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News: May 28, 2012
Do Bald Men Face Higher Risk of Prostate Cancer?
TUESDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- Got hair? If you don't, you might have a higher risk of prostate cancer, a preliminary study suggests. Researchers are reporting that bald men who underwent biopsies of the prostate were more likely to have canc...
Severe Gum Disease, Impotence May Be Linked
MONDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) -- Men with severe gum disease, known as periodontitis, are at greater risk for impotence, according to a new study that finds young men and the elderly at particular risk. The researchers from Taiwan used data from...
Circumcision Linked to Lower Risk for Prostate Cancer, Study Finds
MONDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- Men who have prostate cancer are less likely to be circumcised, according to new research. The researchers suggest a possible reason is that circumcision reduces the risk of sexually transmitted diseases that m...
Coming Soon: At-Home Sperm Test for Couples Trying to Conceive
FRIDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) -- Women who are trying to conceive often use at-home products such as ovulation predictors and pregnancy tests, but the newest do-it-yourself test to help couples have a baby is for their male partners: A 10-minut...
FDA OKs Impotence Drug Cialis to Treat Enlarged Prostate
THURSDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced late Thursday that it had approved using the erectile dysfunction drug Cialis as a treatment for enlarged prostate. According to the U.S. National Institutes of H...
Cialis Approved to Treat Enlarged Prostate
FRIDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) -- The erectile dysfunction drug Cialis (tadalafil) has received new approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), the medical term for an enlarged prostate. Sympto...
Couples Counseling Boosts Sex Lives After Prostate Cancer
MONDAY, Sept. 26 (HealthDay News) -- The side effects of prostate cancer treatments, including surgery and radiation, can seriously disrupt a couple's sex life. But a new study finds that counseling helped married men and women figure out what sor...
Erectile Dysfunction May Be Linked With Cardiovascular Trouble
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Men who suffer from erectile dysfunction are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease, stroke and death, Chinese researchers suggest. Although it is well accepted that cardiovascular disease is a risk fa...
Protecting Heart May Improve Erectile Dysfunction
TUESDAY, Sept. 13 (HealthDay News) -- The lifestyle changes and medications used to reduce risk factors for heart disease may also improve sexual function in men with erectile dysfunction, according to a new study. Researchers from the Mayo Clinic...
Mouse Study Could Give New Clues to Fighting Baldness
THURSDAY, Sept.1 (HealthDay News) -- Molecular signals from stem cells within the skin's fatty layer trigger hair growth in mice, a finding that may lead to new treatments for baldness in people, researchers report. "If we can get these fat cells ...
Impotence Linked to Restless Legs Syndrome
WEDNESDAY, June 15 (HealthDay News) -- Men who struggle with restless legs syndrome face a higher risk of impotence, a new study suggests. The study, by researchers from Harvard University, builds on earlier research by the scientists that found t...
Drugs for Enlarged Prostate May Raise Risk of Aggressive Cancer
THURSDAY, June 9 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is calling for new warning labels on a class of drugs used primarily to treat enlarged prostates, because the medications may raise the risk of developing an aggressive for...
Fewer Men Having Surgery to Treat Enlarged Prostate: Study
TUESDAY, May 17 (HealthDay News) -- Some men with enlarged prostate may not be receiving sufficient treatment and could suffer severe complications as a result, according to a new study. Although more men are receiving oral treatment for enlarged ...
Poor Sleep Tied to Incontinence, Impotence
SATURDAY, May 14 (HealthDay News) -- Sleep problems are associated with erectile dysfunction and urologic conditions such as incontinence, according to the results of two new studies. The first study examined the relationship between obstructive s...
Mouse Sperm Successfully Grown in Lab, Researchers Say
WEDNESDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers report that they've grown mouse sperm from testicular tissue in the laboratory, a development that could advance the field of infertility in human males. Although the findings only apply to mice,...
Sexual Side Effects From Propecia, Avodart May Be Irreversible
THURSDAY, March 10 (HealthDay News) -- Drugs frequently prescribed to treat hair loss or an enlarged prostate may contribute to irreversible sexual dysfunction in men, new research finds. Use of dutasteride (Avodart) and finasteride (Proscar and P...
Could Hair Loss at 20 Signal Higher Prostate Cancer Risk?
TUESDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Men with prostate cancer may be twice as likely to have started showing signs of male pattern baldness at the age of 20 than those without prostate cancer, a new French study suggests. Men who start losing thei...
Doctors Issue New Guidelines on Spotting, Treating Enlarged Prostate
FRIDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Experts at the American Urological Association (AUA) have issued updated guidelines on diagnosing and treating enlarged prostate -- a common condition formally know as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). BPH can ...
Circumcision Helps Cut HPV Transmission Rate, Study Finds
THURSDAY, Jan. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Among HIV-negative sexual partners, male circumcision helps prevent the transmission of human papillomavirus from men to women, according to a new study. However, circumcision offers only partial protection and...
Stem Cell Defect Might Help Spur Common Baldness
TUESDAY, Jan. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Common baldness could have its roots in a newly identified stem cell defect, a finding that could potentially lead to new hair-loss treatments down the road, a new study reveals. Researchers say they discovered ...
Genetic Glitch Tied to Disrupted Sperm Production
THURSDAY, Sept. 30 (HealthDay News) -- The cause of male infertility often escapes experts, but scientists have found a genetic mutation that appears to disrupt sperm production. "This may be the most frequent single gene defect that is associated...
Docs Shying Away From Drug That May Prevent Prostate Cancer
THURSDAY, Aug. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Even though a major study found that the drug finasteride could reduce the risk of prostate cancer by 25 percent, it is still not being widely prescribed for that purpose, Veterans Administration researchers r...
Drugs Like Viagra Linked to Higher Rates of STDs
MONDAY, July 5 (HealthDay News) -- Middle-aged and older men who take erectile dysfunction drugs such as Viagra are more likely to have sexually transmitted diseases, a new study of more than 1.4 million men finds. Researchers at Massachusetts Gen...
Dangers Lurk in Impotence Drugs Sold on Web
MONDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) -- Internet-based companies market them, men continue to buy them and experts continue to warn of the dangers of counterfeit drugs for erectile dysfunction. A new study, conducted in South Korea and slated for prese...
Impotence Drugs May Aid Brain Tumor Treatment
WEDNESDAY, May 12 (HealthDay News) -- A drug already approved for the treatment of erectile dysfunction may actually help boost the effectiveness of treatments for brain tumors tied to both lung and breast cancer, research shows. The finding stems...
Low Testosterone Raises Heart Death Rates in Impotent Men
THURSDAY, April 29 (HealthDay News) -- Among men with erectile dysfunction, those who also have low testosterone levels face a higher than normal risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, a new study has found. In a second study, the same team of...
Study Offers Insights Into Male Pattern Baldness
WEDNESDAY, April 14 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers are reporting that they've linked a gene to a rare condition that makes people develop thin "peach fuzz" hair, potentially paving the way toward greater insight into male-pattern baldness. The fi...
Fake Drugs Bought on the Web Pose Big Health Risks
FRIDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- People who buy prescription medications over the Internet, especially drugs purporting to treat erectile dysfunction, are playing Russian roulette with their lives, a new study contends. At best the drugs won't ...
Taking Viagra Won't Spur Risky Sexual Behavior
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Men worried that taking Viagra will lead to sexually risky behavior can relax: A new study suggests that drugs for erectile dysfunction don't make men more likely to engage in potentially unhealthy sex. "For ...
Restless Legs Linked to Erectile Dysfunction
TUESDAY, Jan. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Men with restless leg syndrome are more likely to have erectile dysfunction, new research suggests, but it's not clear how the two conditions are related. "There is an association, but we don't know which one co...
Spray May Delay Ejaculation
THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A spray touted as the first potential treatment for premature ejaculation has proved effective in a second study, according to the company that developed it. PSD502 -- which combines the drugs lidocaine and pr...
BPA Tied to Impotence in Men
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to high levels of the controversial plastics chemical bisphenol A (BPA) significantly raised the risk of sexual dysfunction, including impotence and low sex drive, among Chinese factory workers, a ne...
Scientists Grow New Penile Tissue in the Lab
MONDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers were able to restore sexual function to rabbits with damaged penises by growing new penile tissue in the lab and implanting it, a new study reports. Though a human application is a ways off, researche...
Stem Cells Coaxed to Make Precursors to Egg, Sperm
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) -- In a step that might someday aid infertile couples, scientists have nudged stem cells to become human germ cells -- precursors to egg and sperm. "For the first time we have a human genome-based system for how...
