Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/o4APXIok6vw   Short Shorts are cutting edge medical and healthcare discoveries not quite ready for the clinic.  They’re worth knowing about now during the 1st week of April, 2022.     In order to improve the chances for couples with infertility problems, a new microfluidic chip developed at Florida Atlantic University effectively separates the olympic swimmers from the duds.  The output of this FAU chip, after only 1 hour, contains almost 100% motile sperm that appear normal microscopically and have significantly lower DNA fragmentation.  These parameters of sperm health predict more successful fertilizations whether the sperm are introduced into the uterus or directly into the egg cytoplasm.   https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/AN/D1AN02311J     One in every 8 apples may be coated with a deadly fungus for which there is no treatment.  Indian researchers now report that 13% of apples harvested from crops treated with typical agricultural fungicides have the drug-