bears. We have been together all our lives. We love each ...

Twin Brother may Reduce Sister's Fertility by 25 Percent

... Virpi Lummaa tells that both testosterone and the female hormone oestrogen can cross the womb, due to which...e exposed to each other's hormones. Since male and female foetuses have similar oestrogen levels, the female child is more likely to be affected, she says. ...

Sunita Returns June 21 After 194-day Record Space Odyssey

... her accumulate more spacewalk time than any other female in the universe," said Lucid. "These [long-term]...e program," said astronaut Eileen Collins, another female pioneer in space flight. Collins became the first woman to command a space flight mission on Space S...

Rare Womens Lung Disease May Yield Insights Into Common Diseases

...xclusively affects young women. LAM has a stronger female predisposition than lupus or breast cancer, and ma...M. Her current work involves looking into the role female hormones play in the growth and metastasis of LAM cells. Her tireless efforts have shed light on t...

The Custom of Circumcision Decline in the US

...arcel of the wider effort to reclaim bodies adult female and infant male from unnecessary and potentially harmful medical interventions. There are many who still wholeheartedly go with the tradition and want to still continue it. We were all circumcised when I was born, said R. Louis Schultz, a 79-year-o...

Women With Few Older Female Relatives Face Cancer Threat

Women with few older female relatives may be unaware they carry a genetic risk... deadly gene mutation in women with fewer than two female relatives who lived to be older than age 45 on both sides of the family, according to researchers in...

National Commission for Women to Investigate Unearthing of Female Fetuses in Pataudi

...to investigate the unearthing of a large number of female fetuses . The team will meet local authorities to get first hand information of the case and the investigation conducted so far. The NCW spokesperson told reporters that they felt the need to seek first hand information from the site as it was li...

Hair Restoration Procedures Performed Worldwide Increased 34 Percent in 2006

...ears to be on the rise. Since 2004, the percent of female surgical hair restoration patients has risen by 2....ge. ISHRS members provided percentages of male and female surgical patients treated by age category, and more than half (57.9%)of patients fell between the ag...

Four-legged Friends Connect Online at Dogster

... featured on the website is Annie, an 11-month-old female beagle from the US state of Tennessee. Annie loves carrots, belongs to a group called "Beagles R Us" and is humbly described as "nice with large ears." Her roster of friends includes Tank, a Shar Pei in South Africa; a New York City golden retriever ...

Chikungunya-hit Villages to Get Funds to Fight Mosquitoes

...rise of a village head, Anganwadi members and some female members. Money will be put in a joint account of these people. They will visit homes in the village to create awareness about the disease and how to prevent it. The main focus is to stop the mosquito breeding,' the minister added. Till June 18, Ind...

Two-year-old Joins Mensa, Becomes Its Youngest Ever Genius

...orgia has an IQ of 152 and has become the youngest female celebrated member of Mensa. The youngest daughter of a chief executive and a carpenter, Georgia has been described by Britain's leading expert on intelligent children as the brightest two-year-old she has ever met. Professor Joan Freeman, a specia...

More Women Medical Graduates Than Men

...s graduating from UK medical schools in 2006 were female - up from 51% in 1995. Women pursuing a career as...two. The poll of 435 doctors suggests one in five female doctors anticipate working part-time for most of their career. The figure for men was one in 25. I...

Sex Offender Honored Twice by Texan Lawmakers

...n improper sexual relationship" with a 17-year-old female patient for whom he had once prescribed medication. He pleaded guilty in 1997 to sexual performance by a child. He was placed on probation for 10 years and fined $1,000, according to board records. His medical license was revoked but reinstated in ...

Fergie Used to Talk to a Basket When She was Hooked on Meth

...s, she said. The singers disappointment with the female trio band Wild Orchid, reportedly led her to the addiction....

BMA Calls for Flexible Working as Number of Women Doctors Swell

...(Saturday 23 June, 2007), as new figures show that female doctors embarking on NHS careers outnumber men by .... The BMA survey shows that one in five (21%) of female doctors anticipates working part-time for the majority of their careers, compared to one in 25 men. ...

Two Year Probation for Cobra Owner Helder Claro

...not to be alone or in a position of trust with any female under the age 18, unless it is his child. The judge did not believe him and sentenced him on 3 charges out of five. Claro were also convicted of operating a pet shop without a license in 2003. He was fined $4,000 and received 18 months probation...

It is Men, and Not Women, to Be Blamed for Recurrent Pregnancy Loss

...echnology to study the quality of sperms. When a female faces miscarriage more than twice in a row, it's called recurrent pregnancy loss. In around 80 percent such cases, imperfect and inefficient sperms lead to a weak embryo formation, finally ending with miscarriage, say scientists at the National Insti...

Best-performing Hospitals Has Reduced Cardiovascular Mortality

...ng six procedures and diagnoses for each hospitals female patients: Coronary bypass surgery Valve replacement surgery Interventional cardiology procedures (Angioplasty) Acute myocardial infarction (Heart Attack) Heart failure Stroke Nineteen states make available the outcomes data necessary for this st...

Estrogen Therapy Protects Against Fading Mental Powers: Study

...trogen protects the neurons in the post-menopausal female brain from inevitable, age-related deterioration if it is given around the time of perimenopause - the period before menopause when production of the sex hormones estrogen and progesterone begins to ease off. The findings indicate that the debate o...

Fishes Use Threat of Punishment in Mating Process

... the case of the gobies, only the top male and top female mate, and all the other females have to wait their turn in a queue based on their size the fishy equivalent of the barnyard pecking order. Dr Wong found that each fish has a size difference of about 5 per cent from the one above and the one below ...

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