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Clinical Times: Men's Health

All entries for Men's Health

Roles of alcohol and smoking as risks for pancreatitis reassessed

Archives of Internal Medicine | 19 June 2009

Although alcohol consumption is known to be associated with chronic pancreatitis, new evidence indicates that a threshold of five or more drinks per day is required to significantly raise risk; however, most patients with chronic pancreatitis do not drink this... Read more

Developing our palliative care for all who need it

Dr Liam O'Siorain | 09 June 2009

Dr Liam O'Síoráin writes that investment in palliative care is not only in the best interests of patients, it is also cost-effective. It is almost a national sport today for people to comment on how we squandered our wealth during... Read more

Scam-cell treatments?

Erica Mills | 12 May 2009

Erica Mills reports from a recent conference that explored the divide between fact and fiction in the public's perception of stem cell research and therapies. Stem cell research is undoubtedly one of the most contentious and widely discussed subjects in... Read more

Steroid tests ignore ethnic differences

British Journal of Sports Medicine | 06 April 2009

Current testosterone doping tests should be scrapped for international sport, because they ignore vital ethnic differences in hormone activity, according to new research from Switzerland. Testosterone, and other hormones that boost testosterone levels, are among the most widely abused performance... Read more

Older people benefit from care in specialist geriatric units

BMJ Online | 16 February 2009

Older people who are cared for in specialist geriatric units have a better chance of returning home after discharge than those cared for in conventional hospital units, a Spanish study has found. The study’s authors also found that such elderly... Read more

Testosterone deficiency remains underdiagnosed

27 November 2008

Other than type 2 diabetes, testosterone deficiency syndrome (TDS) is the most common endocrine disorder in men and yet is the least commonly diagnosed and treated, according to the President of the Society for the Study of Androgen Deficiency. Speaking... Read more

Klinefelter’s syndrome: a male infertility disorder

Dr Muhammad Arshad, Prof Michael Fitzgerald | 17 November 2008

Dr Muhammad Arshad and Prof Michael Fitzgerald write about the causes of and the treatment options for Klinefelter's syndrome, a trisomy disorder that is found in approximately one in 700 male births. Klinefelter’s syndrome (KS) is the most common cause... Read more

The growing problem of TDS in men

Dr Malcolm Carruthers | 28 October 2008

Dr Malcolm Carruthers writes that testosterone deficiency is the most common endocrine disorder in the adult male, yet is the least commonly diagnosed and treated of these disorders. This millennium has seen rapidly growing awareness of the important role that... Read more

GPs and the internet – keeping up-to-date with your patients

28 October 2008

It is hard to believe that the internet search engine Google is just ten years old this year, it feels like it has been around forever. For many who have come to depend on its seemingly infinite stream of information,... Read more

The genesis of the Slievemore Clinic

22 October 2008

Dr Conor O'Toole and Crean Salley Architects Director Declan Doyle on the perspectives involved in building a functioning clinic for a medical prctice. Established in the centre of Stillorgan in 1987 by Dr Paul Carson and Dr Conor O’Toole, the... Read more

Using a fan during sleep linked with lower risk of SIDS

Archives of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine | 21 October 2008

Use of a fan appears to be associated with a lower risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in rooms with inadequate ventilation, according to a new report. The report followed a study in which doctors analysed information from interviews... Read more

Paediatricians vary widely in the level of medical error disclosure

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine | 21 October 2008

A survey of American paediatricians has found wide variation in whether and how they would disclose medical errors to patients and their families, and may be less likely to share information about errors that are less obvious to parents. Some... Read more

Merits and minuses of birth-control methods

Shirley McQuade | 24 September 2008

The average age of a first-time mother in Ireland has gradually increased over time and is now thirty years old. At the same time, age of first intercourse is decreasing and is now 18.2 years. Families tend to have one... Read more

Medicine and doctors – what is the psychological identikit?

Mike Power | 08 September 2008

Mike Power, Research Psychologist, on the public image of doctors as a cosseted elite, and the reality of most doctors' day-to-day experiences. ‘The role of the doctor is to amuse the patient while nature cures him’ – Voltaire.... Read more

More people taking part in sport but ...

06 August 2008

... the gap between rich/poor and black/white remains The comfortably off, white, and middle-aged are the most likely to participate in sporting activities, a new 10-year UK study has revealed. Furthermore, the gap between rich and poor — and black... Read more

Healthy ageing – a challenge for Ireland

Prof Davis Coakley | 26 July 2008

Prof Davis Coakley writes that investing in strategies to preserve health and prevent illness in older people will benefit the economy in the longer term. The number of people surviving into old age is increasing across all European states. In... Read more

Slowing down ageing process may be the future of disease prevention

26 July 2008

Slowing the ageing process would have a much greater benefit for people’s health than traditional medical approaches that target individual disease, according to leading experts. Most medical research focuses on preventing and curing individual diseases as if they were independent... Read more

Formula predicts admissions in older adults

25 July 2008

Using data from clinical encounters and drug prescriptions over three years, researchers have devised a model to predict emergency hospital admissions in the following year in individuals aged 40 years and older, according to a new report from Scotland. Scottish... Read more

Rate of hair loss can be rated by standard test

Archives of Dermatology | 25 June 2008

Performing a standardised 60-second hair count appears to be a reliable method for the assessment of hair shedding, according to a new study. In the study, doctors investigated hair loss in 60 healthy men without evidence of alopecia. All participants... Read more

