Oxytocin

Can online connections, Zoom dating during coronavirus crisis translate into a post-lockdown relationship?

At a time when many of us are feeling more isolated than ever, online dating does offer some benefits. Quarantine has encouraged men and women to take additional time to learn about each other prior to meeting, sparing the anxiety of rushed physical intimacy.

Govt's ban on import, production and sale of life-saving drug oxytocin will negatively impact healthcare

Three months ago, the government created a monopoly of the drug oxytocin that prevents women from bleeding to death during labour.

This heat-stable drug can save thousands from bleeding post-childbirth says WHO

WHO recommends oxytocin as the first-choice drug for preventing excessive bleeding after childbirth.

India needs to learn how to take care, improve living conditions of its cattle

Milk production in India is the lowest in the world because cows and buffaloes are sick, unhappy, in constant pain and in a state of perpetual starvation

The Maneka Gandhi column: Cows are injected with illegal drugs for milk, condition of Indian dairies appalling

Cows and buffaloes are kept in dark dingy rooms with no ventilation. The animals in these peri-urban dairies are always sick

Oxytocin can make overweight men less impulsive

A single dose of oxytocin nasal spray, known to cut food intake, can lower impulsive behaviour in overweight and obese men, say researchers.

Have a demon child? It's all genetic

We’ve all seen perfectly good people produce positively toxic children and the most gracious human beings have been borne to total losers — so the 'nice gene' is not such a far-fetched idea.

Not very nice and generous? Blame it on your genes!

Researchers at the University of Buffalo and University of California, Irvine, found a connection between people being nice and versions of receptor genes for two hormones, oxytocin and vasopressin, that have been associated with niceness in past studies.