UN: 'Worrying' increase in global child trafficking
Children—most of them girls—now make up 27 percent of all human trafficking cases, marking an alarming increase in recent years, a UN agency said Wednesday.
Dec 13, 2012
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New hormone therapy shows promise for menopausal symptoms in animal model
Investigators at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have concluded research on a new postmenopausal hormone therapy that shows promise as an effective treatment for menopausal symptoms and the prevention of osteoporosis without ...
Dec 13, 2012
Ability to sit and rise from the floor is closely correlated with all-cause mortality risk
A simple screening test of musculo-skeletal fitness has proved remarkably predictive of all-cause mortality in a study of more than 2000 middle-aged and older men and women. The study, performed in Brazil by Dr Claudio Gil ...
Dec 13, 2012
HPV in older women may be due to reactivation of virus, not new infection
A new study suggests that human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in women at or after menopause may represent an infection acquired years ago, and that HPV infections may exist below limits of detection after one to two years, ...
Dec 13, 2012
