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Extra Sleep can Boost Athletic Performance

...eagues at Stanford University observed six healthy male college basketball players. They were told to maintain their usual sleeping habits for two weeks and in the following two weeks they were instructed to get as much extra sleep as possible. Throughout the study, researchers measured the students'...

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, "...

Fertility Rates Felled By Diabetes

...ers, diabetes is fast becoming a common reason for male infertility//. The researchers from the Reproduc...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...

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...

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...

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...

Mailing Pamphlets can Reduce Alcohol Consumption

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

Chronically Ill Prisoners Face Great Healthcare Problems

... covered 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 ...

Alcoholism Develops Cognitive Problems in Women

...sult of a 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 contradict...

Artificial Testis Developed by AIIMS a Boon to Suffering Patients

...es any problem as the second one produces both the male hormone and sperms. In case of a double testis replacement, the patient needs male hormone injection in due intervals," said Gupta, who is also chief of the SAARC paediatric surgeons'...

Scientists Explore ‘muscle’ in a New Drug to Assuage Muscular Dystrophy Symptos

...of muscular dystrophy disorders. Sadly, almost 100 male children are born with this crippling disorder each year. An experimental drug has raised scientists’ hope in being able to repair the genetic aberration, so typical among victims of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. The drug PTC124 proved its mettle in...

Large Fluid Intake Won’t Help to Keep Cool for Marathon Runner

...nce.' Dr Byrne and his team monitored a group of male runners taking part in the Singapore Army Half-Marathon, a 21km race that took place in temperatures between 26 and 29 degrees Celsius and 75-90% relative humidity. The night before the race, the runners ingested telemetric temperature sensors, which...

Cloned Dogs to Be Mated as Test

...ert Hwang Woo-Suk. 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 bre...

Cognitive Problems Occur More Rapidly in Female Alcoholics Than in Males

...ics may also sustain greater cognitive damage than male alcoholics. "The term ‘telescoping’ generally re... compared the performance of four groups – Russian male (n=78) and female (n=24) alcoholics, and non-alcoholic control subjects (n=68) – on a series of neur...

Dry Eyes Are More Than a Nuisance

... 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 the most...

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

...ancer Society. Some scientists have suspected that male hormones working in concert with the androgen rece...ossibility that perhaps someday, drugs that target male hormones, like those used against prostate cancer, might help men with bladder cancer. The stronge...

Electronic Mosquito Repellents Fail to Prevent Malaria Transmission

...acturers claim that the buzz mimics the beating of male mosquito wings. EMRs are used indoors and outdoors and are purported to repel mosquitoes within a range of 2.5 meters — about 8 feet. Females are supposedly repelled by the sound, since they mate only once in their lives. However, some researchers ...

Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Saves Men's Lives

... their medical appointments as vigorously as their male counterparts do." Source-Eurekalert ED/V...

Measuring Calcium Intake Help to Identify Osteoporosis in Prostate Cancer Patient

...than the prevalence of osteoporosis in the general male population, where it’s estimated that about 20 per cent of all male osteoporosis cases occur in the 61 to 70 age group. A dietary questionnaire revealed that only sev...

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

...ies to reconstruct the vagina, uterus and even the male genitals," Gupta told IANS. He said some time he...re were mainly three kinds of hermaphrodites - the male pseudohermaphrodites (MPH), the female pseudohermaphrodites (FPH) and the true hermaphrodites (TH). ...

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