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Many people are buying their own, largely through Internet sites like NukePills.com that also point out reactor locations

One Internet site, NukePills.com, reported orders for 10,000 packs of the pills on Monday alone.

People who live near nuclear reactors have been stocking up since Sept. 11, in case of an attack or accident. But don't assume you need the drug because of "dirty bomb" scenarios now making headlines, experts caution.

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"You shouldn't go, 'Oh my god, I just heard there was a dirty bomb 20 miles away so I'm automatically going to take it,'" says radiation expert Jonathan Links of Johns Hopkins University, who is helping Baltimore officials prepare for the possibility of dirty bombs.

"Just because you're in the same town with a dirty bomb doesn't mean you take potassium iodide," agrees Dr. David Orloff of the Food and Drug Administration. "Wait 'til you hear instructions from public health officials."

Potassium - https://www.herfeed.com/?s=Potassium iodide, chemical symbol KI, is the only medication for internal radiation exposure. But it has just one use — to prevent thyroid cancer by shielding the thyroid from radioactive iodine. It blocks no other type of radiation, and protects no other body part.

Just as with any medication, overdoses of potassium iodide can be dangerous. Some people may experience allergic reactions, including nausea or rashes, from taking potassium iodide.

Sheltering and evacuation remain the cornerstones of protection.

Still, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is offering states enough KI to treat every resident within 10 miles of a reactor, because radioactive iodine is likely to be released during a serious reactor 광주출장샵 - https://www.gwangjuopmassage.club/ accident or attack.

Many people are buying their own, largely through Internet sites like NukePills.com that also point out reactor locations. FDA-approved KI is sold without a prescription, for about $1 a pill. A dose is one tablet a day for adults, smaller amounts for children.

A traditional explosive releases small amounts of radioactive material. Experts say a dirty bomb would probably use a substance other than radioactive iodine.

How would people know?

In Baltimore, emergency officials who respond to explosions are being trained to operate credit card-sized radiation detectors, Links said. Laboratory testing of any radioactive samples could tell what kind and how much of a substance was present in a few hours.

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Studies released this year by the National Cancer Institute and others have linked long-term estrogen use to breast and ovarian cancer, raising concerns among women who use the hormone.

A federal advisory panel recommended the hormone be listed as a cancer agent two years ago, and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences made it official this week with the publication of its biennial report on carcinogens.

The report, listing substances that are known or reasonably anticipated to cause a cancer risk, was sent to Congress and released by the Department of Health and Human Services.

While the expert panel recommended that the group of hormones known as steroidal estrogens be listed as cancer risks, members observed that they have benefits - http://search.about.com/?q=benefits as well as dangers. The substances are used in hormone replacement therapy and oral contraceptives.

The panel did not suggest banning estrogens but said officially linking them with cancer could make it more probable that physicians would discuss both risks and benefits when discussing options with their patients.

The 10th annual cancer report brings to 228 the number of substances linked to cancer.

While the new report lists steroidal estrogens as "known human carcinogens," some of the individual steroidal estrogens had been listed as "reasonably anticipated carcinogens" in past editions.

Also newly listed as known causes of cancer in humans are broad-spectrum ultraviolet radiation - whether generated by the sun or by artificial sources - and https://www.opblog.top/ - https://www.opblog.top/ wood dust.

The report, issued every two years, is required by Congress to help keep the public informed about substances or exposure circumstances that are known or are reasonably anticipated to cause human cancers. It does not determine how great the risk is or any balancing benefits from the substances.

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Harvey Weinstein, all-mighty poobah of Oscar buzz, got Dr

(CBS News) What would Academy Awards Sunday be without our own Oscar prognosticator David Edelstein?

Last year, I sat here and predicted every Oscar winner. Had I gabbed with Academy members? Nope. Can I foretell the future? Sorry. Did I just love the big winner, "The Artist"? Definitely not.

I'd simply - http://search.ft.com/search?queryText=I%27d%20simply read certain columnists who'd been spun by certain publicists who'd been hired by certain studios that had squired certain nominees around Hollywood to screenings and cocktail parties to influence the votes of a few thousand people -- most over 55, white, well-off and liberal.

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This year it's even busier. Harvey Weinstein, all-mighty poobah of Oscar buzz, got Dr. Mehmet Oz to extol "Silver Linings Playbook" for its insights into mental illness.