Guidelines Urge Use of Erectile Dysfunction Drugs
THURSDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors should prescribe oral phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE-5) inhibitor drugs, such as Viagra, Cialis and Levitra, for men with erectile dysfunction, unless the patient is on nitrate therapy, according to a c...
Impotence, Incontinence Risk Casts Doubt on High-Tech Prostate Surgery
TUESDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Heightened risks for post-operative incontinence and impotence may outweigh any benefits from minimally invasive "keyhole" surgery for prostate cancer, a new study suggests. The presumed good stemming from the ...
Spider Venom -- The Next Way to Treat Impotence?
FRIDAY, Sept. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists may have discovered a novel way to treat erectile dysfunction -- using the venom of a deadly spider. The bite from the Brazilian wandering spider (Phoneutria nigriventer) causes a painful erection th...
Topical Cream for Erectile Dysfunction Shows Promise
FRIDAY, Sept. 18 (HealthDay News) -- A topical cream for erectile dysfunction shows promise in animal testing and could become an alternative for men who can't tolerate the pill form of the drugs, U.S. researchers report. Oral erectile dysfunction...
Circumcision Doesn't Lessen HIV Transmission
THURSDAY, July 16 (HealthDay News) -- Circumcision doesn't reduce transmission of HIV from infected men to women, says a study that included 922 HIV-infected men in Uganda. The men, who were uncircumcised before the start of the study, were random...
Painkillers May Be Good for the Prostate
SATURDAY, June 20 (HealthDay News) -- Taking over-the-counter painkillers such as aspirin and ibuprofen might help men avoid prostate problems. But even so, medical experts are quick to caution men not to self-dose or to take more than the recomme...
Music May Temper Pain in Preemies
WEDNESDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) -- Playing music seems to reduce pain and encourage feeding in premature infants, University of Alberta researchers report. Music is being widely used in neonatal units across North America, but how beneficial it...
Study Reiterates Eye Risks Linked to Flomax
TUESDAY, May 19 (HealthDay News) -- Men taking Flomax to treat an enlarged prostate face more than double the risk for serious complications should they need cataract surgery, a new Canadian study has found. It's not the first time that Flomax (ta...
Circumcision Can Reduce AIDS Risk, Study Shows
MONDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) -- Circumcision does not decrease a man's sexual pleasure or function, but it does help reduce his risk of contracting the AIDS virus and suffering a penile injury, according to two new studies. Austrian researche...
Topical Treatment May Ease Erectile Dysfunction
MONDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) -- A "nanoparticle" topical treatment for erectile dysfunction appears to work well, at least in a study involving rats. According to the researchers, five of seven rats developed erections after their penises rec...
Statins Guard Against Prostate Cancer
SUNDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) --Several new studies suggest statins help prevent prostate cancer and reduce the risk of erectile dysfunction. "At this point in time, there seems to be mounting evidence that there may be a future role for stati...
Impotence Drugs Don't Harm Vision: Study
TUESDAY, April 14 (HealthDay News) -- The erectile dysfunction drugs Cialis (tadalafil) and Viagra (sildenafil) didn't appear to damage vision in men who took the medications daily for six months, according to a drug company study. These drugs, ca...
Topical Spray Helped Men With Premature Ejaculation
MONDAY, April 6 (HealthDay News) -- A new spray enabled men with premature ejaculation to delay their orgasm six times longer than before, according to a study that included 300 European men. The men, with clinically diagnosed premature ejaculatio...
Male Infertility Treatment Boosts Sperm Count
MONDAY, April 6 (HealthDay News) -- A hormone-antioxidant combination therapy appears to improve sperm count and motility in infertile men, according to an Egyptian study. The research included 60 men eligible for infertility treatment. They were ...
Genetic Finding May Lead to Male Contraceptive
THURSDAY, April 2 (HealthDay News) -- Gene mutations that cause infertility in men could point the way to a male birth control pill, American and Iranian researchers say. "We have identified CATSPER1 as a gene that is involved in non-syndromic mal...
Circumcision Guards Against STDs
WEDNESDAY, March 25 (HealthDay News) -- The decision of whether or not to circumcise an infant can be a difficult one, but new research suggests that having the procedure may reduce the risk of certain infections later in life. In a study of more ...
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