June 20, 2011Carole
Infertility is too often thought of as a “woman’s” problem, but the truth of the matter is that without sperm to tango with, the egg is pretty insufficient to make a baby. The good news for men is that today’s male infertility toolbox contains more diagnosis and treatment tools than what was available in their [...]
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September 9, 2010Carole
Thankfully, Nothing!- most of the time. But I ran across this interesting article about how semen analysis and crowd counting utilized the same principle to estimate a number from a small sample. Glen Beck, socially conservative pundit, held a rally in Washington, DC on the mall recently and the estimates of the number of people [...]
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August 22, 2010Carole
The results of a semen analysis can vary from test to test. Sometimes this variation is clinically significant, sometimes it’s not. That’s why most doctors will order at least two semen analyses to corroborate the first result. What is clinical significance? A semen analysis is a estimate of the amount (sperm concentration) of sperm in [...]
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June 19, 2010Carole
A brief history of the discovery of sperm maps the dead ends and blind alleys traveled by early scientists who were puzzled by human reproduction. It may seem incredible to us today but human sperm weren’t discovered until Anton Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), and his student Johan Ham, used a home-made microscope to look at the swimming “sperm [...]
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