Look, I like the movie. It's a good, dark rom-com about a couple of cute depressives. Maybe it's even therapeutic to see people crazier than WE are. I'm just not certain of its medical efficacy.

Meanwhile, Steven Spielberg brought in a master to spin for "Lincoln": Bill Clinton! You hire awards consultants like political consultants. You stay ahead of the message.

Or you end up like Kathryn Bigelow, whose phenomenal "Zero Dark Thirty" was an early favorite, but maybe a tad fast-and-loose with facts in saying torture led to the courier who led to bin Laden. True or false, the controversy hasn't played well -- proof in one way torture doesn't work. Reportedly. I've read this, from columnists spun by publicists working for "Zero Dark Thirty" rivals.

They also say it's "Argo" for Best Picture because people feel bad that Ben Affleck wasn't nominated for Best Director -- his loss the movie's gain. And it doesn't hurt that the film makes Hollywood types look heroic.

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Clinton might help Spielberg win Best Director. I'm guessing Dr. Oz fave Jennifer Lawrence for Best Actress, though there's a dark horse in "Amour"'s Emmanuelle Riva.

Anne Hathaway has been on the campaign trail for "Les Miserables" and https://www.xtyle.kr/ - https://www.xtyle.kr/ she'll get it, not in spite of looking like a chicken when she sings but BECAUSE of it. Flamboyant anti-vanity: It sells.

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The lock, of course, is Daniel Day-Lewis, who as Shakespeare would say "doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus."

Now, none of this has much to do with what I laughingly call "artistic merit." And except for Day-Lewis, none are my choices.

Although they might be if I heard from, say, Bill Clinton . . . or better yet, Jennifer Lawrence. Call me, babe. I wanna be on the inside, where Oscars really get decided.

Overall, most of the public believes the nation is somewhat better prepared to handle a biological or chemical attack than it was last year, when anthrax was sent through the mail, though only a handful say the country is very well prepared

The survey also found an increasing number of people are worried that smallpox, wiped from the globe more than 20 years ago, will return in an act of bioterror.

People most trust their own doctors to give them correct information about how to protect themselves from disease caused by bioterrorism — although most regular doctors know little about smallpox and other rare diseases likely to result from an attack.

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On Tuesday, states submitted their own smallpox vaccination plans to the federal government. These displayed a variety of approaches, from Georgia— planning shots for just 300 to 500 people — to California, which has requested 70,000 doses of the vaccine.

It's not an exaggeration to describe iGen as being on the brink of the worst mental-health crisis in decades

A spate of suicides among unusually young people has made headlines in recent weeks.–

Earlier this month, an 11-year-old girl from South Carolina shot herself to death because she was being bullied at school.

The girl, Toni Rivers, told five of her friends that "she just couldn't do this anymore, and she was going home, and she was killing herself," her aunt, Maria Petersen, told CBS affiliate WTOC-TV.

Just a few days earlier, police reported that a 12-year-old boy jumped from an overpass above Interstate 66 in northern Virginia and landed on a car. He was critically injured and the driver was killed.

These cases are part of a larger and very disturbing trend researchers have observed in recent years: The number of children and teens attempting suicide is on the rise, and so is the number of those who actually die from it.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the third leading cause of death in young people between the ages of 10 and 24, resulting in about 4,600 lives lost in the U.S. each year.

Cases have been documented in kids as young as 5 years old.

Earlier this year, research presented at the May 2017 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting in San Francisco found that the number of children and adolescents admitted to children's hospitals for thoughts of suicide or self-harm more than doubled during the last decade.

Now, in a new study published - http://www.groundreport.com/?s=study%20published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), researchers reported a significant increase in emergency department visits for self-inflicted, non-fatal injuries among children and young adults.

The research, based on government data, showed a 5.7 percent increase in such visits per year from 2008 to 2015. Female tweens and young teens led the way in this troubling trend.

"In particular, self-inflicted injury rates for young females aged 10 to 14 years increased 18.8 percent annually from 2009 to 2015," Dr. Melissa Mercado, one of the authors of the study, told CBS News.

Gregory Plemmons, 보령출장업소 - https://www.boryeongsoftanma.club/ M.D., an associate professor of pediatrics at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, who authored the May 2017 study, said the new JAMA report mirrored his own research.

