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RSS feedBirth control pill for men
Following this week’s coverage of the reversible male contraception method, it appears that a birth control pill for men is also in the works. Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center are developing what may be the first non-steroidal, oral contraceptive for men. The team of scientists, led by Dr. Debra J. Wolgemuth, discovered that low doses of a compound that interferes with retinoic acid receptors (RARs), stopped sperm production with no apparent side effects. In addition, just like the birth control pill for women, normal levels of fertility could be restored almost [...]
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Top 10 Tips and Tricks to Train, Exercise, and Better Your Brain
While we’re always using our brains, we’re not necessarily doing much to keep them in good shape. Here are the top ten sites and tools to train your brain and exercise your mental muscles.10. SudokuBy now you’re probably familiar with Sudoku, but just in case it’s a number puzzle game with the objective of filling up a grid of numbers. Check out these instructions to learn how to play. Most people find Sudoku a fun and addictive game, plus it can help improve your problem-solving skills (just not your overall brain health). You can play online, on your iOS device, [...]
Status Updates From Body Organs To Your Cellphone
Currently, if a cardiac patient’s heart rate gets too high the implanted defibrillator in their chest gives them a friendly remedial shock to avoid a heart attack. But that could soon change—by giving hearts their very own IP addresses. Dutch research organisation IMEC, based in Eindhoven, this week demonstrated a new type of wireless body area network (BAN). Dubbed the Human++ BAN platform, the system converts IMEC’s ultra-low-power electrocardiogram sensors into wireless nodes in a short-range network, transmitting physiological data to a hub – the patient’s cellphone. [...]
Easy Way to Lose Weight
If you are serious about losing pounds then you need to follow the principles of natural weight loss. Forget about the faddy diets and killing yourself down at the gym. Ignore the latest advertisement for diet pills or diet drinks. In fact, ignore the whole diet industry for a while and get back to basics. In theory it should be easy to lose weight. You simply eat less and move more. But simple doesn’t always cut it. It is not easy to change the habits you have developed over a lifetime that quickly. So what can you do? The first thing is to set yourself a number of small goals. Forget about [...]
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Natural Way Weight Loss
Next to being a genius, losing weight is one of the hardest things to do. Ask anyone who has tried it. It even gets worse when you try to force the regimen by suddenly getting rid of some foods. The thing is weight loss like every natural bodily activity is a process. Gaining weight does not just start in one day. The weight gain is usually as a result of the combined effects of personal eating and exercising habits which must have led to the increased weight and more bodily fat. But even with all these, weight loss can be achieved if you follow some natural processes. If these are thwarted or [...]
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Fastest Way to Lose Weight
Are you in a hurry to lose weight and keep it off? Most of us would like to lose weight as fast as possible and then not gain it back. It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren’t so handy in the refrigerator. ~Hugh Allen Hugh Allen is right. It is so tempting to eat when you know your chocolate cake with strawberry frosting is just inside the refrigerator. It is so tempting to eat when all your good food and good beer is just five steps away from the table. It is so tempting. So, my first advice is this – go shopping and buy fruits and vegetables to [...]
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Here is Why and How you want to Quit Smoking Cigarette
Smoking is considered to be cool, sexy, good for your health and so widely enjoyed that it is actually promoted by sportsmen, well this was in the era’s before the 70’s! Not now. The last cigarette advertisements allowed to air was on January 1, 1971 and since then warnings labels were printed on cigarette packs. US cigarette manufacturers now make more money selling cigarettes to countries around the globe than they do selling to Americans! This reminds me of a very memorable warning about drugs and smoking, it goes “Only dopes use dope!” In fact in a study led by Prof. Mark Weiser of [...]
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How The Recipient Of The First Full Face Transplant Looks
The operation took 24 hours and 30 doctors, but the first full face transplant appears to be a success. Here’s how Oscar, the patient, looks with his new face: You can click on the image for a closer look. This image was taken during a press conference which marked the first time Oscar appeared in public since the face transplant took place about four months ago. Prior to the transplant, the patient could only breathe and be fed through tubes, but now he has “a new nose, lips, cheekbone, lower and upper jawbone, palate, teeth, skin and muscles.” As a result of those new [...]
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Virginity Maintenance Operation
Expensive area in a modern clinic for young Arab women such operations are waiting for their turn which can not only change their lives but also perhaps be saved. Operation cost seventeen hundred pounds and no risk No matter. Shadow girl This clinic is not in Dubai or Cairo is located in Paris and operated by women there want knuarpn maintenance. Asia and the Arab world before the marriage ended because of knuarpn large number of women are victims of life’s problems. Married after knowing that the guilty have been in contact before they can be killed Or at least the dyajayyga tunkal [...]
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How To Sleep Well?
Nothing is more frustrating than not being able to sleep. Tossing and turning. Your mind is racing, going over everything that happened today. Night noises keep you awake. What can you do? There ARE things you can do! Read on and learn some new tricks to sleep well. These tips are also known as “Sleep Hygiene.”Sleep only when sleepyThis reduces the time you are awake in bed.If you can’t fall asleep within 20 minutes, get up and do something boring until you feel sleepySit quietly in the dark or read the warranty on your refrigerator. Don’t expose yourself to [...]
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