Posts Tagged ‘semen analysis’

Wishing for a Happy Father’s Day: Male Infertility Treatment

June 20, 2011Carole 2 Comments »

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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What do semen analysis, Glen Beck and aerial photography have in common?

September 9, 2010Carole 1 Comment »

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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What causes low or variable sperm counts?

August 22, 2010Carole 1 Comment »

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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Semen Analysis: Uses and Limitations

June 19, 2010Carole No Comments »

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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