"Although they're still a small percentage of what we take care of, the numbers of kids and teens with suicidal thoughts and actions have dramatically increased across the board," he told CBS News.

While there is strong evidence for rising rates of suicidal thoughts and actions among young people, what researchers aren't so sure about is what is driving this trend.

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"Teens are much more likely now than they were just five years ago, or seven years ago, to say that they are anxious and depressed and thinking about suicide," Jean Twenge, a psychologist at San Diego State University, told CBS Evening News earlier this year.

Twenge also penned an article for The Atlantic focused on the correlation between the rising popularity of smartphones and increased rates of suicide and depression among young people.

"Theirs is a generation shaped by the smartphone and by the concomitant rise of social media. I call them iGen," she wrote. "The impact of these devices has not been fully appreciated, and goes far beyond the usual concerns about curtailed attention spans. ... Rates of teen depression and suicide have skyrocketed since 2011. It's not an exaggeration to describe iGen as being on the brink of the worst mental-health crisis in decades. Much of this deterioration can be traced to their phones."

She cites cyberbullying, fear and anxiety of being left out, and sleep deprivation tied to constant smartphone use as factors affecting teens' mental health and well-being.

A large study published earlier this month supports this link. The report, published in the journal Clinical Psychological Science, surveyed about half a million teens ages 13 to 18 on their attitudes, behaviors, and interests.

Among other findings, the research showed that use of electronic devices including smartphones for at least five hours a day among teens more than doubled, from 8 percent in 2009 to 19 percent in 2015. The group who spent the most time glued to their phones were 70 percent more likely to have suicidal thoughts or actions than those who reported one hour of use per day.

"I don't have teenagers but whenever I work with them, they do seem much more pressured and stressed than I remember at that age with social media and keeping up appearances, and that's on top of prepping for college and clubs and over-scheduling," Plemmons said. "It certainly seems to be a different time."

A shortage of mental health care providers and fallout from the Great Recession may also play a role, he said.

Regardless of the reasons behind the trend, Plemmons said there's a great need for more mental health care providers.

"We have to make sure that there's access to mental health care," he said. "Kids need to have a safety plan and have resources."

Mercado said the findings of her study "underscore the need for the implementation of evidence-based, comprehensive suicide and self-harm prevention strategies within health systems and communities targeted at young people."

For their part, parents and close family members should have open conversations with their kids and teens, especially if there's concern they are depressed or at risk for suicide.

"This is a real phenomenon. If your child or teenager expresses to you that they've been thinking about suicide, it's important to talk about it and ask further questions," Plemmons said. "Seek care when needed. Don't minimize it or avoid it. You're not going to make someone suicidal by asking about it. That's supported by research. If they're already thinking them, you need to have a plan for what to do."

If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255.

New Drugs Help Reverse Blindness

These lucky few are the first beneficiaries of an entirely new category - http://www.ajaxtime.com/?s=category of drugs that many hope will revolutionize the care of common eye diseases.

Several competing medicines are in development, all based on similar principles. They are designed to stop the two top causes of adult blindness - the "wet" form of macular degeneration, which affects the elderly, and diabetic retinopathy, the biggest source of blindness in working-age people.

Vision loss seems halted for most if they take the drugs soon after their symptoms begin. Some experience stunning reversals of what would have been inevitable blindness.

"I'm telling you, it's miraculous," says Eileen Russell.

Russell, 76, of Worcester, lost vision in her right eye four years ago. In May, her left eye went bad, too, and she was declared legally blind.

But after four injections of one of the drugs her left eye is 20-25. She drives and reads and is thinking about returning to work as a nurse.

"Yesterday, I had to write a check," she says. "It looked beautiful, right on the line, with a regular pen. I can do all the little things again."

Around the country, about 70 patients with wet macular degeneration have been treated with the same drug as Russell, Genentech's rhuFab. About half were treated by Dr. Jeffrey Heier of Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston, who says, "I can honestly say I have never seen anything as exciting as this."

Experts caution that most of the results from the studies on this and similar drugs will not be known for at least a year or two. And for now, the treatments are available only to study volunteers.

None of the drugs are intended for the more common but less aggressive "dry" kind of macular degeneration, nor will they work after eyesight has been gone for months.

