Category: Medical Issues for Men (Page 29 of 38)

      Lobbying’s long arm

      March 10, 2009 /

      The First Amendment guarantees a right “to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” From the country’s earliest days, Americans have exercised this right, whether a citizen writes a letter about a bill or a business owner hires an agent to present his or her views.

      Almost from the beginning, too, lobbying — because it often took place over a sumptuous dinner or in a well-appointed bar — raised suspicions that the petitioner had somehow gained an unfair advantage with the lawmaker.

      As government has increased in size and scope, lobbying has grown accordingly. Corporations, unions, and interest groups of every stripe send their own lobbyists to Washington and state capitals, or they hire lobbying firms to advocate for their positions.

      Big Spenders

      A decade of lobbying dollars, by industry, 1998 to 2008:

      1. Pharmaceuticals/Health Products – $1.5 billion
      2. Insurance – $1.1 billion
      3. Electric Utilities – $1 billion
      4. Computers/Internet – $820 million
      5. Business Associations – $745 million
      6. Education – $727 million (excludes money from teachers’ unions)
      7. Real Estate – $696 million
      8. Oil and Gas – $687 million
      9. Hospitals/Nursing Homes – $649 million
      10. Miscellaneous Manufacturing and Distributing – $613 million

      (Mercola.com Newsletter 1/15/09)

      Is it really a mystery why insurance and pharmaceuticals cost so much. Our government has been bought.

      Medical Issues for Men, Men's Health and Wellness

      Treating Injuries with Blood?

      March 9, 2009 /

      Platelet rich plasma therapy (PRP) involves injecting platelets, which release proteins and other partices involved in your own body?s self healing process, near the injured area. According to the New York Times online, Hines Ward and Troy Polamalu used their own blood in this innovative treatment before winning the Super Bowl. Other professional and recreational athletes have used PRP as well.

      Dr. Mishra said that he was particularly encouraged by PRP therapy?s effectiveness on chronic elbow tendinitis, or tennis elbow. For a 2006 study published by The American Journal of Sports Medicine, he used the treatment on 15 of 20 patients who were considering surgery; the five others received only anesthetic. Two months later, the patients receiving PRP therapy noted a 60 percent improvement in pain measurements, compared with 16 percent for the control group.

      ?It?s a better option for problems that don?t have a great solution ? it?s nonsurgical and uses the body?s own cells to help it heal,? said Dr. Allan Mishra, an assistant professor of orthopedics at Stanford University Medical Center and one of the primary researchers in the field. ?I think it?s fair to say that platelet-rich plasma has the potential to revolutionize not just sports medicine but all of orthopedics. It needs a lot more study, but we are obligated to pursue this.?

      Dr. Neal ElAttrache, the Los Angeles Dodgers? team physician, used platelet-rich plasma therapy in July on a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament in the throwing elbow of pitcher Takashi Saito. Surgery would have ended Mr. Saito?s season and shelved him for about 10 to 14 months; he instead returned to pitch in the September pennant race without pain.

      Medical Issues for Men, Sports Health and Fitness

      Penis size, does it really matter?

      February 22, 2009 /

      Concerned whether you measure up? Most guys are and many experts say seeing these super-sized guys in porn and how the women react to them has a lot to do with it. The vast majority of men are not as endowed as our monster dong brothers doing porn movies. So how do we know what the average size of a man?s wedding tackle is? And who and how is it measured?

      Believe it or not, obtaining accurate schlong measurements is no easy matter according to researchers. But, if there is anybody who needs to be accurate about penis size, it?s condom companies. ?It?s absolutely important that we have the best information to make the best fitting condom,? said Carol Carrozza, Lifestyle Condom Company vise president of marketing. Company representatives said they performed the largest and most accurate measure of penis size ever.

      Read the rest @abcnews.go.com

      Sexual Health

      Baggy eye lids

      February 15, 2009 /

      Numerous theories have been proposed seeking to explain what causes the baggy lower eyelids that come with aging. Now, researchers from UCLA have determined that fat expansion in the eye socket is the primary culprit.

      The study is the first to examine the anatomy of multiple subjects to determine what happens to the lower eyelid with age. It is also the first face-aging study that uses high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

      The study looked at MRIs of 40 subjects (17 males and 23 females) between the ages of 12 and 80. The findings showed that the lower eyelid tissue increased with age, and that the largest contributor to this size increase was fat increase.

      A common treatment performed is eyelid surgery, or blepharoplasty. This treatment repairs droopy eyelids by surgical excision of excess fat in the eye socket. Blepharoplasty is usually done on an outpatient basis. Currently many plastic surgeons performing blepharoplasty do not remove any fat. They reposition the fat or conduct a more invasive tightening of the muscle that surrounds the eye or tighten the actual ligament that holds the eyeball in place. Surgeons perform these more invasive procedures despite the fact there is no data showing these structures change with age.

      If surgery is an option for you, choose your doctor wisely.

      (eurekalert.org)

      Anti-Aging, Medical Issues for Men

      Men who drink have better sex!

      February 5, 2009 /

      Rather than damaging a man?s sexual performance, a good, stiff drink actually improves a man?s sexual prowess in the bedroom. Australian researchers found that men who drink report as many as 30 percent fewer problems than those who didn?t drink at all.

      Dr. Kew-Kim Chew, of Western Australia?s Keogh Institute for Medical Research told London?s Sunday Telegraph that men who drank within safe, moderate guidelines seemed to have the best erectile function. In Chew?s study of 1,580 Australian men, even binge drinkers functioned better sexually than those who never drank.

      ?We found that, compared to those who have never touched alcohol, many people do benefit from some alcohol, including some people who drink outside the guidelines,? Chew said.

      The study found that low risk drinkers – those who consumed up to twenty drinks a week spread over five days – had the fewest sexual problems. Those who drank on weekends only and those who were binge drinkers suffered lower rates of erectile dysfunction than those who drank only one day a week or drank none at all. Men who performed the poorest were heavy drinkers who had stopped drinking and those who smoked or had heart disease.

      Newsmax.com HealthAlert Feb.3,2009

      Men's Health and Wellness, Sexual Health

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