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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (6351)	7/7/2003 3:55:01 PM
From: Neeka	Respond to of 12229

Abstinence Does Not Make Sperm Grow Stronger 1 hour, 49 minutes ago MONDAY, July 7 (HealthDayNews) -- Abstaining from sex before fertility treatment doesn't help men become more potent. So says a study presented recently at the annual meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology in Madrid, Spain. The new research by Israeli fertility experts challenges the current medical opinion that it's beneficial for men to refrain from sex for two to seven days before undergoing some forms of fertility treatment. The scientists tested more than 7,200 semen samples for semen volume, sperm concentration and shape, and the percentage and total amount of active and moving (motile) sperm. The samples were collected from about 6,000 men who had abstained from sex for up to two weeks. More than 4,500 of the samples had normal sperm counts. The remainder had varying count levels, from mild to severe. While the volume of semen increased up to 11 to 14 days of abstinence, the shape and form of the sperm gradually deteriorated, whatever the sperm count. In the samples taken from men with reduced sperm counts, the proportion of motile sperm fell significantly from the second day onward of abstinence, reaching a low at the sixth day and remaining low, the study found. story.news.yahoo.com

To: Jon Koplik who wrote (6351)	7/12/2003 9:55:51 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12229

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (July 11) - Almost five years to the day that Roger Clay died in a motorcycle accident, his parents got one last message from him - a sun-scorched note he had stuffed in a bottle as a child and set adrift in 1984. A man found the bottle in a St. Petersburg canal on the Fourth of July and returned it this week to Clay's mother. ``I dread this time of year every year. It's the worst,'' Lisa Ferguson told the St. Petersburg Times for Thursday's editions. ``But now I have something wonderful to think about.'' Clay died July 10, 1998, nine days after his 21st birthday. He had been 7 years old and on vacation when he tossed the tape-sealed Pepsi bottle into the Gulf of Mexico from a pier in Clearwater, just north of St. Petersburg. ``To whoever finds this letter please write me a letter and let me know,'' the note said in shaky pencil. The note included his address in Fairfield, Ohio, and the date: Dec. 27, 1984. When the bottle turned up behind Don Smith's home on Tampa Bay, on the opposite side of the Pinellas County peninsula, Smith set out to find the boy. With the Times' help, he learned of Clay's death. Smith said he was determined to find the parents. ``Imagine what that message would mean to them,'' he said. Ferguson was tracked down on vacation in Seminole, a St. Petersburg suburb. ``Here I am, trying to escape Roger's death, and he reaches out and gives me this message, this gift,'' she said. Clay's father, Roger K. Clay, said he had forgotten all about the bottle. ``It's kind of hard to put into words, all the emotions that brings back,'' he said. ``I told Lisa, it was like he was trying to remind us he was still with us.'' 07/10/03 18:31 EDT