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A Pole caught carrying five kilos (11 lbs) of amphetamines at the Norwegian border failed to convince a court that he had been summoned to Norway to donate sperm. The man was stopped at Svinesund on the Swedish-Norwegian border during a spot customs check of a passenger bus last May, NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting) reports. Customs officials found five kilos of amphetamines in his luggage and his fingerprints on the packaging the drugs were in. The man's story was that he had come to Norway to donate sperm to a Norwegian couple that he had met via the Internet. They had...

A LEADING IVF expert is hoping Victorian state MPs can do for sperm donation what some high profile Australians have done for organ donation. Monash IVF national medical director Gab Kovacs has sent a letter to Victorian state male MPs aged 45 and under, encouraging them to donate sperm. "Have you ever thought of becoming a sperm donor?" he asks in the letter. "We hope that if some of the leading role models within our community become donors, others may follow suit. "It is for this reason that we are approaching you, as a Victorian parliamentarian, to ask if you...

Sperm Donor TV Show Seems Inconceivable LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - America could not have cared less about the low-rated Fox special "Who's Your Daddy?" But there might be more reality TV high jinks in store for Mommy. Just when it seemed that having an adopted woman guess the identity of her biological father marked a new low for reality programs, another show in the works could make "Daddy" seem as tame as "Father Knows Best." True Entertainment and Brighter Pictures, production companies owned by international reality giant Endemol ("Big Brother") in New York and London, respectively, are co-developing a...

BIG Brother bosses Endemol want to make a brand new reality TV show where fellas battle it out to be a sperm donor to a wannabe mother. The programme - dubbed Make Me A Mum - will see men compete against each other to impregnate a willing woman. Hopefuls will be whittled down to two finalists - one picked for his biological compatibility and the other on personality and looks. The woman will then choose who she wants to win, according to Yahoo News. The show has yet to be snapped up by any channels worldwide and has been slammed...

Danish sperm a fertile exportNovember 29, 2004COPENHAGEN: Twelve hundred years ago, the Danes spread their genes in Britain by rape and occupation. Now they are taking a less confrontational approach: a Danish sperm bank is stocking up on large amounts of semen ready to flood the British market when sperm donation rules are changed next year. Cryos International, the world's largest sperm bank, based in the university town of Aarhus, has recruited 40 donors – mostly blond, blue-eyed students over 182cm tall – who meet British regulatory requirements. Cryos, whose motto is "We keep the stork busy", hopes to...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The more a man ejaculates each week, the lower his sperm levels fall, new research shows. However, this ejaculatory frequency only partly explains why a man's sperm count varies widely each time it's checked. The findings, which appear in the medical journal Fertility and Sterility, are based on a study of 27 healthy men who provided monthly semen samples and responded to questionnaires regarding ejaculatory frequency, duration of abstinence, and episodes of fever. The subjects were followed for 16 months. No seasonal variations in sperm levels, movement, or shape were seen, lead author Dr. Elisabeth...

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UPDATE: NASA to Make (Kerry) Photos Available Again After a legal review by NASA lawyers, the photos of Sen. John Kerry in the famous ,"bunny suit" will be posted sometimes this evening on http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov.Check back for more details as they become available. Freeper comment: (This is from a certain Floridian newspaper this afternoon....developing.....) The full story is at: http://www.floridatoday.com/topstories/072904bunny.htm

Mobiles Phones May Damage Sperm? By Patricia Reaney LONDON (Reuters) - Mobile phones may damage men's sperm, Hungarian scientists say, in a study that fertility experts dismissed Monday as inconclusive. Carrying a mobile in hip pockets or a holster on the waist could cut sperm count by nearly 30 percent, according to the research. "The prolonged use of cell phones may have a negative effect on (sperm production) and male fertility," Dr. Imre Fejes, of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Szeged said in a summary of the study. Fejes and his team analyzed sperm from...

The Gay Gamete Project was developed as a means to ensure the genetic survival of homosexuality;to assure that the decline in homosexual procreation does not result in our eventual extinction. Homophobic Guidelines: The FDA has been in the process of promulgating national regulations that would prohibit clinics from accepting sperm from homosexual applicants since 1999. The decision will likely be finalized before 2003. Due to these homophobic guidelines as well as those proposed by the ASRM, it is unfortunately necessary for gay men to lie about their sexual preference and sexual history in the application and interview process. Gay men...

Traffic pollution may affect male fertility by damaging sperm, Italian scientists said on Wednesday. After studying 85 attendants at tollgates on Italian motorways, researchers at the University of Naples in southern Italy discovered the men had poorer-quality sperm than other young and middle-aged Italian workers in the same area. "The sperm count did not differ significantly between our study group and the controls, but in general the sperm of the study group was more feeble and less active, so it has a lower fertility potential," said Dr. Michele de Rosa, a researcher at the university.

