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Men who experience high levels of sexual harassment are much more likely than women to induce vomiting and take laxatives and diuretics in an attempt to control their weight, according to a surprising finding by Michigan State University researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-link-sexual-purgingin-men.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 09 May 2013 09:41:37 EST news287311290 Young men who have served in the British military are about three times more likely than civilians to have committed a violent offense, researchers reported Friday in a study that explores the roots of such behavior. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-uk-violence-vets-troops.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:20:02 EST news282582595 (HealthDay)—Men aged 50 years or older are more likely to be diagnosed with invasive melanoma by a dermatologist than to detect it themselves; and they are less likely to seek a skin cancer screening due to a suspicious lesion, according to the results of two studies presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology, held from March 1 to 5 in Miami Beach. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-aad-older-men-screen-skin.html Cancer Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:36:49 EST news281367320 Men are over 35 per cent more likely to die from cancer than women in the UK, according to a new report released today . http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cancer-death-higher-men-women.html Cancer Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:40:04 EST news278663193 The lifetime risks of cancer from medical radiation may be overemphasized relative to more immediate health risks, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-health-radiation-induced-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:01 EST news274987407 Until there are more validated biomarkers to direct treatment decisions, many physicians use patient age to decide what therapy to give their patients. Literature data report that older patients often go undertreated because of concerns for limited tolerance to toxic therapies. A study, published in the November 2012 issue of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer's (IASLC) Journal of Thoracic Oncology, says that fit elderly non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients should be considered for salvage targeted therapy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-elderly-patients-therapy.html Cancer Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:52:26 EST news269524333 A new study from the University of Southern California (USC) has found a link between recreational marijuana use and an increased risk of developing subtypes of testicular cancer that tend to carry a somewhat worse prognosis. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings suggest that the potential cancer-causing effects of marijuana on testicular cells should be considered not only in personal decisions regarding recreational drug use, but also when marijuana and its derivatives are used for therapeutic purposes in young male patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-marijuana-testicular-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 10 Sep 2012 03:37:02 EST news266467013 Assessment of sexual function should be incorporated into cardiovascular risk evaluation for all men, regardless of the presence or absence of known cardiovascular disease, according to Dr. Ajay Nehra, lead author of a report by the Princeton Consensus (Expert Panel) Conference, a collaboration of 22 international, multispecialty researchers. Nehra is vice chairperson, professor and director of Men's Health in the Department of Urology at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-cardiovascular-men-sexual-function.html Cardiology Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:35:47 EST news265556136 A new study led by scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) found that a healthy intake of micronutrients is strongly associated with improved sperm DNA quality in older men. In younger men, however, a higher intake of micronutrients didn't improve their sperm DNA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-nutrition-tied-sperm-dna-quality.html Health Mon, 27 Aug 2012 01:00:01 EST news265186817 There are significant gaps in the information women receive about their future fertility following cancer diagnosis, suggests a new paper published today (30 May) in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-men-women-fertility-advice-cancer.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:01 EST news257531442 (HealthDay) -- Researchers who say they've linked type 2 diabetes with earlier development of precancerous colon lesions recommend people with the blood sugar disorder start colorectal screenings at a younger age than others. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-middle-aged-diabetics-earlier-colon.html Diabetes Tue, 22 May 2012 18:16:09 EST news256929332 Screening younger men and men at risk of prostate cancer can be beneficial in reducing metastatic cancer and deaths and should not be abandoned, states an article published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-psa-screening-prostate-cancer-beneficial.html Cancer Mon, 07 May 2012 12:00:03 EST news255605414 Police officers are always trying to control the misconduct of those who are on parole in order to control crime in the community, but what types of behaviors land them back in jail and what can law enforcement officials do about it? A recent article in the Journal of Correctional Health Care (JCHC), published by SAGE, discusses how to target the most common risky behaviors among specific groups of parolees in order to lower crime in the community. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-explores-decrease-risky-behavior-parolees.html Health Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:04:42 EST news253451072 After men become fathers for the first time, they show significant decreases in crime, tobacco and alcohol use, according to a new, 19-year study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-fatherhood-bad-habits.html Health Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:48:07 EST news239892478 Drinking plenty of fluids may provide men with some protection against bladder cancer, according to a study presented at the 10th AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, held Oct. 22-25, 2011. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-high-fluid-intake-bladder-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:57:12 EST news238697825 Contrary to common belief, men age 75 and older are diagnosed with late-stage and more aggressive prostate cancer and thus die from the disease more often than younger men, according to a University of Rochester analysis published online this week by the journal, Cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-age-big-factor-prostate-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:19:50 EST news238249182 It's an ongoing debate: Should men over a certain age be treated for prostate cancer? Should these patients be submitted to treatments that may result in significant side effects if they may not live very much longer? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-elderly-patients-undertreated-prostate-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:09:00 EST news236275725 A Swedish research team partly consisting of researchers from Uppsala University followed a group of prostate cancer patients in the Nordic region for 15 years. The study found, among other things, that surgery reduces the risk that men with prostate cancer (even those with low-risk tumours) will die within 15 years. The results were published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-surgery-mortality-due-prostate-cancer.html Cancer Thu, 05 May 2011 10:58:20 EST news223811867