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By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent DENVER (Reuters) - Male circumcision, which has been shown to protect men from infection with the AIDS virus, appears to protect women, too, U.S. and Ugandan researchers reported on Wednesday. Circumcising men reduced infections in their female partners by 30 percent, the researchers found. One said the difference may be related to the structure of the foreskin, which is removed in circumcision. In the study of more than 300 Ugandan...
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science CorrespondentDENVER (Reuters) - Male circumcision, which has been shown to protect men from infection with the AIDS virus, appears to protect women, too, U.S. and Ugandan researchers reported on Wednesday.Circumcising men reduced infections in their female partners by 30 percent, the researchers found. One said the difference may be related to the structure of the foreskin, which is removed in circumcision.In the study of more than 300 Ugandan couples in...
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science CorrespondentDENVER (Reuters) - Male circumcision, which has been shown to protect men from infection with the AIDS virus, appears to protect women, too, U.S. and Ugandan researchers reported on Wednesday.Circumcising men reduced infections in their female partners by 30 percent, the researchers found. One said the difference may be related to the structure of the foreskin, which is removed in circumcision.In the study of more than 300 Ugandan couples in...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Female sexual partners of circumcised men are less likely to contract Chlamydia trachomatis infections than are those of uncircumcised men, a study shows. The most common bacterial cause of sexually transmitted infections, C. trachomatis can cause severe reproductive complications in women and is associated with increased risk of cervical cancer. The relationship between male circumcision and C. trachomatis infection in the female partner has not been...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It has long been noted that circumcised men appear to be less likely to become infected with HIV, but whether there's a benefit to actively circumcising adults for this purpose has been an open question.Now, investigators in France and South Africa report that circumcising men does afford them some protection against HIV.Dr. Bertran Auvert, from Hopital Ambroise-Pare in Boulogne, France, and colleagues conducted a clinical study to test this prevention strategy....
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The results of a new report confirm that circumcision reduces the risk of urinary tract infection -- but the authors estimate that more than 100 boys need to be circumcised to prevent one infection. The authors recommend circumcision only for boys at high risk of urinary tract infection, but this view is not universally held, commentators suggest. A reduced rate of urinary tract infection is the most frequently cited benefit of circumcision, Dr. Jonathan Craig and...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Circumcising men can help protect them from the AIDS virus, researchers said on Tuesday after finishing the first study that tried using the procedure specifically to prevent infection.But United Nations health officials cautioned that more trials were necessary before they would recommend this as a method to protect against AIDS.The circumcised men were 65 percent less likely to become infected with the deadly and incurable virus, the researchers told the...
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A woman who cut off her boyfriend's penis while he slept was convicted of aggravated assault on Friday and could face up to 20 years in prison. Jurors deliberated 3-1/2 hours before finding Delmy Ruiz guilty and next week will decide her punishment. Ruiz, 49, testified she used a kitchen knife to slice off Rene Aramando Nunez's penis because he had violently raped her and forced her to perform oral sex at her home last October. But prosecutors portrayed her as a jealous...
Keep computers on desk as much as possible, researcher saysHealthDayNews -- Laptop computers pose a long-term threat to the fertility of young men who use them because they can reduce sperm formation by raising temperatures in the genital area, a small new study says.Keep the laptop on a desk, not on the lap, is the advice of Dr. Yefim Sheynkin, an associate professor of urology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and lead author of what is described as the first study of the...
Latest Male reproductive system Reference Libraries
The male prostate gland acts as an exocrine gland in the male reproductive system. It is a firm, partly muscular, chestnut sized gland near the neck of the urethra in males. Formation and Orientation The prostate is usually formed within the ninth week of the embryonic stage in reproductive development. The prostate can be separated into either “lobes” or “zones”. When looking at a prostate divided into zones, there are four distinct regions. The first zone is the Peripheral...
The testicles are the male reproductive organs that serve as a part of both the nervous and reproductive systems, acting as the ovaries’ counterpart. The testicles work to produce sperm and introduce chemicals such as testosterone. Formation and Orientation There are normally two testicles in the average male anatomy. These can be found in the protective sack called the scrotum. Two phases mark the growth of the testicles. During the embryonic stage, there is a possibility of this...
