http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress) -- Women look for tall, dark and handsome. Those chiseled features and that deep sexy voice have gained the attention of women for generations. However, a new study published in PLoS ONE shows that those men with high-pitched voices may be better when it comes to mating. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-men-deep-voice-lacking-sperm.html Other Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:55:35 EST news245343294 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study done using DNA analysis and partly undertaken by the University of California, Irvine, has found evidence to support the premise that malaria was brought to South America via the African slave trade in the sixteenth century, rather than much earlier as some have suggested. The results of the study, led by evolutionary biologist Francisco Ayala, are to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that the malaria parasite apparently had two sites of introduction, one in the northern part of South America and another in the south. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-malaria-parasite-african-slave-south.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 27 Dec 2011 07:10:46 EST news244192126 Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say that losing the ability to make a particular kind of sugar molecule boosted disease protection in early hominids, and may have directed the evolutionary emergence of our ancestors, the genus Homo. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-sexual-sugar-molecule-human.html Medical research Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:00:08 EST news237465492