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Declining Sex Ratio

...ar as worldwide sex ratio is concerned, it is 1.01 male (s)/females as in 2006. Some of the reasons comm...de, female feticide, higher maternal mortality and male bias in emuneration of population. Easy availability of the sex determination test and abortion ser...

Residues Go Merrily Down the Stream in Portland

...s also found that young salmon both the female and male from the Willamette River around Portland showed remains of an 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, head of reproductive toxicolo...

Practicing Spirituality may Help Smokers to Quit

...rquam Hill Campus. Study participants were equally male and female, on average 38 years old, and had smoked about 17 cigarettes a day for approximately 21 years. The anonymous surveys included questions about smoking behaviors, and spiritual practices and beliefs. Of the 104 participants, 92 had some hi...

Insulin Therapy Shown to Treat Early Experimental Diabetic Retinopathy

... subconjunctivally in control and 1 month diabetic male Sprague Dawley (SD) rats. The biological effects of subconjunctival insulin on the retina were analyzed using immunoblotting, kinase assays and immunohistochemical analysis. Additionally, insulin-loaded hydrogels were designed for subconjunctival imp...

Research Suggests Mens Sexual Behavior Adapts to Perceived Threats

...xual relationship. Although this review focused on male adaptations, sexual conflict between males and females produces a co-evolutionary arms race between the sexes, in which an advantage gained by one sex selects for counter-adaptations in the other sex....

Use of Swedish 'snus' is Linked to a Doubled Risk of Pancreatic Cancer

...nska Institutet researchers amongst almost 300,000 male construction workers. The study is published today online in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet. Tobacco smoking is a known risk factor for pancreatic cancer, which is an unusually malignant form of the disease. Since it is common for peopl...

School-Employed Voyeur Jailed Over Making Pornography

.... Students at the South Arm Primary School, both male and female, say they are traumatized by Mayne's actions. One student was so terrified about using the public bathroom that he soiled himself in class. The 31-year-old husband and father has been put on a sexual predators list for the next ten years...

Estrogen is Important for Bone Health in Men as Well as Women

...men," she says. "So we designed a study to look at male estrogen levels and bone density." When estrogen...metabolism and the forms of circulating hormone in male osteoporosis. The Washington University researchers found that the amounts of active estrogen meta...

One Pill may Be Better Than Two for Treating Patients With High Blood Pressure

...in (HDL the 'good' cholesterol), previous stroke, male gender, 55 years or older and smoking. In ASCOT-LLA, researchers examined 10,305 patients with high blood pressure and additional risk factors for heart disease with lowto-moderate cholesterol levels and found the addition of atorvastatin to high b...

Web-based Asthma Program Improves Disease Management for Black Students

...eled asthmatic concerned them less than it did the male students. More students participated at the three high schools with school-based clinics, than did at the three that did not feature such services (35 versus 23 percent). The investigators noted that because all schools had existing computer res...

Sex Advice to Teens by Parents Focuses More on the Negative Aspects

...types of sexual values expressed. A total of 286 male undergraduates aged 18-24 were asked to recollect who had had the maximum influence on their sexual education and, more particularly, who had discussed or been responsible for which aspects. In line with previous studies, the researchers found t...

Multiple Sclerosis Could Be Checked Through Testosterone Gel

...oduces less testosterone. Testosterone is the main male hormone that maintains muscle mass and strength, f...s may also pose problems for the prostate, a small male gland that produces most of the fluids in semen. Testosterone naturally stimulates the growth of the...

Dont Worry- Be Good To Your Heart

...erage of 3.4 years. The study group was 82 percent male with an average age of 68 years. It was found that a total of 44 nonfatal heart attacks and 19 deaths occurred during the study period. Significantly, a high cumulative anxiety score was associated with an elevated risk of both heart attack and de...

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

... more likely to have received eye exams than their male peers. The disparities were found among women even though they generally see a doctor or other health care provider more often than men. The disparities also remained after researchers accounted for socioeconomic factors that may influence care. ...

Female Infanticide and Feticide Continue to Increase

...he increase in many developing countries, where a male child remains more valued. The report, brought out by Plan International - a global child development agency - highlights the fact that two million girls a year still suffer genital mutilation, half a million die during pregnancy - the leading kill...

Hexavalent Chromium in Drinking Water Causes Cancer in Mice

...ist for the 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 high...

Kids With Both Autism and ADHD Four Times More Likely to Bully

...m may bully more often because they are more often male (who are more likely to bully); they are more likely to be bullied (and victims are more likely to bully); and many children with autism require treatment for aggression (which potentially includes bullying). But the researchers did not find that c...

Sylvester Stallone Regrets Smuggling Banned Substances to Australia

...in. Three days later he threw four vials of the male hormone testosterone out the window of his Sydney hotel room when customs officials arrived to search it, prosecutor David Agius told the court at Sydney a couple of days ago. Stallone's medical condition was not revealed in court, but Agius questi...

'Muscle Noise' may Diagnose Neuromuscular Disease Sans Radiation Exposure

....5 centimetres apart, along the thigh of a healthy male volunteer while attaching increasing loads to his ankle. This enabled them to measure the vibrations produced by his vastus lateralis thigh muscle under different stresses. With the help of this sensor array, the researchers measured the velocity o...

Marathon for a Cause: To Fight Against Kidney Disease

... runners from the UAE and a number of professional male athletes, participated in the event, held in appreciation of American doctors and US excellence in kidney transplantation. "The organizing committee decided to increase the prize purse to $20,000 for breaking the record (that Paul Koech of Kenya se...

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