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New York Records Decline in Smoking Rate

...ures. Over the past year, smoking decreased among men (from 22.5% to 19.9%) and among Hispanics (from 20...e fell faster among women (23% decline) than among men (15% decline). Rates among young adults (ages 18-24) have declined twice as much as rates among ot...

More Women Medical Graduates Than Men

...95. Women pursuing a career as a doctor outnumber men by almost three to two. The poll of 435 doctors s...part-time for most of their career. The figure for men was one in 25. In comparison to 15%men, almost half (48%) women doctors said that they wanted to t...

Afghan Couple Turn to Indian Sperm Banks for Help

... the Afghan couples who have visited me, it is the men who were either infertile or had erectile dysfunction. 'These men are surprised when after tests I inform them that it is they and not their wives who have a problem,...

Gene Therapy for Parkinsons Disease

...ll Medical Center in Manhattan. One woman and 11 men received a surgical infusion of fluid containing a viral vector and genes for a protein called GAD, glutamic acid decarboxylase. This enzyme is critical in controlling a neurotransmitter called GABA. In Parkinsons, GABA is reduced in an area of the b...

BMA Calls for Flexible Working as Number of Women Doctors Swell

... female doctors embarking on NHS careers outnumber men by almost three to two. A cohort of 435 doctors who graduated from UK medical schools in 2006 will be surveyed by the BMA for the next ten years. Almost three in five (58%) are female, compared with 51% in 1995, when the BMA launched a similar stu...

US Observers Concerned Over Increasingly Permissive Atmosphere

...een 1999 and 2002, also showed 46 percent of black men said they had 15 or more sexual partners in a lifetime. Overall, 17 percent of men and 10 percent of women said they had two or more sexual partners in the past year. The younger a pe...

Its too Little, Not too Much Work That can Make a Marriage Collapse!

... of broken marriages increased to 2.7 percent when men worked shorter hours. This is because, Dr Wooden, due to the fact that men in part-time jobs are more likely to be underemployed. "Presumably they're getting cranky, and tha...

More Fat Leads to Less Coronary Artery Calcification

...ry calcification than those with more fat. Thinner men also had more evidence of coronary artery calcification than men with a higher BMI.What it comes down to is a kind of double-edged relationship, said Baqiyyah Conway...

'Walk of Shame' Triggers Toilet Consciousness

...n's self help groups. In the Kala Jhattha, young men and women dance, sing and perform skits based on seven components of the campaign - community, sanitation, safe drinking water, personal hygiene, school sanitation, solid and liquid waste disposal and individual household toilets. "They are the be...

It is Men, and Not Women, to Be Blamed for Recurrent Pregnancy Loss

...who are socially ridiculed. This study proves that men should not blame women alone for recurrent miscarriage. They are equally responsible," he added. Elaborating on the inferior quality of sperms, Misro said environmental pollution is one of the factors. "Through polluted air and water, a compound ca...

Talking About Your Feelings Really Does Help

...dy was conducted on thirty people, 18 women and 12 men between ages of 18 and 36, who viewed images of individuals making different emotional expressions. Below the picture of the face they either saw two words, such as "angry" and "fearful," and chose which emotion described the face, or they saw two na...

Witchcraft in Focus at Arctic Rendez-vous

...women and children who suffer from witchhunts. The men are less vulnerable because their social status is more solid," she said. While witchhunts gain ground in some parts of the world, sorcery and witchcraft are making strides in the West, in particular in Britain, Canada and the United States where t...

Link Between Teenage Violence and Domestic Violence Found

...ition it showed that nearly twice as many women as men said they perpetrated domestic violence in the past year including kicking, biting or punching their partner, threatening to hit or throw something at their partner, and pushing, grabbing or shoving their partner. Funded by the National Institute o...

Goans Celebrate Monsoon Festival

...h traditional fervour. At Loutulim in south Goa, men wearing 'copel' or crowns of flowers and grass, su...iva San Joao," said Fernandes. In Navelim, young men and teenaged boys, were seen diving into a well and splashing around. Men, women and children donn...

Concern in Mizoram Over Growing Tobacco-related Diseases

...ter knowing the hazards of tobacco use, many young men and women have got themselves enrolled in several ... According to authorities, every year over 1,000 men and women reach hospitals in fading condition, mostly suffering with lung and tongue cancer. Jane ...

Common Antidepressants Linked to Increased Bone Loss in Older Adults

... linked to an increased rate of bone loss in older men and women . The antidepressant medications known...," the authors conclude. The second study, 5,995 men age 65 and older (average age 73.7), was conducted by researchers led by Dr Elizabeth M. Haney, of O...

Knightley and Miller's High Calorie Curry Diet!

...e actresses have bigger appetites than most of the men on the set. "Both Keira and Sienna have bigger appetites than many of the men on set. Keira was told to beef up for the role and she and Sienna have both been having food competi...

Using Portion-control Dishes can Help Obese Diabetics Lose Weight

...ions approximately totaled an 800-calorie meal for men and a 650-calorie meal for women. The cereal bowl is designed to allow a 200-calorie meal of cereal and milk. Half of 130 obese patients with diabetes (average age 56) were randomly assigned to use the plate for their largest meal and the bowl whe...

Brazil Government New Health Offer

...n to cut prices on birth control pills and advised men to get vasectomies. His support for abortion and call for a referendum on its legalization in Brazil has outraged Roman Catholic leaders. Weeks before a visit by Pope Benedict to the world's largest Catholic nation, Temporao criticized the national b...

Air Pollution Affects Women More Than Men: Study

...h shows that air pollution affects women more than men . Researchers at Pennsylvania State University studied two groups of mice with pneumonia. One group was exposed to ozone, an air pollutant. The other group breathed filtered air. The exposure to ozone significantly decreased the likelihood of fem...

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