Archive for the ‘Men’s health’ Category

The Risks Of Running Marathons

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

Even though hundreds of thousands more people finished grueling 26.2 mile marathons in the United States in 2009 compared to a decade earlier, a runner’s risk of dying during or soon after the race has remained very low – about .75 per 100,000, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. Men, however, were twice as likely to die as women…
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New Insights Into Urinary Tract Health Of Adolescent Males Revealed By Bacteria Study

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

The first study using cultivation independent sequencing of the microorganisms in the adolescent male urinary tract has revealed that the composition of microbial communities colonizing the penis in young men depends upon their circumcision status and patterns of sexual activity…
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Testosterone Treatment Helps Obese Older Males Lose Weight, Other Health Gains Too

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Restoring low testosterone levels in older, overweight or obese men to normal levels results in dramatic weight loss and other health benefits, such as better blood pressure and blood glucose control, Dr Farid Saad of the Medical Affairs Men’s Health Care at Bayer Pharma AG in Berlin, Germany, explained at the 19th European Congress on Obesity in Lyon, France…
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Early Elevated HIV Infection Risk In Some Step Study Participants Confirmed By Study

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

A long-term follow-up analysis of participants in the Step Study, an international HIV-vaccine trial, has confirmed that certain subgroups of male study participants were at higher risk of becoming infected after receiving the experimental vaccine compared to those who received a placebo…
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Men With Low Testosterone Levels May Be At Increased Risk For Diabetes

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

Low levels of testosterone in men could increase their risk of developing diabetes, a study suggests. Scientists have found that low testosterone levels are linked to a resistance to insulin, the hormone that controls blood sugar levels. The study is the first to directly show how low testosterone levels in fat tissue can be instrumental in the onset of Type 2 diabetes…
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Load-Bearing Exercise By Males In Their Early 20s May Shield Them From Osteoporosis In Old Age

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012

Young men who play volleyball, basketball or other load-bearing sports for four hours a week or more increase bone mass and might gain protection from developing osteoporosis later in life, according to a new study in the May issue of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research…
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Greatly Reduced Sperm Viability Caused By Tetracycline Passes From Father To Son In Pseudoscorpions

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

In a paper published in Nature’s open access journal Scientific Reports, researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno report that male pseudoscorpions treated with the antibiotic tetracycline suffer significantly reduced sperm viability and pass this toxic effect on to their untreated sons. They suggest that a similar effect could occur in humans and other species…
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Living In A City Center Doubles Risk Of Calcium Build-Up In Arteries

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

City centre residents who took part in a study were almost twice as likely to suffer from coronary artery calcification (CAC), which can lead to heart disease, than people who lived in less polluted urban and rural areas, according to research published in the May issue of the Journal of Internal Medicine…
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New Treatment For Degenerative Vision Disorder Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

A research team, led by John Guy, M.D., professor of ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, has pioneered a novel technological treatment for Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON), an inherited genetic defect that causes rapid, permanent, and bilateral loss of vision in people of all ages, but primarily males ages 20-40…
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Emergency Care Occurrences After Discharge More Common Among Men

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

According to a study in , men have a considerably higher chance of needing urgent hospital care, including readmission than their female counterparts within a month of being discharged…
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