Mens medical news today
Mild Cognitive Impairment Is More Common In Men
8 Sep 2010 at 3:00amA new Mayo Clinic study found that the prevalence of mild cognitive impairment was 1.5 times higher in men than in women. The research, part of the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging, also showed a prevalence rate of 16 percent in the population-based study of individuals aged 70-89 without dementia who live in Olmsted County, Minn. The study will be published in the September issue of Neurology...
Are White Homosexual Men Still Taking Too Many HIV Risks?
7 Sep 2010 at 2:00amRisky sexual behavior among members of a subset of the gay community is still adding to the spread of HIV. Research published in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases has found that young white homosexual men have an important contribution in the local spread of HIV...
Light The White House Blue For Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
4 Sep 2010 at 4:00amMembers of the Prostate Cancer Roundtable, consisting of America's Leading Prostate Cancer Organizations, are asking President Obama to place a blue ribbon on the White House and light the White House blue in the evenings in recognition of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month in September. This visible show of support for prostate cancer awareness by the White House will be a major tribute to the 2...
Lupus Research Institute-Funded Study Points To Increased Risk For Lupus In Men
4 Sep 2010 at 3:00amLupus Research Institute-funded researcher Betty Tsao, PhD, at the University of California Los Angeles has discovered that humans - males in particular - with a variant form of the immune receptor gene "Toll Like Receptor 7 (TLR7)" are at increased risk of developing the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus)...
Top Expert On Male Reproductive Health Launches New Website To Help Men Under...
3 Sep 2010 at 4:00amThe Turek Clinic, founded by men's reproductive health pioneer, Paul Turek, MD, unveiled a new website dedicated to educating men on sexual health and male fertility problems. The site is designed to be an educational tool on topics ranging from vasectomy and reversal to sperm retrieval and testicular mapping, a minimally invasive procedure pioneered by Dr...
Well-Being In Adolescent Boys Increased By Mindfulness Meditation
3 Sep 2010 at 3:00am'Mindfulness', the process of learning to become more aware of our ongoing experiences, increases well-being in adolescent boys, a new study reports. Researchers from the University of Cambridge analyzed 155 boys from two independent UK schools, Tonbridge and Hampton, before and after a four-week crash course in mindfulness...
Short Sleep And Chronic Insomnia Linked To Four-Fold Risk Of Early Death In Men
2 Sep 2010 at 11:00amUS researchers found that short sleep and insomnia was linked to a four times higher risk of early death in men; they urged public health policy makers to emphasize earlier diagnosis and treament of chronic insomnia...
Chronic Insomnia With Objectively Measured Short Sleep Duration Is Associated...
2 Sep 2010 at 2:00amA study in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal SLEEP found an elevated risk of death in men with a complaint of chronic insomnia and an objectively measured short sleep duration. The results suggest that public health policy should emphasize the diagnosis and appropriate treatment of chronic insomnia...
InSightec Treats First Prostate Cancer Patients In Clinical Trials
1 Sep 2010 at 4:00amnSightec Ltd., the global leader in MR guided focused ultrasound technology and the only company to receive FDA approval for its ExAblate(R) system for treating uterine fibroids, announced that its ExAblate(R) system has been used for the first time for the treatment of prostate cancer patients. Seven patients with localized low-risk prostate cancer were treated worldwide so far...
Elbit Imaging Announces Insightec Treats First Prostate Cancer Patients In Cl...
1 Sep 2010 at 4:00amElbit Imaging Ltd. (NASDAQ: EMITF) ("Elbit" "Company") that it's subsidiary, InSightec Ltd., the global leader in MR guided focused ultrasound technology and the only company to receive FDA approval for its ExAblate(R) system for treating uterine fibroids, announced that its ExAblate(R) system has been used for the first time for the treatment of prostate cancer patients...
Oesophageal Cancer Rates In Men Up 50 Per Cent In A Generation, UK
30 Aug 2010 at 5:00amOesophageal cancer rates in men have risen by 50 per cent over the last 25 years, according to new figures published by Cancer Research UK today. In 1983 around 2,600 men were diagnosed with oesophageal cancer - cancer of the food pipe - and according to the latest figures around 5,100 men were diagnosed with the disease...
To Reduce HIV Risk Among Men Who Have Sex With Men, Better Interventions Are ...
27 Aug 2010 at 2:00amAlthough a cognitive-behavioral intervention to encourage men who have sex with men to reduce their substance use and sexual risk behavior (as both are linked) was partially successful, a similar reduction was achieved in comparison groups who did not receive the intervention suggesting that better methods for changing behaviors are needed...
