A new wife was given a nasty wedding night surprise when she discovered she was allergic to her husband's sperm.

Mike and Julie Boyde had been going out for two years when they got married and decided to have unprotected sex for the first time that evening.

But almost immediately the bride was in unbearable pain - and eventually they discovered it was because of Mike's sperm.

DMC Heart Imaging Specialist Doctor Hamid Sattar uses the 64-slice Coronary CTA to find coronary artery disease before symptoms even appear. ~ Detroit Medical Center

Self-injury is deliberate harm, without suicidal intent, upon one's body to cope with emotional distress. It is more common than most people think. It should not be an issue left in the dark. It should be put in public awareness. Somehow it is "shameful" to talk about, but I think it is shameful to be left ignored and in the dark.

Experts claim serious side effects of flu shots amount to about one in a million - well this is what that one in a million looks like. This has freaked me out enough to bypass flu shots in the future. But what do I know - to each their own. A 25 year old woman in Ashburn, Virginia has come down with a severe debilitating neurological disorder days after receiving a seasonal flu vaccination.

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Miroslav Backonja, MD
Faculty, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Dr. Miroslav Backonja is a professor of neurology, anesthesiology and rehabilitation medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He is a clinical trials investigator focusing mainly on neuropathic pain disorders. Dr. Backonja’s medical interests include chronic neuropathic pain, such as pain from post-herpetic neuralgia, painful neuropathies including diabetic neuropathy and other peripheral and central neuropathic disorders. His teaching interests include a broad range of topics related to pain, from mechanisms to management.

During pregnancy, you'll need to decide what you want to do with your baby's cord blood. So what exactly is cord blood?

Natalia Indrimi, Director of the Centro Primo Levi in New York, describes the Center's Fall 2009 program, and the International Symposium 'New Voices on Primo Levi'

A team of scientists from Italy and Sweden has developed what is believed to be the first artificial hand that has feeling. It has been attached to the arm of a 22-year-old man who lost his own hand through cancer. Researchers say it works by connecting human nerve endings with tiny electronic sensors.

Source physorg.com

Underwater archaeologists surveying the worlds oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the early Bronze Age. This suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5000 years ago making the site even more important than first thought.

The Pavlopetri Underwater Archaeology Project, involving the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and The University of Nottingham, aims to establish when the site was occupied, what it was used for and through a systematic study of the geomorphology of the area, how the town became submerged.

Dr Jon Henderson, from the Department of Archaeology, takes up the story.

Source news.stanford.edu Image: Stanford graduate student Richard Gaster (left) and Shan Wang, professor of materials science and engineering and of electrical engineering. (Image from news.stanford.edu - L.A. Cicero)

Stanford Report, October 13, 2009

Improved magnetic-nano sensor chips are up to 1,000 times more sensitive than current methods of cancer detection – can scan any bodily fluid with high accuracy and search for up to 64 different cancer-associated proteins simultaneously.

BY LOUIS BERGERON

Searching for biomarkers that can warn of diseases such as cancer while they are still in their earliest stage is likely to become far easier thanks to an innovative biosensor chip developed by Stanford University researchers.

This animation shows a DNA wrapping, as well as it's replication.It was made by Drew Barry at The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.

The steady stream of celebrity stories about prescription drug abuse makes Americans keenly aware of the dangers of overdosing on medications like OxyContin and Vicodin. And from President Obama's Drug Czar to California Attorney General Jerry Brown, politicians are calling for greater power to monitor doctor-patient relationships in order to fight the "epidemic" of prescription drug overdosing.

Source the-scientist.com Image: Jason Rasgon (left) and Grant Hughes (right) are trying to infect mosquitoes with a life-shortening bacterium. (Image from the-scientist.com)

Scientists are trying to design the last malaria control agent the world will ever need.

Entomologist Simon Blanford attaches a spray nozzle onto the top of a jar of white-powdered fungus immersed in a concoction of mineral oils. He leans forward into a fume hood and applies an even coating of fungal spores onto cut-up strips of disposable coffee cups taped against the back wall.

The next morning, after the sopping wet strips have dried, Blanford, a senior research associate at Pennsylvania State University in State College, will return to put the cups back together. Then he’ll toss in a load of young Anopheles mosquitoes that have just eaten a malaria-ridden blood meal, cover the cups with a mesh lining, and wait. One week later, the vast majority of the mosquitoes will die, victims of the fungus that rubbed off on their bodies from the coated cups. At least, Blanford wants it to be 1 week later, which is just short enough to prevent the transmission of malaria, but long enough to potentially circumvent the evolution of insecticide resistance—indefinitely.

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Opioid analgesics should not be used in elderly patients with osteoarthritis even if their pain is severe, because the associated risks are so great, according to a review of previous studies.

“We found that pain reduction with opioid treatment was small to moderate. Increasing the dosage did not appear to result in further pain reduction,” lead author Dr. Eveline Nuesch, from the University of Bern, Switzerland, said in a statement. “However, patients taking opioids have large increases in risks of experiencing adverse effects and frequently stop taking opioid medications for this reason.”

Dr. John Cannell on Vitamin D: Vitamin D prevents osteoporosis, depression, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and even effects diabetes and obesity. Vitamin D is perhaps the single most underrated nutrient in the world of nutrition. That's probably because it's free: your body makes it when sunlight touches your skin. Drug companies can't sell you sunlight, so there's no promotion of its health benefits. Truth is, most people don't know the real story on vitamin D and health.

Disclose.tv Vitamin D - What The Pharmaceutical Industry Doesn't Want You to Know! Video

From Dr. Hillel Rosenfeld: "I made this video in honor of my loving wife, Susie, who is a three year breast cancer survivor. As we are so grateful for everyone's support and at the same time aware of how many people are affected by this disease, I decided to do my part to help enhance people's awareness of this."

Laura Dominguez was only 16 years old when she suffered a spinal cord injury in a car accident that left her a paraplegic. Now she is starting to walk again with the help of Adult Stem Cells taken from her own body.

Stem Cells at a Glance

What are the differences between embryonic, adult and induced pluripotent stem cells? Where do the experts expect the next medical application will be for stem cells? Do stem cells promote regeneration? How are cell types interacting? How can induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells revolutionize drug discovery? Can cell therapies be made into a viable business? How close are we to finding the right business model? Are investors interested in stem cells today? What is the political and ethical landscape like now that the Obama administration has taken over the White House?

There’s a lot going on 2500 meters below sea level. It’s dark, temperatures can climb to 300 degrees Celsius near thermal vents, and the pressure is about 250 atmospheres. If humans could swim at that depth, the pressure exerted on the body would be equivalent to the weight of about 30 Boeing 747 jumbo jets, says Peter Girguis at Harvard University. And yet the water at this depth is teeming with life, with more biomass in 1 cubic meter than in a cubic meter of the richest rain forest (Mar Ecol Progr, 148:135-43).

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Increased brain amyloid load is associated with an increased risk of progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer disease (AD), according to a report in the September 8th Neurology.

In a study involving 31 subjects with MCI, in vivo measurement of brain amyloid using 11C-PIB PET proved to be “a potential tool for providing prognostic information” on “increased risk of converting to AD,” Dr. Aren Okello from Imperial College London, London, UK told Reuters Health by email.