Now that we have medications to help deal with erectile dysfunction, researchers have come up with a way to help men with premature ejaculation. Premature ejaculation can be embarrassing and frustrating, so if something can be done to help prevent it, why not, right?
The medical definition of premature ejaculation is “ejaculation occurring within approximately one minute of penetration that causes the patient distress.” The lucky thing is that it is usually a mental issue, not a physical one and there are some things men can do to help reduce the chances of it happening. These include stopping and starting, the …read more

Back pain is the bane of many employers, including the United States army. Back pain is one of the most frequent causes of lost work, lost revenue and reduced quality of life among North Americans, despite millions of dollars of research and millions of dollars that have been put into developing and trying various methods of treatment.
Back pain is also very interesting. There is a lot known about it in terms of how patients feel about their back pain and how well they function. Much attention has been paid to how people catastrophize their back injuries. The worse they catastrophize …read more

This likely comes as no surprise to many Americans: If you’ve had an accident, you have a higher chance of dying if you don’t have insurance than if you do, research confirms.
With millions of Americans uninsured and with the raging debate regarding healthcare reform in the United States, it’s important to look at all issues involved in the health of people who are not insured, compared with those who are. How many million? In 2007, it was over 45 million.
Researchers from the Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School looked into the differences of life and death following a traumatic …read more

Who’d have thought you’d read a headline that tells you to have more sex so your baby can be healthier?
Seriously, although there’s be a splash in the news about “faithful women having healthier babies,” the truth is a less fundamentalist-feeding finding and more scientific one.
A study out of New Zealand that looked at 2507 first-time mothers found that the less the mothers were exposed to the baby’s father’s semen, the higher the risk that she may become ill with a pregnancy-only disorder called pre-eclampsia. Pre-eclampsia is pregnancy-induced high blood pressure. Left untreated, it can cause severe problems for both mother …read more

PRESS RELEASE
BODYBUILDING.COM Is Conducting a Voluntary Nationwide and International Recall of 65 Dietary Supplements That May Contain Steroids

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Boise, ID – November 3, 2009 – As part of its ongoing cooperation with the Food and Drug Administration (”FDA”), Bodybuilding.com, LLC (the “Company”) announced today that it is conducting a voluntary nationwide and international recall of all lots and expiration dates of 65 dietary supplement products (the “Recalled Products”) described on the attached list, that were sold through the Company’s website, www.bodybuilding.com.
The FDA has informed the Company that it believes that the Recalled Products contain ingredients that are …read more

BPA, or Bisphenol-A, has been in the news a lot lately. BPA is an industrial chemical used to make certain types of plastic. Concern was raised when research found that BPA could leech out of plastic bottles, such as baby bottles, perhaps exposing the babies to unsafe levels of BPA.
According to a study published in the most recent issue of the journal Human Reproduction, there is another concern related to BPH: sexual dysfunction in men. A study done in China found that men who were exposed to BPH in the work place had four times the risk of erectile dysfunction …read more

While it may not be at the top of a boy’s priority list if he’s diagnosed with cancer, it may be a concern later on in his life if he wants to have a family. Teen boys who have reached puberty have the option of banking their semen, but boys who are not yet sexually mature don’t have that option.
All is not lost though, according to this news release from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, there is an option. While it is still experimental, animal studies have been very promsing: For young boys with cancer, testicular tissue banking may be …read more

What do you know about your heart other than it beats to keep you alive? Here are some questions for you – some obscure and some you should know.

How many times does your heart beat in one day, on average?
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States – yes or no.
Your heart is on the A) left side of your chest; B) right side of your chest; C) middle of your chest.
Every A) 20 seconds; B) 20 minutes; C) hour, someone in the United States has a heart attack
The adult heart pumps about A) 1 quart; …read more

FDA Warns Consumers on Sexual Enhancement Products
Another dietary supplement is found to be contaminated with potentially dangerous ingredient
Press Release

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers that Stiff Nights, a product marketed as a dietary supplement for sexual enhancement, contains an ingredient that can dangerously lower blood pressure and is illegal.
Over the past several years, the FDA has found many products marketed as “dietary supplements” for sexual enhancement that contain undeclared active ingredients of FDA-approved drugs, analogs of approved drugs and other compounds that do not qualify as “dietary ingredients.” The FDA has issued multiple alerts about these contaminated …read more

Seems a bit too good to be true, but could a lower cholesterol level mean a lower risk for high-grade prostate cancer, an aggressive cancer that has worse outcomes than low-grade prostate cancer.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins have found – for the third time – that lower levels of LDL (the “bad” cholesterol) resulted in a 60% lower risk of high-grade prostate cancer in a group of more than 5000 men. The same results were found in two earlier studies, in 2006 and 2008.
In this study,
5,586 men aged 55 and older enrolled in the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial from 1993 to …read more