The count is a measurement of how many sperm there are per milliliter, there should be at least 20 million. And yet a man might have a volume of 4ml, which would equal 80 million sperm in that one sample. As it only takes one sperm to fertilise the egg, and indeed nature tries to [...]
Alcohol doesn’t just help against the biggest life-threatening ailments. There are scads of research to show that moderate drinking can ward off other common health problems-the kind that can make life pretty miserable sometimes. Here’s a catalog of the conditions you can raise a glass to.
Beating the runs: Diarrhea may not be particularly life-threatening to [...]
Cysts
A lump in the breast is most likely to be a fluid-filled cyst or one of a variety of benign tumours which can be treated effectively (e.g. a duct papilloma or fibroadenoma).
Cysts are most common in women between the ages of 40 and 50, particularly in those who have not had children. Although the majority [...]
Are screening procedures likely to pick up the diseases that really matter?
This is difficult to answer but an examination of the results of ten major industrial health examination programmes in the US found that less than half of the people who subsequently died from cancer had the condition diagnosed at a screening examination, and slightly [...]
When you want to lose weight, how much you eat is just as important as what you eat. Phyllis Barbour found that out the hard way.
In 1993, Phyllis went on a special low-fat, low-salt diet after undergoing cardiac bypass surgery. She followed the diet to the letter. To her pleasant surprise, her weight dropped from [...]