UCLA scientists have used language onset - the age when a child speaks his first word - as a tool for identifying a new gene linked to autism. The team ...read News
There is now rarely a therapeutic indication for infant circumcision, yet ritual (non-therapeutic) male circumcision continues unchecked throughout the world, long after ...read News
The randomised trial, carried out by researchers from Uganda and the USA, was undertaken because previous studies showed that the procedure - which is now recommended as an efficient way ...read News
They say heart attacks are not just the domain of hostile and explosive types, but nervous, withdrawn and chronically anxious people also have a higher risk.
Approximately one in every 500 to 650 baby boys is born with an extra X chromosome, a variation in their genetic code that until a few years ago was thought ...read News
However, research suggests that testosterone levels may affect mens cognitive performance, reports the January 2008 issue of Harvard Mens Health Watch.
All the bodys attributes change with age, and mental functions ...read News
In the September issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Dr. Northouse and researchers report on the psychosocial effects of prostate cancer (CaP) across the spectrum of the illness.
The risk of testicular cancer was significantly lower among first-generation immigrants to Denmark, compared with men born in Denmark to immigrant parents and Danish men with Danish parents. This suggests ...read News
During spermatogenesis, the X chromosome is inactivated in the male germline (sperm cells), thereby silencing, or inactivating, genes residing on the X chromosome. ...read News
According to a report in the early view section of the Journal of Urology by Dr. Shah and CaPSURE investigators, increasing number of prostate biopsy cores may have contributed indirectly ...read News
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