Men's Health News

• Widening Gap Between Scottish And English Suicide Rates
  A new study has revealed the widening gap in suicide rates between Scotland and England & Wales due to a large extent to the number of young Scottish men taking their lives...
    Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
  
  

• Men With Anxiety Trait Suffered Greater Post-Operative Pain Following Total Knee Replacement
  Increased pain following surgery has long been linked to anxiety and "catastrophizing," an extreme response to stress...
    Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
  
  

• Y Chromosome Link For Coronary Artery Disease: Presdisposition 'Passed On From Father To Son'
  A common heart disease which kills thousands each year may be passed genetically from father to son, according to a study led by the University of Leicester. A paper published in medical journal The Lancet shows that the Y chromosome, a part of DNA present only in men, plays a role in the inheritance of coronary artery disease (CAD)...
    Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:00:00 PST
  
  

• In HIV Prevention More Focus Needed On Men
  Edward Mills of the University of Ottawa, Canada and colleagues argue in this week's PLoS Medicine that the HIV/AIDS response in Africa needs a more balanced approach to gender, so that both men and women are involved in HIV treatment and prevention...
    Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
  
  

• Patients With Anemia May Be At More Than Triple The Risk Of Dying After A Stroke
  Being anemic could more than triple your risk of dying within a year after having a stroke, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012. "Among stroke patients, severe anemia is a potent predictor of dying throughout the first year after a stroke," said Jason Sico, M.D...
    Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
  
  

• Men With Reduced Fertility At Reduced Risk For Prostate Cancer
  Involuntary childlessness owing to reduced fertility is a concern for many men. However, these men do have one advantage - they run a significantly lower risk of suffering from prostate cancer. Researchers are interested in whether this phenomenon could be used in the fight against cancer. There is a clear link between male subfertility and a lower risk of prostate cancer...
    Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
  
  

• Recommendations For HPV And Hepatitis B Vaccinations Broadened By 2012 Adult Immunization Schedule
  The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) now recommends routine HPV vaccination for males aged 11 to 12 years and catch-up vaccination for males aged 13 to 21. These are just two of the changes to the 2012 Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule published February 1 in Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians (ACP)...
    Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
  
  

• Men More Likely To Have An Accurate Memory Of Unpleasant Experiences
  A woman's memory of an experience is less likely to be accurate than a man's if it was unpleasant and emotionally provocative, according to research undertaken by University of Montreal researchers at Louis-H Lafontaine Hospital...
    Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
  
  

• Ultrasound Male Contraceptive, Overlooked For Decades, Confirmed To Work
  Imagine a contraceptive that could, with one or two painless 15-minute non-surgical treatments, provide months of protection from pregnancy. And imagine that the equipment needed were already in physical therapists' offices around the world. Sound too good to be true? For years, scientists thought so too. But new research headed by Dr...
    Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST
  
  

• Giving Birth More Than Once Lead To Weight Gain And Other Problems For Mouse Moms And Male Offspring
  Women have long bemoaned the fact that as they have more children, their weight gain from pregnancy becomes more difficult to lose. A new study using a mouse model that mimics the human effects of multiparity (giving birth more than once) has found that mouse moms who gave birth four times accrued significantly more fat compared to primiparous females (those giving birth once) of similar age...
    Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
  
  

• Male Tummy Tucks Up 15% In UK
  Britons appear to be tightening their belts in more ways than one: 2011 audit figures from the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) revealed on Monday that the number of men undergoing tummy tucks (abdominoplasty) was 15% higher than in 2010...
    Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:00:00 PST
  
  

• Potential For Male Contraception By Sonicating Sperm
  The ideal male contraceptive would be inexpensive, reliable, and reversible. It would need to be long acting but have few side effects. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology used commercially available therapeutic ultrasound equipment to reduce sperm counts of male rats to levels which would result in infertility in humans...
    Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
  
  

