Word: cochin
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Initially, many medical researchers were highly skeptical. Among them was Pierre Jouannet, a reproductive biologist at the Center for the Study and Conservation of Eggs and Sperm at the Cochin Hospital, in Paris, who began his own study a year later. Says Jouannet: "When we started our work in 1993, we thought that the previous analyses were biased." His data, however, undermined those doubts: Parisian sperm was clearly on a downslide...
...sperm counts are sinking fast -- and have decreased inexplicably by a third over the last twenty years, a new study shows. The study, conducted by the Cochin Hospital Group in Paris, will appear in tomorrow's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. It reinforces a wave of other research suggesting the quality and quantity of semen is declining among men in industrialized countries. The French study shows the concentration of sperm dropped by 2 percent per year -- from 89 million per milliliter of ejaculate in 1973 to 60 million in 1992. A sperm count of under 20 million...