News tagged with male births
Multiple births lead to weight gain and other problems for mouse moms and male offspring
Women have long bemoaned the fact that as they have more children, their weight gain from pregnancy becomes more difficult to lose. A new study using a mouse model that mimics the human effects of multiparity (giving birth ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Scientists record electrical currents that control male fertility
Performance anxiety? Not for this human sperm.
Dec 29, 2011 |
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Ultrasounds worsen Asia women shortage: UN
Increased access to technology that allows parents to know the sex of their foetus has left Asia short of 117 million women, mostly in China and India, the UN said Thursday.
Oct 06, 2011 |
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First targeted treatment success for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
(Medical Xpress) -- A team led by scientists at UCL, funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and AVI BioPharma, have made an important breakthrough in the development of a treatment for Duchenne Muscular ...
Jul 25, 2011 |
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Nuclear radiation affects baby gender
Ionizing radiation is not without danger to human populations. Indeed, exposure to nuclear radiation leads to an increase in male births relative to female births, according to a new study by Hagen Scherb and Kristina Voigt ...
May 26, 2011 |
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This is a man's world? Yes and no, says new book
"Man up!" is an emerging expression whose significance has become loaded in our society, according to Anthony Synnott, a professor at the Concordia University Department of Sociology and Anthropology. In his most recent book, ...
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Dec 13, 2010 |
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Newborn weights affected by environmental contaminants
Recent epidemiological studies have revealed an increase in the frequency of genital malformations in male newborns (e.g., un-descended testes) and a decrease in male fertility.
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Selective sex abortion causes 32 million excess males in China
Selective abortion in favour of males has left China with 32 million more boys than girls, creating an imbalance that will endure for decades, an investigation released on Friday warned.
Apr 10, 2009 |
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Tropics are a boon for baby girls
Couples hoping for a baby girl might be best advised to go and live in Africa, if a study published on Wednesday is correct.
Apr 01, 2009 |
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Scatological clues lead to an intimate view
The guys were all stressed out. There were new infants in the community, and the guys knew from experience that that's when invaders were likely to come and kill the babies, particularly the male infants. ...
Mar 04, 2009 |
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