Arquivo de artigos
19-02-2014 10:17
Women in their middle years who regard sexual activity as important are more likely to regularly have sex than women who do not think sexual activity is as important, according to a research letter published online February 10 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Holly N. Thomas, MD, from the Division...
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19-02-2014 10:16
Hard on the heels of the decision of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to evaluate the safety of testosterone therapy, the US Endocrine Society is calling for a fuller assessment of the risks and benefits of testosterone treatment in older men with declining levels of the hormone.
The...
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19-02-2014 10:15
Hello. I am Dr. Gerald Chodak for Medscape. This week I want to talk about the criteria being used to select men for active surveillance for prostate cancer.
Vellekoop and coworkers [1] looked at the results from the National Prostate Cancer Registry in Sweden and found about 4500 men who were...
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19-02-2014 10:11
Resistance training can increase the production of sex steroids in the muscles of older men, a new study shows.
If borne out by further research, the findings could have important implications for a wide range of conditions experienced by many aging individuals and linked to a decline in sex...
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19-02-2014 10:09
BETHESDA, MD – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now officially investigating the potential that FDA-approved testosterone products increase the risk of serious adverse cardiovascular outcomes [1] .
The agency cites two studies, one of which was published just two days ago, both...
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21-11-2013 10:12
NEW ORLEANS — Taking oral contraceptives for more than 3 years doubles a woman's risk for glaucoma, according to a large population-based study.
"This study is the first to document this risk, and it's important for the general population," said lead investigator Ye Elaine Wang, MD, from the...
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11-11-2013 16:24
Long-haul truckers and men working in garden-supply shops might be more likely to have highly aggressive prostate cancer on diagnosis, according to a presentation at the 12th Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, held in National Harbor, Maryland.
Plausible...
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08-11-2013 19:01
Os testes rápidos de diagnóstico da infecção por VIH vão passar a ser feitos nos centros de saúde a partir do segundo semestre deste ano, estando já disponíveis verbas para a aquisição de 40 mil testes.
Segundo disse à agência Lusa o coordenador do Programa Nacional de Prevenção e Controlo da...
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07-11-2013 11:10
Com a descoberta de uma proporção inesperadamente elevada de vírus “escondidos” capazes de se reactivar, perspectiva de se conseguir erradicar o VIH do corpo humano ficou de repente mais longínqua.
A quantidade de VIH “adormecidos” — mas em perfeito estado de funcionamento se forem “acordados” —...
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07-11-2013 11:08
Late diagnosis of HIV remains a serious problem across Europe, results of a large study published in PLOS Medicine show.
The research involved approximately 85,000 people diagnosed with HIV between 2000 and 2011 in 35 European countries. Overall, 54% of patients were diagnosed late and a third...
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