I understand the appeal of nonstick pans with PFAS for their price and seeming simplicity. Here’s the thing: Those pans aren’t even that good for cooking ...
QUESTION: I'm a guy in my late 40s and trying to pay more attention to my health. But I'm confused about whether I should be screened for prostate cancer. Can you help?
ANSWER: The importance of all health screenings is that they can detect issues early. Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world, and the second-leading cause of cancer deaths among men in the U.S.
While many prostate cancers grow slowly and remain localized, other types...
CNN – When Brent Chapman was 13, he took ibuprofen during a Christmas basketball game. It was a drug he had taken before, but what happened next was anything but routine: He had a severe reaction that caused burns all over his body, including on the surface of his eyes.
Chapman was in a coma for 27 days. He lost his left eye to an infection and lost most of his vision in the other....
Men's Health – Researchers have developed a new drug that regrows hair by reactivating dormant hair follicle cells.
The approach is different than current treatments, which only slow down hair loss. It reactivates hair follicles by boosting the body’s natural availability of lactate, which directly affects the follicles’ ability to grow hair.
Safety trials are done and a trial to test its effectiveness is planned for next year.
For millennia, thick, healthy hair has symbolized both masculine...
The Montreal Canadiens goaltender and Hall of Fame member worked as a lawyer, author and politician after retiring at 31 from the sport that made him famous.
ARS TECHNICA – Four men in Georgia, all living in the same county, mysteriously became infected with a potentially deadly soil bacterium that's normally found in the tropics and subtropics, particularly Southeast Asia and northern Australia.
The four cases were tied together not just by their shared location but also by the bacterial strain; whole genome sequencing showed the bacteria causing all four infections were highly related, suggesting a shared source of their infections.
But this...
Rough sex is a common cause of injuries where a partner inadvertently hurts the other, and can be minimized by taking a slower, cautious, graduated approach with good communication.