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A new study has said that playing musical instruments helps kids' process speech more accurately in noisy classrooms and understands nuances of language, which are expressed by slight alteration in the human voice.

The research, headed by Nina Kraus, professor of neurobiology, physiology and communication sciences at Northwestern University, stated that tutoring through music can be an effectual approach in aiding children, particularly those with autism, develops more accurate encoded speech.

Blood banks, sperm banks, egg banks etc have become a passé. The fastest mode which is catching up these days is the banking of umbilical cord blood. It is an investment to generate the stem cells for future healings.

Male victims who are survivors of cancer have to fight with long term effects of low testosterone levels.

According to the findings the "testosterone deficiency", is supposedly caused due to numerous chemotherapy or the radiotherapy session which a patient undergoes. This is possibility which has been concluded after considering data of few patients.

Researchers at the University of South Australia (USA) Nutritional Physiology Research Centre are searching for the possibilities of health benefits that an oat meal can provide at older age.

It is believed that the oat extract can boost one's mental health and maintain it till they hit their sixties. Although the in-process study has not suggested a concrete proof of the same stating how it can help in boosting the mental stature.

A revelation in the field of women study, which will surely help couples wishing to have a kid, later, is the 'egg timer'.

It is a simple, swift and low- priced procedure which measures woman's egg reserve. It was named so because it is the best proven signal of fertility and hence the name. It was brought out by IVF Australia.

With this test, it becomes convenient for a couple to decide whether they should go for natural conception or opt for adoption or egg donation as the 'egg timer' tells the number of eggs left.