SUNDAY, Jan. 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The new year is the ideal time to focus on your health and one expert has some tips, especially for men, for doing that. According to Dr. Kevin McVary, director of Loyola Medicine Men’s Health Center, in Maywood, Ill., “Men don’t always focusContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Biomarkers in sperm may help identify men at risk of fathering children with autism, researchers say. For the study, investigators examined sperm epigenetics — the molecular processes that affect gene expression — in 13 men who fathered sons with autism and 13 whoContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Food as medicine: New research suggests that a healthy Mediterranean diet might lower the risk of prostate cancer progressing to a more advanced state. The relative lack of saturated fat in these diets might be a major reason why. The Mediterranean diet isContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) — If you’re a Black man, your risk of getting prostate cancer is 75% higher than it is for a white man, and it’s more than twice as deadly. Now, research is helping to bring genetic risks for people of various racial and ethnicContinue Reading
SUNDAY, Sept. 6, 2020 (HealthDay News) — About 1 in 9 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, but experts say early detection can be a lifesaver. “Prostate cancer that is detected early, typically while it is still within the prostate gland, has a better chance of being successfully treated,”Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 2, 2020 (HealthDay News) — In the midst of the ‘Me Too’ movement, a new study finds that people sexually harassed at work may be at increased risk for attempted suicide and suicide. The findings out of Sweden show that workplace sexual harassment may “represent an important riskContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 26, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Middle-aged men who were anxious or depressed teens are at increased risk for heart attack, according to a large, long-term study. It included more than 238,000 men born between 1952 and 1956 who underwent extensive exams when they were 18 or 19 yearsContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 6, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The makeup of bacteria that colonize a man’s penis can help predict the risk of a serious and hard-to-treat vaginal infection in his female partner, new research suggests. Bacterial vaginosis, also known as BV, can lead to problems in pregnancy and make aContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 20, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Is male bisexuality real? According to a new review, the answer is a definitive “yes.” “The current study found very strong and consistent evidence that bisexual men do in fact tend to have bisexual arousal patterns,” noted study author J. Michael Bailey. “ThereContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 12, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Since the coronavirus pandemic began, rates of hospital admission and death from COVID-19 have been significantly higher in men than women. Now, new Dutch research suggests a reason why: Compared to women, men have higher concentrations of a blood enzyme that helps theContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) — New research adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests men are far more vulnerable to severe COVID-19 than women are. Although both genders fall ill in the same numbers, men are 2.5 times more likely to get severe disease and die,Continue Reading
FRIDAY, March 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) — A test that can detect the genetic “fingerprint” of prostate cancer in blood could improve diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of the disease, researchers say. The test checks for prostate cancer DNA in blood in order to provide the earliest evidence that prostate cancerContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Drugs that many men with prostate cancer might already be taking — cholesterol-lowering statins — may help extend their survival if they have a “high-risk” form of the disease, new research suggests. High-risk patients include men with high blood levels of prostate specificContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Viagra can salvage a man’s sex life, but in rare cases it may temporarily steal his sight. Researchers report that some men who took sildenafil — the generic form of the impotence drug — suffered from vision problems, including a kind of colorContinue Reading