Men’s Health-Erectile Dysfunction

ENDOCRINE FUNCTION AND GENDER DIFFERENTIATION: PRENATAL HORMONES

The prenatal hormones affect the sexually dimorphic pathways in the brain during the early months of fetal development, altering the threshold for behavior traits defined as boyish or girlish. The prenatal program does not preordain psychosexual differentiation as masculine or feminine but instead establishes a predisposition for behavior traits that are gender-shared but threshold-dimorphic. The [...]

THE HAZARDS OF CONFUSING FITNESS WITH HEALTH: YOUR HEART KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE

How can it happen that a reasonably fit man can have a full executive medical test, pass with flying colours and a few weeks later drop dead from a heart attack? The reason is simple. The blockages in the arteries that cause heart attacks in seven out of 10 people are so slight that they [...]

THE DESPERATE EXECUTIVE

Suicides in Australia are up and it seems that most of the people who are killing themselves are men. It is not that women don’t try; it is just that they tend to be less successful at it. Every year, enough Australian men to populate a small country town are lost to suicide. The impact [...]

BRAIN BOMBS: EXPLOSIONS DECLINE WITH AGE

It’s a terrifying thought hut at least 100 000 Australians are walking around with little time bombs in their brains. These bombs can go off at any time but usually detonate between the ages of 20 and 50. When this happens there is a 50 per cent chance they will kill or seriously disable their [...]

PROSTATE CANCER DIAGNOSIS: THERE IS HOPE AHEAD

A diagnosis of early prostate cancer can send any man into a tunnel dark with uncertainty. Once in this tunnel, he will stumble across a range of management options, each of which can have upsetting complications and none of which is definitively the best. There are no clear guidelines for management at this early stage; [...]

SOLUTION OF IMPOTENCE PROBLEM: IMPLANTS

About 5 years ago, the managing director of a Sydney manufacturing company noted with alarm that he was having difficulty maintaining an erection. It would rise without any trouble but almost immediately would begin to subside. At 54, he couldn’t understand why this was happening. ‘My wife was very encouraging, but no matter what she [...]