mate in Medical News

Zoologists: Lusty voles, mindless of danger, mate like rabbits

GAINESVILLE, Fla. Forgetful Casanovas are lucky in love. At least thats how University of Florida researchers interpret the results of new research on the mating habits and nervous systems of prairie voles. An article about the research, which examined both the voles behavior and their brains,...

In birds, expecting to mate leads to higher fertilization rates

From an evolutionary perspective, the primary task of an organism is to pass along its genes to future generations. Such genetic transmission is usually assumed to be instinctive. However, a new study shows that species also learn to adapt to their surroundings in order to increase their reproduct...

All-Natural Organic Yerba Mate and Organic Aloe Vera Exfoliating Soaps will Help 'Save Your Skin(TM)'

PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- All soaps are not created equal. Most consumers have no idea that many popular, brand-name soaps contain beef fat, as well as artificial chemicals and additives that are often tested on animals, according to Scott Cecil, President of personal care produ...

Women may not be so picky after all about choosing a mate

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Men and women may not be from two different planets after all when it comes to choosiness in mate selection, according to new research from Northwestern University. When women were assigned to the traditionally male role of approaching potential romantic partners, they were n...

The Search for Healthier Drinks Turns Up Yerba Mate

NEW YORK, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- There's a revolution taking place, and it's changing the face of cold-beverage shelves across the nation. People are searching for a drink that's more sophisticated than traditional sodas. Many are looking for something refreshing to drink that provides health...

Choose your mate

According to a new research the descendants of females who are given a choice to select their partners live longer than those who are not given the choice.The research involves the humble fruit fly, but experts believe it could have inkling for the human espousal game. Geneticists from the Uni...

National Foundation for Infectious Diseases honors VCU physician with Maxwell Finland Award for 2010

...ates; Joshua Lederberg, Ph.D., (1997), a molecular biologist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering that bacteria mate and exchange genes; and Michael E. DeBakey, M.D., (1992), an internationally renowned cardiac surgeon. Wenzel has contributed significantly to clin...

AIDS-like Illness Found in African Chimps

...amous. "When the females are cycling, capable of becoming pregnant, they mate with anyone who wants to mate with them," Hahn explained. The next step is to figure out what to do wi...

Hypertronics Introduces ImplanTac(TM) for IS-1 and draft IS-4 Form Factors

...ions and high risk factors that may have been an issue in the past. The ImplanTac biocompatible contact solution offers surgeons the ability to easily mate implanted leads into devices without misalignment, damage to the system, or risk to the patient. Using the ImplanTac solution minimizes the number of...

From the Amazon Rainforest to a Smoothie Near You, Planet Smoothie Expands Superfoods Menu Selection

...ich is 100 percent natural. Loaded with Vitamin C and rich in antioxidants, this smoothie is enhanced with the rainforest botanicals guarana and yerba mate for energy. Planet Smoothie is the first smoothie concept to launch the Amazon Energy smoothie. Amazon Cherry is the newest superfood dis...

Snoring pregnant women at higher risk for gestational diabetes

... CHICAGO --- If you are pregnant and your mate complains your frequent snoring is rattling the bedroom windows, you may have bigger problems than an annoyed, sleep-deprived partner. A new study ...

Courage Center Is First in Midwest to Offer Innovative Treatment for Movement Disorders

...m/cgi-bin/prnh/20090609/CG30042 ) The IM Gait mate is used to augment traditional rehabilitation appr...er Forest Lake. Courage Center plans to offer Gait mate at all four of its Twin Cities locations within the next few months. Photo: Gait mate technology is helping stroke survivor Brent Gerten...

Introducing solixir(TM)... The First All-Natural Sparkling Botanical Beverage to Hydrate Body and Soul

...ect blend of sparkling spring water, pure fruit juice, and natural calming botanicals including Chamomile, Lemon Balm, and Passionflower. Orange mate : energize with the unique blend of sparkling spring water, pure fruit juice, and natural invigorating botanicals including Yerba Mate, Panax Gi...

Brits Kiss With Confidence - Some More Than Others

...y're a good kisser More than quarter of people say they kiss members of the same sex for fun - with a third of men admitting to snogging a male mate during nights out Most people experience their first good kiss between the age of 16 and 18. It's downhill from then on with only 1% of men an...

Six Questions Consumers Should Ask About Genetic Tests

... the claims seem hard to believe? Genetic testing is a remarkable science -- but it isn't a guarantee that you will, for example, find the ideal mate or achieve perfect health. If the claim seems too good to be true, it probably is. 4. Are other products, such as nutritional supplements, being...

This February Discovery en Espanol Delves Into The Subconscious World of Attraction in 'Science of Sex Appeal'

...ike voice and movement? You'll never look at a stranger, your loved one or yourself in quite the same way again. Scientists used to think that mate preferences were completely arbitrary, but recent studies suggest that there are certain non conscious factors such as sound and smell over which huma...

Economic Update: You Should Invest (in Your Appearance)

...you are not conveying enough vim and vitality, so he sends you on a bogus errand to keep you out of a key sales meeting with an important client. Your mate complains that you appear angry and depressed all of the time, and begins eyeing greener pastures, which could lead you to become -- well, angry and d...

Brain 'Master Switch' May Control Appetite, Fertility

... Mouse study shows genetic link to signals telling body when it's full, safe to mate SUNDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) -- A new study has found a "master switch" in the brain of mice that helps control both body weight and f...

Students with food allergies often not prepared

... food-allergic. About 60 percent could verify that either a roommate, house mate or suite mate was aware of his or her food allergy. The findings that cause the most c...

Research says fat friends and poor education helps people think thin

...pean women feel overweight. Less than a third of males feel overweight. The authors suggest that whether for reasons of job promotions or finding a mate it is someone's weight relative to others that matters. They show that overweight perceptions and dieting decisions are influenced by people's compari...

