Medscape Medical News - August 28, 2012 - Joe Barber Jr, PhD
The daily addition of 75 g of whole-shelled walnuts to a typical
Western-style diet appears to have positive effects on the vitality,
morphology, and motility of sperm in healthy men, according to the
findings of a randomized, parallel, 2-group, dietary intervention trial.
The authors noted that this study could not clarify whether the effects
observed in healthy adults will be applicable to those with fertility
issues. "Whether adding walnuts to the diet will go beyond the shifts in
sperm parameters as seen in this study to improving birth outcomes for
men within fertility clinic populations or in the general population is
not yet known and will require further research," the authors write.
This study was funded through a grant from the California Walnut
Commission. Dr. Lamb has received grant support from the National
Institutes of Health and from the William and Ella Owens Medical
Research Foundation.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Benefits of circumcision outweigh risks
Reuters - CHICAGO |
"We're not saying you have to have it," said Dr. Andrew Freedman, a pediatric urologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles who chaired the AAP's circumcision task force.
"We're saying if a family thinks it is in the child's best interests, the benefits are enough to help them do that," he said.
In a statement issued on Friday in anticipation of the guidelines, the anti-circumcision group Intact America said most of the studies underlying the new guidelines are based on research done on adult men in Africa.
"The task force has failed to consider the large body of evidence from the developed world that shows no medical benefits for the practice, and has given short shrift, if not dismissed out of hand, the serious ethical problems inherent in doctors removing healthy body parts from children who cannot consent," said Georganne Chapin, the group's executive director.
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"We're not saying you have to have it," said Dr. Andrew Freedman, a pediatric urologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles who chaired the AAP's circumcision task force.
"We're saying if a family thinks it is in the child's best interests, the benefits are enough to help them do that," he said.
In a statement issued on Friday in anticipation of the guidelines, the anti-circumcision group Intact America said most of the studies underlying the new guidelines are based on research done on adult men in Africa.
"The task force has failed to consider the large body of evidence from the developed world that shows no medical benefits for the practice, and has given short shrift, if not dismissed out of hand, the serious ethical problems inherent in doctors removing healthy body parts from children who cannot consent," said Georganne Chapin, the group's executive director.
Read the full Reuters report
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