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High-risk Sexual Behavior Adolescents Attract Peers With Similar Attitudes

...he study 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 ...

Steroid Scam: Sylvester Stallone Gets Away With a Light Punishment

...pin. 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. Stallone was then in Australia to promote his film Rocky Balboa. The 60-year-old Hollywood muscleman pleaded guilty to the charges against hi...

Aggressive Family Planning Sparks Riots in China

...nced sex ratio due to a traditional preference for male heirs, which has prompted families to abort female fetuses in hopes of getting boys....

Vitamins may Not Ward Off Pneumonia

...on the risk of hospital-treated pneumonia in older male smokers. They also found that vitamin E seemed to benefit subjects who initiated smoking at a later age, but they too said that required further investigation....

Viagra may Be Useful for Treating Jet Lag

A new research has found that the male impotence drug Viagra may be useful for treating j...e jet lag. The researchers then found that adult male hamsters given Viagra recovered from jet lag up to 50 per cent faster than hamsters that were not gi...

Regular Smokers are at the Risk of Developing Depression

... Adult Twin Cohort 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 ...

Vegetarian Diet Could Reduce Risk of Colon Cancer

...onsiderably connected with patients over 65 years, male gender, body mass index (BMI) of less than 20 Kg/m... cancer was positively associated with old age and male gender, and inversely associated with vegetarian diet, low BMI and economic deprivation. The inverse...

Researchers Find Estrogen Governs Genes That Affect Aggression

...while the same chemical decreases aggression among male mice, when daylight increases in the summer. Pub...Ohio State University. The researchers castrated male mice to stop production of testosterone, and then fitted in them implants that controlled their test...

Researchers Document First Case of Virgin Birth in Sharks

...had only female sharks which had no contact with a male shark for three years. The birth of the pup at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo, in the US, in December 2001 led to many conclusions including a possible insemination in one of the female sharks in the aquarium. Female sharks have an organ that can store...

Exposure to Smoking in Prenatal Stage Increases ADHD Risk in Children

...uring the course of study, the researchers studied male and female twin pairs, aged 719 years, so as to assess the relationship between genetic variations, prenatal substance exposures, and ADHD sub-types. br> "When genetic factors are combined with prenatal cigarette smoke exposure, the ADHD risk ri...

Four Cups of Coffee a Day may Cut Down the Risk of Gout

...ts were drawn from an ongoing study of some 50,000 male health professionals, 91 percent white, who were between 40 and 75 years of age in 1986 when the project was initiated. To assess coffee and total caffeine intake, Dr. Choi and his team used a food-frequency questionnaire, updated every 4 years. Part...

Red Wine Lessens the Risk of Prostate Cancer

..., and some appear to counterbalance androgens, the male hormones that stimulate the prostate. Many doctors are reluctant to recommend drinking alcohol for health, fearing that their patients might assume that if a little alcohol is good, a lot might be better. The Harvard Mens Health Watch notes that me...

Scientists Report New Take on Sexual Signaling

...ence. The researchers report that females prefer a male sexual signal that helps them avoid their predator...he evolution of outrageous sexual signals like the male peacocks plumage is that showy males attract females and give them better offspring. Showy males esc...

Sheep Offer Model for Undernourishment in Pregnant Teen Girls

...a single egg fertilized with the sperm of just one male sheep. The control group of animals received an optimal diet for maintaining their pregnancies. Ewes in the experimental group were provided a diet that sustained their bodyweight at the time they became pregnant; as a result, their reserves of fat...

Dynamic Sonography Accurate in Diagnosing Muscle Tears

...ital in Muscat, Oman . The study consisted of 50 male soccer players ranging from 20-30 years of age with muscular trauma in the thigh and calf. Dynamic sonography of both the affected and contralateral normal part was performed. Ultrasound is a rapid and radiation free imaging modality available in all...

Death Due to Drowning can Be Identified With the Aid of 'Virtual Autopsy'

... performed total-body MDCT exams on 28 consecutive male drowning victims and a control group of 12 men who were victims of sudden death from coronary artery disease. Following MDCT, routine autopsies were performed. MDCT images were evaluated for the presence of fluid and sediment in the paranasal sinus...

Calum Best Vows to Enter Rehab to Get Rid of Sex and Drug Addiction

...n Im high I do wild, stupid s**t. Im a red-blooded male and Im addicted to sex," he added. Calum also said that he did not want to destroy his life through addiction as his "soccer hero" father George Best did. "I dont have to be like Dad, but I feel his blood running through my veins. I need to sor...

Panacea Announces the Availability of PC Detect(sm) for Prostate Cancer Screening

...m of cancer in men and the second leading cause of male cancer deaths in the United States. The standard-of-care screening tools for prostate cancer used by physicians to determine whether to refer a patient for a prostate biopsy include the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and the digital rectal examinati...

CIGNA HealthCare Teams With HopeLab to Help Blast Teen Cancer

...conducting a randomized, controlled trial with 375 male and female cancer patients aged 13 - 29, enrolled at 34 medical centers in the U.S., Canada and Australia. Preliminary study results, which were first presented in March of 2006 at peer-reviewed scientific meetings, indicate that playing Re-Mission p...

Protein in Human Sperm may Hold Clues to Male Infertility

...an sperm and that of mice, which may hold clues to male infertility . As part of the study, researchers examined sperms from mutant mice with defective versions of the protein. They found that the sperms of mutant mice had very low fertility as compared to those of normal mice. '(The protein) is involv...

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