Nearly 65% of adults in the Arab region remain excluded from formal financial systems, according to a new report by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). The Annual SDG Review 2025 paints a sobering picture of persistent financial exclusion that is undermining the region’s ability …
for reasons that are unclear, some people especially young women develop potentially life-threatening eating disorders called bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa . People with bulimia , indulge in eating binges (episodes of eating large amounts of food) and purging (getting rid of the food by vomiting or using laxatives). People …
Here is yet another reason why women should not smoke. A recently-published study says that smoking causes wrinkles by upsetting the body's mechanism for renewing the skin cells. Normally, the skin remains healthy, as there is a balance between skin cells lost and new skin cells formed. But it appears …
the little blue pill that restored the sex lives to millions of men may do the same for some women. Two new studies that Viagra may also help boost female sexual response, was reported at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association held in Atlanta, usa, recently. Researchers are …
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
THE mythical clock has struck. A billion and ticking at the rate of 29 per minute, 1790 per hour... The rise in human numbers is accompanied by a host of problems. Knowledge of the carrying capacity of India's lands is extremely limited. There is no worthwhile study covering even the …
WITH his newborn in his arms, 30-year-old Pooranmal stands helplessly outside Jaipur's J K Loan Hospital. The doctors have refused to operate upon his son. "There is no hope. They say my child is not going to live for long,' he says. The child was born on February 25, 2000, …
India is fast becoming the land of superlatives. For all the wrong reasons, of course. Be it August 15, 1999 (UN prediction), or May 11, 2000 (government of India estimates), the nation has reached the inevitable mark. At the time of Independence, the country's population was as low as 350 …
the health of hundreds of women who live off the Pulicat Lake, a bird sanctuary on Chennai's northern outskirts, have been severely affected due to pollution of the lake by industrial and domestic waste. These women earn a living by fishing in the lake and now they are suffering from …
aids has long been considered primarily a men's disease. But late last year, the United Nations reported for the first time that more women than men were infected with the aids virus in Africa, the site of the vast majority of such infections in the world. Of the 22.3 million …
In japan , "the land of paradoxes', as Masafumi Nagao, a professor at the Centre for the study of International Cooperation in Education at Hiroshima University, puts it, the third sector that constitutes the non-profit and the non-governmental sector "is not without history'. The first and the second sectors comprise …
for a majority of Orissa's 22.21 per cent of population that is tribal and traditionally depends on the forest, the collection of minor forest produce ( mfp ) is a vital economic activity. The main occupation for 15 per cent of the tribal people in Orissa, it is a subsidiary …
Women juggling busy careers and a heavy load of household responsibilities may be at a high risk for developing complications during pregnancy. In fact, demands on pregnant women at home "maybe (even) greater than the demands at work,' according to Barbara Luke and colleagues at the University of Michigan Medical …
British casino waitress Donna MaClean is taking no chances. In today's harsh world, this 31-year-old woman has taken perhaps a most pragmatic decision: to patent herself specially so that she can protect herself from "genetic exploitation." A spokesperson at the Patent Office confirmed MaClean's application: "We have received a patent …
"THE first most important thing in life is people. The second most important thing is people and the third most important thing is also people," - this aptly sums up the focus of this reader-friendly book which highlights the unique relationship between humans and nature. The chapters - including "Concepts …
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 in Stockholm, Sweden found that severe nausea and vomiting during a woman's first trimester of pregnancy is …
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 Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, USA put 24 women through a test of weightlifting over a …
Women who endure a very stressful event in their families around the time of conception have an increased chance of giving birth to a baby girl. Dorthe Hansen and colleagues at the John F Kennedy Institute in Glostrup, Denmark, took a look at national fertility records of Denmark. They studied …
