Men´s Health
Do-it-yourself every two years
Having spent much of his career treating bowel cancer, Ian Olver professor and CEO of Cancer Council Australia, knows how much anguish can be saved through screening.
Did you know?
Facts on bowel cancer testing.
Pushing the envelope on bowel cancer
More Australian men will soon be receiving bulky envelopes in the post. Should you be lucky enough to get one, don’t throw it away. It contains something so important it could save your life.
Hands-off approach
Robotic surgery for prostate cancer is outpacing open surgery for this condition in the US.
Aggression overdone
A study of male breast cancer suggests its prognosis is not considerably worse than in women, as was thought.
Doctor and the mouse
Social media has become a venue for collaboration, interaction, medical communities and support groups. But according to the medical website MedPage Today, conventional medical education hasn’t caught up with it.
Cold but comforting
Following exercise, some people get delayed onset muscle soreness and a popular treatment involves immersing the sore limbs in cold water below 15C.
Bloody minded no more
Blood is a precious resource, but it is not only conservation that is driving modern “blood management” for people having surgery.
Sex and the prostate
If they remain well, about 50 per cent of Australian men who are sexually active before their hormone treatment for prostate cancer will recover their sexual function afterwards.
Beef up for brain cells
If you are in the waiting room for memory loss, weight training may help to keep you brain in better shape for a little longer.
C takes pressure off
Over the short term, it appears vitamin C supplementation may be able to lower blood pressure by a small but significant amount. This is the conclusion following an analysis of 29 previous trials on the issues.
Miners battling depression and anxiety
Thousands of Australian miners suffer from mental health problems and a "macho mining culture" stops them from getting help, a new study has found.
Unique technique brings pets back from death’s door
In August 2009, Matilda, the golden girl of EnGeneIC’s dog research, began having violent seizures and was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour. When her distressed owners, Annalise and Ray Andrews, were offered the chance of enrolling her in an EnGeneIC trial they accepted providing it wouldn’t harm her. Over the ensuing months they watched the scans in disbelief as the tumour vanished and her fits abated.
Obese get less chemo
People who are obese and have cancer generally do worse than their slimmer peers. One reason may be that they’re not getting enough chemotherapy for their weight.
Oral link chewed over
For more than a century it’s been thought poor oral hygiene can cause heart disease. Now, after analysing 537 studies, experts have concluded there is no evidence to support this assertion.
Ice nice for nosebleeds
There’s a sweet remedy for a bleeding nose – suck a flavoured iceblock.
Men’s gifts help study
Two Melbourne men have made unique philanthropic gestures. Before their death from prostate cancer both volunteered to have additional biopsies of their metastatic bone tumours in the name of research.
Toy factory manufactures cancer hope
On Sydney’s North Shore an extraordinary story of dedication and discovery is unfolding – two scientists have created a piece of “disruptive technology” that appears to shed some new scientific light on cancer treatment.
A whole new bald game
Head shaving has gone prime time. Shaving your balding head is like breaking up with someone before he or she can break up with you.
Former Wallabies captain Lynagh suffered stroke
Updated | Former Queensland Reds and Wallabies captain Michael Lynagh was in a stable condition after suffering a stroke, Queensland Rugby Union has said.
Black-and-white cure
Since the age of 13, a British man has suffered dystonia which causes him to blink uncontrollably while his arms move and his upper body twists and jerks. Playing the piano is the only thing that brings him relief.
Move that may cut prostate cancer risk
Some new evidence has emerged to show that men who were circumcised before their first sexual encounter have a 15 per cent lower risk of developing prostate cancer.
Cold, but it’s comfort
It sounds like cold comfort but there is evidence to suggest that if you survive cancer, it may offer you some protection from developing Alzheimer’s disease.
Medicine and common cents
We’ve already got “informed consent” in medicine and now it is time for “economic informed consent”, says George Lundberg, a professor at Harvard and editor in chief of the online service Medscape General Medicine.
Out of arm’s way
Should your blood pressure be measured in both arms? Yes, according to a study in the British Medical Journal.
One is never too old
When is a man too old to care about prostate cancer? The conventional wisdom says men who have 10 or less years to live, shouldn’t worry about screening because it has the potential to cause them more pain than gain.
No need for groping
One of the most intimate forms of male self-examination has been discounted as “a well-meaning whimsy” by a provocative review in the British Medical Journal.
Melanoma fought on two fronts
Sometimes, when hope is low, cancer treatment can turn up an unexpectedly good result. This happened recently in New York at the renowned Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre.
Scars that halt intellectual growth
Emotional trauma early in life may stunt intellectual development, according to a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. It showed trauma in the first two years of life was the most damaging.
Bypass less risky than stent
Should you have a bypass or a stent? A study of 190,000 Americans has shown that over time bypass surgery is superior. Among older adults with stable coronary heart disease the study found no survival differences between the two options after a year.
