World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Women
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Motion moans
It is known that women are more prone to migraine and that such attacks are usually related to menstruation cycle. Women also appear to be more prone to motion sickness and this susceptibility seems
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Advantage tamoxifen
A drug that has been around for years is now being considered as a possible weapon against breast cancer
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Pregnancy pangs
Nearly 600,000 women die of pregnancy-related complications every year. One woman in 30 who develop chronic, debilitating problems, dies. Each year, nearly 3.4 million infants die in the first days
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All in a day s work
For women in the hill area of Kumaon, Uttar Pradesh, life is not easy. They have to wear the skin off their knuckles to scrape together a living
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Smoking hearts
women who smoke, have a 50 per cent higher risk of dying from heart attack than men who smoke, say researchers. The likely reason given is that tobacco smoke has an adverse effect on the
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INDIA
At a time when plantation companies are under pressure for financial irregularities, they are also facing severe criticism from the ministry of environment and forests which has castigated them for
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Gender equality, on line
The Internet is perhaps the next best thing after we discovered fire and invented the wheel. An astounding wealth of information on every subject under the Sun just waiting for a click of the mouse.
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You take my heart away
When it comes to recieving hearts and kidneys, men do better than women. Women do better when it comes to donating organs
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Rice and easy
A self-propelled paddy transplanter has been developed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi. The machine uses mat-type seedlings for transplanting eight rows at a time.
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Blocking out pain
Many people can either ignore pain or may not notice at all. But men and women use different mechanisms for this purpose. Researchers have detected a gene for female-only system that helps reduce