THE WASHINGTON POST – Over my 40 years as a physician-scientist, I’ve had the privilege of advising many patients facing serious medical diagnoses.
I’ve seen them go through the excruciating experience of waiting for the results of a critical blood test, biopsy or scan that could dramatically affect their future hopes and dreams.
But this time, I was the one lying in the PET scanner as it searched for possible evidence of spread of my aggressive...
The Bulletin – Annual worldwide cases of prostate cancer are projected to double by 2040, according to new research from The Lancet Commission on the disease.
Other than skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in the United States, the American Cancer Society reports.
Roughly one in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime, with nearly 300,000 new cases diagnosed each year in the U.S. alone.
Your risk of...
CNN – You’ve started taking an antidepressant, and it’s helping you to finally feel like life is worth living or that you can stop avoiding your friends’ texts. All seems right in the world — until the moment you realize your sex life has taken a hit.
More than one in 10 people in the United States take antidepressants, and at least 8.6 million people in England take them. And since the Covid-19 pandemic, the...
THE NEW YORK TIMES – Doug Blevins, who successfully coached college and N.F.L. kickers like Adam Vinatieri and Justin Tucker, despite never having played football because he had cerebral palsy, died on Sunday in Johnson City, in east Tennessee. He was 60.
His son, Roman, said the cause of death, in a hospital, was complications of esophageal cancer.
Doug was fascinated with football from a young age, and increasingly with the nuances of kicking. He watched...
WEBMED – Rachel S. Rubin, MD: I'm Dr Rachel Rubin, urologist and sexual medicine specialist in the Washington, DC, area. We are coming to you live from the Mayo Clinic Urology Conference in Maui, Hawaii, with the world's leading experts in men's health, sexual health, and quality of life.
I'm bringing in Dr Allen Morey from the North Dallas area, one of the world's leading experts in reconstructive urology. He deals with all things urinary...
Euronews.com – Scientists managed to create organoid testicles - aka lab-grown testicles - a major scientific achievement which paves the way for further research to help with male infertility.
The testicles, or testes, are responsible for sperm production and androgen synthesis which play a part in male sexual development. Infertility affects up to 7 per cent of men.
Currently, no in vitro system exists for modelling the testis and producing sperm in the same way that...
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 ...