Guessing the drugs' ultimate effectiveness based on early testing is risky. Still, doctors estimate that roughly one-quarter to one-third of people with newly diagnosed wet macular degeneration have had significant improvement in their eyesight. In most of the rest, loss of sight is stopped, at least temporarily.

Among others helped by rhuFab is Ernest Hayeck, a retired judge in Worcester, 40 miles west of Boston. One day last September, he discovered - http://ms-jd.org/search/results/search&keywords=discovered/ he was quickly going blind in his right eye. Doorways looked wavy, and everything was dim.

Doctors said they could do nothing for him. With wet macular degeneration, vision in that eye would cloud to little or nothing within a few months at best.

Hayeck was an active retiree, nine years off the state Superior Court but busy on the faculty of the National Judicial College and the board of Wendy's International.

"I was resigned to it," he remembers. "I told myself I had had 77 good years."

But when told of Heier's rhuFab study, he seized the chance, even though it meant getting shots in his bad eye. In October, 홍성출장안마 - https://www.hongsunganma.top/ the judge got his first, which he said was painless. By then his sight had failed to 20-100.

"I have achieved what I consider to be a miraculous result," says Hayeck. "My eyesight came back with a vengeance. By the time I had the fourth treatment, I was 20-20 with my glasses on."

Another of Heier's patients, Edward Nowak, 81, an outdoor writer and photographer in suburban Needham, found vision in his left eye improved from 20-400 last November to 20-50 now.

"The results have been miraculous," he says. "You would think the good Lord himself did this."

Dr. Steven Schwartz, chief of the retina division at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute, has worked with several of the new drugs. "For the first time in my career, I have actually been able to restore vision in patients who otherwise would never be able to get back their central vision," he says. "It is a spectacular advance."

His macular degeneration patients include the actor Dabney Coleman, who in a week on rhuFab went from 20-400 to 20-40 in his left eye and returned to playing tennis.

An estimated 200,000 new cases of wet macular degeneration are diagnosed in the United States annually. About 4 million U.S. diabetics have some degree of retinopathy, and 24,000 go blind each year.

Both diseases result from misguided growth of blood vessels in the eyes. Since the new drugs attack this underlying problem, doctors hope they will work for both diseases.

The need for new treatments is especially dire in wet macular degeneration, because nothing can be done for most victims. Blindness often follows within months or even weeks of the first symptoms.

It occurs when leaky blood vessels sprout behind the retina, probably in a mistaken attempt to fix the slow breakdown of light-sensitive cells that occurs with age. These vessels ooze fluid and damage the fragile tissue that controls straight-ahead vision.

The new drugs vary, although most of them, like rhuFab, zero in on a growth-promoting protein called vascular epidermal growth factor, or VEGF. It appears to be an especially important trigger of damaging blood vessels in both forms of blindness.

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Development of these drugs is gratifying to Dr. Judah Folkman of Boston's Children's Hospital, whose three decades of pioneering research into blood vessels provided their scientific basis. Folkman's goal is a cancer treatment, since new blood vessels are necessary for tumor growth.

"Sometimes the most exciting thing in a scientist's career," he says, "is an unexpected outcome from one's work."

Nevertheless, experts caution that until the big studies are finished, no one can be sure how well the drugs will work. No one knows how long patients will need to take them, how often disease will return or whether the repeated eye injections have any hazards.

"The early data are very exciting, but it would be premature to extrapolate to cures or use other such adjectives to describe these isolated but impressive vision recoveries," says Dr. Karl Csaky of the National Eye Institute.

"Even if these drugs are as successful as the stockholders' wildest dreams, we'll still need something better," adds Dr. David Weissgold of the University of Vermont, "because they won't make the problems go away."

For elderly victims of macular degeneration, though, even a temporary reprieve from blindness is welcome.

"I'm reconciled to the possibility this is a gift that won't last forever," says Hayeck. "I may lose it again. But I can't complain. I've gotten a good year out of this."

"When the Depression hit, lots of movie theatres closed," said Smith

(CBS News) POP goes the cash register at a movie theaters where pop goes the CORN! Mo Rocca has a bucket of facts and figures:

The biggest moneymaker at movie theaters last year wasn't from a comic book or Steven Spielberg, and didn't involve werewolves or vampires.

Just like every year, the number one blockbuster was the concession stand and its most bankable star, popcorn.

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"A lot of people buy popcorn," said Melissa Rocha, a manager at Film Forum, an independent movie house in Manhattan. The New York Times gave their popcorn a rave review!

