Oral medication to give men 'new hope' in the bedroom

Oral medication to give men 'new hope' in the bedroom
by Clement Mesenas
05:55 AM Dec 17, 2010
SINGAPORE - Premature ejaculation, the bane of many men in Singapore, could soon be a thing of the past when a new medication is made available here in March.

Priligy, the world's first oral medication for the treatment of the affliction that apparently affects one third of Singaporean men aged between 18 and 59 according to a recent study - has been approved for use in Singapore.

Priligy was subjected to a clinical trial in the Asia-Pacific region, including Singapore, where participants received the medication (one to three hours before intercourse) for 12 weeks.

Participants reported an average of three-fold improvement in duration of intercourse time.

At the end of the trial, a significant 33.5 per cent of the men reported "good" or "very good" control over ejaculation compared with between 0.9 and 1.6 per cent before the trial.

Three quarters of these men reported an increase in satisfaction with sexual intercourse.

At the start of the trial, close to three-quarters of the men reported they were "quite a bit" or "extremely" distressed about their speed of ejaculation.

By the end of the trial this had fallen to about a quarter.

Professor Peter Lim, president of the Society for Men's Health Singapore and senior consultant in Urology at Gleneagles Hospital, said the new treatment will give new hope to many men who struggle with this condition. CLEMENT MESENAS

'Several lapses' at Thomson Fertility Centre

'Several lapses' at Thomson Fertility Centre
05:55 AM Nov 24, 2010
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SINGAPORE - In addition to handling two assisted-reproduction processes specimens at a single time, other lapses at the Thomson Fertility Centre included using the same lab instrument, a pipette, twice and not having a second person to counter-check at every critical step of the procedure.

These findings were released by Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan in Parliament yesterday after investigations were launched into Thomson Medical Centre whose fertility centre used the wrong sperm for a couple undergoing in-vitro fertilisation (IVF).

Mr Khaw said, at the time of the incident, the embryologist had been processing semen specimens from two individuals at the same time. The pipette used for transferring specimens was reused twice instead of being discarded after a single use as is the recommended practice, thus "unnecessarily raising the risk of human error".

The centre also did not have another person to check that the specimens were transferred correctly at every critical stage, as is the recommended procedure.

"These lapses in procedure contributed to the occurrence of a human error and both led to the IVF mix-up in this case," said Mr Khaw.

In response to Member of Parliament Lam Pin Min's query on the other nine IVF centres, Mr Khaw said two private centres were found to be in non-compliance of some procedures but have since fully corrected these.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) in a statement yesterday said that the two centres had lapsed in not having a second person to counter-check during the IVF procedure.

Operations at Thomson Fertility Centre have since been suspended by MOH. Ng Jing Yng

When type O blood is barrier to having baby

When type O blood is barrier to having baby
by The Daily Telegraph
05:55 AM Oct 26, 2010
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DENVER - Women with type O blood could have more trouble conceiving as they age, an American survey claims.

The study is the first to suggest that a woman's blood group could influence her chances of getting pregnant.

The lead author, Dr Edward Nejat, of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, said his findings were based on women having fertility treatment at the Yale University IVF programme and the Montefiore Institute in New York.

He is presenting his findings today at the annual American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) conference in Denver.

The survey of 560 women, whose average age was just under 35, found that those with the type O blood appeared to have a lower egg count and poorer egg quality than others. By contrast, those with type A blood seemed to have more and better quality eggs.

Dr Nejat said: "Those with type O blood were twice as likely to have an FSH level over 10 than those with blood types other than O. We found that women with the A blood group gene were protected from this effect."

Fertility experts regard a high "follicle stimulating hormone" (FSH) level as a key indicator of having a low egg count. FSH is produced by the body to stimulate the follicles in the ovaries that produce eggs. As a woman's ovaries run out of eggs in her 30s and 40s, production has to be stepped up to encourage more eggs.

The study also found that people with blood group A carry the A antigen, a protein on the cell surface, that is absent in people with O type.

These findings could lead to women with type O blood being advised to try for a baby earlier but experts said more research was needed before such a step was taken.


Study reminds pregnant women to keep to a healthy weight

Study reminds pregnant women to keep to a healthy weight
Updated 01:40 PM Oct 14, 2010
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SINGAPORE - Women who keep their weight gain within an optimal range during pregnancy may help avoid complications for mother and baby at childbirth.

A first-of-its-kind study in Singapore has found that inadequate or excessive weight gain during pregnancy and pre-pregnancy obesity may increase the risk of gestational diabetes, hypertension and birth complications, such as an unplanned Caesarean section.

The study was done by the KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) and the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School. It involved about 1,600 women who had their first antenatal visit in their first trimester at KKH from January to April 2008.

While more data need to be gathered, one of the principal investigators of the study, Dr Tan Thiam Chye, said that, at this stage, the findings serve as a good reminder to pregnant women to manage their maternal weight gain in a holistic way through nutrition and exercise.

According to the study, about 42 per cent of the women were also found to be overweight or obese, at their first antenatal visit in their first trimester.

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