Features Related to Men's Health
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Save Your Prostate: Get a PSA Test
Like his favorite car, a guy's body needs regular checkups one that includes a screening for prostate cancer, otherwise known as a PSA test. The risk of prostate cancer goes up every year after age 50, that's why men need to take steps in preventing it, or making sure it's detected early. The prosta
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George Lopez Finds a Perfect Match
"I'll give you one of mine," Ann Lopez said to her husband the moment the couple learned he would need a kidney transplant. He thought she was joking. But George Lopez, star of ABC's The George Lopez Show, is the comic, not his wife. And so, just before sunrise on a Tuesday in April of 2005, the Lop
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Virtual Sex
I was having sex with a Dutch girl when my wife walked in. “What do you think about this?” I asked. “Um,” she said. “It’s a little weird.” The Dutch girl wasn’t real. Well, not really real? She was an avatar in Second Life, the online, 3D, digital world developed by San Francisco company Linden Labs
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Prescriptions for Sexual Frustration
Forget the penis for a moment, and the vagina and clitoris, too. Even when the genitals are working the way they're supposed to, with or without medical help, sexual satisfaction can still be difficult to achieve. Sexual dysfunction often takes center stage when we talk about sexual problems, but it
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Going Bald: It’s All in Your Head
Sitting in high school biology, listening to the teacher drone on about genetics, I snapped to attention when she used male pattern baldness as an example of a dominant trait. My heart started pounding with fear - with bald men on both sides of my mother's family as far as the eye could see, I was d
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Great Sex Unzipped
Was it good for you? If you’re like a lot of men, chances are it wasn’t. At least, the sex wasn’t as good as you think it could have been. You were addled with anxiety, plagued by concerns over your performance, worried about the worthiness of your physique during lovemaking. Even if the act achieve
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Surviving Infidelity Is Hard to Do
How can you tell if a guy's wife has cheated on him? Well, it depends on the guy, of course, but I do recall my wife and I having dinner with a couple she knew better than I, and thinking that the husband was being awfully rude to the mother of his children. "What was that about?" I asked my wife la
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Male Infertility Treatments
Infertility has traditionally been thought of as a woman's problem. But as it turns out, we men don't get off that easily. About one out of every three cases of infertility is due to the man alone, and we're somehow involved in infertility about half the time. A diagnosis of male infertility can be
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Is Pornography Addictive?
In November 2004, a panel of experts testified before a Senate subcommittee that a product which millions of Americans consume is dangerously addictive. They were talking about pornography. The effects of porn on the brain were called "toxic" and compared to cocaine. One psychologist claimed "prolon
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It's a Mad World
There's the waitress who refuses to look in your direction. The oaf who drifts across the highway without using his blinker. And the cheerful, recorded voice that draws you deeper and deeper into voice-mail hell. The most minor annoyance can send us into a fury. But have you ever stopped to think wh
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