One of the most commonly used and controversial weedkillers, called Atrazine, can turn male frogs into females, researchers reported on Monday.
“Atrazine-exposed males were both demasculinised (chemically castrated) and completely feminized as adults,” Tyrone Hayes of the University of California Berkeley and colleagues wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The chemical had been [...]
Majority of Jordanian women over the age of 25 suffer from vitamin D deficiency, a study released on Monday indicated.
The study, conducted by the National Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Genetics (NCDEG), revealed that 73.7 per cent of Jordanian women over 25 suffer from vitamin D deficiency, while two-thirds suffer from vitamin B12 deficiency.
NCDEG Director [...]
The UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA) has established a charitable health clinic at Hujeira in Damascus to deliver healthcare services to Internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Golan Heights as part of its development projects in health sector.
The RCA is now equipping the health facilities with medical equipment to cover all key health specializations. Mohammed Khalifa [...]
UAE, 2nd of March, 2010. Index Conferences and Exhibitions Organization Est. – member of Index Holding announced today the launch of two major events during March; the UAE International Dental Conference and Arab Dental Exhibition (AEEDC Dubai) and the Dubai International Pharmaceuticals and Technologies Conference and Exhibition (DUPHAT) at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition [...]
The Health Authority – Abu Dhabi (HA-AD), the regulatory body of the healthcare sector in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA), to improve standards and practices of information security and safeguard the IT infrastructure at the Authority against cyber crime.
The MOU was signed by [...]
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