Men's Health
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MSM Sex: Rectal Screenings Catch Gonorrhea
Major Finding: The prevalence of pharyngeal gonorrhea was 4%, the prevalence of rectal gonorrhea was 5%, and the prevalence of gonorrhea in both...
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Homosexual Activity Plus Meth Increases HIV Risk
Major Finding: Among boys and young men who have sex with men, those who also used methamphetamine were more likely than nonusers to have a...
Commentary
PSA screening isn’t “nonsense”—it saved my life
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MSM Can Effectively Self-Test for Chlamydia, Gonorrhea
Major Finding: The only time a provider’s test was positive and a patient’s test was negative was a single case of pharyngeal gonorrhea.
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No Increased Bone Risk Seen With HIV Treatments
Major Finding: Neither antiretroviral therapy with tenofovir nor ART with boosted protease inhibitors was significantly associated with an...
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Prostate Cancer More Likely to Recur, Kill Men Who Smoke at Diagnosis
Major Finding: Among never smokers, 89.7% were alive 5 years after diagnosis and 74.8% at 10 years; among former smokers, survival rates were 86.2...
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Depressive Symptoms: Like Father, Like Child
Major Finding: In households where the father had clinically significant depressive symptoms as defined by a PHQ-2 score of 3 or greater, 15.5% of...
PURLs
PSA testing: When it’s useful, when it’s not
Routine PSA testing leads to more diagnoses of prostate cancer, but does not save lives. At least one group of men, however, may reap a small...
Commentary
The perils of PSA screening
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PIVOT Trial: No Overall Benefit to Radical Prostatectomy for Localized Prostate Cancer
Major Finding: Radical prostatectomy compared with observation produced a 3% absolute reduction in all-cause and disease-specific mortality.
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Two-Tiered Prostate Cancer Surveillance May Curb Overtreatment
Major Finding: Some 44% of prostate cancer deaths occurred in men who had PSA levels greater than 1.6 ng/mL when first tested between the ages of...