Men's Health
Conference Coverage
Elevated free T4 predicts death in older men
Major finding: In older men without thyroid disease, free thyroxine levels of at least 17.32 pmol/L were linked to an increase in all-cause...
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Low blood pressure may harm rather than help patients with chronic kidney disease
Major finding: The results – which include the finding that a diastolic blood pressure value below 70 mm Hg was associated with higher mortality...
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Finasteride use in prevention not linked to higher mortality
Major finding: At 15-years, survival was 78% with finasteride and 78.2% with placebo, a nonsignificant difference, and the median age at prostate...
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Prostate cancer stage has declined more than Gleason score
Major finding: Over 22 years, the number of prostate cancers stage T3 or higher fell by 85%, while the number with a Gleason score of 8 or higher...
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Rising gonorrhea incidence links to higher resistance
Major finding: As ciprofloxacin resistance in U.S. gonorrhea isolates rose from 0 to 10%, gonorrhea incidence rose by 7%.Data source: CDC analysis...
Case Reports
Would you recognize this unusual cause of acute back pain?
When an otherwise healthy adult presents with acute back pain, spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma may not come to mind, but ignoring the clues...
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Prostate cancer racial disparity seen even in very-low-risk disease
Major finding: Among the subset treated with modern clinical practices, African American men were more likely than white men and other men...
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'Decision aids' inform men but don’t alter prostate screening rate
Major finding: Regardless of whether study subjects reviewed a printed or a web-based decision aid, 58.3% reported that they had been screened for...
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Two approved antibiotics show new gonorrhea efficacy
Major finding: Gentamicin plus azithromycin was 100% effective and gemfloxacin plus azithromycin was 99.5% effective for eradication of urogenital...
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Single CBT session helps cure insomnia for some
Major finding: A single session of cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia was enough to help improve sleep conditions for the majority (90%) of...
Conference Coverage
Overtreatment common in high-risk diabetes patients
Major finding: Nearly half of diabetes patients at high risk for serious hypoglycemia, based upon advanced age, renal dysfunction, or cognitive...