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She says the sound of the popcorn machine makes her a little bit nervous, "because usually when it starts happening that means it's starting to get busy in the theater."

"So you associate this sound with crowd control?" Rocca asked.

"Yes, And it getting busy," she laughed.

But popcorn and the movies didn't always go together, says Andrew Smith, the man who wrote the book on popcorn.

"Movie theatres early on had no popcorn whatsoever," said Smith. "They had no snack bar. They had grand lobbies and they had gorgeous rugs. And the last thing that they wanted was people with popcorn."

So what happened? The Depression.

"When the Depression hit, lots of movie theatres closed," said Smith. "But then they found out if they lowered their admission fee, then they could actually make a larger profit if they could sell snack food, which popcorn was by far their largest profit margin."

"So just get people in the seats, get them into the movie house, and then they buy a lot of popcorn?"

"Yes. In the 1930s, the best comment was, 'Find a good place to sell popcorn and build a movie theatre there."

Popcorn not only saved movie houses, says Smith, but also played a role in what ended up on screen.

"What theatre owners found was those movies that were targeted at children were the ones that sold the most popcorn," said Smith. "And so consequently they made their profit on Saturday matinees and on Sunday matinees."

It wasn't just kids' movies that turned out to be popcorn-friendly, 바카라사이트 - http://www.agawamhousing.org/contact.html says Smith. Grown-ups were chowing down during suspenseful dramas.

"What they found very quickly was adults would eat a lot more popcorn when you have drama in the theaters -- It's almost an automatic thing that it's there and there's tension going on."

"So people were probably eating a lot of popcorn during 'The Poseidon Adventure,'" suggested Rocca.

All quite the accomplishment for a snack with not a lot of flavor.

Which is where that neon yellow stuff -- no, it's not really butter, it's mostly soybean oil -- and salt come in. The saltier the popcorn, the more you'll need a giant soda to slake your thirst. And that's just fine with theater owners!

"When I'm leaving a movie house, and I feel that stickiness underneath my shoes, should I blame popcorn or soda for that?" asked Rocca.

"You should be proud that those products helped make that theatre possible, and make those movies possible," said Smith. "Because I don't think there would be movie theatres, and I don't think there would be films, at least in theatres, without popcorn."

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"I think, based on the data coming out of Hollywood, it's pretty obvious that female filmmakers are pretty underrepresented in that space," Cody said on the red carpet

Could the humor of "Juno" work in the fictional town of Sweet Valley? Diablo Cody seems to think so.

During the opening night of the Athena Film Festival at New York's Barnard College on Thursday, the 34-year-old screenwriter and 청주출장샵 - https://www.anmapop.com/%EC%B2%AD%EC%A3%BC%EC%B6%9C%EC%9E%A5%EC%83%B5%CF... director spoke to CBSNews.com about some of the reasons why she wants to bring the popular teen book series to the big screen.

"On one hand, ['Sweet Valley High'] is a guilty pleasure," Cody said, "And on the other hand, it's a really interesting, psychological, study of women and how we tend to compartmentalize ourselves as fun, boring, good, or bad."

Often seen as the precursor to works like "Gossip Girl," the "Sweet Valley High" series (created by author Francine Pascal) captured a generation of young (mostly female) readers with the high school shenanigans of protagonists Elizabeth (the good twin) and Jessica (the bad twin) Wakefield. A TV series loosely based on the books ran from 1994-1998.

Cody, who won an Oscar for her screenplay for 2007's "Juno," says production is expected to begin on the "Sweet Valley High" film adaptation as soon as a director is in place.

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Cody has already finished work on her directorial debut: An as-yet untitled film starring Julianne Hough, Octavia Spencer and Russell Brand. Cody also co-wrote the screenplay for the upcoming - http://bordersalertandready.com/?s=upcoming&search=Search "Evil Dead" remake, which comes out April 5.

And even though none of her own projects were being shown, Cody says events like the Athena Film Festival, which showcases female filmmakers, remain important.

"I think, based on the data coming out of Hollywood, it's pretty obvious that female filmmakers are pretty underrepresented in that space," Cody said on the red carpet. "So to me, [the Athena Film Festival] is inspiring, it's educating. I'm a big fan of this Festival, obviously."

