American Psychiatric Association January 2000 tipsheet
...X#6938 Major depression may increase bone loss in men A preliminary study from the Max Planck Institute...mineral density, and that bone loss was greater in men than in women. [“Lumbar Bone Mineral Density in Patients with Major Depression: Evidence of Incr......n for the greatly increased risk women face versus men in developing lung cancer. If substantiated in fu... lung cancer after much less smoking exposure than men and much earlier in life, regardless of their smoking history, said Sharon Shriver, Ph.D., principal...UF nutritionist: Better to vow to eat healthy for new year
...ronary heart disease -- the leading killer of both men and women in the United States. The evidence ..."The phytoestrogens are important for men, because men who eat diets that are high in phytoestrogens have a lower risk of prostate cancer, which also is a ......lem, it was small. At 18 months, 86 percent of the men reported being potent, with the recovery of sexual...three months and compared them to videotapes of 10 men who were not potent at one year. He identified four small arbitrary variances in surgical technique ...Side effects of prostate cancer surgery far less when performed by specialist
(January 4, 2000) - Many men with prostate cancer may endanger their lives by a...re distributed by an independent third party to 64 men with prostate cancer before radical prostatectomy as well as three, six, 12 and 18 months after the ...UNC-CH researchers to comb N.C. mountains for iron problem chiefly affecting Scots, Irish
...t's not true, Laudicina said. It occurs equally in men and women but usually appears later in women since they lose blood naturally through menstruation during their child-bearing years. "Younger women who eventually will develop this disorder have the protective effect of regularly losing red blood ...High fibre diet lowers risk of prostate cancer: study
...the Journal of Urology, the researchers found that men on a diet high insoluble fibre for four months had...ator of prostate cancerrisk -- in their blood than men on high insoluble fibre diets. Insoluble fibre is contained in foods such as wheat brancereal and br...Fetal and birth complications increase mental illness risks
...9-year NIMH-supported longitudinal study using 693 men and women, researchers found hypoxic-ischemia-related fetal/neonatal complications could double the risk of developing a psychotic disorder. The study showed an elevated, graded, independent risk of schizophrenia and other nonaffected psychoses assoc...Multiple studies show that psyllium lowers cholesterol
...sc/10863.pdf In the United States, 32% of adult men and 27% of adult women have undesirable serum chol...p, with very little difference in results between men and women. The question of how psyllium works to reduce cholesterol is still under investigation...PSA level predicts future prostate growth
...lleagues said in January's Journal of Urology that men with a PSA level of 3.3 nanograms/milliliter or hi... times the prostate growth rate over four years of men with a PSA level of 1.3 nanograms/milliliter or lower. "Urologists want to be able to predict whet...Study: exercise, even without weight loss, is good for the heart
... study findings, which involved seven mildly obese men and women, provided the scientific basis for a recent $4.3 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute which will allow researchers to carry out a much larger trial. That trial, called Studies of Targeted Risk Reduction Intervent...Three Americans win top international prizes for science and medicine
...ofessor Edward Wilson of Harvard University. Both men won the Science prize for their work in the field of biology. The Medicine prize went to Dr. Cynthia Kenyon, a professor of biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco, for her research in the aging process. Dr. Venter has establi...Cholesterol levels not necessarily indicative of cardiac health
... found to be under so-called danger levels for 750 men and women who were diagnosed with serious blockage...d -- enough to warrant bypass surgery. Of the 506 men who had a bypass, only 71 (14 percent) had plasma cholesterol levels above 240; 50 percent had level...Prostate cancer test works as well for black men, study shows
...tate cancer risk appears to offer African-American men a much-needed, improved accuracy in detecting the ...urate in revealing cancer risk in African American men as it is in Caucasians. "It also shows that many African-American men could be spared the expense a...Pain drug reveals what most already know - men's and women's brains are simply different
... a clear biological difference in the waywomen and men respond to kappa-opioids. "If it weren't for the people data, I'd say, `who knows, a rat's a rat and ourfinding may have nothing to do with people,'" says Fields, "but taken togetherthe findings have importance." Fields' study pushes the investigatio...Emphysema linked to smoking marijuana
...s of the early stages of the disease in four young men aged 27, 35, 44 and 46 who smoked cannabis regular...owed that large areas of both lungs in each of the men had simply disappeared and been replaced with cysts. This is a form of emphysema, a disease that gra...NIH consensus development conference will address osteoporosis prevention, diagnosis and therapy
...is disease. Women are four times more likely than men to develop osteoporosis. Osteoporosis once was believed to be an unavoidable consequence of aging. That view has changed in recent years, however, thanks to remarkable progress in the scientific understanding of its causes, diagnosis, and treatment...Sperm counts unchanged over 50 years
Although many American men have at least one type of abnormality in their spe...agues looked at semen samples collected from 1,385 men at LAC+USC Medical Center over a three-year period between 1994 and 1997. At the time samples were ...UC Berkeley psychologist finds evdence that male hormones in the womb affect sexual orientation
...r length and sexual orientation. However, some gay men did appear, based on their finger lengths, to have... question all of our cultural assumptions that gay men are feminine," said Breedlove. He said his findings are consistent with other, very sketchy indicati...