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Tall, masculine men aged around 35 years old perceived to be most dominant
• Gender: Male • Aug 19 15
The study, by scientists at the University of St Andrews, shows that simple increases in a man’s height and age automatically makes them appear…
Fatherhood makes men fat
• Gender: Male • • Obesity • Jul 21 15
All those leftover pizza crusts you snatch from your kids’ plates add up. Men gain weight after they become fathers for the first time…
More women are reaching 100 but centenarian men are healthier
• Gender: Female • • Gender: Male • • Aging and Gerontology • Jun 22 15
New research conducted by a team at King’s College London has found an increasing trend in the number of people in the UK reaching…
Only about half of men can remember their last medical check-up
• Gender: Male • Jun 08 15
A new national survey about men and their cars, commissioned by Orlando Health, found that more than 80 percent of men could remember the…
Study: Include men in osteoporosis screening guidelines
• Gender: Female • • Gender: Male • May 20 15
Most people associate osteoporosis with women. But the truth is, one in four men over the age of 50 will break a bone…
Men far less likely to prevent, screen for osteoporosis
• Gender: Female • • Gender: Male • May 15 15
While the consequences of osteoporosis are worse in men than women - including death - older males are far less likely to take preventive…
Exercise linked to improved erectile and sexual function in men
• Gender: Male • • Physical activity -exercise • • Sexual Health • Mar 23 15
Men who exercise more have better erectile and sexual function, regardless of race, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Sexual…
Men’s preference for certain body types has evolutionary roots
• Gender: Female • • Gender: Male • Mar 19 15
A psychology study from The University of Texas at Austin sheds new light on today’s standards of beauty, attributing modern men’s preferences for women…
Men’s heart disease risk linked to high testosterone and low estrogen
• Gender: Male • • Heart • • Sexual Health • Mar 09 15
Why men have more heart disease than premenopausal women has been unclear, but a new study shows that the sex hormones testosterone and estrogen…
Decreased sexual activity, desire may lead to decline in serum testosterone in older men
• Gender: Male • • Sexual Health • Mar 09 15
In older men, decreased sexual activity and desire, not erectile dysfunction, may cause serum testosterone to decline, a new study from Australia finds. The…
Letrozole is a promising new treatment of male infertility, researcher says
• Drug Abuse • • Gender: Male • • Sexual Health • Mar 06 15
A letrozole pill once a week restored fertility in obese, infertile men and led to their partners giving birth to two full-term, healthy babies,…
She thinks friends, he thinks sex
• Gender: Female • • Gender: Male • • Sexual Health • Jan 29 15
Imagine the following scenario: a woman and a man are having a conversation. She is interested in the conversation, and is friendly, smiling and…
Men’s diets are related to local offerings, unlike women’s
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • • Gender: Male • Jan 06 15
Canadian men’s eating habits are associated with the availability of healthy food sources in their residential neighbourhood but women’s are not, according to researchers…
Pain tolerance levels between men and women are similar
• Gender: Female • • Gender: Male • • Pain • Sep 10 14
Resilience, a person’s ability to overcome adverse circumstances, is the main quality associated with pain tolerance among patients and their adjustment to chronic pain.…
A husband’s declining health could put Taiwanese women at risk for health issues
• Gender: Female • • Gender: Male • Aug 14 14
The death of a spouse undoubtedly brings with it stress, anxiety and uncertainty. Now, a report by Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public…
Do women and men ride differently?
• Gender: Female • • Gender: Male • Aug 08 14
Scientists at the Vetmeduni in Vienna have analysed how horses are affected by the sex of their riders. Various parameters of stress were…
Men’s hot flashes: Hypnotic relaxation may ease the discomfort men don’t talk about
• Gender: Male • Jul 11 14
Men who experience hot flashes are unlikely to talk much about it, but they may find relief from their silent suffering if they are…
Male infertility: It’s all about the package
• Gender: Male • • Sexual Health • May 13 14
Infertility is generally thought of as a woman’s problem. In fact, more than 3 million men across America also experience it. Today, researchers from…
Study Shows Promise of Preserving Fertility in Boys with Cancer
• Cancer • • Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Male • Mar 27 14
Scientists have moved a step closer to being able to preserve fertility in young boys who undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatments for cancer. The…
The secret of fertile sperm
• Gender: Male • • Sexual Health • Feb 19 14
To better understand the causes of male infertility, a team of Bay Area researchers is exploring the factors, both physiological and biochemical, that differentiate…
In men, high testosterone can mean weakened immune response, Stanford study finds
• Gender: Male • • Immunology • Dec 24 13
Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have linked high testosterone levels in men to a poor immune response to an influenza vaccine.
…Health spending is more efficient for men than for women
• Gender: Female • • Gender: Male • Dec 12 13
Health care spending is a large – and ever increasing - portion of government budgets. Improving its efficiency has therefore become critically important. In…
Many men with sudden cardiac arrest had early warnings
• Gender: Male • • Heart • Nov 24 13
Cardiac arrest symptoms: chest pain, shortness of breath, dizziness, faintness or heart palpitations.
Many sudden cardiac arrests leave a calling card in advance.
Excessive testosterone raises mortality risk in older men
• Gender: Male • • Mortality and Morbidity • Nov 20 13
Older men whose testosterone levels were neither low nor high tended to live longer, according to new research accepted for publication in The Endocrine…
New study explains why men’s noses are bigger than women’s
• Ear / Nose / Throat • • Gender: Male • Nov 18 13
Human noses come in all shapes and sizes. But one feature seems to hold true: Men’s noses are bigger than women’s.