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New Book Gives Gruesome Account of India Girl Killings

...egions, an acute shortage of women has resulted in men buying brides and sharing them with their brothers. The book tells of Tripala Kumari, 18, whose husband killed her because she refused to have sex with his brothers. Instances came to light of male foetuses dumped in dustbins by doctors who aborted...

Alcohol may Help You to Be Cool

...cola and student colleague Michelle Corman studied men who were each given three to four vodka and orange...were measured for aggressive responses.Some of the men drank three to four screwdrivers before the experiment, while others stayed sober. Then they had t...

Disquieting Slow Down in Heart Disease Deaths Among Under 55s

...om coronary heart disease fell by almost 55% among men and by 48% among women over the two decades. The ...ly increased every decade to reach almost 5.5% for men and over 4% for women from 2000 onwards. But when the figures were unpicked by age, they showed tha...

Male Circumcision can Cut HIV Infection, Studies Show

...ale circumcision can reduce HIV infection rates in men by 60 percent, an international AIDS conference wi...icular African country that HIV rates among Muslim men were lots lower," Cooper told AFP. "But we were never sure that the Muslim men had lower numbers o...

HIV Cases Increasing In Australia

...kely to be mainly due to risky sexual behaviour in men having sex with men, and some clear geographic dif... have contributed to the high rates of exposure in men having male-to-male sex. While Australia remains a low-prevalence country for HIV, evidence that t...

Male Casting Couch in Bollywood?

Sonu Nigam, a top-notch Hindi singer, says that men are not safe in Bollywood, opening a Pandora's bo...ant sexual subjugation but now its the turn of the men to bear the brunt. Sonu is in the US regarding some shows. He is believed to have received threateni...

Obesity, a Risk Factor for Developing Multiple Myeloma

...tween BMI and multiple myeloma was strongest among men with a BMI of 30 or more. The effect was less pronounced among overweight or obese women, yet those women also had an increased risk. Researchers explained that previous research has identified possible biological links between obesity and multipl...

Mens Sexual Prowess Not Affected by Prostate Cancer Drug

...r study, the researchers surveyed more than 17,000 men 55 and older for seven years, and found that though men given finasteride reported on average more dysfunction than did men given a placebo, the small effec...

Help is Hard to Find for Child Sex Abuse Victims in India

...-togethers are large and frequent. Young women and men often live at home with their parents and other family members until they marry. "All the time," said the young woman who had sought help at RAHI, which means "wayfarer" in Hindi, when asked how often she met her abuser. When she told her parents...

Free Your Necktie and Stop Global Warming

...ry of Japan, that began a couple years back to get men to shed their suit coats in the summer. A later proposed Warm Biz campaign, involving wearing warmer clothes in winter to save on heating costs, never gained popularity, but Cool Biz was a hit. Japan claimed that loosening of men's ties had kept ...

Drink-drivers Not Influenced by Ads Unless It Affects Them Personally

Young men are not influenced by advertisements that show hor... consequences of drink-driving can influence young men not to sit behind the wheel while inebriated, only if such public announcements show that a minimum ...

Brit Women Opts for Fake Tan Than Exercise to Mask Their Worst Features

...not just limited to women, for the poll found that men too opted for sunbed or a browning lotion. More than three-quarters of British men admitted that a tan made them feel better about themselves, and that a fake tan made them more mascu...

Japanese are Weighed Down by Deviating from Their Traditional Diet

... that are also becoming increasingly popular among men in the 30s and 40s, the newspaper reported. Additionally, the government has resolved to change the eating habits of students through improved school lunches and thus, indirectly, the nutrition habits of their families. A system that was introduc...

Afghanistan Hopes to Eradicate Polio in Two Years

...n water. "We are giving more scholarships to our men and women to take up various health courses so that all Afghans can look forward to a better future ahead in regard to the health of their families", he said....

Penis Loses Its Most Sensitive Parts During Circumcision Process

... adult male penis in circumcised and uncircumcised men and compared the two populations. Adult male vo...sholds of the penis. Circumcised and uncircumcised men were compared using mixed models for repeated data, controlling for age, type of underwear worn, tim...

WAG Wedding Extravaganza for England Footballers

...me of England's top footballers woke up as married men Sunday after a clutch of extravagant, glitzy nuptials dubbed the ultimate WAG wedding weekend. The off-field antics of the so-called WAGs -- wives and girlfriends -- of England's footballers were as much the focus as their husbands and boyfriends' ...

Questions Raised Over Safety of In-vitro Fertilization

...fects tenfold; while from Denmark a study of young men finds those conceived through fertility treatment are 50 per cent more likely to be infertile themselves. Or is it just a 'mass experiment' with desperate women as the guinea pigs and the results a time-bomb that future generations will have to defu...

Major Surgeries and Operations Could Prove Deadly for Anaemic Older Men

...S research, published in Jama, showed that elderly men with even slightly irregular red blood counts are...ery. The study, which examined data from 310,311 men aged 65 or older, is the first research to demonstrate that even minor anaemia or polycythemia, when...

Rare Womens Lung Disease May Yield Insights Into Common Diseases

...des, medical research studies focused primarily on men and the results of countless studies were then app...the biological sex and gender differences between men and women are more than skin deep. Beginning in 1990, the Society for Womens Health Research, a Wash...

The Custom of Circumcision Decline in the US

...s not endorsed routine circumcision. Heterosexual men in Africa who were circumcised had HIV infection rates up to 60 percent lower than uncircumcised men. Because of those studies, the American Academy of Pediatrics is taking another look at its policy....

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