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SC issues notice on whether Muslim girl can marry a person of her choice a
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
SC directed that the order of the High Court, which held that a Muslim girl aged 15 years can enter into legal and valid marriage as per personal law, should not be relied on as a precedent in any other case.
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Study finds vital role of hormones in predicting long term health of men
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
As per new research, a hormone that develops in men during puberty plays a critical role in predicting early in life whether a person will acquire specific diseases later in life.
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Researchers discover vital role of hormones in predicting long term health
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Researchers have discovered the vital role of a hormone, that develops in men during puberty, in providing an early prediction of whether they could develop certain diseases in later life.
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Excessive smartphone use linked to earlier puberty onset
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], September 16 (ANI): The results of a rat study, which were presented today at the 60th Annual European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology Meeting, suggest that regular exposure to blue light from tablets and smartphones may affect hormone levels and raise the risk of premature
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Girls can marry without parents' consent after attaining puberty under Mus
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 24 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has said that a girl, who has attained puberty, can marry without the consent of her parents under Muslim laws while hearing a plea seeking protection to a couple who got married against the consent of girl's parents.
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Study explores how appetite genes control children's growth
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Bergen [Norway], April 2 (ANI): After birth, we grow fast. The length increases by about 50 per cent and the weight doubles during infancy. Then, the growth slows down and goes into a stable phase in childhood until a growth spurt in puberty. But, why is it so?
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Stress during peripuberty leads to increase in adipose tissue: Study
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Lausanne [Switzerland], March 3 (ANI): 'Peripuberty' is a natural change that every person's body undergoes when childhood ends and adolescence begins. A new study has found that stress during the peripubertal period leads to an increase in adipose tissue in the individual's body.
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Neurobiological processes during puberty trigger sex differences in learni
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
California [US], February 12 (ANI): Can biological changes during puberty affect learning and memory? New research from the University of California, Irvine has revealed that sex differences in learning and memory mechanisms are triggered by biological events occurring during puberty.
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Widely-used hormone drug linked to increased risk of benign brain tumour a
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Bristol [UK], February 5 (ANI): A recent study has found that high doses of a widely-used drug used in the hormonal treatment of conditions like excessive hair growth, early puberty, prostate cancer, are linked to an increased risk of meningioma -- the most common type of benign brain tumour
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Research shows granddaughters and great-granddaughters of pre-puberty smok
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Bristol (England) [UK], January 22 (ANI): A new study, led by the University of Bristol, has reported increased body fat in females whose grandfathers or great-grandfathers began smoking before puberty.
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Here's how brain uses nutritional state to regulate growth, age at puberty
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 6 (ANI): Through a recent study, scientists have explained how humans have been growing taller and reaching sexual maturity earlier over the past century.
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Protein in the brain uses energy status to influence maturation, body size
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 3 (ANI): Scientists have identified how a protein in the brain uses information about the body's energy balance to regulate growth rate and the onset of puberty in children.
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