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Woman with World’s Largest Implants Has Them Removed

For the past two months, Sheyla Hershey of Texas has been battling a very severe infection. Convinced that her implants actually put her life in danger, Hershey has finally decided to have them removed.The 29-year-old mother of two had to go to her native Brazil to have the surgery done that would make her the woman ...

14 September 2010
14:51 GMT

Julia Gnuse Gets Guinness World Record for Most Tattooed Woman in the World

Tattoos are a form of expressing oneself, it is often being said. Permanent tattoos allow the wearer to make a statement or simply to do something that sets them apart from the rest of the crowd. Whatever the reasons most people have when they get tattoos, they couldn’t possibly coincide with that of Julia Gnus...

27 May 2010
14:11 GMT

Women Can Track Their Health Status with Lady Biz iPhone App

Flatcracker Software has released Lady Biz 3.0 for iPhone and iPod touch, the brainchild of creators Shane and Karin McLean after years of unsuccessfully trying to conceive a child. Lady Biz enables women to record and track vital daily health details such as menstruation details, sleep patterns, waking temperature, ...

21 January 2010
05:24 GMT

Rihanna Is Glamour’s Woman of the Year for 2009

Rihanna may be only 21 but, as far as accomplishments go, she has more under her belt than many other female stars twice her age. Her music gets constant airplay and whatever she touches instantly turns to gold. However, what’s more important, Rihanna is also a good role model for young girls and women all over...

10 November 2009
09:02 GMT

Japanese Chicks Love Apple

Research group goo Research carried out a survey questioning 1,102 women between the ages of 20 and 26 to find out which devices and device makers impress them the most. Not surprisingly, Apple ranked quite high in most categories.“This survey has perhaps a rather narrow sample, but it is the early 20...

3 March 2009
06:01 GMT

Adaptawear Presents the Magnetic Bra for the Elderly and Disabled

Unfastening a bra can be vexing, especially if all the hooks are placed at the back. The situation is doubly annoying for women who, either because of their professions or some accident, have lost some of the mobility of the arms. The same applies for elder women, who might have trouble bringing their arms to the bac...

9 January 2009
04:56 GMT

Indian Woman Has First Baby at 70

Rajo Devi, a 70 year-old Indian woman, gave birth to a perfectly healthy girl on November 28th, the doctor in charge of the procedure announced on Friday. The birth was successful after years of tries failed the couple. In-vitro fertilization was used to produce a viable embryo that was to have any chance of survival...

8 December 2008
08:21 GMT

Top 10 Cities with the Most Beautiful Women

Ask both a man and a woman who have visited several countries about which one they would like to see again. You can be sure that men will choose the places where they saw more beautiful women. A web survey published by the site mmoabc.com intended to make a top of the cities with the most beautiful women, based on th...

17 April 2008
14:06 GMT

New Software Tells Us How Beautiful the Face of a Woman Is

The fact that computers ease human work is a technological advance. But how can we define the fact that they are able now to differentiate between a beautiful woman and one that is not so attractive, based on school-like marks? Perhaps one day they will even have sex in our place...A new research made at the Tel Aviv...

7 April 2008
14:06 GMT

Your Computer Is Your Personal Hair Master

Spring has finally arrived, the trees are blooming, the birds are chirping, and you … you are bored and can't understand why everyone seems to be so happy around you. After all, everything is the same, just that it got warmer and sunnier, people certainly didn't change and you surely can't get out of t...

5 April 2008
13:56 GMT

Dumped Chinese Woman Burns 400 Cell Phones

What reason(s) do you think would someone have to set on fire hundreds of mobile phones? There aren't many reasonable ones that you can think of, right? Well, a woman from China burned more than 400 handsets because she was dumped by her husband. The couple was living in Weifang, Shandong, somewhere south of ...

10 March 2008
06:00 GMT

The Woman with Feet Facing Backwards

Disability or the secret for a high velocity? This Chinese waitress has not accepted a disability pension even if she was born with feet facing the other side. Wang Fang, 27, is a resident of Chongqing (western China) and says she has been able to live a normal life despite her condition, and she is perfectly capable...

28 February 2008
14:11 GMT

Can a Simple User Sue Nokia and Win? Of Course!

There's a general belief that "simple customers" can't sue big companies and win, even if they have the truth on their side. Moreover, many users don't even think about suing when a phone, a headset or another accessory doesn't work properly and the company that produced it refuses to change it or...

26 February 2008
04:43 GMT

Women Do Not Know How to Detect Breast Cancer

This is the most widespread cancer in women in the western world, touching about 30 % of them. Only in UK, 44,000 women are diagnosed annually and 1,000 die each month. About 20 % of the patients die in the next 5 years after being diagnosed. The survival chances are decreased by the late diagnosis, as many women do ...

20 September 2007
14:21 GMT

A Woman's Brain Needs Sex Hormones

No estrogen is more than fertility loss in females: they can turn demented. Later in life. Women with their ovaries removed and not getting extra estrogen are prone to high risk of cognitive impairment or dementia in later life. This is opposite to the results of a 2004 research made at the Women's Health Initia...

5 September 2007
06:35 GMT

Do Women Really Talk More Than Men Do?

The traditional wisdom says that women talk all day long while men, like the real wise a*ses they are, will share a bit of their precious knowledge when the right moment comes... But a new study made on 400 Mexican and American university students, aged 19 to 25, strongly disagrees on this idea, revealing that men an...

6 July 2007
14:11 GMT

Women Look For Daddy-Like Husbands

Are you crazily in love with Brad Pitt? This means you had a bad relationship with your dad...A new study shows that the type of man a woman is looking for has to do with how well she got along with her daddy, as a child. A good daughter-father bond means that in the future the woman will be attracted to men resembli...

14 June 2007
13:16 GMT

Chinese Young Women, too Shy to Use Contraception

It has the largest population in the world and the only thing that keeps the Chinese population from further booming is the policy of one child only. Still, the deeply rooted rural concepts roam urban China. A survey made by a team from Fudan University, Shanghai, China and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, ...

30 May 2007
06:12 GMT

Women's Fertility, Determined by their Childhood

It seems that in the case of women, fertility is not just an innate quality but also one adjusted by life conditions in early life. This conclusion was reached by a team at University College London which analyzed hormone levels in women who migrated to the UK from Bangladesh at various life stages. The researchers f...

21 May 2007
04:37 GMT

45% of Women Suffer from Sexual Dysfunction

A man can just inseminate and go, while the woman remains with the kids, the job and the household. With so many responsibilities they have to juggle with, many women don't actually have time for romance and even lose their sex drive. And if you think that only men are unable to function sexually, you'd bet...

9 May 2007
05:49 GMT

Women's Brain, More Affected by Alcohol Than Men's

Boys think of all kinds of strategies on how to get girls drunk and then get them into bed. But, in fact, alcohol affects the women's brain more severely than that. It affects their cognitive abilities more than it manages to do in the case of men, and even when women consume less alcohol than men over long per...

2 May 2007
07:08 GMT

The Internet Is Dominated by Women

The masculinity of the web is shut off. An investigation made by eMarketer reveals that women outnumber men online in the US: about 97.2 million American women enter the net compared to 90.9 million American males. "There are absolutely more things women do online than men do," said eMarketer senior analyst Debra Aho...

13 April 2007
09:49 GMT


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