Men's Health News
Should Prostate Specific Antigen Be Adjusted For Body Mass Index? Data From The Baltimore Longitudinal Study Of Aging
UroToday.com - The impact of body mass index (BMI) on PSA levels is small according to a report by Dr. Stacy Loeb and colleagues from Johns Hopkins University and the National Institute on Aging that appears in the December, 2009 online edition of the Journal of Urology. The problem is defined by the fact that in 2001-2002, 65...
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Clinical Interpretation Of The Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite-Short Form Sexual Summary Score
UroToday.com - In the December, 2009 online edition of the Journal of Urology, Dr. Jeffrey Wheat and colleagues from the University of Michigan utilize the Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite (EPIC) to evaluate sexual quality of life parameters...
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Detection Of Prostate Specific Antigen With Nanomechanical Resonators
UroToday.com - Detection of PSA with increasing sensitivity may enhance several aspects of disease monitoring. Micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) are new devices for detection of infectious agents and disease biomarkers...
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New Insights Into Mushroom-Derived Drug Promising For Cancer Treatment
A promising cancer drug, first discovered in a mushroom commonly used in Chinese medicine, could be made more effective thanks to researchers who have discovered how the drug works. The research is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and was carried out at The University of Nottingham...
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Impact Of Chemotherapeutics And Advanced Testicular Cancer Or Hodgkin Lymphoma On Sperm Deoxyribonucleic Acid Integrity
UroToday.com - The incidence of testicular cancer (TC) and Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) has increased recently. Although improved chemotherapeutic regimens have augmented survival in men with these malignancies, they are associated with a negative impact on reproductive health, including a decrease in fertilization rate and an increase in embryo loss...
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Clinical Interpretation Of The Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite-Short Form Sexual Summary Score
UroToday.com - In the December, 2009 online edition of the Journal of Urology, Dr. Jeffrey Wheat and colleagues from the University of Michigan utilize the Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite (EPIC) to evaluate sexual quality of life parameters...
Categories: Men's Health News
Detection Of Prostate Specific Antigen With Nanomechanical Resonators
UroToday.com - Detection of PSA with increasing sensitivity may enhance several aspects of disease monitoring. Micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) are new devices for detection of infectious agents and disease biomarkers...
Categories: Men's Health News
New Insights Into Mushroom-Derived Drug Promising For Cancer Treatment
A promising cancer drug, first discovered in a mushroom commonly used in Chinese medicine, could be made more effective thanks to researchers who have discovered how the drug works. The research is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and was carried out at The University of Nottingham...
Categories: Men's Health News
Impact Of Chemotherapeutics And Advanced Testicular Cancer Or Hodgkin Lymphoma On Sperm Deoxyribonucleic Acid Integrity
UroToday.com - The incidence of testicular cancer (TC) and Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) has increased recently. Although improved chemotherapeutic regimens have augmented survival in men with these malignancies, they are associated with a negative impact on reproductive health, including a decrease in fertilization rate and an increase in embryo loss...
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Agents Targeting Prostate Cancer Bone Metastasis
UroToday.com - Advanced prostate cancers regularly metastasize to the skeleton, and better treatments are needed to decrease morbidity and increase survival in men with end-stage disease...
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UAB To Study The Effects Of Olive Oil On Breast Cancer
Ana Ripoll, Rector of Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), and Pedro Barato, President of "Organizacion Interprofesional del Aceite de Oliva Espanol" signed a research agreement to carry out an in depth study of how the intake of olive oil can work towards preventing and fighting against breast cancer...
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Agents Targeting Prostate Cancer Bone Metastasis
UroToday.com - Advanced prostate cancers regularly metastasize to the skeleton, and better treatments are needed to decrease morbidity and increase survival in men with end-stage disease...
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UAB To Study The Effects Of Olive Oil On Breast Cancer
Ana Ripoll, Rector of Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), and Pedro Barato, President of "Organizacion Interprofesional del Aceite de Oliva Espanol" signed a research agreement to carry out an in depth study of how the intake of olive oil can work towards preventing and fighting against breast cancer...
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Modernizing The Treatment Of Sexual Dysfunction In Men
Modern, couple-oriented treatment for male sexual dysfunction takes the psychosocial aspects of sex into account, as well as focussing on the purely physical aspects of the problem. The importance of this biopsychosocial approach, whether one looks at disorders of desire, arousal or orgasm, is supported by intercultural comparisons, among other data...
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Modernizing The Treatment Of Sexual Dysfunction In Men
Modern, couple-oriented treatment for male sexual dysfunction takes the psychosocial aspects of sex into account, as well as focussing on the purely physical aspects of the problem. The importance of this biopsychosocial approach, whether one looks at disorders of desire, arousal or orgasm, is supported by intercultural comparisons, among other data...
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Prostate Cancer: A Newly Discovered Route For Testosterone To Reach The Prostate: Treatment By Super-selective Intraprostatic Androgen Deprivation
UroToday.com - Varicocele has only recently been shown to be a bilateral disease, the primary cause for male infertility and low testosterone level. It has now for the first time been discovered to be the cause of enlargement of the prostate and for the development of prostatic cancer as well...
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Prostate Cancer: A Newly Discovered Route For Testosterone To Reach The Prostate: Treatment By Super-selective Intraprostatic Androgen Deprivation
UroToday.com - Varicocele has only recently been shown to be a bilateral disease, the primary cause for male infertility and low testosterone level. It has now for the first time been discovered to be the cause of enlargement of the prostate and for the development of prostatic cancer as well...
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New Human Reproductive Hormone Could Lead To Novel Contraceptives And New Cancer Treatments
Nearly 10 years after the discovery that birds make a hormone that suppresses reproduction, University of California, Berkeley, neuroscientists have established that humans make it too, opening the door to development of a new class of contraceptive and possible treatments for cancer or other diseases...
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New Human Reproductive Hormone Could Lead To Novel Contraceptives And New Cancer Treatments
Nearly 10 years after the discovery that birds make a hormone that suppresses reproduction, University of California, Berkeley, neuroscientists have established that humans make it too, opening the door to development of a new class of contraceptive and possible treatments for cancer or other diseases...
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Possible Link Between Infertility, Low Egg Reserve, And Breast/Ovarian Cancer Gene (BRCA1)
A New York Medical College physician who specializes in restoring or preserving fertility in female cancer patients has discovered a possible link between the presence of breast cancer genes and infertility. In a paper published last week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Kutluk Oktay, M.D...
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