Radio-frequency electromagnetic waves from cell phones may hurt sperm quality

Ashok Agarwal, head of the Center for Reproductive Medicine at clinic’s Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, said researchers found that people who use the hands-free may hurt a man’s sperm quality. According to the study, cell phones emits radio-frequency electromagnetic waves in the talk mode, and people who exposed to this kind of waves may have a negative impact on the motility and viability of sperm cells.

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Shortage of cancer doctors increase

According to the U.S today’s article, by 2020 the United States could face a shortage of as many as 4,080 cancer doctors, according to a recent report issued by the American Society for Clinical Oncology. “As of 2007, we were in equilibrium,” says Dr. Dean Bajorin, an oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and co-chairman of the society’s Workforce Implementation Working Group, which developed the report. “It looks like the demand for services appears comparable to provision of services.”

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Embryonic stem cells might reduce transplantation rejection – Study Suggests

Researchers from the University of Iowa and the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, said that using embryonic stem cells might reduce transplantation rejection. The U.S medical scientists said the immune-defense cells influenced by embryonic stem cell-derived cells helped prevent the rejection of hearts transplanted into mice and without the use of immunosuppressive drugs. Immunosuppressive drugs are used to prevent the rejection of transplanted organs and tissues such as bone marrow, heart, kedney and liver. It also treats autoimmune diseases or diseases that are most likely of autoimmune origin such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and myasthenia gravis etc..

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Rare find – turtle born with two-heads

This baby turtle found in eastern China, and weighed just 17g. Water World spokesman Jimmy Hu said: ‘We got it two weeks ago and it’s growing fast, probably because it can eat twice as fast as the others.

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