13-06-19 A University of Calgary researcher has identified how a steroid hormone may indicate infant distress during labour and delivery. The study, published by PLOS ONE this month, suggests that a full-term, healthy baby preferentially（优先地） secretes（...

13-05-10 Heart failure is one of the most debilitating（使衰弱的） conditions linked to old age, and there are no specific therapies for the most common form of this condition in the elderly. A study published by Cell Press May 9th in the journal Cell reveal...

12-02-18 The male hormone testosterone has become an unlikely drug of choice for Wall Street traders seeking to give themselves an edge over their professional rivals. 男性荷尔蒙睾丸素竟成了华尔街交易者为赶超职场竞争对手而选用的药物。 New York clinics have r...

10-12-24 A compound which acts in the opposite way as growth hormone can reverse（颠倒） some of the signs of aging, a research team that includes a Saint Louis University physician has shown. The finding may be counter-intuitive to some older adults who tak...

10-10-27 The method used to assess infertility（不毛，贫瘠） in at-home tests might not be the best for identifying which women will have trouble getting pregnant, according to new research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medic...

10-08-11 Progestins（孕酮，黄体酮） are used in hormone replacement therapies to counteract（抵消，中和） the negative effects of estrogen（雌性激素） on the uterus（子宫） and reduce the risk of uterine cancer. However, evidence in recent studies and clinic...

10-02-21 Natural progesterone, the sex hormone used in the first contraceptive pills, is to be tested on patients with severe head injuries. 天然黄体酮，首批避孕药中使用的性激素，被用于治疗有严重脑损伤病人的临床试验中。 Progesterone protects neurons in the b...

09-12-23 Nearly 10 years after the discovery that birds make a hormone that suppresses抑制，镇压 reproduction, University of California, Berkeley, neuroscientists神经系统科学家 have established that humans make it too, opening the door to development of a ne...

09-12-09 New scientific evidence refutes驳斥，反驳 the preconception预想，偏见 that testosterone睾丸素 causes aggressive, egocentric利己的 , and risky behavior. A study at the Universities of Zurich and Royal Holloway London with more than 120 experimental s...

09-10-17 In this combination photo, Actor Orlando Bloom (L) attends a meeting with city officials in Sarajevo August 12, 2008, and British actor Daniel Craig waves to Japanese fans as he arrives at the Japanese premiere for his latest James Bond movie Quantu...