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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Gran s a mom
Is a cure for premature menopause in sight?
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No woman, no cry?
An analysis of over a million births in Sweden from 1987 to 1995 suggests that baby girls more likely to make their mothers sick during pregnancy. Johan Askling's group from the Karolinska Institute
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The third wind
The new challenges before Japan require leadership from not just the government and the corporate sector but also the civil society
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Gender inequality
Women are prescribed twice more psychotropic drugs than men, a discovery that has led to much debate in Britain. Is it because women tend to consult psychiatrists whereas men pour their hearts out to
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Know your onions!
An onion a day could help keep osteoporosis (inflammation of bone and cartilage) at bay, claims a new study. When male rats were fed one gramme of dry onion per day, bone resorption
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Labour pangs?
In the last 50 years, India s population has registered a three fold increase
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Eve's motherhood challenged
EVE MAY not have been the mother of the human race after all. Molecular biologists have been arguing that the genetic components of human beings indicate that all family trees lead back to a
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Keeping fit
Thanks to the fitness mania, women are increasingly taking to weight training. The good news is such women may do more than build up their biceps. Bharathi Prabhakaran and her team at the Old
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A hint from cars
GERMAN scientists say an understanding of car crashes could help childbirth specialists tell if a woman needs a Caesarean section (International Business Week, No 3327-657). The team of
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Blinded by figures
By 2010, the world's population will have gone up to 6 billion. But at the recent New York meeting on population and development, counting heads took precedence over critical issues such as women's nutrition and education