The Australian reports IT’S not often a doctor gives you the green light to have unprotected sex, but that’s what happened to Melbourne couple Daniel and Debra Hughes. They’re part of a trial for a new male contraceptive. Once it was confirmed that the drug is working and the pair tested free of sexually transmitted [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Apr
13
Do you need to wash your hands after you go to the toilet?
Don’t steal the cookies from the cookie jar, and wash your hands after you go to the toilet were the staples of my childhood education. And I learned them long before I learned how to read and write. But what if someone told you that sometimes after you’ve gone to the toilet you shouldn’t wash [...]
Apr
2
Pig sushi gives hope to diabetes patients
New Scientist reports: Four more people with diabetes will soon be implanted with high doses of living pig cells coated in seaweed, bringing the prospect of widespread animal-to-human transplants a step closer. Several people in New Zealand and Russia with type 1 diabetes have already received the “pig sushi”, known as Diabecell, and now New [...]