Health Policy Brief, February 4, 2014: Volume XXI, Number 2 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced that Midwest Wholesale is voluntarily recalling several of its products which are sold as dietary supplements for sexual ... Read more »
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Surgeon general report links more diseases, health problems to smoking tobacco
By Brady Dennis, The Washington Post Published: January 17 Fifty years after the U.S. surgeon general first linked cigarette smoking to deadly diseases such as lung cancer and heart disease, his successors continue to add to the list of health ... Read more »
Fish Oil May Hold Promise for Prostate Cancer
By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Prostate cancer patients who consumed a low-fat, high fish oil diet had significantly less tissue inflammation and proliferation than patients who ate a typical Western diet, investigators ... Read more »
Testosterone Levels: Middle Range Best in Old Age
By Salynn Boyles, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today Older men whose natural testosterone levels were in the middle range tended to live longer than those with the highest and lowest levels, suggesting that having too much of the hormone in old ... Read more »
5 Must Do Medical Appointments for Your Man
By Rick Andreoli, Knoworthy.com Dr. Gregg R. Eure, Urologist, gives the Top 5 medical appointments that women should encourage the men in their lives to consider. Learn More ... Read more »
Is robot prostate surgery best for quality of life?
By Amy Norton NEW YORK | Mon Apr 5, 2010 12:37pm EDT (Reuters Health) - Despite the popularity of robot-assisted procedures for prostate cancer, when it comes to men's long-term quality of life, patients with earlier stage cancers generally fare ... Read more »
A number of options for prostate surgery
By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY Studies presented this past weekend may help men weigh the risks and benefits of different types of prostate surgery. Learn More ... Read more »
PSA
We believe that if the USPSTF recommendation is adopted, it will result in a public health tragedy within 5-10 years. Consider the SEER data where-in from 1972-1991 (pre-PSA) deaths from prostate cancer increased 27% from 30.97/100,000 men to ... Read more »
Minimally Invasive Prostate Surgery — Michael Fabrizio, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Michael Fabrizio, MD, FACS, of Urology of Virginia, explains how the minimally invasive da Vinci robotic surgery system at Bon Secours DePaul helps surgeons treat prostate cancer with better outcomes and quicker patient recovery. ... Read more »