Men's Health

  • You've got the muscle but have you got the moves?

    12:00AM | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    To compensate for the physical constraints and the lack of movement in modern corporate life, many men go to the gym to exercise

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    12:00AM | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    Suicide risks in cancer patients

  • Extra time: more questions about prostate cancer

    14 August 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    Following last week's Q&A on prostate cancer, questions have been flooding in from readers wanting to know more from the distinguished Patrick Walsh, professor and urologist in chief for 30 years at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

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    14 August 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    Watch it in the pool

  • Experience matters when it comes to your prostate

    07 August 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    When it comes to selecting a surgeon to remove your prostate, the three guiding criteria are experience, experience and experience

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    07 August 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    Sleep disorder action linked to heart

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    31 July 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    Do your duty and live longer

  • Drug breakthrough for prostate cancer treatment

    31 July 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    Great excitement followed the announcement last week about a promising new drug for prostate cancer

  • City psychologist shrinks bush's language barrier

    24 July 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    When Robert Williams practised as a psychologist in the city, he adhered to strict parameters

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    24 July 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    What the eye doesn't seeDermoscopy improves the diagnosis of melanoma over naked-eye examination even among family doctors with minimal training, according to an Australian analysis in the British Journal of Dermatology.

  • Grandfather's gift gives heart to kidney patients

    17 July 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    Jack Klarnet loved travelling to Melbourne to visit his first granddaughter

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    17 July 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    Diabetes types 1 and 2 are different

  • Know when to call a halt and work on getting better

    10 July 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    One Saturday morning late last year, MBF chief executive Eric Dodd was at home in Sydney and feeling reasonably comfortable, when the phone rang

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    10 July 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    Deafness link to diabetes

  • The sleeping giants of operation obesity

    03 July 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    Australia's obesity epidemic is creating an unusual challenge for anaesthetists

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    03 July 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    Sex infections among elderly

  • Calling in the bomb squad a life-and-death decision

    26 June 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    By the time men get into their sixties, many have a small time-bomb ticking away in their abdomen

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    26 June 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    Placebo pill is just kiddingA mother of three has launched a placebo pill for US parents to give to their children when real medicine is not appropriate and when a kiss doesn't make it better.

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    19 June 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    Post-shock trauma syndromeThe effects of an electric shock can remain long after the episode is forgotten

  • Kidneys at stake in heated organ transplant debate

    19 June 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    As body parts are already being traded in some countries, a view is emerging that it may be time to implement a regulated system of compensation for people who want to sell their organs.

  • What surgeons leave inside you

    19 June 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    This is what Andrew Berkes saw when he opened the envelope and looked at the X-ray of his hip

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    12 June 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    Curious colorectal research resultsAn intriguing new study offers some hope to people with a family history of colorectal cancer.

  • Long time coming but national study set to begin

    12 June 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    Australia is about to take a major step to bring men's health into the 21st century as it plans the largest national male study in the world.

  • Study suggests drug may cut prostate cancer risk

    05 June 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    After many dark years, there's a flickering light on the horizon for men and prostate cancer.A hopeful new study has shown it may be possible to cut men's risk of developing prostate cancer by 30 per cent.The drug, which acts on testosterone, is called finasteride and is already in use in Australia for other conditions.It is used under the name of Proscar to treat symptoms of a benignly enlarged prostate and actually shrinks the prostate gland.

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    05 June 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    Diuretics raise bone mass loss

  • A brain tumour's subtle signs

    29 May 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    It's often a shock diagnosis

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    29 May 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    Not hip to be overweight

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    22 May 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    Finally some answers

  • Fat chance of solving this problem with diet alone

    22 May 2008 | Jill Margo | The Australian Financial Review

    Despite our national obsession with obesity, fat is not public health enemy No

  • Gut feeling can be misleading

    22 May 2008 | The Australian Financial Review

    There is one male delusion Garry Egger has witnessed repeatedly.

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