It doesn’t really surprise me that the UK is facing a major donated sperm shortage and many clinics are relying in imported sperm to keep up with demand. I was a prolific sperm donor when I was a young medical student, keen to help couples who couldn’t conceive and happy to receive the beer money […]
Sperm counts in men worldwide have declined by half over the past 50 years and are continuing to fall. ‘It does seem that sperm counts are falling, but it is hard to say exactly why that is happening,’ says Dr Jane Stewart, a consultant in reproductive medicine at Newcastle Fertility Centre. ‘The studies are conflicting. […]
I became a doctor influenced by my late father, a single-handed general practitioner. He, like many doctors in the 1960’s came as a foreigner to work in the newly formed, but already struggling NHS. His practice was our home – our living room by evening became the patient’s waiting room by day, our dining room […]
Since 2010, when the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee published a report saying that homeopathic remedies were no better than placebos, the homeopathic profession has had to face increasing criticism and hostility. Despite only four of 15 members of the committee bothering to vote, one of whom voted against the report’s findings, and the government rejecting the report, […]
As a fitness professional, I have always been interested in how I can get the best form of omega-3 fats in my diet. Found mainly in marine oils, they are essential for human health. Dozens of scientific papers have linked omega-3 fats in the diet, known as called docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentanoic acid (EPA) […]
Predictive health monitoring is widely used in engineering applications to detect damage to infrastructure as early as possible. Forecasting failure rather than merely detecting failure once it occurs helps to reduce the downtime of systems, and, ideally, performing predictive maintenance to avoid downtime completely. With this approach already widely used in many fields from commercial […]
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It isn’t easy to be good at everything. But, as a psychotherapist, I often meet men who try, who try all the time, to be the best. Exhausting. And hardly surprising that, after all this effort, all these achievements, all this success, the one thing that is not going well for them is their sex […]
Scientists have revealed that a key molecule in breast and lung cancer cells can help switch off the cancers’ ability to spread around the body. The findings by researchers at Imperial College London, published in the journal EMBO Reports, may help scientists develop treatments that prevent cancer travelling around the body – or produce some kind of test […]
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Childhood obesity is increasing rapidly as is childhood anxiety, depression, severe allergies, asthma, diabetes, the list goes on. It would make sense therefore that children should have easy access to health care – both physical and mental – at the place where they spend much of their time, at their school. However the lack of […]
Unfortunately your coffee habit can lead to a sore head. Chronic daytime headaches can be caused by drinking too much coffee, or other caffeinated drinks. Caffeine is present in coffee, tea, cocoa, and colas as well as cocoa-rich chocolate. These affects tend to be cumulative so the headaches strike in the afternoon as your intake […]