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Fertility Rates Felled By Diabetes

According to British researchers, diabetes is fast becoming a common reason for male infertility . The researchers from the Reproductive Medicine Research Group at Queen's University, Belfast, based their study results on semen samples of 57 men who were diagnosed with Diabetes Type 1. In thi...

Fertility Rates Felled By Diabetes

According to British researchers, diabetes is fast becoming a common reason for male infertility//. The researchers from the Reproductive Medicine Research Group at Queen's University, Belfast, based their study results on semen samples of 57 men who were diagnosed with Diabetes Type 1. In thi...

Convict Felled by Legionnaires

A prisoner from Ireland has reportedly succumbed to Legionnaires’ disease. // Jack Russell was admitted to Causeway hospital for treatment where a test revealed the presence of the bacteria Legionella pnuemophila, which causes the disease. Legionnaires' disease is a rare form of pneumonia....

Mighty Conqueror Felled by Stomach Cancer

Napoleon met his Waterloo twice, the second time proving fatal, at the hands of stomach cancer, according to experts. Researchers from US, Switzerland and Canada have put to rest a mystery of 200 years, // regarding the cause of death of the French conqueror. The most recent theory, running ...

British Woman Who Has inherited Breast Cancer Wants to Spread Awareness

... "The beast" has felled her mother, her older sister, five of her aunts, one great, great aunt and six of her cousins . Another cousin in the United States has just found out...

Inquest of Date-rape Drug Victim Attracts Wide Attention in Australia

...old mother of three from Brisbane, Queensland in Australia died on September 23, 2002 , within 24 hours of boarding a cruise liner. She was apparently felled by a toxic combination of alcohol and date-rape drug gamma hydroxybutyrate, also known as fantasy. She had gone on the cruise with her 12-year-ol...

Kashmir University Stops Construction to Save Chinar Trees

...m Bagh campus here. Hundreds of students had launched an aggressive campaign to draw public attention to the possibility of chinar trees being felled to make way for the construction. "I have passed orders so that no law is violated in this regard," Qureshi told IANS. The lofty china...

Keep a Cool Head on Hot, Humid Days to Avoid Heat Stroke

...n system failure. Players at the high school and college level fell victim in recent years too. However, you don't need to be an athlete to be felled by heat stroke. Dr. Heine recalls a 78-year-old woman who was transported by ambulance to the emergency department after a neighbor noticed she hadn't...

Felled in Biological News

Fragmentation rapidly erodes Amazonian biodiversity

...diverse tree communities, with up to three hundred species occurring in an area the size of just two football fields. These forests are being rapidly felled and fragmented for timber operations, cattle ranches and industrial soy farms. The team, led by William Laurance of the Smithsonian Tropical Rese...

Woods Hole Research Center plans controlled burn in Amazon rainforest

...a crucial part of simulating what is happening in the Amazon today, as fires set by landholders to control weeds in their pastures or to burn recently felled forest in preparation for planting often escape beyond their intended boundaries. Undisturbed forests are resistant to burning because their dense lea...