Category: Men’s Health-Erectile Dysfunction
POSTNATAL DEPRESSION
Family planning doctors find, whether they like it or not, that they are often dealing with deep and difficult emotions. In the same way that much bereavement counselling may go on in family planning consultations, so it is a time when depression may first be noticed. It has been suggested that some degree of depression, [...]
THE STEREOTYPES – ‘MEN NEED TO BE IN CONTROL’ (INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES (IUCDS)-GENERAL INFORAMTION)
Medicine, and in particular contraception, is an intrusive business. In contraceptive work doctors frequentiy pick up echoes of dissatisfaction with a bad experience in the past. Either partner may have been to a genitourinary clinic, which can heighten their fear of infection, and often adds an extra sense of guilt to those who are not [...]
THE WANTED BABY – DO I WANT A BABY? (AWFUL CONTRACEPTION)
A simple question about the type of contraception she was using brought an angry flood of tears and an outpouring of the story of how awful it was, and why she was childless. Although she had married on the understanding that neither of them wanted to have children, underneath she had been sure that if [...]
THE VERY YOUNG (INTRODUCTION)
Very young girls provoke strong reactions in doctors and others, especially if they emphasize their youth by coming to the clinic or surgery in school uniform. They may come on their own, in which case they are usually showing a degree of maturity in taking their own decisions. Often they are brought by someone else, [...]
THE METHOD AND ITS MEANING – INTRODUCTION
The choice of which, if any, form of contraception to use is one of the most intimate decisions a man and woman can make. The title of this book, Contraceptive Care: Meeting Individual Needs, draws attention to the contrast between the needs and perceptions of individual health professionals and the individual needs of those they [...]
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.
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