Health Bulletin

For obese diabetics, weight-loss surgery may work best

Compared to diet and lifestyle changes, gastric bypass surgery appears to be the clear winner in helping obese people with type 2 diabetes lose weight and even rid themselves of the disease, new studies published in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) Surgery showed.

Stress could make weaker sperm

A small new study published in the journal Fertility and Sterility suggests that higher levels of stress may hurt the quality of men's sperm, potentially making it more difficult for them to impregnate women.
However, the findings are not definitive and do not prove cause-and-effect, since it is possible that stressed-out men share another trait that disrupts their reproductive systems.