Just like penguins and other primates, people trade sex for resources

... ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Female penguins mate with males who bring them pebbles to build egg nests. Hummingbirds mate to gain access to the most productive flowers guarded by larger males. ...

When It Comes to a Mate, Beauty Can't Be Beat

...people are more selective in terms of the attractiveness of their potential mate -- in terms of who they choose to date -- all people, regardless of their o...e of varying attractiveness seemed to use different criteria when assessing mate potential. While the more attractive individuals placed a greater emphasis ...

Study garners unique mating photos of wild gorillas

...ng the gorilla population since 1995. Researchers say that few primates mate in a face-to-face position, known technically as ventro-ventral copulation;...s, but never photographed. Western gorillas in captivity have been known to mate face-to-face, but not in the wild, which makes this observation a noteworth...

Bonn scientists simulate dinosaur digestion in the lab

...the density of population. If this is undercut, the species dies out: 'In this case diseases can rapidly wipe out the whole stock. Moreover, finding a mate becomes difficult,' Martin Sander explains. An animal like the 100-tonne argentinosaurus should have normally not had this 'minimum population density...

'Putting the Medical Profession on Notice!': Widow Tells Tragic Story of How Her Husband Died Due to Misdiagnosis and Mistreatment

... you think. "Let me tell you why the medical profession can be a serious threat to you," Oleta writes. "My precious loving husband Paul, and my soul mate for fourteen years was a person who touched hundreds of peoples' lives throughout his lifetime. He had his own life dramatically shortened by medical ...

January American Naturalist highlights

...ew, female mating frequency is difficult to understand. A substantial body of evidence, taken throughout the animal kingdom, demonstrates that females mate frequently, even when bouts of mating decrease offspring production. This finding is counterintuitive because we would expect natural selection to rem...

Human Noses Sort Out Strangers, Friends

... stimuli that are perceived as very important for us -- either for our survival, finding food, or [they] are carrying other important signals, such as mate selection signals -- are processed faster and more accurately by specialized neuronal networks. It is known that the auditory and visual systems work ...

For the fruit fly, everything changes after sex

...they behaved after mating. In 130 cases, she found flies which continued to mate and laid very few or no eggs. Further evaluation of these genes and subsequ...ould work as a kind of birth control pill: female insects would continue to mate but would not lay eggs. ...

'Are You Man Enough?' to Help Fight Breast Cancer

...eg Olsen is just the person to spearhead the Paper mate "Are You Man Enough?" breast cancer awareness camp...ut Ruth's battle with the disease. Keilty, a Paper mate ambassador whose wife's story appears on papermate...,000 to date for City of Hope. Through 2008, Paper mate will donate up to $200,000 to City of Hope, includ...

Women's Beauty, Men's Wealth Key to Romance: Study

...aits in each other, and when we look at the actual mate choices people make, this is what we find evidence...d statement. "Ancestral individuals who made their mate choices in this way -- women trading off their att...rmany to compare what people said they wanted in a mate with the qualities of the people they actually cho...

Dangerous Liaisons

...t flies. The results of the German-American team challenge the classical definition of a species, according to which individuals of one species can mate at will and produce fertile offspring. Apparently there are barriers to the free interchange of genes even within a species; after all, one out of 50 ...

Choosing a mate: what we really want

...e in "Different cognitive processes underlie human mate choices and mate preferences," which will be published the week of ...aits in each other, and when we look at the actual mate choices people make, this is what we find evidence...

New Heart Pump Shows Promise in Trial

...mpletely different from existing assist devices," said Dr. Leslie W. Miller, chief of cardiology at Washington Hospital Center, referring to the Heart mate II that was implanted in 133 people with end-stage heart failure. "They are pulsatile, stimulating the function of the left ventricle, which injects b...

Not all risk is created equal

...eas." The types of risks identified include competition with other individuals; competition with other groups; mating and allocating resources for mate attraction; environmental risks (chasing a bear or skydiving); and fertility risks. The study showed that our tendencies for risk taking follow these ...

Females avoid incest by causing male relatives to leave home

...ire their offspring. The researchers found that young females prefer to mate with new arrivals in a group - those males born into, or who joined, the gr...s that have built friendly relationships with them for several years. These mate preferences of females mean that males have to choose groups with a high nu...

Natural Selection in Butterflies

...uppressor gene is correct, natural selection is the next step. The suppressor gene allows infected females to produce males, these males will mate with many, many females, and the suppressor gene will therefore be in more and more individuals over generations." Charlat worked with Gregory...

Another Sexual Attraction is Possible ...

...h hybrid matings produce perfectly viable offspring, both types very rarely mate in nature. At a first glance, it is tempting to believe that this is due to...rful mating barrier. Why, then, don't the corn borer Capulets and Montagues mate more often" So far, the researchers can only dream of their next findings.....

Male Pheromones Build Brain Cells in Female Mice

... in the brain cells. "Adult neurogenesis may be involved in female mate selection," Nature Neuroscience quotes Weiss as saying. "Seeing an increase in both areas at once was surprising, but then mate selection is an intrinsically important behaviour," he adds. The r...

Female Ducks Develop Complicated Genitals to Outwit Aggressive Males

...tool, why don't they have them any more?" Brennan asked. Instead, they mate using what biologists call a "cloacal kiss" -- a brief touch of the single ...perm come out of. Brennan noted that in many species, females choose a mate after he puts on an elaborate courtship display, and breeding pairs are oft...

Spouse may "drive You to Drink" but also can Protect You from Alcohol

... Men and women at risk for alcohol dependence are more likely to choose a mate who also is at risk, say investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. That doesn't necessarily mean, however, that both sp...