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Most of the semen is produced by this gland located at the base of the bladder: the prostate. And here is the issue: up to 50 % of the American males (and not only) will have prostatitis during their lifetimes. About 5 to 10 have it at a particular time. This condition denotes infection or inflammation of the prost... |
24 January 2008
05:14 GMT |
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A mother 'pumping' nicotine into her body and having a baby growing inside her womb affects the baby's brain development, causing long-term behavioral and learning impairment and these children have usually lower weights. Smoking mothers increase the risk for the baby to be born mentally retarded, with... |
23 November 2007
03:58 GMT |
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Career, hard economics, social life and family life make women reach menopause finding they are childless. And what's next: frozen eggs and all the SF crap? Here comes a team of Duke's Fuqua School of Business, made of Professor Ralph Keeney and doctoral student Dinah Vernik, with a sophisticated logical de... |
8 November 2007
05:24 GMT |
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I'm sure you're quite well informed on many aspects related to HIV, syphilis or gonorrhea, but the STD you're more likely to experience is Chlamydia, the "Silent Epidemic" (called so because in women it may not induce any symptoms and will linger for months or years before being diagnosed). In men, Chl... |
25 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Contaminants, stress and other factors brought by modern life are blamed for the increasing rates of infertility, but few have heard about immune infertility, a quite common cause of couple sterility. Immune infertility is amongst the 80 autoimmune disorders discovered so far and the best known are Multiple Sclerosis... |
13 September 2007
14:26 GMT |
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We live in an era of plastic. All around you is plastic. I bet not 5 minutes go by without you touching something made of plastic. Even your food and drink come wrapped in plastic. Now a panel of 38 researchers said that Bisphenol A - a main ingredient in hard plastics and one of the most common chemicals around us -... |
7 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
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It is easy to blame it on the woman, but in 40 % of the couples, the man is the sterile part. Now, a team at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research found an immune factor that regulates human semen, inducing fertility or sterility in a man. The macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) appears to be crucial ... |
2 July 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Statistics show that couple infertility is due equally to men as to women. Male sterility is triggered by impairment in the multiplication and development of the germ cells (that generate sperm cells) or of their supporting tissues. A new investigation pointed out that bone marrow stem cells could be employed in trea... |
2 March 2007
08:44 GMT |
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About 7 % of American couples are sterile. 30 % of the cases are attributed to the man, 30 % to the woman and the rest to both partners or to unknown reasons. Drugs or surgery can treat 85-90 % of infertility cases; less than 3 % require in vitro fertilization (IVF), a costly procedure. "Couples really prefer having ... |
2 March 2007
07:07 GMT |
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