Men's Health

Healthy Diet Improves Male Fertility
by eNotAlone.com
Men who stick to healthier diets including fruits, vegetables and low fat dairy products, significantly improve the semen quality, researchers from Spain have found. 'A healthy, well-balanced diet is not just important for preventing diseases

Men In Average Relationship Are Stressed At Work
by eNotAlone.com
Men who have an average emotional and sexual relationship with their partner at home, experience more stress at work, compared to their counterparts in good or bad relationships, found a new survey conducted by the researchers from Sweden.

Men Gain Weight During Partner's Pregnancy
by eNotAlone.com
A new poll from the United Kingdom suggests that the average father-to-be gains a lot of weight during the pregnancy of his partner, approximately 6.35 kilograms, because they find it harder and harder to resist larger portions of food and treats around

Men Suffer More From Recession Than Women
by eNotAlone.com
Job insecurity makes men more depressed, stressed and anxious than women in the same situation, according to new findings by academics at the University of Cambridge. The scientists said that the fear of losing a job, and in other words, the status

Infertility In Men Poses Risk For Testicular Cancer
by eNotAlone.com
New findings have shown that infertile men are at a triple risk of developing testicular germ cell cancer, compared to the men who do not have this problem. The new study appears to be the first large research in the United States that confirms the fact

Plastic Surgery Numbers On The Rise
by eNotAlone.com
Data from the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) showed a dramatic increase in the number of people undergoing plastic and cosmetic surgeries, compared with previous years.

Cure From Baldness On The Horizon
by eNotAlone.com
Not long ago Chinese scientists, working at the of Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, stated that they have discovered a DNA mechanism that gives birth to a rare form of genetic hair loss which starts before adulthood.

A Curious Kind of Prejudice: The Psychology of Baldness
Hair!: Mankind's Historic Quest to End Baldness
by Gersh Kuntzman
Throughout the centuries, Man (not his real name) has tried everything to hide, treat and repair baldness, as well as a host of nostrums designed to coax hair growth from the scalp (or, at least, money from the wallets of unsuspecting baldies).

Getting Started
The Black Woman's Guide to Black Men's Health
by Andrea King Collier, Willarda V. Edwards, M.D.
Black women have always been the backbone of their families and communities. Now studies are showing what we have always known-that our love, support, and guidance help to improve the health of our black men.

Late in Life Prostate Cancer Screening May Do More Harm
by National Cancer Institute
The test used to screen for prostate cancer, the PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test, is controversial among many physicians. But even advocates of PSA testing do not recommend it for men who might not live long enough to see a benefit from screening.

Prostate Health
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
To screen, or not to screen: that is the question. Whether men should get tested for prostate cancer when they have no symptoms is a long-running debate within the medical community.

Prostate Problems : Symptoms and Treatments
by National Institute on Aging
It's true that prostate problems are very common after age 50. And the older men get, the more likely they are to have such problems. Most prostate problems are not cancer. Still, prostate cancer does affect a lot of men.

Osteoporosis and Men : Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Although the bone-thinning condition called osteoporosis affects mainly women, there are good reasons for men to be concerned, too. More than 10 million Americans have osteoporosis, according to the National Institute on Aging.

Depression in Older Men, Boys and Adolescent Males
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Men must cope with several kinds of stress as they age. If they have been the primary wage earners for their families and have identified heavily with their jobs, they may feel stress upon retirement-loss of an important role, loss of self esteem-that can

The Silent Epidemic Among Black Men
Standing In the Shadows: Understanding and Overcoming Depression in Black Men
by John Head
Suppose black men were suffering through an epidemic. What if the disease struck as many as 20 percent of all African American men during their lives, and what if 15 percent of those with the most severe strain of the illness died?