Safer estrogen targets painful intercourse in older women
...n much the same way that Viagra has helped relieve impotence in some men, predicts Hochberg. Vaginal dyspareunia (dis-pa-ROON-ia), the medical term for vaginal atrophy, most often occurs in women after menopause. Studies have shown that more than 40 percent of postmenopausal women experience the condition, wh...Smokers more likely to experience impotence, Wake Forest study shows
...bit." Spangler said that cigarette smoking and impotence had been linked previously by other investigators,... blood pressure are such powerful risk factors for impotence that it just overshadows stress," he said.......ation therapy can cause rectal and bladder damage, impotence and difficult urination. About 189,000 males in the United States are diagnosed annually with some form of prostate cancer, second only to lung cancer as deadly disease among men, reports the American Cancer Society. Although men can get the disease ...Intensity modulated radiation therapy at Fox Chase Cancer Center
(PHILADELPHIA) Incontinence and impotence are two major complications feared by men undergoing treatment for prostate cancer, since the bladder and the rectum are the two organs adjacent to the prostate. These organs are often in the line of fire when the radiation beams target the cancero...Drug reduces deaths and hospital stays in heart attack patients with heart failure
...and potentially dangerous levels of potassium, and impotence and breast swelling, or gynecomastia, in men. The ...lts show no increased incidence of gynecomastia or impotence in the treatment group, reflecting eplerenone's higher level of selectivity for the aldosterone horm...Penn study to determine why African-American males have worse outcomes from prostate cancer
...er bad outcomes from the disease including death, impotence and incontinence. To understand why African Americans have poorer outcomes when they are diagnosed with prostate cancer, the National Cancer Institute has awarded an $8.5 million grant to Timothy R. Rebbeck, PhD, Leader of the Cancer Epidemiology an...Researchers use crippled poliovirus to attack brain cancer
...anism behind its virulence in cancer cells and its impotence in normal brain cells. So, Gromeier's team embarked on a mission to elucidate the molecular mechanism that causes the rhinovirus IRES to function in cancer cells but to malfunction in normal neurons. After extensive t...Erectile dysfunction has devastating effect on morale
...h. It also reveals that men are more distressed by impotence than has generally been realised. This study will be available on bmj.com on Monday 29 March 2004. Researchers interviewed a random sample of 40 men prescribed sildenafil who had attended a men's health clinic in the year before the study. The aver...New study demonstrates significant and sustained improvements in BPH symptoms with AVODART ™
...a (breast enlargement and breast tenderness) (1%); impotence (0.4%); ejaculation disorders (0.1%)....Negative side effects downplayed in prostate cancer treatment guides, U-M study finds
...als talked about catheterization. Incontinence and impotence were frequently listed as side effects of treatment, but bowel disorders and the risk of death were seldom acknowledged. In addition to content, the materials were evaluated for accuracy, balance and readability. The information was fou......lls are unable to kill the tumor. What causes the impotence of these T cells is a mystery. Equally mysterious is why vaccination against tumor-specific proteins sometimes causes tumor regression without expanding large numbers of vaccine-specific killer T cells. Pierre Coulie's group studied anti-tumor T ce...