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Risk-Taking Peaks In Adolescence, Male Study

Posted: March 31st, 2010, 4:00am CDT

UK and French researchers investigating how boys and men aged from 9 to 35 chose between risky and safe options in a computer gambling game concluded that adolescents took the most risks, with 14 year olds showing the most risk-taking behaviour...
Doctors Report Alarming Increase In Mumps-related Testicle Problems Among Young Males

Posted: March 31st, 2010, 3:00am CDT

Urologists at a leading Irish hospital have reported an alarming increase in the number of teenage boys and young men developing mumps orchitis, in a paper published in the April issue of the urology journal BJUI...
Women More Likely To Report Poor Health

Posted: March 30th, 2010, 4:00am CDT

In the UK, women are more likely to report poor health than men, but this is not reflected in the rates of death among the sexes later on, according to a new national study. The findings of the research are reported in an article in Population Trends, published by the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) on 25 March...
Flaxseed Lowers High Cholesterol In Men: Iowa State NWRC Study

Posted: March 29th, 2010, 2:00am CDT

A new study from Iowa State University's Nutrition and Wellness Research Center (NWRC) may give men a way to combat high cholesterol without drugs -- if they don't mind sprinkling some flaxseed into their daily diet. Suzanne Hendrich, an ISU professor in food science and human nutrition, led a study that examined the effects of flaxseed lignan in 90 people diagnosed with high cholesterol...
State HIV Programs Face Cuts, CDC Notes High Prevalence In Young African-Americans, Gay Men

Posted: March 29th, 2010, 2:00am CDT

NPR's Shots blog: "As states struggle with budget shortfalls, many are looking to trim costs by chopping health spending. And funding for HIV/AIDS programs has been a prime target. A proposed budget in South Carolina would eliminate funding for HIV/AIDS prevention and for help with buying drugs to treat the disease...
Prostate Cancer Treatment For Economically Disadvantaged Men: A Comparison Of County Hospitals And Private Providers

Posted: March 28th, 2010, 2:00am CDT

UroToday.com - In the journal Cancer, Dr. J. Kellogg Parsons and colleagues report on prostate cancer treatment for economically disadvantaged men in California. They found significant variations in prostate cancer treatment patterns by healthcare institutions providing care for disadvantaged as opposed to non-disadvantaged men. The database was a state funded program for lower income men...
Early Child-parent Attachment Affects Behavior, Especially For Boys

Posted: March 27th, 2010, 3:00am CDT

The quality of the relationship between children and their parents is important to children's development, but past research on the link between attachment and development has been inconsistent. Now a new analysis concludes that children, especially boys, who are insecurely attached to their mothers in the early years have more behavior problems later in childhood...
Man Flu: Why Men Are The Weaker Sex Where Disease Is Concerned

Posted: March 25th, 2010, 4:00am CDT

Two UK researchers who developed a mathematical model to investigate why men appear to be the weaker sex where disease is concerned suggest there may be good reasons behind the "man flu" of popular imagination: it could be the result of evolution where ability to pursue adventure and be competitive has given them greater survival advantage than building immunity to disease...
Research On Testosterone Levels And Risk-Taking In Young Men Finds Women Do Make Men Throw Caution To The Wind

Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 4:00am CDT

The presence of an attractive woman elevates testosterone levels and physical risk taking in young men, according to a recent study in the inaugural issue of Social Psychological and Personality Science (published by SAGE). Researchers asked young adult men to perform both easy and difficult tricks on skateboards, first in front of another male and then in front of a young, attractive female...
Study Finds Selenium Protects Men Against Diabetes

Posted: March 19th, 2010, 2:00am CDT

The role of selenium in diabetes has been controversial, with some studies suggesting that it raises diabetes risk and others finding that it is protective. Now, research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Nutrition and Metabolism, has shown that, for men, high plasma selenium concentrations are associated with a lower occurrence of dysglycemia...
Swiss Condom For Boys Could Be Used In U.S. Sex Education Efforts, Columnist Wetzstein Says

Posted: March 17th, 2010, 6:00am CDT

Although the recently released "Hotshot" condom in Switzerland "has already launched a thousand jokes," the condom designed specifically for sexually active boys ages 12 to 14 "could become part of the sex-education toolbox," Washington Times columnist Cheryl Wetzstein writes...
How To Minimize Radiation Risks Of Angioplasty Shows Highest Doses In Men, Large Body Mass, Complex Cases

Posted: March 16th, 2010, 8:00am CDT

Body size, gender and the complexity of heart disease significantly influence how much cumulative radiation skin dose that patients receive during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) therapy, also known as angioplasty, according to a new Mayo Clinic study...
84 Percent Of Male Patients Still Highly Active 15 Years After ACL Knee Reconstruction

Posted: March 15th, 2010, 3:00am CDT

Eighty-four percent of males who had ACL knee (anterior cruciate ligament) reconstruction with a patellar tendon (the tendon that attaches the knee to the front of the tibia or shin bone) graft continue at a high level of activity 15 years later, according to a study presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in New Orleans, Louisiana (March 13)...
PSA Test Reduces Prostate Cancer Deaths By 40%

Posted: March 12th, 2010, 5:00am CST

When it comes to the documented 40 percent effectiveness of PSA testing in preventing death from prostate cancer, neither the American Cancer Society nor the discoverer of the PSA protein, Richard Ablin, are telling the public the complete story...
Young Boys' Academic Functioning May Be Adversely Affected By Video-Game Ownership

Posted: March 12th, 2010, 2:00am CST

Parents of young boys may want to encourage moderation when it comes to their kids' video game habits. According to new findings in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, owning a video-game system may hamper academic development in some children. Psychological scientists Robert Weis and Brittany C...
Occupational Sunlight Exposure And Kidney Cancer Risk In Men

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 6:00am CST

According to a new study, men employed in occupations with potential exposure to high levels of sunlight have a reduced risk of kidney cancer compared with men who were less likely to be exposed to sunlight at work. The study did not find an association between occupational sunlight exposure and kidney cancer risk in women...
Health Dialog Offers Decision Aids For Men Considering Prostate Cancer Screening

Posted: March 5th, 2010, 4:00am CST

Health Dialog, a leading provider of healthcare analytics and decision support, today announced that its decision support tools for prostate cancer screening have been made available for the month of March as a public service offering...
Complex New Guidelines From Multiple Organizations Confuses Men About Prostate Cancer Screening

Posted: March 4th, 2010, 8:00am CST

Members of America's Prostate Cancer Organizations are concerned that the issuance this morning of yet another set of new guidelines on screening for prostate cancer is only adding to the confusion most men already feel about whether they should or shouldn't be tested for the most common form of cancer in American men...
Combination Therapy More Effective For Enlarged Prostate

Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 6:00am CST

Like any successful team effort, the best qualities of two drugs commonly prescribed for enlarged prostate yielded better results than either of the medicines alone, according to a new study from UT Southwestern Medical Center...
Hearing Loss In Men Increased By Regular Analgesic Use

Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 8:00am CST

In a study published in the March 2010 issue of The American Journal of Medicine, researchers determined that regular use of aspirin, acetaminophen and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) increases the risk of hearing loss in men, particularly in younger men, below age 60. Hearing loss is the most common sensory disorder in the US, afflicting over 36 million people...
Hormone Thought To Slow Aging Associated With Increased Risk Of Cancer Death

Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 6:00am CST

According to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), older men with high levels of the hormone IGF-I (insulin-like growth factor 1) are at increased risk of cancer death, independent of age, lifestyle and cancer history...

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