A study conducted by researchers at the University of Tartu showed a nearly five-fold enrichment of hereditary cancer variants in infertile compared to fertile men.

A study of nearly 80,000 men in Denmark, followed up for up to 50 years has shown that those with better semen quality live between 2-3 years longer than men with low number of motile sperm. This is the largest study to examine the link between semen quality and mortality. An accompanying editorial commentary calls it a “landmark” publication.

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences has achieved its highest ranking ever in National Institutes of Health funding awarded for research. NIH funding increased to $75.2 million in the previous federal fiscal year, improving the campus’s ranking to 102 out of 2,838 institutions and other entities that receive NIH funding.

Researchers at University of Arizona Cancer Center used a double-pronged approach to reduce tumor growth in tissue samples of prostate cancer.

University of Houston Huffington-Woestemeyer Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Richard Willson - who turned glow-in-the-dark stars into ways to detect disease - has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. 

Updated consensus recommendations by the U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer (MSTFCRC) address optimizing bowel preparation quality for colonoscopy. Highlights include the use of low volume bowel preparation and the adjunctive use of simethicone. In recognizing bowel preparation adequacy rate as a quality measure, the authors recommend a “reasonable benchmark” of greater than or equal to 90% at both the level of individual endoscopists and at the level of the endoscopy unit.