One recent study suggests that a simple urine test could pick out 50 percent of men with prostate cancer. Another study says that combining risk factors for prostate cancer may help predict the likelihood of developing the disease.
First study developed a urine test that can identify particular gene fusions associated with prostate cancer. The gene […]

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Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Yale University  found that women are less likely than men to have a stroke after mini-stroke.Their findings underscore the need to continue researching gender differences in disease prevention and follow-up care.
The researchers said that their study found that 30 days after a transient ischemic attack […]

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Research in a new field called oncofertility has advanced the ability of doctors to preserve the reproductive health of women, men and children who are diagnosed with cancer.
Studies have revealed the powerful chemotherapy and radiation used to save cancer patients’ lives can also destroy their fertility. Yet, many oncologists aren’t familiar with these new strategies […]

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Many popular diets indicate either carbohydrate, protein or fat as the best option to lose weight. However, there have been few researchs lasting more than a year that aimed to reveal the effect on weight loss of diets with different compositions of those nutrients.
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Pennington Biomedical […]

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Recent research has concluded that modern lifestyle habits may have a bigger role than food alone, when it comes to tooth decay. The overall goal of the review was to evaluate the evidence for the claim that sugar was the most important cause of dental caries (tooth decay). After a carefully review of 31 studies, […]

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There are numerous causes for male infertility, such as varicoceles, hormonal dysfunction, physical trauma, obstructions, diseases (sexually transmitted diseases, cancer, anemia) and side effects from certain drugs.
Varicoceles are the most common cause of male infertility. Varicoceles are abnormal and/or enlarged veins that surround the testicles, and are similar to varicose veins in the leg. Normally […]

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Obese teenagers run the same risk of premature death in adulthood as people who smoke more than 10 cigarettes a day, according to a new study.
The British Medical Journal study also found that people who are overweight have the same risk as less heavy smokers.
Being underweight carried no increased risk, irrespective of smoking status. However, […]

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Infertile men may be at increased risk for testicular cancer, U.S. researchers report.They analyzed data from more than 22,500 men in couples who sought fertility treatment between 1967 and 1998, and also examined cancer registry data. Thirty-four of the men developed testicular cancer within a year of seeking treatment for infertility.
The researchers calculated that men […]

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PSA levels appear to be more predictive of three year prostate cancer risk in African-American men compared with Caucasian men with a family history of prostate cancer, according to a paper published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
The researchers subsequently analyzed men with a PSA between 1.5 to […]

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Current research suggests that lowering cholesterol may block the growth of prostate tumors. The related report by Solomon et al, “Ezetimibe Is an Inhibitor of Tumor Angiogenesis,” appears in the March 2009 issue of The American Journal of Pathology.High cholesterol not only leads to atherosclerosis and heart disease, but may also contribute to cancer growth […]

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