Men's Health
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PSA screening declined 18% after USPSTF recommendation
Routine prostate-specific antigen screening declined 18% after the USPSTF recommended against it.
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PrEP effective in preventing HIV acquisition in MSM and transgender women
Men who have sex with men and transgender women who take daily, oral tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and emtricitabine as pre-exposure prophylaxis...
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2014 saw spike in antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea
Enhanced gonorrhea susceptibility to third-generation cephalosporin-class antibiotic agents may have been temporary.
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Certain refractory prostate cancers respond to olaparib
Key clinical point: Olaparib induced a 33% response rate in refractory, progressing prostate cancers in a phase II trial.
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Blacks receive inferior care for localized prostate cancer
Key clinical point: Compared with whites, black patients with localized prostate cancer received lower quality of care. Major finding: Blacks...
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Federally funded prevention programs tied to drop in suicide attempts
Key clinical point: Federally funded suicide prevention programs may have helped avert more than 79,000 suicide attempts by young people over 3...
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In men with HIV, GC/CT infections varied by anatomical site
Among HIV-infected males, positivity rates for gonorrhea and chlamydia infections varied significantly by anatomical site and presence of symptoms...
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Old drug is new treatment for chronic prostatitis
Oral fosfomycin achieved an 85% cure rate in multidrug-resistant chronic prostatitis.
Conference Coverage
Self-collected penile swabs provide accurate alternative for STI testing
Self-collected penile-meatal swabs perform as well as urethral swabs for the detection of chlamydia, gonorrhea, trichomoniasis, and Mycoplasma...
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Study shows 23% of men don’t discuss male sex partners until HIV diagnosis
Twenty-three percent of men who tested positive for HIV at three North Carolina STD clinics initially hid the fact that they had sex with other...