A pelvic exam is a way for your doctor/gyneacologist to examine your female organs and check for any gyneacological problems.
You may be worried about your first pelvic exam. It’s very normal to be anxious about something when you don’t know what to expect. Hopefully after reading this, you will be reassured that it is [...]
Katherine Hobson
Late in October, 2008, just before his 65th birthday, Robert Marks got a phone call: Stop the pills.
For more than a decade, the retired Lutheran minister from Grapeville, Pennsylvania, had been among more than 35,000 men enrolled in SELECT, a clinical trial designed to see whether taking selenium and vitamin E might help [...]
Admit it: You’ve lied.
You told a friend that his shirt looked stylish when you actually thought it was tacky and garish. Or maybe you said to your boss that her presentations were fascinating when in fact they were insipidly mindless. Or perhaps you told your landlord that the rent check was in the mail. [...]
People with diabetes are four times as afraid of the disability associated with losing their sight and twice as afraid of losing a limb than of suffering a heart attack or stroke, according to a national survey of older Americans living with the disease. While heart attack and stroke are by far the leading cause [...]
The government re-affirmed the importance of early breast cancer detection with its recent update to guidelines recommending that women age 40 and older have mammograms. A new computer-aided tool can make mammograms even better by highlighting potential areas of concern, and ultimately increasing early detection.
Detecting the subtleties of breast cancer on a mammogram has [...]
Harvard Men’s Health Watch
Americans are living longer than ever.
As the population ages, many senior citizens are burdened with chronic illnesses, but many others remain healthy and active. When scientists investigate aging, they have to distinguish between changes caused by disease and those caused by aging itself.
It’s important research: among other things, it [...]
By Andy Coghlan, Linda Geddes & Rachel Nowak, New Scientist Magazine
Doomsday visions of curfews, sealed borders, travel bans and scuffles over food are a long way from materializing in the current crisis regarding swine flu.
But if the World Health Organization declares a pandemic, countries could bring in draconian measures to isolate and treat infection, [...]
By Debora MacKenzie, New Scientist Magazine
Is the world ready for a killer, autumn wave of swine flu?
Infections may be winding down in Mexico and causing fewer deaths worldwide than feared, but what’s now keeping health officials awake at night is the possibility that a more virulent version will come roaring back and kill [...]
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Men who smoke cigarettes may experience a significant decline in their capacity to father a child, research by a reproductive medicine specialist from the University at Buffalo has shown.
Sperm from nearly two-thirds of the chronic smokers in the study failed a special test that measures the ability of sperm to fertilize an [...]
Chest pain is one of the common complaints heard in medical OPDs as well as at the GPs clinic. Chest pain causes a lot of anxiety in the patient as it is many a time related to heart attack or angina and people are quite aware of the serious consequences of the symptom. Anyone having [...]