People having a tough time in office or at home because of hair loss may soon find an end to their daily misery — scientists may soon be able to grow new hair on balding scalps, avoiding the need for a hair transplant.
Researchers have succeeded in creating new human hair in the laboratory using tiny cells that fuel its growth, Daily Mail reported. The methodology has been used to grow new hair follicles in animals, and is now being tested on humans.
Regular smoking habits may lead you to suffer anxiety and depression which, in turn, make you less physically active and motivated in daily life.
The research, led by Karina Furlanetto from Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Brazil, is the first study to show that smokers are less physically active than non-smokers.
“Our research has demonstrated a reduction in the objectively measured level of physical activity in daily life of adult smokers compared with non-smokers,” said Furlanetto.
With a significant increase in the number of freelancers every year, a new study has suggested how they can make themselves more attractive to potential employers and land more jobs.
According to Elance.com, the online workplace lists more than three million registered freelancers worldwide, and each month it posts 100,000+ freelance jobs ranging from computer programming and web design to finance and engineering.
Researchers have found for the first time that hedging can increase firm value.
In a pioneering study, Michigan State University’s Hayong Yun and Stanford University’s Francisco Perez-Gonzalez show that electric and gas utilities that used derivatives to hedge against unpredictable weather experienced a “positive and significant effect” on the value of their firms.
“Many people have a perception that derivatives are evil, that they helped destroy the economy,” Yun, MSU assistant professor of finance, said.
Researchers have found that adults without college degrees live longer if they feel like they’re in control of their lives and those who feel little control are three times as likely to die.
Lead author Nicholas Turiano, Ph.D., a post-fellow in Psychiatry at the University of Rochester, said that being uneducated and poor doesn’t mean they’re doomed, despite all of the studies showing people with less education are more likely to experience disease, disability, and premature death.
The study followed 6,135 people, ages 25 to 75, for 14 years.
Just 22 per cent of the over-50s are satisfied with their sex lives and a third, a new poll has revealed.
In the survey of 2,000 people, more than a third said that they ‘unhappy’ with their love lives, the Daily Express reported.
Fewer than 19 per cent said that they had sex more than once a week, while a third said that they no longer had sex or made love less than once a year.
A real-life castaway has claimed to have survived for 16 months adrift on boat by catching turtles and birds with his bare hands.
The emaciated man had long hair and a beard, and claimed to have been drifting in the 7.3-metre-fibreglass boat since setting out from Mexico, more than 12,500 km away, for El Salvador on September 2012, the Guardian reported.
The man, dressed only in a ragged pair of underpants, told his rescuers on Thursday that his companion had died at sea several months ago.
The number of men who claim to be the victims of sexual assault is increasing steeply.
According to the police reports, during the past five years the number of male victims of sex assault has jumped from about 480 to 710, Stuff.co.nz reported.
The reports also said that although the number of female victims has also increased by about one-third, the number of male victims have increased by 50 per cent.
Organisations working with male survivors said that while women make up the vast majority of sexual violence victims, many assaults on men still go unreported.
Negative feedback in performance review significantly bothers even the best of employees, it has been revealed.
The new research by psychologists at Kansas State University, Eastern Kentucky University and Texas A and M University has highlighted the dangerous impact of performance review tools like rankings and ratings can be, the Washington Post reported.
The study has shown that those who were most concerned about what other people think hated the constructive criticism they got in reviews, which is the same for the people who seemed most intent on learning. (ANI)
A scientist at the University of California, Riverside suggests that second-hand smoke and third-hand smoke are just as deadly as first-hand smoke.
While first-hand smoke refers to the smoke inhaled by a smoker and second-hand smoke to the exhaled smoke and other substances emanating from the burning cigarette that can get inhaled by others, third-hand smoke is the second-hand smoke that gets left on the surfaces of objects, ages over time and becomes progressively more toxic.
A new study has revealed that men under the age of 65, who have a history of heart disease, are at a higher risk of a heart attack shortly after beginning testosterone therapy.
The joint study, conducted by UCLA, the National Institutes of Health and Consolidated Research Inc., found that there is a two-fold increase in the risk of a heart attack, confirming earlier studies which claimed the same.
The research was prompted by three small earlier studies that had raised concerns about possible adverse cardiovascular outcomes associated with testosterone therapy.
A new study has found that consuming a healthy breakfast in formative years can prevent people from metabolic syndrome in adulthood.
The Umea University study revealed that adolescents who ate poor breakfasts displayed a higher incidence of metabolic syndrome 27 years later, compared with those who ate more substantial breakfasts.
Metabolic syndrome is a collective term for factors that are linked to an increased risk of suffering from cardiovascular disorders.
