According to new research to be presented at the 26th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Rome today (Tuesday 29 June), those mothers who drink alcohol while they are pregnant may be damaging the fertility of their future sons.
A new study in Denmark found that if mothers had drunk […]

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Israeli researchers have come up with the male alternative to the female contraceptive pill. They say the pill needs to be taken once every three months behind the breakthrough. Its formula works by removing vital protein in sperm required for a woman to conceive.
However, recipients in trials have complained of side effects including depression, moodiness and loss […]

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A new epidemiological analysis of data from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden suggests that despite a significant increase in the incidence of prostate cancer (the number of men diagnosed each year), prostate cancer-specific mortality rates have been minimally affected over the past 40 years in these four countries.

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According to doctors at Duke University Medical Center, An immune cell known to cause chronic inflammation in autoimmune disorders has been identified as a possible culprit in low back pain associated with herniated discs.
The finding implicates the cytokine molecule interleukin-17, and supports the burgeoning theory that an immune response plays an important role in disc […]

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According to an Australian study, anti-depressant treatments for older people fail to work fully, and leave sufferers to battle a condition known to ’shorten people’s lives’.
The study, based in Perth, investigated the effectiveness of anti-depressant drugs or psychotherapy used by depressed men aged over 68. Researchers concluded that depression treatment works in less than half of the cases, […]

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A new study has revealed, cholesterol-lowering drugs or statins might help in preventing the return of prostate cancer in men who undertake surgery for the disease.
According to conclusion, patients who took statins were 30 per cent less likely to suffer an evident relapse than those who did not. Higher doses of the drugs were associated […]

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 Doctors have long known that prostate cancer is more prevalent in black men than in other groups.
More recent research has also shown that prostate cancer in black men is usually found at a much later stage, is more often the cause of death, and is more likely to go unnecessarily untreated.
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Despite the pathogenesis of prostate cancer is unclear, experimental evidence implicates androgens as playing an important role.
Men developing infertility frequently suffer from some degree of hypogonadism and may hence be hypothesized to be at lower risk of developing prostate cancer than fertile men. A recent study at Malmö University Hospital, Sweden, aimed to test this […]

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A study at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center developed a large scale genetic analysis of multiple prostate cancer samples that is providing exciting new insight into the disease and may lead to more effective treatment strategies. In addition, the freely available genetic and clinical outcome data obtained in the study represents a valuable public resource for the cancer […]

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Despite the pathogenesis of prostate cancer is unclear, experimental evidence implicates androgens as playing an important role.
Men developing infertility frequently suffer from some degree of hypogonadism and may hence be hypothesized to be at lower risk of developing prostate cancer than fertile men. A recent study at Malmö University Hospital, Sweden, aimed to test this […]

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