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Strange Sex Life of Mole-rats may Provide Clues About Human Infertility

... suppressing fertility in both the females and the males around her by bullying them. The queen exerts he...ing the ovulatory cycle, while in the non-breeding males it causes lower testosterone concentrations, and lower numbers of sperm. In most non-breeding males,...

Prescription Costs More for Older Men Than Women

...l prescription cost per individual was similar for males (196.13 euro) and females (195.12euro). However af...er 65 years of age, the mean prescribing costs for males were significantly higher than females. On average, costs for a 75-year-old man would be 12 times ...

Overdose of Paracetamol was Dropped

...verdosing fell to a greater extent than it did for males (46% vs. 29%). The majority of overdoses were intentional (85%), with the remainder made up of 13% accidental cases and 2% homicides or of unclear intent. Accidental overdoses fell between 1995 and 2002, but then began to rise again. Over 100 pro...

Liver Cancer More Prevalent in Males

...erleukin-6 (IL-6) in response to liver injury than males do, and that production of this protein is suppres...was behind the higher incidence of liver cancer in males and, if so, how and why?" Heptocellular carcinoma (HCC) a devastating complication of chronic liv...

The Chattier Gender

...elieve the stereotypes of females as talkative and males as reticent, there is no large-scale study that systematically has recorded the natural conversations of large groups of people for extended period of time. For eight years, the psychology researchers have developed a method for recording natural l...

Amorous African Fish Exchange Electric Pulses While Mating

...whole sequence as "electrical duetting", said both males and females seemed to make specific "sounds" before, during, and after mating. The signals aren't actually songs, because the fish sense them electrically rather than acoustically, Wong added. Early biologists, including Charles Darwin, were pu...

Natural Selection in Butterflies

... that spanned less than a year, the proportion of males of the Hypolimnas bolina butterfly on the South Pa... passed down from the mother and selectively kills males before they have a chance to hatch. "To my knowledge, this is the fastest evolutionary change that...

India to Monitor Pregnancies to Check Girl Foeticide: Report

...port. India has only 927 females for every 1,000 males -- far lower than the worldwide average of 1,050 f... gender ratios -- just 820 females for every 1,000 males -- showing the preference for sons persists despite high incomes and education. Sons are typically...

Kashmir Battles Alarming Increase in Suicides

...e pointed out. Quoting data, he said the ratio of males and females in suicide cases was 3:1, in para suic...n deliberate self-harm it was 1:7, indicating that males outdid the females in committing suicides in the valley while more females made attempts to end thei...

Kerala Government Battles With Chikungunya On All Counts

...Kerala leads the rest of the country with 70.9 for males and 76 for women as against 61.8 and 63.5 respectively in the country. In addition, people are highly educated and well informed. Even the remote villages have public health centers. People have good access to doctors and medicines. Basic infrastr...

New Book Gives Gruesome Account of India Girl Killings

...ales. India has only 927 females for every 1,000 males -- far lower than the worldwide average of 1,050 f... gender ratios -- just 820 females for every 1,000 males -- showing the preference for sons is deeply rooted even among families with high income and educati...

Obesity, a Risk Factor for Developing Multiple Myeloma

...based at Harvard School of Public Health, followed males from several health professions since 1986. The studies recorded height, weight and physical activity for each person enrolled, as well as diet, medications, smoking habits and other health behaviours, which was updated every two to four years. ...

Japanese are Weighed Down by Deviating from Their Traditional Diet

...nt. A hip circumference above 85 centimetres for males and 90 centimetres for females is considered obese and at high risk of developing metabolic disorders. Companies will have to provide counselling on fitness and nutrition to those high-risk employees, business newspaper Nikkei reported recently. ...

Dating, Drugs and Sex Make Teens Feel Older Than They are

...smoking, alcohol and drug use. The participants, males and females, were also asked how old they felt compared to their same-sex peers. Survey results indicated that, as is typical for teens, the sample felt older than their chronological age. Kelly Arbeau, a doctoral student in psychology at the Unive...

Autistic Kids can Understand Other People Through Stereotypes

...ere asked questions based on drawings representing males and females coloured in either pink or brown. The researchers asked questions such as: "Here are two children, David and Emma. One of them has four dolls. Which one has four dolls"" The answer Emma conforms to gender stereotypes, the answer David d...

Hair Restoration Procedures Performed Worldwide Increased 34 Percent in 2006

... undergoing hair restoration surgery (31.4 percent males and 26.4 percent females) -- a shift from 2004 in which patients in their 40s comprised the largest number of surgical patients. Specifically, the survey found an increase in the number of younger men undergoing hair restoration surgery from 2004 to...

Male Circumcision Overstated as Deterrent to Global AIDS Pandemic

...ence is not due to higher numbers of circumscribed males in these Muslim communities, but rather results from the fact that there are significantly fewer prostitutes in northern Africa on a per capita basis. In a frequently cited academic paper, Daniel Halperin, an H.I.V. specialist at the Harvard Center ...

New York Records Decline in Smoking Rate

...h a 30% decline in the smoking rates, though Asian males still smoke at a rate of 16.4% Smoking rates on Staten Island have declined by only 0.4% since 2002, while the Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens have seen declines of more than 20% In spite of great progress, we have much farther to go, said Dr. Friede...

Another Sexual Attraction is Possible ...

...us humans, are also signals by which females guide males towards them, even on the darkest nights. Such mat...mation of new species. The fact that conspecific males and females recognize each other by their common use of a highly specific "language" is likely to de...

Air Pollution Affects Women More Than Men: Study

...t there are differences in immune function between males and females. "If we could extrapolate what we found to the human population, it would mean women with lung infections may be at higher risk for negative outcomes if they are exposed to high amounts of air pollution, and in particular, ozone," resea...

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