THE NEW YORK TIMES – If you went to an American public school between 1966 and 2012, you probably have memories of sweating through the Presidential Physical Fitness Test — a gym class gauntlet that involved a mile run, sit-ups, pull-ups (or push-ups), a sit-and-reach and a shuttle run.
For those who were athletically inclined, it was a chance to shine: Children who scored in the top 15 percent were honored with a Presidential Physical...
BBC – Men who take drugs for erectile dysfunction, such as Viagra, may reduce their risk of Alzheimer's disease, a study suggests.
In research on more than 260,000 men, those taking the drugs were 18% less likely to develop the dementia-causing condition.
But more research is needed to prove that the drugs are causing the effect.
Two new Alzheimer's drugs have shown huge promise at slowing the pace of the disease in its earliest stages.
By attacking ...
There is a thriving landscape of social media content, online forums and entrepreneurs dedicated to helping men suppress the urge to masturbate to pornography.
Mayo Clinic News Network – Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. While many prostate cancers grow slowly and remain localized, other types are aggressive and spread quickly.
That's why Dr. Carlos Vargas, a Mayo Clinic radiation oncologist, encourages regular screening. He says the goal of screening is to detect prostate cancer early, when it's still confined to the prostate gland and has the best chance for successful treatment.
"It's important to get adequate screening,...
TODAY – Quenten Thomas, 27, a father of three young kids in Maryville, Tennessee, died last week due to complications of the flu.
He was coughing and having trouble breathing, his father, Robert Thomas, told NBC News.
This flu season, some doctors have seen more severe flu symptoms than usual in young people, sometimes even if they got their flu shot, NBC News reported.
Dr. Dhaval Desai, director of Hospital Medicine at Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital in...
BUSINESS INSIDER – A 62-year-old woman was granted permission by a court to remove sperm from her dead husband for potential use in posthumous IVF.
Last month the woman made an urgent application to the Supreme Court of Western Australia for the removal and storage of her husband's sperm, a day after he died and while his body was still being stored in a morgue, court documents showed.
Her husband was 61 when he died in...
Mayo Clinic News Network – Hormone changes are a natural part of aging, but the experience is different for men and women.
Unlike the more dramatic plunge that occurs in women during menopause, sex hormone changes in men occur gradually. This is sometimes called male menopause.
For women, menopause marks the end of their menstrual cycles, whether by naturally declining reproductive hormones, surgical removal of the ovaries, changes caused by chemotherapy or radiation therapy, or a...
CBS NEWS MONEYWATCH – People who have bought, leased or rented certain Philips Respironics sleep apnea machines can now file a claim for restitution.
The Dutch medical equipment maker recently agreed to pay at least $479 million to compensate users of 20 different breathing devices and ventilators sold in the United States between 2008 and 2021.
Initially recalled two-and-a-half years ago, the Food and Drug Administration has since received 105,000 complaints — including 385 reported deaths...
KTTH – An activist history teacher failed a Seattle student on a quiz for saying only women can get pregnant and that only men have penises.
A 10th grade Ethnic Studies World History teacher at Chief Sealth International High School in Seattle gave students a quiz titled, “Understanding Gender vs. Sex.” The quiz provided a series of statements to label true or false, or questions with multiple choices.
Many of the questions focused on personal pronoun...