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Female Ducks Develop Complicated Genitals to Outwit Aggressive Males

...he male rapists. Dr. Brennan argues that elaborate female duck anatomy evolves as a countermeasure against a...evelop a defense.” Dr. Brennan suspects that the female ducks can force sperm into one of the pockets and then expel it. “It only makes sense as a barrier,”...

Drinks and Breast Cancer – How It Happen

...t cancer. The researchers fed normal 6-week old female mice with regular drinking water or water containing 1 percent alcohol, which is equivalent to about 2 to 4 drinks in humans (normal consumption rates for most people), for 4 weeks. In week 2, the animals were inoculated with mouse breast cancer cel...

No Increased Risk of Certain Cancers from Electromagnetic Fields Among Energy Workers

...es of leukemia among men or of breast cancer among female employees who had been exposed to medium to high frequency magnetic fields. Women exposed to medium frequency electromagnetic fields were more likely to develop brain cancer than women with background frequency levels. But this was not true of m...

Chemo Brain- Nothing Forgettable About It

...nt of estrogen in women who have cancers fueled by female hormones, as well as early-onset cancer that catapults women in their 30s and 40s into menopause. There are other suggestions got from various studies such as the discovery of a gene linked to Alzheimer’s in such patients and PET scans showing unu...

Mailing Pamphlets can Reduce Alcohol Consumption

...nada, provided self-help materials to 877 male and female drinkers (average age 43) who were recruited from ... compare their own drinking to the average male or female in the general Canadian population. “Many heavy drinkers mistakenly believe that their behaviour ...

Chronically Ill Prisoners Face Great Healthcare Problems

...prisoners aged from 16 to 78 and included male and female prisons and young offenders’ institutions. One prisoner said that prison had saved his life, as his drug habit had made it difficult to access mental health services outside prison. While he was on remand he’d seen a psychiatric nurse and psychia...

Alcoholism Develops Cognitive Problems in Women

... study conducted in Russia on a number of male and female alcohol drinkers. The test revealed that the non drinkers fared better in a series of computerized tasks. The test evaluated the ability to match patterns in shape, remember location of stimuli and name colors when compared with contradictory informa...

Brief Intervention on HIV and Alcohol Risk Encourages Safer Sex

...ions of the study included the small proportion of female participants, the lack of blinding to the intervention, and the use of self-report indicators alone as outcome measures. Moreover, the team questions whether the differences could be due solely to the increased amount of counselling time given to ...

Priority Needs to Be Given to Maternal Health in Afghanistan

...sonals are to be trained in order to look with the female patients. Ms Obaid went on to say that 'United ...o have national capacity, meaning you need trained female health workers; trained doctors; health centers that can serve. Building the capacity of the Ministr...

Cloned Dogs to Be Mated as Test

...uk. So far, the team has cloned one male and three female Afghan hounds. Mr Hwang was hailed as a national hero in South Korea until a university inquiry ruled that some of his work on cloning embryonic human stem cells was fake. He is now on trial for fraud, embezzlement, ethical breaches and other c...

Cognitive Problems Occur More Rapidly in Female Alcoholics Than in Males

...h less overall consumption. A new study shows that female alcoholics may also sustain greater cognitive dama...rformance of four groups – Russian male (n=78) and female (n=24) alcoholics, and non-alcoholic control subjects (n=68) – on a series of neurocognitive tasks: ...

Dry Eyes Are More Than a Nuisance

...ortionately affected by DES include the balance of female and male sex hormones. “There are data to support the hypothesis that androgens (male sex hormones) are protective whereas estrogens (female sex hormones) appear to play a more detrimental role,” Schaumberg said. Despite the fact that DES is one of...

Scientists Find Clue for the Prevalence of Bladder Cancer More in Men

...nes. The team has shown in other studies that even female hormones such as estrogen can turn on the androgen receptor. "The activity of the androgen receptor is different from the activity of hormones that target the receptor," said Chang. "We've shown very clearly that even without these hormones, the re...

Electronic Mosquito Repellents Fail to Prevent Malaria Transmission

...valent in sub-Saharan Africa. It is transmitted by female Anopheles mosquitoes infected with the malaria par...ives. However, some researchers have reported that female mosquitoes have a very weak sensitivity for any sound. The authors say that 30 years of scientific...

Breast Cancer Vaccine Stimulates Potent Immune Response to Cancer Cells

... Rochester where she began the research anew. In female mouse models bred with the cancer-producing oncogene HER-2/neu, researchers administered a synthetic peptide vaccine during the early stage of tumor development. The experiment was effective in 100 percent of the study samples by either slowing or st...

Measuring Calcium Intake Help to Identify Osteoporosis in Prostate Cancer Patient

...n strongly linked to hormonal changes, such as the female menopause. Links to ADT hormone therapy have also been reported, but the Barcelona study is thought to be the first to look at using daily calcium as a diagnostic tool to identify prostate cancer patients who face an increased risk of osteoporosis...

Hormone Replacement Therapy – To Choose Or No

... menopausal women by giving them measured doses of female hormones, was said to be a two -edged sword. Its risks such as breast cancer, and heart disease often outweighed its benefits, which were calming of traumatic menopausal symptoms. This was mainly due to a 2002 study conducted for the prestigious Wome...

New Procedure Paves Way for Eunuchs to Choose a Gender and Conceive

...e said. "On Friday, for instance, we performed a female genitoplasty and constructed a vagina in a six-yea...rodites - the male pseudohermaphrodites (MPH), the female pseudohermaphrodites (FPH) and the true hermaphrodites (TH). MPH is the most common disorder and a...

Height of Liberation – Lesbians, No Less in Producing Babies (read Daughters

...h promises to strengthen the all woman team, with female offsprings. /V...

Art of Living Fights for Girl Child in Punjab

... of Living Foundation//, to tackle the practice of female foeticide. An 18-day campaign - Beti Sneh Sanji...ware of the long-term repercussions of a dwindling female population. Seven out of the 10 districts in the country with the worst sex ratios are in Punjab -...

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