SATURDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) — A new device that gives doctors a better view during colonoscopies may help them miss fewer suspicious growths during those exams, a new study shows. Colonoscopies are the recommended screening tests for…
SAN DIEGO — Junior Seau, who committed suicide in May, two years after retiring as one of the premier linebackers in NFL history, suffered from the type of chronic brain damage that also has been found in dozens of deceased former players, five brain specialists consulted by the National Institutes …
Daniel Henninger’s “ObamaCare’s Lost Tribe: Doctors” (Wonder Land, July 5) fundamentally misrepresents our perspective as well as key facts about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS). ACA didn’t create PQRS, which …
For mens health erectile dysfunction is one of the most difficult problems. Failures in the sexual life of mens health are more often called impotence. However, this is not quite true. Doctors consider impotence to be in which a man under any circumstances is unable to perform sexual act, which fortunately occurs not too often. But incidentally or occasionally emerging problems with erection should be called erectile dysfunction. Erectile dysfunction in mens health may be caused by several kinds of reasons – endocrine, medication, local, neurological and cardiovascular. All this belongs to an organic form of erectile dysfunction, when it is due to some change or disorder in the body. A psychological form of the erectile dysfunction is met much more often, when the normal sexual life is interfered only neuropsychiatric features of a man. In addition, almost always there is added a psychological component to problems with erectile dysfunction, caused by organic causes, which may surface after removing the root causes. Endocrine causes of erectile dysfunction. Endocrine causes of erectile dysfunction in mens health include primarily hypogonadism – a lack of function of sexual glands and low generation of the male hormone testosterone. Besides problems with erection in this state a man notices that his voice becomes high pitched, stopping of hair growth on face and body, the deposition of fat in the chest, thighs, buttocks. As a rule uch changes occur at severe disorders of the hormonal system of the human body, and in these cases there is always a need in an endocrinologist’s help. Fortunately, these diseases are relatively rare. Another endocrinological cause of erectile problems in mens health may be a pituitary tumor, one of the most important glands of a human body, which is located in the brain. If such a umor secretes a hormone called prolactin, no other changes in the body, except persistent erectile dysfunction, will not be observed. In this case for diagnostics it is necessary not only to examine he hormonal status of a man, but also perform a CT scan of the brain. To be continued…
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The FDA warns patients taking the atrial fibrillation drug Multaq (dronedarone) to call their doctors. Multaq doubled deaths and strokes in a study of patients with permanent atrial fibrillation.
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FDA Warning on Atrial Fibrillation Drug Multaq
- April 7 – The following statement was released today by the national board of Physicians for a National Health Program. Health reform legislation initiated by Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin was recently passed by that state’s House of Representatives …
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