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Buy diflucan pills Normal developmental changes during the teenage years leave young adult men at higher risk of heart disease than their female counterparts, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
"Women’s protective advantage against heart disease starts young," said Antoinette Moran, M.D., lead author Read the rest of this entry »

Cobalis Corp. (OTC:CLSC), a pharmaceutical biotech Company specializing in the development of anti-allergy medications, announced the planned marketing launch of the flagship anti-allergy product PreHistin™ after approval in Federal Court in Santa Ana, CA on Jan. 13, 2009. The launch of PreHistin™ is scheduled for February 2009, and will enable the company to be discharged from Chapter 11.
Cobalis Corp. has conducted numerous clinical Read the rest of this entry »

Smoking cigarettes causes cancer and increases the risk of cardiovascular and other diseases, but there’s even more bad news for men who smoke. They have an increased risk of experiencing erectile dysfunction, and the more cigarettes smoked, the greater the risk, according to a study by Tulane University researchers published Read the rest of this entry »

UroToday.com - Dr. Kevin McVary (Chicago) presented the AUA lecture. The incidence of ED increases to over 60% by age 60. He showed data that ED increases with increasing severity of LUTS, independent of age. Across all age groups, increasing LUTS correlated with worse ED even after adjusting for other factors such as diabetes mellitus. This suggests a common pathophysiology Read the rest of this entry »

Dietitians of Canada is one of 12 organizations joining forces on World Hypertension Day (WHD), May 17, 2008 to shine the spotlight on the importance of a healthy blood pressure. High blood pressure is the number one risk factor for stroke and heart disease, but because there are no obvious symptoms, it is often called the "silent Read the rest of this entry »

Infants and toddlers whose mothers are severely depressed are almost three times more likely to suffer accidental injuries than other children in the same age group, according to a new study. The study’s findings, published in the Advanced Access edition of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology, suggest that proper treatment for depression would improve not only the mothers’ health, but the health of young children Read the rest of this entry »

Peyronie’s disease is characterized by a plaque, or hard lump, that develops on the upper or lower side of the penis in layers containing erectile tissue. It starts with an inflammation and can develop into a hardened scar. Symptoms may develop slowly or appear overnight and they consist of reduced flexibility, pain, Read the rest of this entry »

UroToday.com - A group from the UK led by Bridget Candy report a meta-analysis in the BJU International on phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors (PDE5i) for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED) secondary to treatments for prostate cancer (CaP).
Only randomized controlled trials were included and outcomes using validated scales such as the IIEF and SEP, successful sexual intercourse, time Read the rest of this entry »

Men’s Health News
Images of sexy women tend to whet men’s sexual appetite. But stimulating new research in the Journal of Consumer Research says there’s more than meets the eye.
A recent study shows that men who watched sexy videos or handled lingerie sought immediate gratification-even when they were making decisions about money, soda, and candy.
Authors Bram Van den Bergh, Siegfried DeWitte, and Luk Warlop (KULeuven, Belgium) Read the rest of this entry »

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Using an engineered common cold virus, UCLA researchers delivered a genetic payload to prostate cancer cells that allowed them, using Positron Emission Tomography (PET), to locate the diseased cells as they spread to the lymph nodes, the first place prostate cancer goes before invading other organs.
The tiny cancer metastases in the pelvic lymph nodes are very difficult to Read the rest of this entry »

Personal stigma associated with depression is higher among men and the less well educated, according to research published in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry. The findings by the Australian team highlight the importance of developing programs to tackle the stigma associated with depression.
Researchers from the Australian National Read the rest of this entry »

Researchers in Norway found symptoms of depression and anxiety to be significantly higher among people with MS compared with those without MS. This study provides important data on the occurrence of emotional changes in people with MS, and the necessity to increase treatment of these symptoms. Antonie G. Beiske, MD (University Hospital, Akershus, NO) and colleagues report their findings in the European Journal of Neurology (2008 Read the rest of this entry »

A randomized controlled trial by Lyon investigators discloses the difficulties in treating chronic posttraumatic stress disorder with psychotherapy in the March issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.
To date, there have been no studies comparing Read the rest of this entry »

A new survey shows that only ten per cent of men in their early to mid 40s know they may experience erection problems in the next decade, even though evidence suggests that the problem affects 40 Read the rest of this entry »

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A simple blood test may help doctors better predict whether prostate cancer will recur or spread in patients who have undergone surgery for the disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found.
In a study published in the June 15 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, UT Southwestern scientists identified a panel of seven biomarkers that can predict with 86 percent accuracy which prostate cancer Read the rest of this entry »

As they struggle to contain skyrocketing medication costs, health plans across the U.S. have responded by implementing multi-tiered formularies requiring higher copayments for ‘non-preferred’ medications. New research from Brandeis University published in the Journal of Mental Health Policy Read the rest of this entry »

Heart failure outpatients have similar numbers of symptoms and levels of depression and spiritual well-being as patients with advanced lung and pancreatic cancer, researchers reported at the American Heart Association’s 9th Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke.
In their study, researchers from the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine also found that heart failure Read the rest of this entry »

The best available treatment for chronic kidney disease from high blood pressure did not keep the disease from substantially worsening in about a fourth of African-Americans studied, according to long-term results of a National Institutes of Health study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The largest and longest study of chronic kidney disease in African-Americans Read the rest of this entry »

Mayo Clinic research suggests unmarried women living in rural areas have lower self-rated health status than their married counterparts. This lower health status often includes greater instances of self-assessed feelings of depression. The results of the study were recently published in the Journal Read the rest of this entry »

An article published in the Archives of Internal Medicine
reports that statins - medications that are usually prescribed to lower
blood cholesterol levels - may also lower blood pressure. Generic diflucan pills no prescription Beatrice A.
Golomb, M.D., Ph.D., (University of California, San Diego, La Jolla)
and colleagues noted a modest but significant Read the rest of this entry »

Men’s Health News
Buy generic amoxil A simple blood test screening for a panel of biomarkers can accurately predict whether a patient who has had prostate cancer surgery will have a recurrence or spread of the disease.
Calling their findings a major step forward in prostate cancer care, Texas researchers report in the June 15 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Read the rest of this entry »

Pfizer’s Lyrica reduced pain of fibromyalgia in patients regardless of whether they experienced symptoms of anxiety or depression at the beginning of the study, according to a pooled analysis presented today at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting. The analysis, which looked at data pooled from previous clinical trials, also showed that patients’ self-reported improvements were more closely associated with improvements in Read the rest of this entry »

A new study led by Emory University School of Medicine researcher Charles L. Raison, MD, is the first to show that depression and anxiety are more prevalent in Tibetan refugees than they are in ethnic Tibetans born and raised in the comparative stability of exile communities in Northern India and Nepal. The study findings were reported in the April 2008, on-line version of the journal Social Read the rest of this entry »

Merck & Co., Inc. issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) update on its safety review of SINGULAIR® (montelukast).
Merck stands by the proven efficacy and safety of SINGULAIR, a medicine that has been prescribed to tens of millions of patients with asthma and allergic rhinitis for more than 10 years. Nothing is more important to Merck than the safety of Read the rest of this entry »

Babies who receive incubator care after birth are two to three times less likely to suffer depression as adults according to a new study published in the journal Pyschiatry Research. The surprising discovery was made by scientists from the Universit?© de Montr?©al and Sainte Justine Hospital Research Read the rest of this entry »