Molecular Approaches To Better Understand Male Infertility
27 Aug 2010 at 2:00amMale infertility is a common medical problem, affecting millions of men in the United States annually. Its causes include an inability to make productive sperm. Now, using yeast as a model organism, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine are beginning to identify the molecular signals that could in part underlie that problem. Shelley Berger PhD, the Daniel S...
BPA And Testosterone Levels: First Evidence For Small Changes In Men
26 Aug 2010 at 7:00amAn international group of researchers led by the Peninsula Medical School and the University of Exeter have for the first time identified changes in sex hormones associated with BPA exposure in men, in a large population study. The study results are published in the latest issue of Environmental Health Perspectives...
Prostate Cancer Treatment Expert Dr. David Samadi, MD Discusses Preventive Me...
26 Aug 2010 at 5:00amStarting in September, President Obama's Affordable Care Act will go into effect. The act mandates free preventative services such as cholesterol or breast cancer screenings and tetanus shots...
New ACOG Recommendations On HPV Vaccination Mirror Government Guidelines
25 Aug 2010 at 7:00amOn Monday, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists released recommendations that girls should be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus at ages 11 or 12, Reuters reports. The recommendations, published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, back government guidelines on HPV vaccination...
Familial Prostate Cancer Risk Could Be Inflated By Increased Diagnosis Seeking
25 Aug 2010 at 4:00amA new study from Sweden suggests that the of risk of prostate cancer in men with a known family history of the disease could be inflated because such men are more likely to seek a diagnosis, further intensifying the controversial debate on whether PSA testing does more harm than good...
Study Identifies Genetic Variation Linked To Lupus In Asian Men
25 Aug 2010 at 2:00amGenes reside along long chains of DNA called chromosomes. UCLA researchers have found that a variation in a gene on the sex chromosome X may enhance an immune response that leads to lupus in men. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that predominantly affects women...
Cost Of Prostate Cancer Care Varies With Initial Treatment Choice
24 Aug 2010 at 3:00amA new analysis has found that short-term and long-term costs of prostate cancer care vary considerably based on which treatment strategy a man initially receives. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study finds that treatments that may be less expensive in the short-term may have higher long-term costs...
Genital Piercings Common Among Middle-Age, Middle-Class Men
24 Aug 2010 at 3:00amA new study by researchers at Texas Tech University and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center found that the average man with a genital piercing is 31, white, heterosexual, college-educated and earns more than $36,000 a year...
Bonding By Oxytocin In The Transition To Fatherhood
23 Aug 2010 at 2:00amThe hormone oxytocin has come under intensive study in light of emerging evidence that its release contributes to the social bonding that occurs between lovers, friends, and colleagues. Oxytocin also plays an important role in birth and maternal behavior, but until now, research had never addressed the involvement of oxytocin in the transition to fatherhood...
NPR Examines Debate Over HPV Vaccination For Boys
23 Aug 2010 at 2:00amOn Friday, NPR's "Morning Edition" examined arguments from both sides over whether boys should receive the human papillomavirus vaccine, which is FDA-approved to protect against strains of the sexually transmitted virus that can lead to cervical cancer in women and genital warts in both sexes (Wilson, "Morning Edition," NPR, 8/20)...
Male Menopause Affects More Than Five Million Men
21 Aug 2010 at 3:00amWhile most frequently associated with women's health, age-related hormone changes, often dubbed menopause, can occur in men as well, causing symptoms of fatigue, mood swings, decreased desire for sex, hair loss, lack of concentration and weight gain. Experts estimate that more than 5 million men are affected, yet worry the number may be considerably higher since symptoms are frequently ignored...
Brothers Of Prostate Cancer Patients Undergo More Diagnostic Activities
21 Aug 2010 at 2:00amThe brothers of men with prostate cancer are at an increased risk of prostate cancer diagnosis because of increased diagnostic activity and not necessarily because they carry a genetic mutation that increases risk of the disease, according to a study published online August 19 in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute...
Repros Requests Type B Meeting With FDA To Discuss Phase III Protocols For An...
20 Aug 2010 at 4:00amRepros Therapeutics Inc. (NasdaqCM:RPRX) announced that the Company has requested a Type B Meeting in order to review the Company's Phase III protocols for Androxal® in the treatment of secondary hypogonadism. Androxal is an oral drug that normalizes both testosterone and sperm levels. Larry I...
