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Male Infertility
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
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In the US, approximately 15% of all couples have difficulty conceiving a child. In about one-third of these cases, the man is infertile; in another one-third, both the man and woman are infertile; and in the remaining one-third, the woman is infertile. Current estimates suggest that 6% of men between the ages of 15 and 50 are infertile.
Male infertility is considered likely if, in the absence of female causes, a child is not conceived after 6 months of unprotected sex. In 90% of cases, male infertility is due to low sperm count. In an average ejaculate, a man will eject nearly two hundred million sperm, but because of the natural barriers in the female reproductive (more…)