SEXUAL INEQUALITY IN HEMP

Sexual Inequality in Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) claims over 1.7 million lives throughout the world each year according to the most recent World Health Organization (WHO) report [1]. Men seem to be more affected than women, with a male/female ratio of 1.960.6 for the worldwide case notification rate (Box 1; Figure 1) [1]. In some countries this ratio may reach values as high as 3 (4.7 in Armenia for instance), but ratios bel...

Slavery, Sharecropping, and Sexual Inequality

An Introduction to Industrial Hemp, Hemp Agronomy, and UK Agronomic Hemp Research

Sexual inequality in incident tuberculosis: a cohort study in Taiwan

OBJECTIVE Animal studies showed that male subjects had lower activity of immune response to infections than female subjects, which may increase the risk of the development of tuberculosis in male population. This study intended to investigate the risk of incident tuberculosis in male and female adults in Taiwan. DESIGN This is a retrospective cohort study. SETTING The present analyses used ...

Reviving hemp.

A method is described enabling the direct measurement of vincristine resistance in intact tissues in vivo by morphological study. Using the metaphase arresting properties of the drug, counts were made of escaping anaphase and telophase mitotic figures at a range of doses. The proportion of post-metaphase mitotic figures is called the post-metaphase index (PMI). In 95 primary intestinal tumours ...