Semen quality affects chances of conception - Male fertility may be more complex than previously imagined. The combination of motility and semen volume traditional measurements of semen quality ar...

Sperm: count on decline - Study after study over the past 20 years has indicated that male fertility is declining in industrialized societies, but doctors are still not sure. ....

Sperm: large count down - Concerns that the environment may be affecting fertility seem to be confirmed by a recent study of sperm which discovered that quality has dropped...

Biopsy raises risk of testicular cancer - Biopsies of undescended testicles, thought to increase a man's risk of developing testicular cancer later in life, reveal nothing of clinical use and...

Declining sperm - Although the issue of declining male sperm count has been hotly debated in the medical press, mounting evidence points to pesticides. A workshop helpe...

Estrogen: sperm fall off - Widespread use of synthetic estrogens like the contraceptive pill and hormone replacement therapy may account for the dramatic fall in sperm counts of...

Britain lags behind in cancer survival rates - Survival rates for patients suffering from cancers of the lung, breast, colorectum and prostate in England and Wales are lower than the average rates...

Breast Cancer: Rates drop dramatically as women stop taking HRT - The rate of new breast cancer cases in the USA has suddenly dropped dramatically, and scientists reckon it’s because fewer women are taking hormone re...