Lupus and Male Fertility:� Researchers out of Brazil report that men with the autoimmune disease lupus who are treated with Cytoxan are more likely to have fertility problems caused by damaged sperm, low sperm count, and low sperm volume. Because the disease tends to strike during the reporductive years, the researchers suggest that sperm collection and freezing might be discussed with men diagnosed with lupus.

MS and Pregnancy: A new study published in the journal Neurology finds that men and women are equally likely to pass multiple sclerosis to their children, with a rate of just under 10% transmission for either sex. This contradicts earlier research that suggesed that men were more likely to pass the disease. “Our study involved 16 times as many people as the previous published study,” says researcher George Ebers, M.D., professor of clinical neurology at the University of Oxford, in a news release.