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Diaphragms offer no extra protection Against HIV

...rial of almost 5,000 sexually active, HIV-negative women in South Africa and Zimbabwe."Although the interve... the most closely watched HIV prevention trial for women since January, when researchers abruptly ended studies of a vaginal gel meant to block the virus aft...

Evidence Underlying Repeated Courses of Steroids for Preterm Birth may Be Unsound

...k of delivery, which led to repeated treatment for women who did not deliver within this time frame. However, two researchers have now reported in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) that methodological problems might have rendered conclusions drawn from these analyses wrong. They also said that the pra...

Psychologists Have Found 237 New Reasons for People to Have Sex

...ons including boredom and spirituality for men and women to want to make love . A team led by Cindy Mesto...niversity of Texas quizzed more than 2,000 men and women aged 17 to 52 as part of the study. The study found all types of reasons including men and women s...

Prostitutes Fume as Norway Bids to Criminalise Sex Purchases

...law will end street prostitution but it won't stop women from working indoors or from going abroad" to work as prostitutes, Liv Jessen, director of the Pro Centre, an Oslo-based support group for prostitutes, told AFP. It is estimated that about 40 percent of prostitution in Norway is conducted on the st...

Consuming Grape Fruit Increases Breast Cancer Risk: Study

...ii, that included more than 50,000 post-menopausal women from five ethnic groups. The group included 1,657 women who were suffering from breast cancer. The researchers found that eating as little as a quarter of ...

Study Finds Most Women Getting Wrong Dose of Fertility Drugs

...has alarmingly found that more than 90 per cent of women undergoing fertility treatments may be getting the... work properly, but also that they may be exposing women to a greater risk of side effects. During each menstrual cycle, women usually release one egg. The...

Yo-yo Dieting Increases Kidney Cancer Risk in Women

... excessive dieting. Researchers studied 140,057 women aged between 50 and 79 for almost eight years to s...udy the consequences of yo-yo dieting and compared women average waist size to those with the large waistlines. The study found that weight cycling as pers...

Queen Latifah Set to Open Burger Joint

...e has also developed her own line of cosmetics for women of colour called the Covergirl Queen Collection and has starred in several commercials for the line, as well as in a commercial with fellow spokeswoman and singer Faith Hill....

India Plans Hospices for HIV Positive Women

...nt is planning to set up hospices for HIV positive women . Minister for Women and Child Development Renuk..., "We plan to start hospices in villages for those women who are thrown out of their homes due to their HIV positive status. These women will be provided tra...

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

... Last week the DHB said many ineligible pregnant women were traveling from Auckland, where they knew they...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 ...

Feeding Programme Gives Hope to Tribal Mothers

... of the UN and the Indian government, impoverished women in Orissa are battling malnutrition among children...me is being run with the help of the department of women and child welfare and the department of social welfare in the state. Statistics show malnutrition ...

Men Under Knife to Reduce Bulging Waistline in Britian

...ir bodies. The men seem to be facing pressures as women to look good thus they are increasing turning to cosmetic surgery to deal with their sagging faces. The idea of men letting themselves go with age is no longer accurate. Weve seen a dramatic increase in men of this age coming to our clinics, said Li...

Memory Problem in Older Women Lead to Restless Nights

...journal of the American Academy of Neurology,Older women experiencing memory loss are more likely than women without cognitive decline to have problems falling asleep and staying asleep. For the study, 2,47...

The Queen Of All Contraceptives Released

...any-backed studies, she reported that menstruating women feel less effective at work and take more sick day...ore or less sick and unfit for hard work. After women pressed ahead, attended college and excelled in the halls of learning, the debate about menstrual cy...

Kerala Government Battles With Chikungunya On All Counts

...rest of the country with 70.9 for males and 76 for women as against 61.8 and 63.5 respectively in the country. In addition, people are highly educated and well informed. Even the remote villages have public health centers. People have good access to doctors and medicines. Basic infrastructure in smaller...

Differences in Brain Functions Results in non-contact Knee Injuries

...likely even greater on women's sports teams. Young women are actually at the highest risk for these injuries, particularly in soccer and basketball, Swanik said. The study is reported in the June edition of the American Journal of Sports Medicine....

Female Doctors Facing Barriers to Careers in Education and Research, Study Finds

...Academic medicine is failing to attract and retain women doctors. The researchers surveyed 1,162 doctors ...ther universities: Men are much more likely than women to be editors of medical journals (14% compared to 6%), Men are more likely than women to receive en...

Breast Cancer Risk is not Reduced by a Diet Rich in Fruit and Vegetables

...k of early stage breast cancer was not reduced in women who adopted a diet very high in vegetables, fruit and fiber and low in fat. This group of women were compared to women who followed a diet of five or more servings a day of fruit and vegetables (t...

High Nonfasting Triglyceride Levels Linked With Cardiovascular Risks

...he general population. The study included 7,587 women and 6,394 men from the general population of Copenhagen, age 20 to 93 years, who were followed up from baseline (1976-1978) until 2004 (average follow-up 26 years). The researchers found that with increasing levels of nonfasting triglycerides, leve...

CT Scan Radiations may Lead to Cancer

...giography varies widely, with the risk greater for women and younger patients. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in men and women in the United States, accounting for 1 in 5 deaths, and a major cause of health care expenditures, w...

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