Men who have lost their partner to cancer and who are still single four to five years after their loss run a far greater risk of developing mental illness than those who have managed to find a new partner, reveals a unique study of 691 Swedish widowers carried out at the Sahlgrenska Academy. More than […]
Filed under: Men's health on December 18th, 2011 | No Comments »
A much higher percentage of men with an unpleasant smell were found to have gonorrhea compared to other men, researchers from the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia revealed in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. The authors explained that adult males with gonorrhea had a putrid smell, as far as many adult females […]
Filed under: Men's health on December 11th, 2011 | No Comments »
Although US Presidents appear to be aging rapidly before our very eyes year after year, they tend to have longer life spans than their peers, a researcher from the University of Illinois, Chicago, reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)…
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Filed under: Men's health on December 8th, 2011 | No Comments »
Men are three times more likely than women to develop a common form of skin cancer but medical science doesn’t know why. A new study may provide part of the answer. Researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J…
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Experts have stated on bmj.com that policies targeted specifically at men’s health in Europe must urgently be improved…
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Everyone knows the old urban legend that men think about sex every minute of the day, but now that appears to have been debunked. Men are not so sex crazed after all, say researchers from Ohio State University. Their research appears to discredit the persistent stereotype that men think about sex every seven seconds, […]
Filed under: Men's health on December 2nd, 2011 | No Comments »
New research led by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), offers further evidence of a link between aggressive prostate cancer and meat consumption, and suggests it is driven largely by consumption of grilled or barbecued red meat, especially when it is well-done…
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Filed under: Men's health on November 28th, 2011 | No Comments »
Urban legend warns shoveling snow causes heart attacks, and the legend seems all too accurate, especially for male wintery excavators with a family history of premature cardiovascular disease. However, until recently this warning was based on anecdotal reports…
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Filed under: Men's health on November 28th, 2011 | No Comments »
One of the most recent, popular supplements for athletes looking to boost performance comes in the form of a naturally-occurring amino acid called L-arginine. The reason for its popularity is twofold says Scott Forbes, a doctoral student in exercise physiology…
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Filed under: Men's health on November 27th, 2011 | No Comments »
The Cancer Council NSW will present evidence of research at the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia (COSA) Annual Scientific Meeting that GPs were prescribing tests to screen men above the age of 75 years for prostate cancer, despite the fact that there is likely to be no benefit…
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