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Underage Youth Get Alcohol from Social Sources

... alcohol has found that a high percentage of young males were willing to purchase alcohol for underage yout...r, we also found that a higher percentage of young males 19 percent were willing to purchase alcohol for underage youth. Although 19 percent may sound li...

It Takes 750 Pounds a Year to Keep Your Loved One Happy

...ay sound really open-handed, but the study of 2300 males has found that it comes to 3 percent of average annual income in UK - 25,000 pounds. Men are squanderers, for they spend about 71 pounds for their partners as compared to 51 pounds by women, reports Scotsman. Twelve percent of the expenditure on ...

Successful Dads Have Not So Successful Daughters

... see huge differences. "This effect of the best males not producing the best daughters is possibly an important reason why differences remain. Maybe the idea that some genes are better than others is too simplistic: it depends on the sex of the individual." The study and its findings are published in ...

Immune System Protein Could Be the Key Infertility

...ecular Medicine, could 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 semen samples collected from 68 infertile and 27 reproductively healthy men. The samples were collected from men three to five d...

Benoits Son Suffered from Fragile X Syndrome, a Rare Mental Disability

...disorder occurs more frequently and severely among males than females. This condition is the leading known familial cause of mental retardation in the United States. Language delays, behavioral problems, autism or autistic-like behavior (including poor eye contact and hand-flapping), enlarged external ge...

Osteoarthritis Facts and Causes

...lude. Further work in this area, including healthy males and patients with abnormalities, will confirm this conclusion....

Capitalism is Bad for Men's Health: Study

... resources that can come with capitalism does lead males to behave in ways that are detrimental to men's health," lead author Daniel Kruger said in a telephone interview. Increased competition can create an environment that encourages risk-taking behavior that results in fatal accidents, he said. An in...

Male Pheromones Build Brain Cells in Female Mice

... observed that mice exposed to urine from dominant males showed around a 25 per cent in crease in new neuro...clean bedding or urine from females or subordinate males did not show any such increase in the brain cells. "Adult neurogenesis may be involved in female ...

Female Ducks Develop Complicated Genitals to Outwit Aggressive Males

...s, they drove the evolution of male phalluses. The males have to step up to produce a longer or more flexible phallus, she said. "You can envision an evolutionary scenario that, as the male phallus increases in size, the female creates more barriers. You get this evolutionary arms race," Brennan said. ...

Cause of Gender Differences in Blood Pressure, Kidney Damage Under Study

...e could be very different. So shes comparing in males and females some major players in blood pressure ...ensin 2. In the outer most part of their kidneys, males have a lot of the AT1 receptors that enables angiotensin 2 to do harm. Its a vasoconstrictor when i...

Research Suggests Mens Sexual Behavior Adapts to Perceived Threats

...havioral sexual characteristics exhibited by human males indicate that males have evolved to deliver their sperm more effectively to females with multiple partners. Although m...

Number of Children Hospitalized With Type 2 Diabetes on the Rise: Research

...for Type 2 diabetes were 1.3 times more likely for males than females. Children aged 9-12 years old had the highest rates of hospitalization for this disease. Children admitted with Type 2 diabetes had significantly longer lengths of stay in the hospital and more diagnoses on record than children with Type...

Death and Disability from Brain Injury Reduced, Emory Researchers Report

...t in small but measurable amounts in the brains of males and females. Laboratory studies suggest that progesterone is critical for the normal development of neurons in the brain and exerts protective effects on damaged brain tissue. The research team is now planning a large, multi-center, phase III clini...

Hexavalent Chromium in Drinking Water Causes Cancer in Mice

...mall intestines, which increased with dose in both males and females. "We found that hexavalent chromium is absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract. After it is orally administered, it is taken up by the cells in many tissues and organs," said Hooth. The NTP began work on this compound after gaining ...

Researchers Find Link Between Sleep Disorder and Dementia

...y, researchers examined individuals, usually older males who strike out violently, often yelling, when they entered REM sleep, over many years. Researchers found that many of them develop symptoms of dementia. Post-mortems showed that they all had developed Lewy bodies but not the pathology of Alzheim...

Wearing Mouth Appliance During Sleep may Help to Reduce Snoring

...itual snorers. Problem snoring is more frequent in males and overweight people, and usually grows worse with age. More than 300 devices are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as cures for snoring. The studys authors are Stephanie Stouder, DDS; Loren Jones, MD; Scott Brietzke, MD...

High-risk Sexual Behavior Adolescents Attract Peers With Similar Attitudes

...ar attitudes. This occurred to a similar extent in males and females, but occurred less often among Hispanic adolescents than among non-Hispanic white and African American adolescents. "This study has two implications for prevention," according to David B. Henry, associate professor of psychiatry at the...

Stem Cell Answer to Infertility in Five Years, Says Scientist

...w mature sperm and implant them into the infertile males testes is no more than five years away....

Scientists Report New Take on Sexual Signaling

...gnals like the male peacocks plumage is that showy males attract females and give them better offspring. Showy males escape from predators despite their highly conspicuous ornaments and behaviorsproof of their superio...

Limiting Eligibility for Medical Studies can Omit Women and African-Americans

...ult can be a sample that over-represents Caucasian males relative to the treatment population," the authors noted in their paper. Humphreys stressed that he doesn't believe his fellow researchers are acting out of prejudice or purposefully excluding patients. "Most researchers want women in the studies,...

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