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Determining the Sex of the Baby in Wild West Way

... result in the termination of pregnancies in cases where the sex of the baby is not according to preference. There are still doubts on the accuracy of the tests. The experts are also concerned about the psychological aspect of these tests. If you have bonded with the fetus thinking its a boy and it turns o...

Diaphragms offer no extra protection Against HIV

... adults are infected in Zimbabwe and South Africa, where the experiment was conducted. Women there run twice the risk of infection as men. In cultures where women are traditionally subservient to men, they have less of a say about matters of sex - when to h...

Move To Ban Asbestos Welcomed

...nes - most notably the eastern townships in Quebec where asbestos is mined. Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn issued a one-paragraph statement defending the status quo on grounds that chrysotile asbestos, the only type mined in Quebec, is "safe when properly used.'' He also confirmed the government h...

Rats Back on the Menu in Southern China

...uding 349 people in China. Officials in Hunan -- where floods have sparked a plague of two billion rats after water submerged their holes -- denied the newspaper's undercover report. One official quoted by the Beijing Times on Sunday dismissed the report, saying it was far too difficult to catch rats a...

Efficacy of Lyme Disease Vaccination Examined

...dom phone survey of 705 adults, who lived in areas where Lyme disease is common, just after the vaccine bec...ts you up to ask the right questions. In the place where risk compensation is most likely to happen a disease where people know the risk and know how to pre...

Lindsay Lohan Out of Her Rehab Stint

... maintain her sobriety whenever she visits a place where booze is served. On her own, she has also made t... if she chooses to go dancing or dining in a place where alcohol is served, the rep said. The rep insisted that the Mean Girls actress is working hard to s...

Prostitutes Fume as Norway Bids to Criminalise Sex Purchases

...P. "The pimps will organise everything: the flat where they live, the choice of clients, and how much mon...ing to lose.' And in a flat, a girl will be alone" where no one would be able to help her," she added. The planned law is modelled on legislation passed in...

Tumor Painting to Fight Against Cancer

...nson Cancer Research Center will help surgeons see where a tumor begins and ends more precisely by illumin.... This is particularly significant in the brain, where approximately 80% of malignant cancers recur at the edges of the surgical site. Current technology, ...

First Drug for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

...that they no longer needed to fear the environment where the foot shocks had once occurred. "In our study, we employ mice to show that extinction of learned fear depends on counteracting components of a molecular pathway involving the protein kinase Cdk5," said Tsai, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute inv...

Singapore's Dr. Love Brings Good Sex to Indonesia

...ed and responded to on the "Love Airways" website, where anyone can log on and learn, he says. "It's a bo...n to a mocked-up boarding pass to access his site, where he shows off Nova and his ambitious plans. Backed by Fiesta, a major condom brand in Indonesia, th...

Double Amputee Finishes Last, but Still Looks Forward to Beijing Olympics

...nded. We would like to get Oscar into a laboratory where we can do more detailed testing and we hope he will actually stop the sort of confrontational attitude he has with us and realize we are also doing our job," Davies said. "The whole world does not centre round Oscar Pistorious. We have all our othe...

Scorpion Venom may Help Treat Cancer

...ssue. This is especially important in the brain, where 80 percent of recurring malignant tumours appear at the edges of the surgical site. The paint marks out tumours with at least 500 times more sensitivity than a magnetic resonance imaging scan, the researchers found. The scientists said that in test...

Many Sceptical of Healing Hand Treatment Practiced in Europe

... person with a toothache usually touches his cheek where he feels the pain, while someone with a bellyache instinctively soothes it by putting a hand on his tummy . Just about everyone would agree that laying a hand on a part of the body that's not well could have a calming effect. This is a principle o...

$1 Million Unpaid Bills by Health Care Cheats at Waikato Hospital

...gible pregnant women were traveling from Auckland, where they knew they wouldn't be treated, to Waikato Hospital to give birth. The women have been turning up at the hospital in labor, giving birth and supplying false names and addresses to avoid paying for the delivery, which costs about $2000....

Hairy Boy Bets on Laser Treatment for Cure

...panying the dermatological problem. Hairy nevus, where a person has patches of excess hair growth or hirsutism, is not uncommon. But hair persisting all over the body is very rare, said plastic surgeon Vinay Saoji. "Though I have not come across such cases or its documentation anywhere, I suppose optio...

Kashmir Battles Alarming Increase in Suicides

...e majority of 736 cases recorded with us are those where the police took cognisance of attempted suicides on their own. "Say for instance, the local police station comes to know about a patient being admitted in the hospital for stomach wash after consuming poison. We immediately take cognisance and regi...

US FDA may Be Asked to Monitor Toxic Levels of Cigarettes

...s generally depend on the environmental conditions where the tobacco is grown. But Ashley, an expert in ...ly he wouldn't want his agency put in the position where it had to determine a cigarette is safe. Strangely, Philip Morris USA, maker of Marlboro, the nati...

Human Membranes Crystal Structure may Help Tailor Asthma Drugs

... position and characteristics of the active sites, where activating or blocking molecules can attach, have been identified. With this knowledge it is now achievable to shape new molecules that can block the LTC4 synthase. The new results are also very important as they can lead the way for the developme...

Boffins Find Evidence for Novel Brain Cell Communication

...tion of gap junctions what nerve cells have them, where on the cells are they located, and how are they controlled. Also, more needs to be learned about exactly how gap junctions contribute to the very fast brain waves that can presage a seizure. And finally, it needs to be determined if attenuating or ...

New Technology Transforming Life for the Deaf

...s of life from across the world. Using the phone where she can cuts down her fear of possible misinterpretations arising from differing sign language usage from one country to the next when it comes to face-to-face appointment-making. The main aim of the congress, which is held every four years -- the ...

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