No, you don’t have to ingest Packed Semen. According to a recent study, it is important to increase your folate intake.
After adjusting for covariates, men with high folate intake (>75th percentile) had lower frequencies of sperm with disomies X, 21, sex nullisomy, and a lower aggregate measure of sperm aneuploidy (P ≤ 0.04) compared with men with lower intake.
What are the best dietary sources of folic acid? From the Dietary Supplement Fact Sheet: Folate

This is a laugh-inducing story from the Associated Press, which reports that zoos are looking for ways to whittle the love handles on their gorillas and polar bears. It seems the obesity crisis is affecting our caged animal friends -... (Source: Health Check the Blog)

In the Clinic - Dr. Matthew Gardiner, MD, Discusses Indications for Cataract Surgery

In this Insidermedicine video, Dr. Matthew Gardiner, MD, the Director of the Emergency Ophthalmology Service and an Attending Physician in the Comprehensive Ophthalmology department at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary discusses indications for cataract surgery.
Post from: Malaysian Medical Resources (Source: Malaysian Medical Resources)

I have a bit of a thing with interior design. I’m not saying I’m Martha’s prodigy or anything, I’m just saying I’m on the other side of obsessed with HGTV and the likes. But alas, if you love monkeying with design like me, we have a new (and very welcome) assignment: Redecorate to lose weight.

My father will turn 89 in early April, and he was recently described by a visiting physical therapist as “a fall waiting to happen.” So the March 7, 2008 article in the CDC’s “MMWR” publication about seniors falling is one of personal interest to me. And since the CDC reports that falls are the leading cause of fatal and non-fatal injury in persons 65 years and older, it’s likely that this subject will resonate with HealthTalk readers concerned with their personal risk of falls as well as with the risks to their parents, friends and other loved ones.

Did you know that dental erosion or ’silent enamel-eating syndrome’ is on the rise in the United States (and probably in all Western societies)?
In fact, according the very first dental erosion study conducted in the United States at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, there is a 30 percentage prevalence rate of among 10 to 14 year olds.

From Insidermedicine:

Just Compress for Cardiac Arrest

In those who experience cardiac arrest outside of the hospital, resuscitation efforts that focus on keeping the blood flowing through the heart and brain result in better survival than traditional cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), according to an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Here are some facts about CPR and cardiac arrest:
• Cardiac arrest is when the heart stops beating in a regular rhythm to the point that it can no longer pump blood throughout the body.

By Dov Michaeli MD, Ph.D It almost became a cliché: losing weight is relatively easy. That’s why you see so many “miracle diet” claiming astounding losses of weight. But why don’t we see miracle diets that tout maintenance of weight loss?

Though you may think of Parkinson’s disease as an illness for the Men Only club, there are actually up to 100,000 women under the age of 50 who have this neurological disorder, says Shape magazine. While this statistic is eye-opening and scary, there are things you can be doing to safeguard yourself.
1. Drink coffee. Ok, so you don’t have to tell me twice to do this one. But for those of you who shun The Joe, sneaking in at least a half cup a day can render you two to three times less likely to develop Parkinson’s than those who skip the daily grind, says JAMA.

Skin cancer is far and away the most common type of cancer. Fortunately, the cure rate is so high that it makes skin cancer distinctly different from nearly all other forms of cancer - so distinct, in fact, that when you hear about cancer statistics like the most common types of cancer, they are not even considering or including skin cancer. Typically, we hear that lung, breast, prostate and colon cancers are the most common types, but you should be aware that this means “excluding skin cancer.”