Melbourne, Nov 12: A new study has challenged the widely believed view that high school students who lose their virginity at an early age tend to take to a life of crime.

Jakarta: A health ministry representative said that an Indonesian man from Riau region on Sumatra Island has died of bird flu.

The recent death takes the country’s death toll from the bird flu ailment to 91.

Lili Sulistyowati, health ministry spokeswoman said that it was not clear if the 31-year-old man who passed away on Tuesday had been in contact with ailing fowl, which is the most usual way of getting the infection.

Another representative at the government department’s bird flu centre told that the man, who had been suffering from coughing, fever and breathing troubles, expired while being shifted from a local hospital in Duri region to a hospital in Pekanbaru.

Washington, Nov 11 : Researchers have revealed that vulvodynia is the actual reason behind women experiencing painful sex.

Washington, Nov 11 : Stress can not only take a toll on a person’s physical and psychological being, it also can lead to various dermatological problems, such as acne, brittle nails or even hair lo

Washington, Nov 11: Women who are naturally thin may want to start considering putting on weight, for a new study has found that young women who are constitutionally or severely thin, may suffer fr

A new technique of combating HIV infection has been discovered by scientists at University of California-San Francisco and the University of Toronto.

An HIV infection relies on the remnants of ancient viruses, human endogenous retroviruses (HERV) that have become part of the genome of every human cell. Nearly 8 percent of DNA in human genome consists of viral genes, which are already present from millions of years ago. When modern virus attacks a cell, the ancient genes get triggered off producing tiny proteins that move to the surface of cell after HIV infection and indicate a distinctive signal –called HERV.