Overweight men - but not women - at risk of osteoarthritis of hip

Online First Annals of Rheumatic Diseases | 20 June 2008

Men who are overweight or obese are much more likely need a hip replacement for osteoarthritis than men who are of normal weight, new research has found. People who are overweight are known to be more likely to get osteoarthritis... Read more

Black men less likely to undergo elective aneurysm repair

Archives of Surgery 2008;143:506-510 | 10 June 2008

Black men are less likely than white men to undergo elective surgery to repair abdominal aortic aneurysms, even after accounting for racial differences in rates of developing the disease, according to a new report. According to the report, doctors identified... Read more

Longer life is linked to the number of matches played

20 April 2008

The more test matches a cricketer plays, the longer he is likely to live, according to new research. Despite this finding, the research also found that captaining the team did not extend lifespan. The research, by Prof Paul Boyle at... Read more

Modifiable factors linked to exceptionally long life

Archives of Internal Medicine 2008;168:284-290, 277-283 | 19 February 2008

A healthy lifestyle during the early elderly years – including weight management, exercising regularly and not smoking – may be associated with a greater probability of living to age 90 years in men, as well as good health and physical... Read more

Men come under pressure to adhere to aesthetic ‘ideal’

Liam Quaide | 05 February 2008

Liam Quaide examines the seismic changes in public attitudes towards the body in recent years and notes the increase of body dysmorphic disorder amongst men. As Western culture has become increasingly sexualised over the past few decades, a sea change... Read more

Combination therapy improves survival in prostate cancer

JAMA 2008;299:289-295 | 01 February 2008

Men with localised prostate cancer who were treated with male hormone suppression therapy and radiation treatment had longer survival, but those with moderate to high levels of other illnesses did not experience this effect, according to a new study. Several... Read more

Obesity linked to lower PSA levels in prostate cancer

JAMA 2007;298:2275-2280 | 07 December 2007

A higher body mass index (BMI) is associated with higher plasma volume, which may be related to lower prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels among obese men, according to a new study. Recent evidence has suggested that prostate cancer screening may be... Read more

Osteoporosis on the increase

05 October 2007

Increasingly high levels of stress in our daily lives is leading to a reduction in the amount of sex hormones produced by men, which, among other factors, is leading to significantly more men developing osteoporosis, according to Prof Moira O’Brien,... Read more

Tadalafil for treatment of erectile dysfunction after spinal cord injury

Archives of Neurology | 21 September 2007

The drug Tadalafil appears to improve erectile function in men with spinal cord injuries, according to a new study. Doctors led by French colleagues conducted a randomised, double-blind study of tadalafil in 197 men with spinal cord injuries.... Read more

Chlamydia screening is shown as not good value for money

BMJ | 31 August 2007

Proactive chlamydia screening for young adults does not represent good value for money, according to a study. Researchers noted that with proactive screening, doctors and nurses use population registers to invite people to be screened regularly, while opportunistic screening targets... Read more

Study identifies the type of clinicians likely to give inappropriate PSA tests

Archives of Internal Medicine | 20 July 2007

Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests to screen for prostate cancer are frequently performed among patients for whom the PSA test is not shown to be beneficial, and clinicians with certain characteristics are more likely to order such inappropriate screening tests, according... Read more

Radium-223 may be an alternative treatment for prostate cancer

Lancet Oncology | 15 June 2007

The bone-targeting radioisotope radium-223 has delivered promising results in a randomised trial to test its efficacy in treatment of hormone-refractory prostate cancer (HRPC). According to background information supplied by the UK-led researchers, patients who have HRPC often have involvement of... Read more

Testosterone gel may help men with multiple sclerosis

Archives of Neurology 2007;64:683-688 | 08 June 2007

A small pilot study has suggested that testosterone treatment is safe, well-tolerated and may reduce symptoms, slow brain degeneration and increase muscle mass in men with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, according to a new report. Doctors investigated testosterone treatment in 10... Read more

One in three HIV-positive gay men report having unprotected sex

Sexually Transmitted Infections | 18 May 2007

More than one in three HIV-positive gay men say they have unprotected sex, a new survey has revealed. And almost one in five HIV-negative men said that they do the same, the figures showed. The findings are based on a... Read more

Evidence of 'work hard, play hard' philosophy in young athletic men

Siofra Stirrat | 06 April 2007

A majority of young male athletes surveyed in a study by the Institute of Technology, Sligo, were drinking above the recommended amount per night out and two-thirds were exceeding the recommended weekly limit. The athletes who spent the most time... Read more

Half of men who pay for sex say they already have a partner

Sexually Transmitted Infections 2006;82:364-367 | 05 January 2007

Almost half of men who pay for sex already have a partner, according to researchers in the UK. The researchers used survey data from a standard health screening questionnaire completed by more than 2,500 men at one sexual health clinic.... Read more

Testosterone therapy may help elderly men with Alzheimer’s

Archives of Neurology 2006;63:1-9 | 15 December 2006

Testosterone replacement therapy may help improve the quality of life for elderly men with mild cases of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new US study. Researchers conducted a 24-week, randomised study to evaluate the effects of testosterone therapy on cognition,... Read more