The government of India will reward cash gifts to any family who could bore a baby girl in an effort to reduce the number of abortions to females because of preference to sons. Indian culture considers having a son better than having a daughter because males can later become breadwinners.

Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhury said the cash incentive will be given in staggered payments to any family members that could give the country additional female member of the society

A U.S. District Court jury has ordered the forfeiture of over $33 million worth of assets of four people convicted for duping hundreds of customers into buying a herbal dietary supplement that purportedly enlarges the male organ.

Ordered to pay the estimated proceeds from their conspiracy, fraud and money laundering crimes were Steven E. Warshak, 42, president and owner of Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals and TCI Media Inc.; his mother, Harriet, 75; Paul J. Kellogg, 41, in-house lawyer of Berkeley; and Steven P. Pugh, 38, a warehouse manager of Berkeley

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Xyntha, a Wyeth drug Thursday to prevent and control bleeding in patients with hemophilia, a rare blood-clotting disorder. Xyntha, is a genetically engineered version of a blood protein that's essential for clotting.

Hemophilia is a rare, inherited bleeding disorder in which your blood doesn't clot normally. In hemophiliacs, the protein, called factor VIII, is missing or its effectiveness is decreased

A recent study concluded that the births of male babies expose mothers to higher levels of post-partum depression.

Experts from the French university Nancy 2 drew their findings from an experiment involving 181 women who had given birth. The scientists measured that one-third of the test subjects had experienced postnatal depression (PND)

One million people will die from tobacco smoking in India annually accounting for nearly one in every 10 deaths from 2010, researchers said Wednesday. The New England Journal of Medicine study found smoking already accounts for 900,000 deaths a year in India.

Some 70 percent of those people will die before they reach the age of 70 and if the Indian government does not take any action, the smoking death toll will rise further