Beware: Testicular zap 'may stop sperm'

A dose of ultrasound to the testicles can stop the production of sperm, according to researchers investigating a new form of contraception.

A study on rats published in Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology showed that sound waves could be used to reduce sperm counts to levels that would cause infertility in humans.

Researchers described ultrasound as a "promising candidate" in contraception. However, far more tests are required before it could be used.

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A macho voice doesn't mean macho sperm, say researchers

[ via Mail Online ] 5 Jan

Contrary to a generally established 'understanding', men with deep voices have lower sperm counts than their counterparts, researchers have discovered.

A deep voice doesn't necessarily mean you're more virile

With studies finding that women rate men with deep voices as being more dominant, older, healthier and more masculine, scientists from the University of Western Australia tried to discover if they are also more fertile.

They recorded men saying the five vowels and calculated the pitch of their speech. The tapes were played back to women, who rated them for attractiveness. Finally, sperm samples were analysed.

The women judged the lower-pitched voices as more attractive, but those men had lower sperm counts, the journal PLoS ONE reports. The  biology behind the phenomenon may be quite simple, with high levels of the male sex hormone testosterone impeding sperm production.
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Hope for infertile men: Breakthrough as scientists grow sperm outside the body

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Scientists have made a major breakthrough that  could lead to infertile men being able to father their own children, rather than using donor sperm.  

Researchers in Germany and Israel were able to grow mouse sperm from a few cells in a laboratory dish.

The scientists believe that the same technique - using 'germ cells' extracted from the testicles - will eventually work in humans.

Professor Mahmoud Huleihel, who also grew the sperm at Israel's Ben Gurion University in Beersheba, said: ‘I believe it will eventually be possible to routinely grow human male sperm to order by extracting tissue containing germ cells from a man's testicle and stimulating sperm production in the laboratory.’ 

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Beware Footballers !! Too many headers 'can damage the brain'

BBC Health 29 Nov

A new study comes as a forewarning for the football players: Too many heads can lead to brain injury. The doctors warn that they have found proof on brain scans. The study is based on imaging of 32 keen amateur players revealed patterns of damage similar to that seen in patients with concussion.

Headers in football can be fatal (Photo: Live Leak)

It may be added that "Heading" is believed to have killed the English footballer Jeff Astle. Astle, 59, who died in 2002, developed cognitive problems after years of playing for England and West Bromwich Albion.

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British women are the fattest in Europe

Full Story: Mail Online 25 Nov

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While Britain has many records to its credit, the British women have added another feather in the cap - they have been graded as the fattest in Europe !! This leaves countries like Germany, France and Italy behind in the race of obesity in women.

As per a survey, one in four (23.9 per cent) women in Britain are classed as obese, as compared to 15.6% in Germany, 12.7% on France and 9.3% in Italy, reports Mail Online.

By the way, British men are not far behind, as one in every five British men is obese.

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Estrogen In Drinking Water and Prostate Cancer Deaths are likely LINKED!!

Full Story: Huffington Post 15 Nov

A new study links the estrogen in drinking water to incidence of prostate cancer related deaths in men. The study had been carried out by researchers at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, who by analyzing the percentage of women using the pill, intrauterine devices, condoms and vaginal barrier contraceptives in 87 countries, then examined the incidence and deaths from prostate cancer.

A finding of the study concludes that estrogen in birth-control pills is excreted in the urine and gets into the environment, particularly into water, and scientific evidence suggests that low levels may cause cancer, including prostate cancer.

Estrogen and estrogen-like chemicals are found in all manner of commercial and cosmetic products, among them pesticides. Studies have shown that male farmers exposed to pesticides that contain high doses have a higher risk of prostate cancer compared with the general population.

Read full story for this revealing new findings for the sake of your health.

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The Injury That Caused One Man's Daughter To Be Born Addicted

Full Story: The Business Insider 14 November 2011

I have never read such a scary and painful real life story - story of a 15 years boy on whom hell fell and his life thereafter became hell, not only his alone, but of his wife and the daughter born to them. I am sharing this link and story for everyone to read because this may have many lessons for us.

X-ray after initial surgery (Photo: Bernie Mullen) 

Bernie Mullen was 15 when a crane fell on him and he was only very lucky to survive. But to live on he was operated 8 times and had two screws in his neck, five pins in his spine and another big plate in his neck. with this awesome series of surgeries, he grew up only to live in utter pain forever. His pain could not subside with normal dose of pain killers allowed and he had to use all other means to get more pain killers to arrest his pains. He was fleeced by doctors and everyone who came his way.

His wife had to face legal actions for getting medicine from other means. And what was more, their daughter was born premature suffering as methadone infant.

Please read the full story and share the anguish of a family that have to pay the price of an accident which everyone thought would heal of its wounds - but DIDN'T - rather it has become a nightmare of their lives.

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Ghostly Figure Eyes Doctors During Ultrasound

Full Story / Photo: Mail Online  2 November 2011

Doctors during an ultra sound were taken aback when the ultra sound screen showed a man with an opened jaw and a big eye staring directly the viewing doctor. Dr Greg Roberts and Dr Naji Touma from Queen's University in Ontario immediately submitted the startling image to the journal Urology.

The distressed face with a gaping mouth was spotted in the ultrasound scan of a 45-year-old man who had been suffering from testicular pain.

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Widely sold herbal supplement no cure for enlarged prostate

Full Story: Yahoo News

A study in the USA has raveled that a widely sold herbal supplement for the cure of enlarged prostate in men falls short of its much touted claims. Experiments at eleven different places in the North america revealed that even a triple dose could not obtain the desired results, the study concluded.

The research was conducted under an investigational new drug application from the Food and Drug Administration, and was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

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Fathers less likely to die of Heart Diseases

Full Story: Time Healthland

An amazing research work has recently concluded that men who are fathers are less like to die of heart disease than those who have not fathered children. The research led by Dr. Michael Eisenberg at Stanford University School of Medicine concludes that non-fathers have a 17% more chance of dying of hear diseases and that more children a father has, more he is likely to live longer and prone to less heart disease related death.

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