The Athena Film Festival will run until Feb. 10.

Tell us: Are you looking forward to Cody's big-screen adaptation of "Sweet Valley High"?

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Psychiatrists have prescribed the world's best-known antidepressant, and similar competitors, to their youngest patients for years, despite a shortage of studies proving they work in children.

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Prozac's Indianapolis-based maker, Eli Lilly & Co., said it didn't intend to market Prozac for children. Still, putting child-specific information on Prozac's FDA-mandated label means more doctors, not just depression specialists, may prescribe it.

The FDA also approved Prozac's use in children with obsessive-compulsive disorder, the third serotonin-enhancing drug to win that designation.

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But children have one unique side effect: In one study, children and teenagers taking Prozac grew a little more slowly - a half inch less in height and 2 pounds less in weight over a period of 19 weeks - than similarly aged children taking a dummy pill.

No one yet knows if the Prozac patients catch up or how big a concern that is, said the FDA's Dr. Russell Katz. Lilly agreed to further study the side effect.

Up to 25 percent of U.S. children and 8 percent of teenagers suffer depression, the FDA said. Additionally, about 2 percent of the population has obsessive-compulsive disorder, and at least a third of those cases began in childhood.

Psychiatrists welcomed the FDA's move.

"It made sense to prescribe these drugs, but yet everyone who did it felt a certain amount of anxiety that we didn't have all the data," said Dr. Lois Flaherty of the American Psychiatric Association.

Manufacturers have little incentive to study adult drugs in children if they expect desperate pediatricians will use the medicines anyway. In 1998, the FDA tried to require more pediatric testing, but a federal court recently threw out that requirement.

"I'm sure within 10 years there will be something to stimulate sperm production in the site where it has to be produced -- in the testes," Evers said

If scientists could discover a way to boost falling sperm counts, demand for in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other fertility techniques for women would halve, according toProfessor Hans Evers, chairman of the European Society of Human Reproduction and 단양출장마사지 - https://www.danyanganma.top/ Embryology (ESHRE).

Fewer women would have to be prodded with needles, injected with drugs or have their eggs removed, mixed with sperm and put back again to overcome a problem in their partner.

"If there is an advance in treatment it should be in male infertility," Evers told Reuters.

"There must be a way, in the future, to cure male infertility -- an easier way than submitting the female partner to these kinds of invasive treatments."

The topic will be discussed when many of ESHRE's 4,000 members gather for their annual conference in Vienna on Sunday, but Evers said it is unlikely a way will be found to boost sperm production anytime soon.

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), in which a single sperm is injected into an egg, has helped men who produce little or poor quality sperm to father children but it is an invasive procedure for women.

"I'm sure within 10 years there will be something to stimulate sperm production in the site where it has to be produced -- in the testes," Evers said.

In the meantime existing fertility techniques are becoming simpler and success rates are improving.

About 25-27 percent of couples undergoing fertility treatment take home a live baby. Others are left disappointed and the lucky ones get a bonus with two, three or more babies.

But Evers said the success rate could climb to 35 percent and the chances of a multiple birth -- potentially dangerous for both the mother and babies -- would be reduced if only the healthiest embryo is replaced in the womb.

Despite claims by Italian fertility expert Severino Antinori, who has said he has had some success with his controversial cloning programme for infertile - https://www.b2bmarketing.net/search/gss/infertile couples, Evers doubts human cloning - http://statigr.am/tag/human%20cloning will solve the infertility problem.

"Cloning is a possibility but not in the hands of Doctor Antinori," he said.

"If human cloning is done, it will be by one of the major laboratories which have decades of experience. I cannot image that one single guy in Italy can start a lab and clone people."

Evers said ESHRE had considered banning Antinori, who is a member, but decided against the move because it is an open organization.

To his knowledge none of the world's leading cloning experts is attempting human reproductive cloning. Instead, they are concentrating their efforts on therapeutic cloning and using stem cells -- "master" cells in the body capable of turning into other cell types -- to treat diseases ranging from Parkinson's and diabetes to heart disease.

Evers said scientists are also studying the possibility of replacing damaged cells in the testes with donor stem cells to increase sperm production as a treatment for male infertility.

"That seems to be feasible at the moment," he said, adding that animal studies have already begun.

The 18th Annual Meeting of ESHRE in Vienna runs from June 30 until July 3.

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