A recent study revealed that presence of woman in life increases frequency of screening for prostrate cancer by 40 per cent. Researchers found that men who live with a woman are more likely to be screened for prostate cancer than men who live alone, even if they have a family history of the disease.

Lauren P. Wallner, a doctoral student at the University of Michigan studied data collected from the medical records of 2,115 Minnesota men between the ages of 40 and 79.

The study subjects were asked to fill questionnaires about their family history of prostate cancer, concern about getting the disease, and their marital status. Researchers studied the frequency of rectal exams and blood tests the study subjects had to detect prostrate cancer.

Melbourne, Dec 10: Over 100,000 pairs of inflatable breasts that were intended for an Australian men's magazine promotion have been found in Melbourne.

A Ralph magazine spokeswoman said that the shipment of plastic boobs was missing since more than a week after Chinese officials lost the paperwork and put them on the wrong boat.

While the shipment was to reach Sydney in last week, but it actually turned up at a Melbourne dock, where they have been sitting for a week.

And now, workers have been frantically working to put them in bags so that they could make it to go out with the December 15 issue.

According to Ralph editor Santi Pintado, the incident had cost the magazine 30,000 dollars.

Washington, Dec 10: Astronomers have observed the motions of 28 stars orbiting the Milky Way’s most central region, which has helped them to study the supermassive black hole lurking there.

The 16-year long study has been conducted by a team from the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching near Munich, in Germany.

The new research marks the first time that the orbits of so many of these central stars have been calculated precisely and reveals information about the enigmatic formation of these stars, and about the black hole to which they are bound.

Recent study revealed a new way which could help in to fulfilling storage of vaccine. Researchers found that half-dose flu shots are as effective as a full dose in people under age 50 who have been previously vaccinated.

Research team led by Dr. Renata Engler of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. conducted a clinical trial involving healthy adults aged 18 to 64.

The study of more than 1,000 subjects revealed that those who received the half-dose vaccine produced a similar immune response to the flu compared to those who received the full-dose vaccine.

London, Dec 10: In an unprecedented move, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has lifted its ban on a controversial page on Wikipedia which showed an image of a record album cover featuring a young nude girl.

The watchdog also confessed that its initial ban had the reverse effect that it wished, and the image got spread like wild fire in Internet circles after the ban.
 
As part of IWF''s initial ban on December 5, some people could not see any pages on Wikipedia at all, while others were unable to edit pages on the user-generated encyclopaedia.

The picture, from the 1976 album cover Virgin Killer by the German rock band Scorpions, showed a nude girl with a crack in the camera lens obscuring her genitals.