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Almond Structure in the Brain Intrigues Researchers

...onally influenced memories, behaves differently in males and females, while at rest and in the absence of a...sides of the brain, portrays different behavior in males and females, when they are at rest. The researchers observed that in men, the right amygdala display...

Gender Question Solved

...as// successfully identified the reason behind why males produce sperm and females produce eggs. The findin... leading to the production of eggs. In the case of males an enzyme is present in male embryos that wipes out retinoic acid and so suppresses meiosis before b...

India Can Become A Role Model In Combating HIV Infections

... in the south - most likely or perhaps only due to males using sex workers less or using condoms more often,' Jha told IANS. 'Indian experiences can serve as a roadmap on how to reduce HIV worldwide. Modest public health effort has turned around what was a worsening HIV epidemic. Globally this lesson co...

Rates of HIV infection shows a sharp decline in south India

... in the south - most likely or perhaps only due to males using sex workers less or using condoms more often when they do. The not-so-good news is that trends in the north remain uncertain and poorly studied. Lead author Professor Rajesh Kumar at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Researc...

Doctor Jailed For Abortion Racket In Haryana

...untry. There are about 861 females for every 1,000 males in Haryana, according to the census. The national average is 927 women to 1,000 men. In an article in The Lancet, Indian and Canadian researchers had said earlier this year that the practice or abortion was resulting in the loss of 500,000 females ea...

Know The Brain Behind The Human Growth Hormone!

...l studies in our lab and in others have shown that males learn differently than females. It is possible that sex differences in these hormones are somehow involved." Source:Eureka...

Beauty in birds’ got to do a lot with Bird flu

...e birds searching for a mate. In many species both males and females prefer to mate with those who have the...ehead spot as a health indicator. When she chooses males with a large forehead spots, she takes not only the healthiest males but also the ones with the best...

A gene related to aggression weakens the brain

...that people with this version of gene – especially males – tended to have relatively smaller emotion-related brain structures, a hyperactive alarm center and under-active impulse control circuitry. This was reported by NIMH intramural researchers Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, M.D., Daniel Weinberger, M.D., P...

Female Ratio Drops Alarmingly In Himachal Due To Feticides

...achal Pradesh has dropped to 803 females per 1,000 males in 2003 as compared to 896 in 2001 and a healthy 951 in 1991," he said. "What is even more alarming is that the female ratio had dropped to less than 800 in 41 percent of villages across the state," Sharma told IANS. The more affected districts a...

Oral Cancer Cases Causing Concern

...s. Again the oral cancer showed a predilection for males with 76.57 percent incidence, while women has a rate of 23.43 percent. Thus the male: female ratio is 3.27:1. The tongue was the most frequently involved site in this cancer. Dr Ravi Mehrotra, who was instrumental in conducting the study, said that t...

Aggression And Fatherly Behavior: Men Have It In Their Genes

...ave concluded that diversity in social behavior of males and females are indeed due to different genetic co...ght be possible to alter the behavioral pattern of males and females through genetic manipulation....

Women Portray Stronger Immune Response As Compared to Men, Study Suggests

...l response to stress that evolved differently from males because of motherhood. According to the authors," oxytocin, a hormone secreted by females in social contexts, may function as part of an alternative stress regulatory system that facilitates wound healing." The alteration in the response of female ...

Men Are Less Capable Of Handling Stress Than Women – New Stud

...at it may shed light on health differences between males and females. The three-month research by the University of Chicago used 120 rats and measured in them what is known as the inflammatory response, the body's initial, fundamental immune reaction to bacteria, viruses and other invaders. Just two or...

Snowmobile accidents, on the rise in Canada

...en in some of the worst injuries. 80% of them were males who suffered multiple injuries. Those who consume alcohol tend to stay three times longer in the hospital as their recovery is slow and also due to the increased severity of the injury. It was seen that the drivers and the passengers have differen...

Female Foetus Can Survive More Stress

... targeted by the mother's body, giving more robust males every opportunity to thrive. They also said that actively culling weak male foetuses might increase the overall chance of a woman's genetic line surviving down the generations, as weak individuals were more likely to produce fewer offspring. Edit...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine Show Promise In Prevention

...x is still prevalent. The effect of the vaccine on males is yet to be analyzed. Infection with human papilloma virus is a major risk factor in the development of cervical cancer. In fact, it accounts for 70% of all cervical cancers. Many different viral strains of the HPV exist. The most significant stra...

Are pretty faces associated with positive trait?

...first study participants were asked to rate faces, males and females (unknown). Mostly they were taken from different high school yearbooks and Internet. The pictures were shown for a period of .013 seconds on a computer screen. The participants’ complained of not able to view the pictures and resorte...

Satisfied Sexual Intercourse for Impotence men with Penile Prosthesis

...erection. Erectile dysfunction occurs in 10-15% of males and is mostly caused by psychological factors, stress, performance anxiety and physical factors such as drugs, blood flow abnormalities, nerve impulse abnormalities or hormonal abnormalities. There are three types of erectile dysfunction implants u...

Men queue up for Circumcision In Swaziland To Prevent HIV/AIDS

... to provide circumcision in villages at no cost to males between the ages 10-24. However, the largest international supporters of HIV/AIDS prevention have treated the results cautiously and are waiting for results from similar studies in Uganda and Kenya before deciding whether to offer circumcision mo...

Unfit teenagers and adults have a higher risk of cardiovascular diseases.

...ess was similar between females (34.4 percent) and males (32.9 percent), but among adults the prevalence of...tly higher in females (16.2 percent) compared with males (11.8 percent)....

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