Men are only slightly funnier than women.
It’s not a joke. Men are really funnier than women – but, only to other men, says a study.
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Vitamins and dietary supplements offer little benefit, may be harmful: Study
The study found a small increase in the risk of death among older women who took dietary supplements.
Most people receive little benefit from taking multivitamins and many other dietary supplements and they may even be harmful, according to researchers behind a large new study.
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Chocolate linked to fewer strokes in women: study
Chocolate lovers have fewer strokes.
Having a sweet tooth for chocolate may not necessarily be bad for your health, hints a new study.
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Men have a weaker immune response than women: study
Men who regularly complain of ‘man-flu’ may not be exaggerating after all.
For centuries women have been labeled as the weaker sex. But when it comes to the battlefield of illness and infections, women are far more robust than their male counterparts.
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Coffee drinking linked to less depression in women
Drinking that depression away.
For many women, the mood-elevating effects of a cup of coffee may be more than fleeting. A new study shows that women who regularly drink coffee – the fully caffeinated kind – have a 20 percent lower risk of depression than nondrinkers. Decaf, soft drinks, chocolate, tea and other sources of caffeine did not offer the same protection against depression, possibly because of their lower levels of caffeine…
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Women in charge at home have less sex
The more decisions a woman reported making on her own the less likely she was to have sex.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers examined the relationships between married women’s autonomy and the regularity of their sexual relations.
61% of eReader owners are women
Women dominate ereader ownership.
Women have been slow to adopt tablets but they do dominate eReader ownership, according to recent data by Nielsen.
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Abortion laws to be tightened in Britain
The changes in the rules will be the biggest shake-up in a generation.
The Department of Health in Britain is to announce plans for a new system of independent counseling for women before they finally commit to terminating a pregnancy. The move is designed to give women more “breathing space”.
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‘Baby fever’ is real and men suffer from it too: study
Overall, men still want sex rather than fatherhood.
“Baby fever” — that sudden, visceral, and almost irresistible urge to have a baby — not only exists, it can be found in both men and women, according to a new study in the psychological journal Emotion.
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Why women get more scared watching horror movies than men
The study found that women get more scared than men during horror films.
Have you ever wondered why some women get scared watching horror films while most men stay calm? It’s actually their brains which make females more likely to be terrified by the flicks, a new study has claimed.
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50% of female graduates see value and benefits of college
Fifty percent of all women who have graduated from a four-year college give the U.S. higher education system excellent or good marks for the value it provides given the money spent by students and their families but only 37% of male graduates agree. Also, women who have graduated from college are more likely than men to say their education helped them to grow both personally and intellectually. These results of a nationwide Pew Research Center survey come at a time when women surpass men by record numbers in college enrollment and completion.
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Study: single people may die younger
Single men could die about a decade earlier than married men. Single women don’t fare much better.
Being single is great, isn’t it? You get to sleep on either side of the bed; you never have to wait for the bathroom; you’ve got all that “me time.” Except, well, you may be one of the unlucky singles who keel over about one decade earlier than your married friends, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
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