Orlando – The American Urological Association (AUA) unveiled its first guidelines on the medical management of kidney stones. Margaret S. Pearle, MD, PhD summarized the recommendations in a presentation during the announcement at AUA’s 2014 annual meeting. Dr. Pearle, who chaired the panel that reviewed the available evidence that formed the basis of the guidelines, […]
Archives for December 2014
Study links sunscreen to impaired male fertility
Men’s ability to father children in a timely manner may have been caused by certain sunscreen chemicals, according to a recent National Institutes of Health (NIH) study on male infertility called ‘interesting but very preliminary.” The NIH and the New York state Department of Health’s Wadsworth Center has agreed and noted that the results are […]
Toiletries, testicular cancer and male infertility
Toiletry chemicals linked to testicular cancer and male infertility cost EU millions, report says If you have been constantly using toiletries, cosmetics, medicines, plastics and pesticides, be wary as the hormone-mimicking chemicals that are used in these products have caused hundreds of millions of Euros of damage to EU citizens every year. A study have […]
Genetic Study for Causes of Male Infertility
Getting pregnant can be devastating for men and their partners. Astonishingly, an underlying cause of infertility cannot be identified in about half of infertile men. The National Institutes of Health for the Genetics of Male Infertility Initiative (GEMINI) have granted researchers a 2.1 million dollar five-year project aimed at discovering the genetic causes of infertility […]