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Diabetic Death Rate Drops in Men but Remains Unchanged for Women

...l study Tuesday that did not seek the cause of the gender disparity . The Epidemiology and Statistics Bra...dy's chief author, Edward Gregg, was struck by the gender disparity in life expectancy between diabetic men and women, but said in a statement that the study ...

Autistic Kids can Understand Other People Through Stereotypes

...h one has four dolls"" The answer Emma conforms to gender stereotypes, the answer David does not. Each child... or not - were in line with commonly held race and gender stereotypes. In the second task, either stereotypes or individual likes and dislikes could be used...

Biggest Gay Pride Celebration in Toronto

... culmination of a week honoring diverse sexual and gender identities, histories and cultures. The parade followed a four-block route along the streets of Torontos bustling downtown gaybourhood. Music, marchers and dancers flowed through the crowded downtown core, embodying the festival's 2007 theme -- "u...

Fine Particulate Matter from Traffic may Reduce Unborn Babies Birth Weight

...ll as the duration of the pregnancy and the childs gender could be controlled for. The proportion of newborns with a birth weight below 3,000 grams increased with rising concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2,5) during pregnancy. A similar alliance was observed between the absorbance of fine parti...

Church Weddings for Gays Soon a Reality in Sweden

...atic government, recommended the adoption of a new gender neutral marriage law. The Lutheran Church, which has 7.2 million members out of a population of 9.1 million, said in an initial reaction that it preferred the term 'marriage' be reserved for heterosexual unions. It also said it wanted pastors to ...

Sexual Fantasies Play an Important Role in Boosting Desire

...s, which have a role in sexual response, depend on gender Sexual desire leads to other stages of sexual intercourse: excitation and orgasm. Therefore, having intercourse without desire may negatively affect the stages of sexual response. "This first stage is the most complex because it is influenced by ma...

Successful Dads Have Not So Successful Daughters

...e that some genes are designed to benefit just one gender and can handicap the other sex. "We see this sexually antagonistic selection because the male and female deer need to fulfil different requirements in order to be successful," the New Scientist quoted lead author of the study Katharina Foerster of...

Hundreds of Thousands Attend Madrid Gay Pride Parade

...March allowed transsexuals to legally change their gender without having a sex change operation. Campaigners there hoped Saturday's Europride, an event which began in London in 1993, will help countries where gays are still discriminated against to usher in similar legislation. Homosexual rights are "st...

Experts in Istanbul Seek Nature and Measure of Happiness

...rats, open, responsive and not corrupt -- there is gender equality and there is tolerance, and so people are free in these societies to seek that way of life that fits them best," said Veenhoven. In terms of individuals, married people are in general more happy than singles but the index drops with the ar...

Boys and Girls are Different by Nature and Learn in Different Ways

Experts researching on how gender affects learning have found that boys and girls ar... Gurian Institute for training and researching how gender affects learning, explained that both co-education and single sex education could work superbly for ...

Awareness About HIV/AIDS is High Among the Transgenders: Survey

...4 percent revealed that they came to know of their gender problem only during adolescence and over 60 percen...ted by their families and friends as soon as their gender status was known and added they were still existing in the fringes of society despite positive inter...

Women Unaware of When Breast Cancer Risk is Greatest

...he strongest risk factor for breast cancer - after gender -is age. The older the woman, the higher her risk. About one in 70 women will develop breast cancer between 40 and 50 years old but for women from 80 to 90 the figure is one in 25. The study, funded by Cancer Research UK and the NHS Breast Screenin...

Now Sex Determination of Fetuses in Six Weeks in UK

...citing outcomes of recent genetic research, allows gender testing and is the discovery that there is fetal D...nfidence that she will have a girl. The early baby gender test is that simple." It says the test is 99% accurate and offers a refund for wrong predictions. ...

Cause of Gender Differences in Blood Pressure, Kidney Damage Under Study

... thing in my animal model. Shes looking at these gender differences to find what protects females, at least for much of their life, work that led to her selection for the 2007 New Investigator Award of the American Physiological Societys Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis Section. She presented her work...

Study Evaluates the Incompetence of Blacks as Living Kidney Donors

...re all identified by documented information race, gender and cause of donor exclusion. In some cases, disqualified donors had more than one reason for exclusion. About 30 percent of blacks were excluded because of obesity, compared to 16.6 percent of whites. Obesity was defined by body mass index (BMI) g...

Film Festival on Gender Sexuality Draws Crowds

...the mainstay of the international film festival on gender and sexuality, which attracted quite a crowd on its first day Saturday. Brought together by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT), Prasar Bharati Corporation, the Mac Arthur Foundation and UNESCO, the four-day festival at the India Habitat ...

Stroke Risk Nearly Doubles for Siblings of People Who Have Had a Stroke

... risk can be even higher depending on the race and gender of the person who had the stroke. The study look...ys more research is needed to explain the possible gender and ethnic differences in risk factors among siblings. "People of all ethnicities should be aware th...

Women With Heart Disease and Diabetes Less Likely to Receive Proper Care: Study

...asty for heart disease, few studies have evaluated gender disparities in managed care settings. All the pa...earch needs to be done to understand why there are gender differences in outpatient care. "As we become a nation with an older population, the type of routi...

Female Infanticide and Feticide Continue to Increase

...hts discrimination and will work towards improving gender equality worldwide. Designed to run until 2015, ...ituations. To discriminate on the basis of sex and gender is morally indefensible; it is economically, politically and socially unsupportable."...

Feelings Of Injustice At Work Can Lead To A Heart Attack

...irness in society, with an emphasis on things like gender equality." Almost 3,000 people in the study felt they were unfairly treated. The least positive category, those who "strongly agreed" with a statement that said "I often have the feeling that I am being treated unfairly," included 567 people, and 5...

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