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Twin Brother may Reduce Sister's Fertility by 25 Percent

...ments like IVF could have skewed fertility data on modern Western societies. It was observed that of 754 twins, females with a twin brother were 25 per cent less likely to have children than females with a twin sister. The researchers also noted that women with a male twin were 15 per cent less likely to ...

Israel Offers Help to India in Tackling Water Scarcity

...force is employed by the sector, promotion of such modern methods used widely in Israel is the need of the hour, Nimbalkar added....

Hair Restoration Procedures Performed Worldwide Increased 34 Percent in 2006

... can be attributed to the continual refinements in modern day hair transplants and proven medical therapies that produce natural-looking results that are virtually undetectable," said Paul C. Cotterill, MD, president of the ISHRS. "Increased public awareness about hair restoration procedures and the range o...

Poor Health Practices Plague Rajasthan Tribal Women

...e region. Only 3 percent women of these tribes use modern methods of contraception and around 15 percent fir...eason behind this was lack of easy availability of modern contraceptives, traditional myths and misconception, fear of side effects and opposition by husband ...

New Research to Make Science and Technology Work for the Poor

... said: Science makes a massive contribution to our modern world. If we are to respond to the challenges of the twenty-first century, research like the STEPS Centres, that makes science and technology work for poor and marginalised people, is essential. Economic development, matters of health and disease, cl...

Ancient Ancestors Might Have Had a Clue to HIV

...virus, PtERV1, left relics of itself in the DNA of modern chimpanzees. All primates make TRIM5alpha, which protects them from viruses in the same broad category as HIV. But each species makes a slightly altered version, making them immune to different combinations of such viruses. The type that rhesus maca...

Adherence of Nanoparticles to RBC- Very Effective Drug Delivery Method

...atment of hematologic disorders. This fusion of modern nanobioscience with cell biology and hematology is precisely the type of interdisciplinary study that the new Experimental Biology and Medicine is interested in publishing. Experimental Biology and Medicine is a journal dedicated to the publication o...

Justin Timberlake is Desperate to Duet With Coldplay

... Paltrow's hubby Chris Martin. "Coldplay are the modern Beatles, so I'd love to do a duet with them - especially Chris Martin," The Sun quoted him, as saying. The singer, who is currently touring in Europe, got into an altercation with fans while in performing in Sweden. The singer's patience was alre...

Living With Stress

...es Danzae Pace says, 'Stress is the trash of modern life - we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.' The choice is yours after all, its your life....

Helpline Launched for Hearing Impaired

... detected as early as a few hours after birth with modern diagnostic instruments such as Oto-acoustic Emissions (OAE) Analysers and ABR (Auditory Brainstem Response) units. Hearing ailments often remain undetected until the child is a few years old.Since children can learn to speak only when they are very...

Digital Music Project Aims to Save Tibetan Folk Songs from Extinction

... She said another problem has been the influx of modern Chinese pop music. "People hear this music all the time on the radio, on [video CDs], and cassette tapes. It comes in and basically takes over," she said, adding, that mechanization has also had an impact on traditional Tibetan music. "Butter-c...

Better Resources Needed To Control Hospital Infections

...nment leadership in providing adequately resourced modern hospital facilities with infection control principles at the core of their design, not just added as an afterthought.'...

DBT And IAVI Forge Partnership To Develop Next Generation Vaccine Candidates

...to give impetus to the development of the field of modern biology and biotechnology in India. Significant achievements include the growth and application of biotechnology in the broad areas of medical biotechnology and health care, agriculture, animal sciences, environment, and industry. DBT has more than 5...

More Than a Toothache

...oor children were most at risk. In spite of such modern innovations as the fluoridation of drinking water, tooth decay is still the single most common childhood disease nationwide, five times as common as asthma. Poor children are more than twice as likely to have cavities as their more affluent peers, re...

Should Menstrual Suppression Be a Lifestyle Choice?

...hat monthly menstruation throughout adulthood is a modern development and is at odds with what female bodies were designed to do. But if it is more common today to have monthly menstrual cycles throughout adult life, this does not in itself mean that monthly menstruation is unnatural, much less that it is...

Despite Being Effective Electroconvulsive Therapy is Underused for Severe Depression

...[ECT] is one of the oldest treatments currently in modern psychiatry, but also one whose time has come."...

Global Warming To Effect Eastern Coast Of India

... the century. This indication is derived from modern simulation studies. In a discussion on this issue in the Indian parliament, Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Shri Namo Narain Meena said that the past observations on the mean sea level along the Indian coast show a long-...

Million Mentally Ill in India

...e mentally ill who have been away from benefits of modern treatment due to stigma, ignorance and paucity of services. Underlining the importance of the programme he said that at any given time about 10% of the population suffers from various mental and behavioral disorders. Out of these, approximately 10...

Our Ancestors Possessed Much Smaller Brains Than It was Thought

...n that might have been even smaller than that of a modern lemur's. "This means the big-brained monkeys and apes developed their large brains at a later point in time, said Simons, a professor of biological anthropology and anatomy at the university. Simons said he originally overestimated Aegyptopithecu...

Modern Medicine Originated in Egypt, Not Greece

The origins of modern medicine lay along the Nile in ancient Egypt and n.... "When we compared the ancient remedies against modern pharmaceutical protocols and standards, we found the prescriptions in the ancient documents not only...

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