I am seeing more and more otherwise healthy men with reduced sperm parameters, usually motility and morphology for which there is no apparent etiology.
I am convinced that environmental and external factors are to blame, drugs, pesticides, hormones in livestock and laptop computers. Now, according to an article in BioNews there is an additional possible factor, cell phones.
Keeping mobile …
I have been noticing it for the past ten years: the sperm parameters in otherwise healthy men have been declining. In fact, the World Health Organization recently downgraded the normal values for a semen analysis.
An article in the July 16th edition of the Wall Street Journal reports on the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) annual conference …
Video interviews of Reproductive Partners’ doctors are now being featured on fertilityauthority.com.
Dr. Andy Huang discusses discusses the latest technique in egg freezing for fertility preservation: vitrification.
Dr Huang is interviewed on how vitrification is an effective and highly successful way of freezing eggs and embryos.
Dr. David Meldrum explains how lifestyle affects fertility.
Dr Arthur Wisot explains how …
This is one of a series of news items from abstracts of studies presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine as complied by Dr. David Meldrum, Scientific Director of Reproductive Partners. We appreciate the enormous amount of work it takes to compile and comment on these abstracts.
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According to an article in the August 16th edition of the Los Angeles Times, sperm quality is down everywhere, but Israel is worse off than other developed countries.
Speculative theories range from the mundane (carrying cellphones in front pockets) to the far-fetched (depleted uranium from exploded munitions). Some Israeli scientists are looking seriously at naturally occurring hormones, particularly estrogen, …
Many patients i see for the first time have had their initial fertility treatment decisions based on a semen analysis done at a regular medical reference lab. That's the same place that does your blood count, cholesterol and all the other medical tests that your general doctor orders. Their semen analysis consists of a check of semen volume, sperm concentration …