New York Times Magazine Examines Abstinence-Only Clubs At Colleges The New York Times Magazine on Sunday examined clubs on some college campuses that promote abstinence until marriage. Until recently, organized efforts aimed at promoting abstinence until marriage have taken place mainly in high schools, the Times Magazine reports.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com61% Of New HIV Cases In Nigeria Occur Among Girls, Women, Official Says An estimated 61% of new HIV cases in Nigeria occur among girls and women, Babatunde Oshotimehin, director-general of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, said recently at a one-day conference, the Vanguard/AllAfrica.com reports.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNotable Impact On Autism Research In Opening Year Shown By First National Autism Registry On April 2, the Kennedy Krieger Institute will commemorate World Autism Awareness Day and National Autism Awareness Month with the one-year anniversary of the Interactive Autism Network (IAN), the first national autism registry.Launched in April 2007 by the Kennedy Krieger Institute, the IAN Project (www.IANProject.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWomen Find It Harder To Keep In Shape Research has shown that "women find it harder than men to keep in shape as they get older," the Daily Mail reports. It says that women should eat lots of protein to try to compensate for the muscle that they lose during the aging process. Older men, however, have no problems in converting the protein that they eat into muscle. The report is based on an experiment carried out in 29 elderly people.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comGrandmother Hypothesis Of Menopause Insight into why females of some species undergo menopause while others do not has proven elusive despite an understanding of the biological mechanisms behind the change.However, new research by scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Exeter suggests that menopause is an adaptation to minimize reproductive competition between generations of females in the same family unit.Even in 'natural fertility' human societies (i.e.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comStigma Clings Stubbornly To Women Living With HIV/AIDS HIV-positive women in the United States face strikingly high levels of stigma, according to survey results released by amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research.The amfAR survey results were presented at a press conference on Monday, March 31 in Washington, D.C. The results of the survey reveal pervasive negative views of HIV-positive women and a high level of discomfort in interacting with them.
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