Horseback Riding: Impact On Sexual Dysfunction And Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms In Men And Women

Does Persistent Perineal Impact Increase Likelihood of LUTS and Sexual Dysfunction?
UroToday.com - Bicycle riding has been reported to be related to male sexual dysfunction. Dr. Shaheen Alanee and colleagues from Minneapolis hypothesized that similar force impacts might be seen in equestrian sports. They sought to evaluate the effect of horseback riding Read more…

Neither vitamin E nor selenium reduce risk of prostate cancer

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In perhaps the largest cancer chemoprevention trial ever conducted, researchers have found that supplementation with vitamin E or selenium, alone or in combination, was not associated with a lower risk of prostate cancer or other cancers.
This study, along with another cancer prevention study, will be published in the January 7 issue of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and both reports Read more…

VIVUS Initiates Avanafil Phase 3 Trials For Males With Erectile Dysfunction

VIVUS, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS), a pharmaceutical company dedicated to the development and commercialization of novel therapeutic products, today announced it has initiated the first of several pivotal phase 3 studies of avanafil, our investigational product for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED). Avanafil is a Read more…

Obstructive Sleep Apnea And Erectile Dysfunction: Still A Neglected Risk Factor?

UroToday.com - Erectile dysfunction (ED) and sleep disordered breathing (SDB) have recently been correlated in a scientific manner. Previous attempts to link these two entities consisted mainly of case reports as well as observations of the impact of hypoxic conditions on erectile function.
The literature on this topic involves the review of early studies by Sir Edmund Hilary and his scientific Read more…

Media images of female models have negative effect on men

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Many studies have shown that media images of female models have had a negative impact on how woman view their own bodies, but does this same effect hold true when men view male models?
A leading researcher of media effects on body image at the University of Missouri looked at the effect of male magazines on college-age men. Completing three different studies, Jennifer Aubrey, Read more…

Vitamins C and E do not prevent cardiovascular disease in men

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Neither vitamin E nor vitamin C supplements reduced the risk of major cardiovascular events in a large, long-term study of male physicians, according Read more…

Premature Ejaculation - Plethora Solutions Has Completed European Phase III Trial Of PSD502

Sciele Pharma, Inc. ("Sciele") (NASDAQ:SCRX), a specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced that Plethora Solutions Holdings PLC ("Plethora") (AIM:PLE), the specialist developer of products for the treatment and management of urological disorders, has completed its European Phase III study of PSD502 for the treatment of premature Read more…

Novel treatment for prostate cancer

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Scientists
at Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) are developing and commercializing a promising novel therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer that may offer patients a faster and more precise treatment than existing clinical alternatives, with Read more…

Why men and boys behave badly

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On almost a weekly basis the media reveals, often in excruciating detail, that some male sport star, politician or personality, somewhere, has abused, sexually or in another way, a girlfriend or a woman they have come into contact with.
The trend is a worrying one but a new study from the United States may shed some light on why some men behave in this manner.
The study by researchers from the University of Read more…

Coping and copulation behavior may help calculate diabetes risk

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Discussion of a man’s background, attitude, and sexual history isn’t just the fodder of Sex and The City episodes - in the future, it could also be a way of evaluating his risk of diabetes.
Risk of developing type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome is determined by an individual’s genetic background. Since this background has in turn been influenced by environment and behavior, it’s important to consider Read more…

Raised risk of prostate cancer in Black men

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Black men living in England are three times more likely to get prostate cancer than White men and tend to be diagnosed five years younger, researchers have found.
kaufen levitra Ohne Rezept The PROCESS study is the first population-based study to compare Read more…

Randomized Phase II Trial Evaluation Of Erectile Function After Attempted Unilateral Cavernous Nerve-Sparing Retropubic Radical Prostatectomy

UroToday.com - In 1999, Kim et al. from Baylor College of Medicine reported promising potency results from bilateral interposition of sural nerve grafts after bilateral non nerve sparing radical prostatectomy (RP). Our institution was able to duplicate these findings in the bilateral graft model as well. However, we were not sure how to properly analyze the efficacy of a unilateral nerve sparing plus unilateral non-nerve sparing Read more…

More training, improved tools needed for African health workers performing male circumcisions, study finds

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African health workers performing male circumcision in an effort to curb the spread of HIV need better tools and more training to avoid high rates of complications, according to a World Health Organization study published Monday in the WHO Bulletin, Reuters Read more…