• Men At Greater Risk For Oral HPV Infection, HPV-Related Cancers
  Oral HPV infection is more common among men than women, explaining why men are more prone than women to develop an HPV related head and neck cancer, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM...
    Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:00:00 PST
  
  

• Link Between Prenatal Testosterone And An Increased Risk Of Language Delay For Male Infants
  New research by Australian scientists reveals that males who are exposed to high levels of testosterone before birth are twice as likely to experience delays in language development compared to females...
    Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
  
  

• Does The Military Make The Man Or Does The Man Make The Military?
  "Be all you can be," the Army tells potential recruits. The military promises personal reinvention...
    Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
  
  

• News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: Jan. 24, 2012
  NEPHROLOGY: Understanding acute kidney injury to identify potential therapeutics Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a life-threatening condition that frequently complicates the care of hospitalized patients. There are no specific therapies to treat AKI other than kidney replacement therapies such as dialysis...
    Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
  
  

• Narcissistic Men May Pay With Their Health
  Men with an inflated view of their importance, who are incapable of putting themselves in other people's shoes and who see themselves as "special" and superior to others, some of the traits of a narcissistic personality, may pay for this with their health...
    Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:00:00 PST
  
  

• Small Changes In The Genome Account For Gender Differences In Liver Cancer Risk
  Men are four times more likely to develop liver cancer compared to women, a difference attributed to the sex hormones androgen and estrogen. Although this gender difference has been known for a long time, the molecular mechanisms by which estrogens prevent - and androgens promote - liver cancer remain unclear...
    Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
  
  

• In Cardiovascular Disease, Is It The Alcohol Or Polyphenols In Red Wine That Benefits Patients?
  Observational epidemiologic studies relating wine and alcohol to health all suffer from the fact that they, of necessity, compare people who prefer certain beverages, but not the beverages themselves. While there have been many intervention trials in animals, randomized trials in humans are less common...
    Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
  
  

• Nearly Three Quarters Of Injuries To Headphone-Wearing Pedestrians Are Fatal - Teens, Young Adult Males Predominantly Affected
  Listen up, pedestrians wearing headphones. Can you hear the trains or cars around you? Many probably can't, especially young adult males. Serious injuries to pedestrians listening to headphones have more than tripled in six years, according to new research from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore...
    Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST
  
  

• Atrial Fibrillation A Risk Factor In Later Life For Middle-Aged Men With Upper-Normal Blood Pressure
  Middle-aged men at the upper end of normal blood pressure had an elevated risk for atrial fibrillation later in life, according to new research in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common heart rhythm disorder in which irregular heartbeats can lead to stroke and other heart-related complications; it affects over 2.7 million Americans...
    Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
  
  

• Marathon Running Not Linked To Higher Risk Of Cardiac Arrest
  A new study that analyzes 10 years of data finds that contrary to what many people may believe, taking part in marathons and half-marathons is not linked to higher risk of cardiac arrest compared to other forms of athletics...
    Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:00:00 PST
  
  

• No Increased Risk Of Cardiac Arrest By Participating In Marathons, Half-Marathons
  Participation in marathon and half-marathon races is at an all-time high, but numerous reports of race-related cardiac arrests have called the safety of this activity into question. A new study finds that participating in these races actually is associated with a relatively low risk of cardiac arrest, compared to other forms of athletics...
    Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
  
  

• Dietary DHA Linked To Male Fertility
  Who knew that male fertility depends on sperm-cell architecture? A University of Illinois study reports that a certain omega-3 fatty acid is necessary to construct the arch that turns a round, immature sperm cell into a pointy-headed super swimmer with an extra long tail...
    Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PST
  
  

• Association Between Marijuana Use And Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome In Young Males
  Researchers have found clear associations between marijuana use in young males and cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS), where patients experience episodes of vomiting separated by symptom free intervals. The study, published in the January issue of Neurogastroenterology and Motility, looked at 226 patients seen at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, New York, USA, over a 13-year period...
    Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PST