Archives: 2009 March
MEDICATION FOR BPH
From a medical standpoint, most of the drugs used to treat BPH are still very new. There have been no long-term studies of how well they work, and how they compare to surgical treatments for BPH. When a patient with BPH really needs treatment, surgery is still the option most urologists prefer, for several reasons. [...]
WHEN BPH NEEDS TO BE TREATED
Acute Urinary Retention, the Inability to Urinate. Don’t wait on this one; the consequences of not urinating can be grave, and may lead ultimately to kidney failure. Acute urinary retention may be caused by a range of conditions, including acute prostatitis, prostate cancer, an over-distended bladder, and even some medications—most commonly, cold remedies that contract [...]
PROSTATE CANCER/PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE: SHOULD YOU BE IN A STUDY
Clearly, this depends on the study and the medical institution that’s taking part in it. One potential downside to participating in any study of a new drug or procedure is that the treatment you receive may be ineffective, or not as effective as treatment that’s already available—particularly if it’s a double-blind study and you get [...]
THERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS TO TREAT A CANCER: CELL BIRTH AND CELL DEATH
There are several ways to treat a cancer. “One,” explains a Johns Hopkins cancer researcher, “is to slow down or prevent the growth. Essentially, the cancer is producing problems because it’s continually growing.” In cancer, cells simply can’t stop dividing—new cells are continually churned out, eventually overrunning other tissue as they fill up their initial [...]
RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY: RECOVERY OF SEXUAL FUNCTION
Recovery of sexual function is related to the age of the patient, and to surgical technique. Ninety percent of men younger than 50 remain potent after surgery; -5 percent of men in their fifties; 60 percent of men in their sixties, and 2s percent of men in their seventies remain potent. There are two tiny [...]
ABORTION: METHODS
Usually a general anaesthetic is given but local anaesthesia is sometimes used. In most cases the vacuum aspiration method is used, by which the embryo is sucked out. The canal through the cervix does not have to be stretched very much during this technique, unlike older methods in which the canal was opened wider so [...]
SEXUAL PROBLEMS IN WOMEN: ORGASM PROBLEMS
Any woman who cannot masturbate freely and enjoyably proves that, for one reason or another, she is unable fully to accept her genitals, her sexuality and her right to have pleasure. Sex for her is something a man does to her. Some such women claim that they have never ever been at all sexual. They [...]
FOREPLAY (PLEASURING): THINGS THAT MEN LIKE
Women are luckier than men in that the whole of their bodies are highly erotic, especially as they get aroused. A man’s erotic areas are fewer in number and his most erotic zones by far are his genitals. Many women can and do have orgasms by having their feet, ear lobes, ankles, anus and many [...]
A WOMAN’S GENITALS: LABIA MAJORA, LABIA MINORA AND PUBIC HAIR
The pubic hair covers all the vulva (the outer part of the sex organs) and forms a fairly neat triangle with its base just above the pubic bone. The extent of the spread of the hair is very variable and some women’s hair grows on to the tops of their legs and even up the [...]
TYPES OF MARRIAGE LIFE-STYLE: THE BOAR D-OF-DIRECTORS MARRIAGE
When two people live together for a long period, married or not and even if they are of the same sex, they need to work out some kind of structure which will enable them to function as a unit. Many marriage ‘experts’ have classified such relationships within marriage in great detail but because of shortage [...]
