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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No fracture hormone
A RECENT study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine has established that women with osteoporosis suffered fewer fractures after treatment with estrogen. Osteoporosis is a potentially
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Giving girls the horrors
FOR MOST girls, fear emanates from an under-the-bed-world. In an experiment in which children aged three to four years were asked about their night-time fears, significantly more girls than boys
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Work outs that work
Medical researchers in the US now insist that previous regimens, prescribing heavy exercise for women, are actually harmful
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Dumping defects
Landfill sites linked to birth defects
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A tangram for Clinton
In order to reinforce its pro abortion stand, the new US administration has announced its intention of resuming funding to the UNFPA. The hitch: UNFPA supports China's rigorous population control programme, which has been decried internationally as infrin
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Just sweat it out
Exercise helps cut down the risk of breast cancer
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Drug row
Prescription drug Prempro, used to treat menopausal symptoms, is under the scanner in the US following a government study that has linked it to other health problems. Class action suits have been
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Lightly treads the tourist
In Nepal's Annapurna Conservation Area (<font class="UCASE">aca), </font> the term
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The fittest survive
An inherited evolutionary change in the current human population is leading the women to have their first child at an early age. A team of British, Australian and American scientists have shown the
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BHUTAN
Hypertension and anaemia are the new buzzwords in health circles in Bhutan. For the first time, under the health systems research programme, the two ailments which primarily affects pregnant women,