| Thursday, 03 September 2009 10:07 | | | Celebrity lookalikes sperm bank to open |  A sperm bank specialising in donors who are celebrity lookalikes is to open in New York City, it has been reported. California Cryobank's Donor Look-A-Likes is a fertility clinic based out of Los Angeles, whose unidentified donors are said to resemble a number of stars. The service allows prospective parents the chance to seek out famous faces for their unborn children and will soon open a second facility in Manhattan, the New York Daily News reports. "I wish I could say all our donors look like.......... | | |
| Wednesday, 12 August 2009 09:58 | | | 800,000 Health care workers needed in Africa |  An additional 800,000 health care workers is needed if Africa is to meet its 2015 goals to improve maternal and child health, and reduce Aids.
A research study, published in the U.S based journal Health Affairs, says that Africa has about 30 per cent of the one million doctors, nurses and midwives it needs, but will require 2.6 billion US dollars to pay for the additional workers needed. | | | Wednesday, 08 July 2009 10:26 | | | Scientists claim to have made human sperms in a laboratory | |  British scientists claim they have made medical history by creating human sperm in a laboratory.
Researchers in Newcastle say they had produced fully mature, functional cells called In-Vitro Derived sperm.
But other experts have cast doubt on the claim, arguing that the cells do not constitute "authentic" sperm.
The scientists, led by Professor Karim Nayernia at Newcastle University and the NorthEast England Stem Cell Institute, created the sperm from human embryonic stem cells.
The cells were observed to split and divide and then eventually push out a tail and begin to move.
| | | Tuesday, 30 June 2009 14:17 | | | Three more swine flu cases detected in South Africa linked to Britain and the US | |  Three more cases of swine flu have been detected in South Africa, bringing the total number of cases to seven, health officials said.
The three affected people recently returned from Britain and the US. The patients were tested positive for swine flu, health department spokesperson Fidel Hadebe told BuaNews Monday.
He added that all the seven swine flu patients in the country were recovering well.
The department has appealed to the people not to panic. | | | Wednesday, 17 June 2009 01:42 | | | Swine have had the flu for years | |  WASHINGTON - According to researchers, the new H1N1 virus(swine Flu), which has caused the first pandemic of the 21st century, has been circulating undetected among pigs for years.
The researchers report that animal health regulators have been missing the opportunity to check swine, but health officials have been watching for new influenza viruses in humans.
Britons Andrew Rambaut of the University of Edinburgh and Oliver Pybus of Oxford University, and Yi Guan of the University of Hong Kong examined the genetic sequence of the new H1N1 swine flu virus.
Like others who have done the same, they show it is a mixture of other viruses that had been circulating in WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new H1N1 virus, which has caused the first pandemic of the 21st century, appears to have been circulating undetected among pigs for years, researchers reported on Thursday.
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