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Residues Go Merrily Down the Stream in Portland

... Scientists also found that young salmon both the female and male from the Willamette River around Portland...n egg yolk protein that is commonly found in adult female fish. "So they're being exposed to something, we just don't know what it is," said Lyndal Johnson...

Human Rights Activists Sleepless In Seattle

... her more dignity and integrity than a fully grown female body." They reasoned that a smaller child would be easier to include in family life and to decrease the chances of medical problems if she became too large for them to move. They say the hysterectomy was performed to prevent bleeding during her ...

School-Employed Voyeur Jailed Over Making Pornography

...ictures of the breast and groin areas of girls and female members of staff, by drilling holes in the walls o...n floor to take pictures "upwards from the legs of female teachers". Mayne superimposed the snaps on to photographs of adults engaging in sexual activity to...

Deadly Virus Hits Popular Lake in US

...My first thought was the sturgeon, Koerner said. A female sturgeon doesnt spawn until shes about 25. Its 15 for a male. Theyre not a renewable resource like deer or geese. They may go down in population, but theyll make a comeback. If we over-harvest the sturgeon, or lose them to a disease of some sort, it ...

Paid Maternity Leave Pushed By Australian Rights Activists

...ges of juggling work and home and to secure better female participation in the workplace. "The reality is, particularly with mothers having children later, women who are leaving the workforce to have children are a highly skilled and experienced group," he stressed. The Federal Opposition recently gave ...

Very Soon You can Eat to Your Hearts Content

...ase," he added. As a part of the study groups of female mice with and without the ACAT2 gene were fed six different diets enriched with one of these types of fat: fish oil, flax seed oil, polyunsaturated fat from vegetable oil, saturated fat, trans-monounsaturated fat and cis-monounsaturated fat, such as ...

Psychosocial Support for Cancer Survivors Needs Strengthening

...e similar across various cancer sites and included female gender, Caucasian race, higher education level, and symptoms of depression or anxiety. Younger age and urban residence did not predict support group use. While physical functional status did not predict use among cancer patients, it did among patient...

Female Reproductive Function Influenced by Childhood Environment

... UCL (University College London) demonstrates that female reproductive function is influenced by childhood e... on key developmental stages. Put very simply, the female body seems to monitor its environment throughout childhood and before puberty, to gauge when and at ...

Soy Products a Double-edged Sword for Breast Cancer

...ory findings. Some found that feeding genistein to female rats prior to puberty reduced the number of chemically induced mammary tumors. Other studies showed that estradiol, a primary human estrogen, spurs the growth of existing estrogen-dependent breast tumors. Helferich and colleagues demonstrated that...

VA Should Revise Its Methods for Evaluating PTSD in Ex-military Personnel

...of trauma. The available information suggests that female veterans are less likely to receive compensation for PTSD, which may in part be due to the difficulty of substantiating exposure to traumatic events unrelated to combat, including sexual harassment or assaults that occurred during service. VA should ...

Hexavalent Chromium in Drinking Water Causes Cancer in Mice

...he technical report. During the study, male and female rats had been given four different doses of sodium dichromate dihydrate, an inorganic compound containing hexavalent chromium, in drinking water for two years. The lowest doses of the chemical administered to the rats were 10 times higher than wha...

Natural Pine Bark Extract Reduces Heart Failure Risk

...cted at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Elderly female mice (18 months old) were randomly divided into four groups: control mice, mice receiving Pycnogenol only, mice receiving L-NAME only (a substance which causes arterial constriction) and mice receiving both Pycnogenol and L-NAME. Pycnogenol and L-NAM...

A Fresh Alternative to Painful Chemotherapy Developed in UK

... switch off the ovary and stop the production of a female hormone that encourages some tumours to grow. An agonist achieves a normal action, often mimicking the action of a naturally occurring substance. Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone is a naturally occurring hormone that controls sex hormones in...

Common Pain Killer may Reduce the Risk of Brain Damage in Premature Babies

...g new blood vessels. Results were spectacular in female rabbits that were given the drugs for two days before delivering their offspring prematurely. The team showed that celecoxib cut the risk in offspring of having a moderate or severe bleed in half, from 90 percent to 45 percent. The percentage was red...

High-risk Sexual Behavior Adolescents Attract Peers With Similar Attitudes

...analyzed data on 1,350 15- to 18-year-old male and female students taking part in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a nationwide study of individual, peer, family, school, and community factors related to health. High-risk sexual behavior was defined by the number of partners with whom a...

Healthier Childhood Leads to Higher Fertility

...s to a better diet and general health. He said the female body could monitor its environment throughout childhood to gauge when and at what rate it would be best to mature. At the same time researchers caution that it is not certain whether the lower average progesterone levels of the particular groups st...

Aggressive Family Planning Sparks Riots in China

...r male heirs, which has prompted families to abort female fetuses in hopes of getting boys....

Regular Smokers are at the Risk of Developing Depression

...ort Project. There were about 4,000 male and 5,000 female twins, whose health and health behaviour were followed-up through 15 years. Data on smoking behaviour and changes in it between 1975 and 1981 were analyzed as a predictor of depressive symptoms measured in 1990. The analyses were adjusted for othe...

Researchers Document First Case of Virgin Birth in Sharks

...he birth of a shark in an aquarium, that had only female sharks which had no contact with a male shark for ...ns including a possible insemination in one of the female sharks in the aquarium. Female sharks have an organ that can store sperm, but a three-year storage...

Hospital Employee in Kolkata Arrested on Molestation Charge

...rrested Wednesday for "outraging the modesty" of a female patient during a medical test Tuesday night. "We have arrested Haren Debnath, a staff of the hospital, on charges of outraging the modesty of this 32-year-old lady during an ECG test," Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Ajay Kumar told IANS. ...

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