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

Retiring from your work may mean better sleep, say researchers. Many times, difficulty sleeping comes from stress more than anything else. If you’re working at a job that you either don’t enjoy but do, but comes with a lot of stress, this could be the cause of many a sleepless night.
Researchers in Finland looked at almost 15,000 people who had difficulty sleeping. they found that sleep difficulty dropped from 24.1% to 17.8% one year after retirement, with an even larger drop by year seven after retirement.
According to the study,
The postretirement improvement in sleep also was more pronounced in men, management-level …read more

One hour ahead, one hour behind – what difference does an hour make in the spring and fall when we change our clocks? More than it seems, say experts, although the effects may be worse in the spring than in the fall.
“Spring Forward, Fall Back” is a time change that affects millions of people around the world. In the spring, we set the clock ahead an hour, in essence losing an hour, as we try to cheat Mother Nature, and have our day light hours filled with more, well, daylight. In the fall, we try to get that hour back …read more

DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), an insecticide, has been connected to male genital birth defects, according to a South African study. Until the 1980s, DDT was widely used in agriculture until it was banned in the developed countries because of the dangers involved. It is, however, still used in many parts of the world to combat malaria.
Researchers looked at villages in South Africa, comparing those that were sprayed with DDT with those what were not. They specifically targeted women who gave birth and who stayed at home, not attending school elsewhere or working outside of the village, maximizing their exposure, if any, to …read more

A Russian man who has lung disease can’t afford the surgery he needs, so he’s pinning his hopes on an autographed picture from French actress Brigitte Bardot. He received it after he sent her a love letter.
The coal-mine worker in Chelyabinsk, in the Ural mountains, is offering the autograph for auction, hoping to raise enough money for the surgery. According to this article, Man pins treatment hopes on Bardot autograph, he would like the photo and autograph to bring him a little over 2000 dollars, U.S.
The article doesn’t say what type of lung disease the man has, but the most …read more

Movember is the month formerly known as November and it’s dedicated to men and men’s health.
We all know that research into various illnesses, including cancer, is very important. But, some people feel that a lot of emphasis is put on some types of illnesses to the detriment of others. Movember aims to change this.
So what exactly is Movember? According to the (U.S.) Movember website:
Movember (the month formerly known as November) is a moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for cancers that affect men.
At the start of Movember guys register with a clean …read more

PRESS RELEASE
FDA Approves New Indication for Gardasil to Prevent Genital Warts in Men and Boys

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved use of the vaccine Gardasil for the prevention of genital warts (condyloma acuminata) due to human papillomavirus (HPV) types 6 and 11 in boys and men, ages 9 through 26.
Each year, about 2 out of every 1,000 men in the United States are newly diagnosed with genital warts.
Gardasil currently is approved for use in girls and women ages 9 through 26 for the prevention of cervical, vulvar and vaginal cancer caused by HPV types 16 and 18; precancerous …read more

If the name Peter Criss doesn’t ring a bell, think back to the original heyday of the rock group KISS. Criss was their drummer and one of the founding members of KISS. Now 63 years old, Criss is sharing with the world that a year ago, he won the fight against breast cancer.

According to his website, Peter Criss – The Official Site:
This is Breast Cancer awareness month…
In ‘08, I was diagnosed with breast cancer, but with (early detection) my great doctor Alex Swistel & staff and the Lord above, who always looks over me, I am cancer free …read more

Osteoporosis is yet another one of those diseases that is almost always thought of as a woman’s disease. Unfortunately, it’s not specific to women and many men do get osteoporosis as well.
While with women, there are obvious target times in their life that encourage checking the condition of their bones, such as menopause, men don’t have a landmark like that. So doctors need to be more aware of the potential of the disease, watching for specific issues that would show that the male patient may be at higher risk of developing osteoporosis.
Last year, the American College of Physicians issued new …read more