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Mumbai, July 31 - Glamorous Antara Mali, who has gone bald for Amol Palekar's forthcoming film "And Once Again", admits it wasn't easy shaving her head. Last seen on the big screen five years ago, she also says this is not her comeback film.

"Shaving your head is not an easy thing to do. I did suffer later, but I still have no regrets," Antara told IANS in an interview.

Major sources of environmental pollution recently found out are the cash registers from retailers and other service centers. High levels of bisphenol A(BPA) were identified in almost 40 percent of the thermal receipts.

To add to the troubles, the receipts possess no methods of visual or peripheral identification.

The U.S. National Toxicology program earlier revealed that even parts per billion(PPB) of BPA can be risky affecting young children resulting in brain, reproductive and behavioral problems on account of its ability to be an endocrine disruptor and an active estrogen mimic.

There has been a recent debate amongst medical researchers all around the world over if prostate specific antigen is a reliable indicator of prostate cancer in men.

If yes, then what is the level of PSA that sets off the alarm for caution.

Firstly some contend that PSA level might be high in perfectly normal men so it can't indicate cancer. Some say if PSA value gets higher than 2.5 nanograms per ml, a biopsy is needed to detect prostate cancer, while others strongly advocate for the level to be 4ng/mL.

In a recent research conducted by University of Illinois at Chicago, by Dr. Judith Hibbard and colleagues from the Consortium on Safe Labor it was found that pre-mature babies that is babies born before the normal gestation period of 39-40 weeks, say between 34-37 weeks, are at a three times higher risk of respiratory problems.

This fact was found based on a study conducted in 19 US hospitals between the years 2002-2008 over 233,844 deliveries.

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According to a recent research, as women these days are getting more likely to marry and settle down at a much later age than what was a norm before, their ability of bearing children in their 40s are becoming better.

Nowadays women are reluctant to settle down and reproduce until later in life, and as many women wait until they are older to give birth to children, the women with long lasting fertility genes are successful in reproducing.