KOLKATA: A childless couple's quest for a baby has ended in the hopeful mother contracting HIV. In what is being termed by doctors as Asia's first case of HIV from artificial insemination, a woman fertilised with sperm from an unknown donor has contracted the dreaded virus. The woman discovered she was carrying the virus when she underwent a medical examination in August 2002 as directed by an NGO from which she wanted to adopt the child. The woman and her husband approached the adoption agency after six attempts at artificial insemination since 1997 failed. The case has stunned doctors of...

Handsome men produce best sperm LONDON (Reuters) - Handsome men produce the best quality semen and beautiful women seem to have good voices, according to scientists. When researchers at the University of Valencia in Spain tested the quality of male sperm and then later asked women to rank the attractiveness of the donors it produced some interesting results. "They found that men with the most attractive faces also make the best quality sperm," New Scientist magazine said on Wednesday. In another study, researchers at the University of Nottingham in England compared the quality of female voices and their facial features....

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.New air-drying technique could revolutionize storage for couples awaiting in vitro fertilization. (HealthDay is the new name for HealthScoutNews.) TUESDAY, July 1 (HealthDayNews) -- A method of preserving sperm through air drying could revolutionize sperm storage, letting men keep their sperm at home while they and their wives await in vitro fertilization (IVF). For the first time, studies on human embryos fertilized with air-dried sperm have shown this new technique doesn't impair the early stages of embryo cell division, according to Dr. Daniel Imoedemhe, a reproductive medicine and endocrinology consultant who works...

MONDAY, July 7 (HealthDayNews) -- Abstaining from sex before fertility treatment doesn't help men become more potent. So says a study presented recently at the annual meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology in Madrid, Spain. The new research by Israeli fertility experts challenges the current medical opinion that it's beneficial for men to refrain from sex for two to seven days before undergoing some forms of fertility treatment. The scientists tested more than 7,200 semen samples for semen volume, sperm concentration and shape, and the percentage and total amount of active and moving (motile) sperm. The...

The health of a male's sperm may depend on the kind of pot he uses - if it's marijuana it's harmful, but of it's the coffee pot it's beneficial. According to a study presented at the annual American Society for Reproductive Medicine conference in Texas, scientists from Buffalo University said that men who go to pot frequently damage their ability to procreate in several different ways. The study showed that regular pot smokers had significantly less seminal fluid, a lower sperm count, and sperm that moves too slow once released. But another study to be presented by Brazilian researchers at...

<p>The U.S. Supreme Court denied Monday an unusual request by a California inmate to impregnate his wife through artificial insemination.</p> <p>The justices left intact a federal appeals court ruling that inmates do not have a constitutional right to procreate.</p> <p>The action dashes the parental hopes of William Gerber, 42, who wanted to ship a special overnight package to his wife, Evelyn -- via a sperm bank -- containing a semen sample. He was willing to pay all costs.</p>

DAVAO CITY — Over 300 Muslim religious leaders from all over the country announced on Wednesday the official Islamic canonical decision (fatwah) on reproductive health and family planning. The new fatwah allows the use of both natural and artificial contraceptive methods, except for tubal ligation and vasectomy. "The assembly finds reproductive health and family planning program, as practiced under valid reasons and recognized ancestries, are in accordance with the teachings of Islam," the fatwah stated. However, it stressed that family planning for the Muslim community in the Philippines should be anchored on the principles of non-coercion, responsible parenthood, and informed...

Italy bans donor sperm and eggs Italy's Senate has overwhelmingly approved a law which bans the use of donor sperm, eggs or surrogate mothers. It also limits the right to artificial fertilisation to "heterosexual couples in stable relationships", excluding gay couples and single women. The bill, one of the most restrictive in Europe, has drawn support and criticism from across the party lines. BBC Rome correspondent Frances Kennedy says that the bill has pitted Catholics against liberals and men against women. The legislation, passed in the Senate by 169 votes to 90 on Thursday, will now be sent back to...

lesbian who conceived a baby after buying sperm on the Internet has given birth to a boy, it was reported today. Jaime Saphier, 26, from Merseyside, gave birth to her first child by emergency Caesarean section at Liverpool Women's Hospital. Her mother Susan Saphier told the Liverpool Daily Post: "Jaime went in to hospital on Monday, but the baby failed to arrive and the doctors were so concerned they decided to perform an emergency Caesarean. "Jaime said to me 'I can't believe I'm a mum'. I told her I loved her and felt proud she was a mother. "The...