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•Human
sperm cells created
BBC medical
correspondent
Scientists in Newcastle claim to have created human
sperm in the laboratory in what they say is a world
first.
The researchers believe the work could eventually
help men with fertility problems to father a child.
But other experts say they are not convinced that
fully developed sperm have been created.
Writing in the journal Stem Cells and Development,
the Newcastle team say it will be at least five
years before the technique is
perfected. They began with stem cell lines derived
from human embryos donated
following IVF treatment. ...... . ............
• Exercise
Programs Keep Elderly out of Hospitals
One in five Americans over the
age of 65 suffers from sarcopenia, or age-related
muscle loss. In 2000, the direct cost of treatment
was estimated at more than $18.5 billion.
As the number of Americans older than 65 doubles by
the middle of the century, those costs will increase
accordingly.
A new study finds older adults who have greater
strength, better physical function and higher muscle
density are about half as likely to be hospitalized
as their less fit counterparts.......... . ...........
•World
Arthritis Day, Monday 12th October 2009
‘Let’s Work Together’: Arthritis Care urges bosses
to act on survey and keep people with arthritis in
work
Employer support is a key deciding factor in helping
workers with arthritis to keep their jobs, reveals a
new survey by UK charity Arthritis Care for World
Arthritis Day (Oct 12th).
Where bosses fail to offer supports like flexible
working and an accessible environment, the snapshot
shows that employees with arthritis too often end up
leaving their jobs. Of the respondents still in work
despite having arthritis, an emphatic 75% said their
employer had provided reasonable adjustments when
requested. But of the respondents not now in work,
only 39% said they had received such adjustments.
‘Arthritis Care’s poll shows an inescapable link
between an employer’s support for someone with
arthritis and their ability to stay in work.
Arthritis is the UK’s biggest cause of physical
disability, and more must be done to enable people
with the condition to have a full working life, not
existence on disability benefit by default’, says
Rachel Haynes, Arthritis Care’s director of public
affairs.
A worrying 70% of the survey’s non-working
respondents directly blamed leaving their job on
their arthritis. Almost two-thirds of these (64%)
said they had requested reasonable adjustments from
their employer but only one in three of these (36%)
got them. ......... .............
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