The fear of having sex is termed as genophobia. Fear is an intrinsic part of our inner self and somehow fear and sex have always been interrelated. It is important to feel relaxed and at ease before having sex. But there are hidden fears deep down our mind because sex has somehow always been categorized as some sort of a taboo. Most of the people don’t actually know that they suffer from this phobia as they never talk about it. Read the rest of this entry »
Drugs and protection are essentially symbiotic in combating AIDS. Researchers in Australia have warned that the HIVdefine infection can increase by four folds over the next decade if HIV positivedefine people on antiretroviral drugs stop using condoms due to complacency. Read the rest of this entry »
We have all heard that men reach their sexual peak at 18 and women at 28- so what does that mean for people in their 70’s and 80’s? Read the rest of this entry »
Chlamydia is caused by an organism called ‘ËœChlamydia trachomatis,’ which a male or female can get through sexual contact with someone who is infected. It is a very common sexually transmitted disease (STDdefine). Among all age groups, teenagers and young adults have the highest rates of infection. Read the rest of this entry »
In an unusual incidence, a woman suffered a stroke soon after having sex with her boyfriend. The 35-year old woman Pamela (name changed) a resident of Maywodd, Illinois, said she suddenly lost sensations on the left side of her face and her left arm go weak after having sexual intercourse with her boyfriend. Read the rest of this entry »
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Disturbing a woman’s instinctive attraction to genetically different men could result in difficulties when trying to conceive, an increased risk of miscarriage and long intervals between pregnancies. Passing on a lack of diverse genes to a child could also weaken their immune system.
Humans choose partners through their body odour and tend to be attracted to those with a dissimilar genetic make-up to themselves, maintaining genetic diversity. Genes in the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC), which helps build the proteins involved in the body’s immune response, also play a prominent role in odour through interaction with skin bacteria. In this way these genes also help determine which individuals find us attractive.
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This particular batch had been manufactured and distributed under licence by San Lu using what we believe to be contaminated local raw milk.
A company spokesman said this issue applies to the one batch of ANMUM Materna which was distributed in China (excluding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan). None of the batch in question was exported out of China.
All other ANMUM and ANLENE products in the market have been produced using only 100% fully imported milk from New Zealand and are free from any possibility of contamination with melamine from locally sourced milk, and adhere to the strictest New Zealand and international standards.
Fonterra China said the stock was being recalled because consumer safety was the company’s utmost concern.
(Published at Health News Track on September 17, 2008 – 15 days ago)
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The researchers also found that Asian women whose partners are white are more likely than white women with Asian or white partners to have a caesarean delivery, as part of a broad analysis of perinatal outcomes among Asian, white and Asian-white couples.
The study will be published in the October issue of American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The findings, the authors say, could benefit clinicians working with an increasingly diverse patient population.
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An estimated 90 percent of the body’s ghrelin originates in the fundus, which can’t make the hormone without a good blood supply.
“With gastric artery chemical embolization, called GACE, there’s no major surgery,” says Aravind Arepally, M.D., clinical director of the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design and associate professor of radiology and surgery at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine. “In our study in pigs, this procedure produced an effect similar to bariatric surgery by suppressing ghrelin levels and subsequently lowering appetite.”
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Researchers based their findings on an analysis of 696 women whose miscarriages were classed as “unexplained” by a specialist clinic. They found the subjects’ risk of a further miscarriage was raised by 73 percent if the woman was obese.
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