Category: Men’s Health
The influential U.S. Preventive Services Task Force finds that routine PSA testing does men more harm than good.
The HIV infection rate in the U.S. remains steady but there’s been a big jump in infections among young HIV-infected African American men who have sex with men.
In response to an explosion of new cases of syphilis, health officials here have launched a media campaign to encourage gay and bisexual men to get tested for the sexually transmitted infection.
AHRQ’s “Men: Stay Healthy at Any Age” covers the screening tests to get, whether you need medicines to prevent diseases, and steps you can take for good health.
Magic Power Coffee, an instant coffee sold online as a dietary supplement for sexual enhancement, contains a potentially dangerous chemical similar to the active ingredient in Viagra, FDA says.
People don’t always want to do what the data say to do.
A dietary supplement sold under the name STEAM is being recalled after a batch was found to contain the erectile dysfunction drug tadalafil, the active ingredient in the prescription drug Cialis. This is the second recall the maker of STEAM, Nutracoastal Trading LLC, has had to announce recently. Last month, another batch of STEAM was [...]
New rules to protect your prescription information Information collected with your prescriptions, including your name, the drug and its dosage but your address and social security number, can be sold without your knowledge or permission, New York Times reporter Milt Freudenheim writes in today’s paper. Freudenheim writes: That may change if some little-noted protections from [...]
A dietary supplement marketed under the name STEAM is being recalled after it was found to contain a chemical similar to the drug found in the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today. The chemical, sulfoaildenafil, is an analog of sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra, the FDA said, [...]
Consumers should stop using any body building products that are sold with claims they contain steroids or steroid-like substances, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said today. Many of these products are marketed as dietary supplements but, in fact, contain synthetic substances that can cause serious liver injury, kidney failure, blood clots in the [...]
They’re baaaack: Harry and Louise – but now with a different message Nearly, two decades ago, the fictional couple Harry and Louise appeared in ads sponsored by the health insurance industry that helped doom President Bill Clinton’s health-care reform legislation. The ads warned that if health-reform passed Americans faced having the government limiting their choice [...]
Men in Washington state continue to die at an earlier age, sometimes many years earlier, than do women, according to a new statistical report by the Washington State Department of Health. The analysis found that men in general had higher rates of death from such killers as heart disease, cancer, liver and lung disease, [...]
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Lost in translation: Lack of trained interpreters can lead to medical errors
Interpreter services at hospitals and other medical settings are often inadequate, forcing family members, including children, to step in, or the task falls to medical staff members who may not speak the language well.
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Don’t bet on it.
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