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High Urate Levels in Blood Linked to Reduced Parkinson's Risk

...lth Professionals Follow-up Study, a population of male health professionals established in 1986. The study cohort included more than 18,000 men without Parkinson's disease who had provided blood samples between 1993 and 1995 and whose subsequent health status was followed. The researchers found that me...

Fishes Use Threat of Punishment in Mating Process

...Dr Wong. In 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...

New Oz Road Safety Campaign Hits Speeding Youngsters Below the Belt

...s road accidents involving young and inexperienced male riders, who drive on their restricted, provisional driving licences, in Sydney, Harold Scruby, the head of the road safety lobby group, the Pedestrian Council of Australia, said that the unique way to target youngsters is laudable and witty....

Underage Youth Get Alcohol from Social Sources

...2 attempts, approaching the first casually dressed male entering the store alone who appeared to be 21 to 30 years old. Only a small percentage eight percent of the general adult population entering alcohol establishments are willing to purchase alcohol for individuals who appear under age 21, said To...

Pakistan to Launch World's Biggest Anti-measles Drive

...hich kills up to 10 percent of its victims, causes male sterility and weakens children's immunity. Around one million Pakistani children catch measles every year and nearly 21,000 die from it. The previous largest anti-measles campaign took place last year in Bangladesh, where 33.5 million children we...

Sexual Fantasies Play an Important Role in Boosting Desire

...nd thoughts, and they accept them more easily. The male population has an attitude that, together with sex...se, the researchers have studied such behaviour in male subjects, where sexually sadistic fantasies inhibit sexual desire. In turn, women also share the i...

Successful Dads Have Not So Successful Daughters

...p of the pecking order can rest assured that their male offspring will take after them, but it's a very d...e this sexually antagonistic selection because the male and female deer need to fulfil different requirements in order to be successful," the New Scientist ...

Immune Substance in Semen may Help Determine Male Fertility

... Al-Abed wonders whether MIF can work as a form of male contraceptive, if it has a role in infertility. MIF is a key player of the immune system that has also been linked to many autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, such as diabetes and sepsis. Dr. Al-Abed has been trying to identify and design sma...

Expand HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs, Experts Stress

... epidemic to move into long-term decline. Adding male circumcision to prevention programs would account ...ervention. This underscores the potential power of male circumcision as a prevention tool, provided it is used in combination with other proven prevention s...

Immune System Protein Could Be the Key Infertility

In a possible breakthrough in the research on male infertility, scientists at the Feinstein Institut... lead to fertility tests for males or new types of male contraception, Yousef Al-Abed and his colleagues say. They first isolated the MIF contained in s...

Infertility is Seen in Men With SLE

...nction and its relevance to sperm abnormalities in male SLE patients. In addition, the study identified in...reinforces the need for sperm cryopreservation for male SLE patients undergoing this treatment. Freezing and storing sperm should actually be discussed w...

Capitalism is Bad for Men's Health: Study

...icantly, Kruger said, was that the gap between the male and female mortality rates grew an average of 9.3 percent which showed that "this economic changed was more damaging to men than to women." "The impact was really for men who are in their economically prime years," Kruger said. "If you were an ad...

Male Pheromones Build Brain Cells in Female Mice

...of the University of Cambridge, who has shown that male mouse urine can also trigger the production of new neurons inside a female's vomeronasal organ, a sense organ thought to aid pheromone detection in some mammals. Although humans have receptors similar to those found in mice, the researchers are no...

Surface Logix Commences Phase 2a Clinical Trial of SLx-2101 in Raynaud's Disease

... measure. Phase 1 studies of SLx-2101 in healthy male volunteers demonstrated its favorable safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamic activity. Additionally, in preclinical animal models, the candidate was highly potent and selective, induced rapid cellular and tissue response and provi...

Female Ducks Develop Complicated Genitals to Outwit Aggressive Males

...ped complicated genitals that frustrate aggressive male ducks, scientists have found. A team of biolog...enty of potential dead-ends. "Interestingly, the male phallus is also a spiral, but it twists in the opposite, counterclockwise, direction," said Yale orn...

Useful Parasites

...e host. Most mystifying of the lot, is turning the male into female. Even causing the female to reproduce ...there is an increase in the female promiscuity and male collapse. Many a times there has been instances of a decrease in the female eggs produced. Weeks a...

Caffeinated Sunflower Seeds To Hit The Market

...are the target consumers? Eighteen to 30-year-old male baseball/basketball players, says Dakota Valley Products. This group is touted to be the largest users for in-shell sunflower seeds. The seeds are also popular among truckers, who eat and chew them during long trips to help them stay active. It is al...

Fertility Rates Felled By Diabetes

...ers, diabetes is fast becoming a common reason for male infertility . The researchers from the Reproduct...ists in these men, is one of the leading causes of male infertility. Here an average of 52 percent of the sperm were found to be fragmented as against 32 pe...

Maverick Gay Ex-governor Turns a New Leaf - Accepted at the Episcopalian Seminary

...d gone public about his extramarital affair with a male aide. Following this admission, he had also offered to relinquish his post as governor. The aide had gone on to deny the affair, on the contrary had blamed the governor for harassing him. The Episcopal Church, school spokesman Bruce Parker said, "...

Eyeing a Good Memory - Not an Exercise in Futility!

...102 university students were given recordings of a male voice reading 20 lists of 15 words. The subjects were then provided a list and asked to choose what they had just heard. The study revealed that students who had moved their eyes from side to side performed better -10 per cent more than the rest. In ...

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