Sperm Granulomas. After vasectomy, sperm often leak from the vasectomy site or from a rupture in the epididymis, the tightly coiled, thin tube that connects the testicle to the vas deferens. Sperm elicit a very strong response from the immune system, which views them as foreign substances and attacks them. Sperm leakage therefore provokes an inflammatory reaction. The body forms pockets to trap the sperm in scar tissue and inflammatory cells. Firm balls of tissue about...
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Five years ago, doctors and researchers began to acknowledge something that those of us who’ve undergone chemotherapy had long known:... Read more »
Most people who need to take opioids on a long-term basis for chronic noncancer pain are understandably concerned about what kind of effect... Read more »
Questions are being raised about not only the long term effectiveness of ADHD medications but on the integrity of researchers in providing... Read more »
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Total hip replacements (THRs) work well to reduce pain and improve function for almost all patients having this surgery. So say researchers in... Read more »
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Doctors from the Aix-Marseille University in France update research they did 15 years ago. The information they gathered looks at the long-term... Read more »
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Researchers from the Australian Institute of Musculoskeletal Research offer one of the first reports of long-term results from arthroscopic anterior... Read more »
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This is the first study to report the long-term results of total knee replacement (TKR) in obese patients after more than 10 years. Other studies... Read more »
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Do some total hip replacements last longer because of the way they are sterilized before packaging? This is the question studied by researchers at... Read more »