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South Carolina state Rep. Mia McLeod, a Democrat from Columbia, recently proposed a new bill according to which males who want to buy Viagra will need to go through the same complicated procedures that women have to during an abortion.

McLeod said she is not confident about the bill being passed; she said her motive is just to broaden the discussion on the reproductive rights for women.

McLeod who is a lawyer and a public relations specialist by profession, in a statement to media soon after she introduced the bill, said that the purpose of this new bill was to awaken a male dominant legislature to give some more importance to women who have to undergo an extensive evaluation process while seeking abortion services.

Scientists since long have been trying to find out whether watching horror movies is linked to bloodcurdling. Now in a new study researchers have found an answer whether or not fear causes blood clotting.

The findings of the study published this week in the British Medical Journal showed that the study was conducted on 24 healthy participants all around the age of 30 years or younger.

Researchers divided the participants into two different groups. The first group included around 10 participants and the other included 14 participants. The first group with 10 participants was assigned to watch a non-scary educational film followed by a horror film.

The second group was asked to watch the horror film followed by the educational film, viewed a week apart.

According to a recent ruling by a state judge, New York City cannot ask preschoolers to get a flu shot. With its recent decision, the judge has sided with a group of mothers who sued last month arguing that only the state Legislature has the authority to require certain immunizations.

State Supreme Court Justice Manuel Mendez with the latest ruling has blocked a 2013 city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene rule.

The mothers’ attorney, Aaron Siri, on the decision to immunize a child against influenza said that till the time the right is taken away, it solely remains in hands of the parents whether to give their child flu shots or not.

Researchers have found a compound in some red wines and olive oils for first time ever that can interfere with gut microbes in such ways that may potentially be helpful in preventing heart disease in humans.

The scientists said this research was conducted in mice, and could also disclose why the Mediterranean diet, generally containing red wine and olive oil, is healthy for the heart.

During the study, the researchers targeted the gut microbes of mice with a compound known as DMB. DMB occurs naturally in some cold-pressed extra virgin red wines, balsamic vinegars, olive oils and grape seed oils.

They discovered that the DMB treatment suppressed development of atherosclerosis, hardening of arteries, in the mice without leading to any toxic side effects.

Experts investigating the case of an Ebola outbreak in Liberia, which took place months after the nation was declared virus-free, said that an outbreak again may have stemmed from a survivor who got infection again when her immune system became weak during pregnancy.

The theory has been discussed by researchers from the US and Liberian and the World Health Organization has raised concerns regarding whether there is a possibility to bring the history’s worst Ebola epidemic to an end or not, with nearly 17,000 survivors in West Africa have been as a likely human reservoir of the virus.

Scientists have discovered a particular chemical in the brain that, according to them, is associated with autism. The Harvard University researchers have discovered that there is a relation between autistic behavior and a breakdown in the signaling pathway that a main inhibitory neurotransmitter called GABA uses.

In a university news release, study leader Caroline Robertson said that this was the first time ever that in humans that a brain neurotransmitter has been associated with autistic behavior. Robertson added, “This theory -- that the GABA signaling pathway plays a role in autism -- has been shown in animal models, but until now we never had evidence for it actually causing autistic differences in humans”.