A new research has found that stressed out people can reduce their worries if they share their problems with people who feel the same way in a similar situation.
Sarah Townsend , from USC Marshall School of Business, said that one of her study’s main discoveries is the benefit gained by spending time and conversing with someone whose emotional response is in line with yours.
Channel Four News’ renowned journalist Jon Snow has claimed that men think about sex whenever they meet a woman for the first time.
The 66-year-old former chancellor of Oxford Brookes University said that sex comes into every evaluation of a woman, and even after a man is just friends with a woman, sex is never off the table, the Daily Express reported.
He said that once a man has established a friendship or a working relationship with a woman, sex is one of the topic that remains, and works as an interesting barrier, which when crossed never creates a problem again.
Researchers have made a new breakthrough that could help baldies grow hair on their scalp.
Xiaowei “George” Xu, MD, PhD, associate professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Dermatology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues have discovered a method for converting adult cells into epithelial stem cells (EpSCs), the first time anyone has achieved this in either humans or mice.
Men’s health remains a neglected area though diseases like cancer and those related to heart and lifestyle grip them two to four times more than women, say doctors, noting that most national health programmes focus mostly on communicable diseases and on children and women.
“Men’s Health remains neglected and is not a focus of any national programme as most of them focus on mostly on communicable diseases, child and woman health.
“The average life span of man is five years shorter than woman in India,” said Dr Rajeev Sood, head of department of Urology in RML Hospital,
Move over the cosmopolitan women, the metro-sexual man is here to stay. As more and more men are becoming conscious of the need to look good, they are opting for plastic surgery to enhance their looks for a better career or simply to look attractive, experts say.
From facelifts to eyelid surgery to nose jobs, many men are opting for plastic surgery and cosmologists say that men care about their looks more than even their wives or girl friends do nowadays.
A new survey has revealed that more than 1 in 10 working Japanese men have experienced “paternity harassment”, which means that they are barred from taking child care leave or are subjected to harassment for even applying.
People are most likely to call their wedding day as the best day of their life, but do you know that your love for Twitter, Instagram and Facebook can ruin your blessed day?
Bridal Coach Rachael Bentick told News.com.au that social media can turn a joyful day into a catastrophic one with just a single tweet or unflattering photo.
Bentick has compiled a list of guidelines for the wedding guests as well as the bride and groom for the prefect wedding.
Marriage is good for the health of men’s bones – but only if they wed when they are 25 or older, a new study has found.
Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), have found evidence that men who married when they were younger than 25 had lower bone strength than men who married for the first time at a later age.
In addition, men in stable marriages or marriage-like relationships who had never previously divorced or separated had greater bone strength than men whose previous marriages had fractured, the researchers said.
A Chinese man has taken his doctor’s odd advice of blowing up balloons to treat his boils to a whole new level and is now inflating tyres with just his nose in 20 minutes.
Nie Yongbing said that 8 years ago his physician had told him he needed to unblock his body’s pathways by inflating balloons, Metro.co.uk reported.
The 61-year-old baker asserted that the unusual treatment worked and he moved onto blowing up tyre inner tubes and mattresses because it made him comfortable and normalised his blood circulation.
Researchers have suggested that men forget more than women.
Professor Jostein Holmen, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, said that it was surprising to see that men forget more than women.
He said that it was also surprising to see that men are just as forgetful whether they are 30 or 60 years old, asserting that the results were unambiguous.
Holmen and his co-workers asked nine questions about how well people think they remember as a part of a large longitudinal population health study conducted in mid-Norway called HUNT3.
Researchers at Concordia’s Centre for Research in Human Development have shown that too much oxytocin or ” love hormone” in healthy young adults can actually result in oversensitivity to the emotions of others.
With the help of psychology professor Mark Ellenbogen, PhD candidates Christopher Cardoso and Anne-Marie Linnen recruited 82 healthy young adults who showed no signs of schizophrenia, autism or related disorders.
Half of the participants were given measured doses of oxytocin, while the rest were offered a placebo.
A new study has found that men who reported being sedentary with low levels of physical activity were at a significantly higher risk for heart failure than those who were more active.
Researchers examined the electronic health records of more than 82,000 men aged 45 years and older who were part of the California Men’s Health Study.
If your husband has one again forgotten the wedding anniversary date or your boyfriend has not left birthday wish on WhatsApp, take heart. Even researchers are puzzled why men forget most.
“It was surprising to see that men forget more than women. This has not been documented before,” said professor Jostein Holmen from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
“It was also surprising to see that men are just as forgetful whether they are 30 or 60 years old. The results were unambiguous,” he added.