Sentences with phrase «male births»

A multinational survey published in 2005 found more than half of men would be willing to use a new method of male birth control.

When will they make male birth control pills?.

The proportion of male births in relation to mean annual ambient temperature is also shown for the B, concurrent and C, previous years.

Because sex ratio is biased toward males, the figure is expressed by dividing male births by total births.

Many prior attempts to create male birth control drugs have had problems with side effects too, especially with liver damage.

That's something other male birth - control makers have struggled with in the past.

Well, recent studies are showing that somehow male births are being correlated with Moms having better future health.

In contrast lags of the proportion of male births show almost no significant correlations, with only marginal significance at lags 3, 8 and 16.

Temperature is clearly seasonal, while the proportion of male births is not.

The researchers say that their findings might help explain slight reductions in male births in richer countries.

Further analysis of the annual proportion of male births for this shorter time series is presented in Supporting Text S2, including additional analysis of the residuals from the fitted model, which confirms the model is appropriate.

The proportion of male births from 1876 — 2009 and the mean annual ambient temperature in °C during the same period.

We've been hearing about better male birth control for years now, but in recent weeks two new promising options have come to light: RISUG (reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance), being developed by an Indian scientist, Sujoy Guh, and the discovery of a gene, Katnal1, critical for sperm production; if scientists can tweak the gene -LSB-...]

Now men are a step closer to protecting themselves in a similar way with the development of the first ever drug to offer non-hormonal and reversible male birth control.

Scientific studies have linked EDC exposure to rising rates of male birth defects, infertility, cancer, obesity and neurobehavioral disorders.

Thirdly, we tested whether seasonal ambient temperatures, or deviations from those seasonal patterns, were positively related to the proportion of male births using monthly data from 1980 — 2009.

, and by working to lower the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies in the first place — which means better sexual health education in schools, funding for birth control measures and education about using that birth control, promoting research into methods of safe male birth control, and creating an environment where the women in your life can come to you to discuss safe sexual choices.

After a steady birthrate for decades, male births skyrocketed in the wake of the accident, peaking in 1996 with 118 boys born for every 100 girls.

GO LOW A prototype male birth control pill caused reproductive hormones in men to plummet to levels known to halt sperm production.

Scholars had noticed a drop in male births during the 1960s, but they attributed it to data error «because they focused exclusively on the search for social explanations, and there were none,» says Song, like a cultural son preference.

But aside from deliberate, high - tech medical techniques (including those employed to prevent heritable diseases and something called sperm sorting), the odds of delivering a boy versus a girl are simply luck of the draw: Globally, male births only slightly trump female births (about 107 boys for every 100 girls), and in the United States the ratio is even closer to 50/50.

A 2013 Greek study found that in the two years following an earthquake on the island of Zakynthos, the rate of male births declined significantly.

Kleinfelter's is a rare genetic disorder that happens in 1 in 500 to 1 in 1,000 live male births.

Other tales feature a grizzled and possibly deranged male birth doula, a doomsday hustler about to face the multi-universal truth of «the real - ass jumbo,» and a tawdry glimpse of the northern New Jersey high school shot - putting circuit, circa 1986.

For our third hypothesis, following Lerchl [16], [18], we tested whether monthly ambient temperatures, or deviations from those seasonal patterns (i.e. extreme temperatures), were positively related to the monthly proportion of male births over the period 1980 — 2009.

The proportion of males born ranged by 3.17 %, from 0.504 to 0.520, but no significant relationship was observed between male birth rates and mean annual temperature in the concurrent or previous years.

Errors in reporting annual birth rates may have masked the true proportion of male births occurring in some years between 1876 and 1960 [21].

B. Average proportion of male births ± 1 standard error (left axis) and average temperature ± 1 standard error (right axis), averaged over 1980 — 2009.

Thus, for our third hypothesis we tested whether seasonal variation in ambient temperature at the time of conception is related to the proportion of male births [18] using monthly data from 1980 — 2009.

Changes in the proportion of male births from 1929 — 2009 were not related to changes in the concurrent or previous year proportion of male stillbirths.

Throughout human history, demographers tell us, nature has provided about 105 male births for every 100 females.

We've been hearing about better male birth control for years now, but in recent weeks two new promising options have come to light: RISUG (reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance), being developed by an Indian scientist, Sujoy Guh, and the discovery of a gene, Katnal1, critical for sperm production; if scientists can tweak the gene with a pill, sperm production will be stalled.

THE first drug to offer non-hormonal and reversible male birth control is a step closer.

In the past few decades we have seen autism increase tenfold, leukemia go up more than 60 percent, male birth defects double, and childhood brain cancer go up 40 percent.

Given that fluctuations in ambient temperature have previously been shown to affect sex allocation in humans, we examined the hypothesis that ambient temperature predicts fluctuations in the proportion of male births in New Zealand.

(And with male birth control now a step closer to reality, that number may rise even more in the future.)

We used the numbers of male and female births each year to calculate the annual proportion of male births from 1876 to 2009.

Page said that even in a best case scenario, a male birth control pill for consumers is still between five and 10 years away, since much larger - scale studies need to be done before the FDA would give a seal of approval.

We're still obviously a few years away — assuming men would even be interested in male birth control — so in the meantime all we have are the same old methods, most of which are a woman's responsibility and none of which are 100 percent foolproof.

The most popular baby names are 100 percent taken from Social Security cards from a total of 169,233,019 male births And 165,941,917 total female births in the United States.

How does the male birth control pill work exactly?

A male birth control shot may be on the horizon, and may provide competition for another product being tested — the male pill.

On the latest episode of the Latinos Out Loud podcast, Alana J fills in for Rachel and the crew discuss Drake's theft of Fernando the Party Planner's entire swag, messy Uber stories, male birth control pills and Cynthia Nixon's run for Governor.

CHICAGO — A once - daily capsule safely suppressed reproductive hormones in men, making it an appealing candidate for a male birth control pill, according to a small study.

The finding, reported in tomorrow's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may help researchers narrow their search for a possible therapeutic drug against a condition that strikes one in 2000 male births.

Myotubular myopathy is estimated to affect 1 in 50,000 male births, and boys born with the condition often die in the first year of life.

A further study in October of last year found an average ratio of female to male births of 54:46 in about 90 Canadian communities, a shift that James Argo of the IntrAmericas Centre for Environment and Health in Ontario attributes to dioxin pollution from nearby oil refineries, metal smelters, coke ovens, and pulp mills.

That suspicion is borne out by a 2004 study of four areas in the Russian Arctic in which the ratio of female to male births was an astonishing 2.5:1 in women who had more than four micrograms of PCB per liter of blood.

DMD affects an estimated 1 in 3,600 - 6,000 male births in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).