Thirty five percent of Americans have a normal body weight. And until recently, doctors thought that normal was good enough. But a recent Harvard study discussed in the October issue of the Harvard Men's Health Watch suggests that, as with blood pre...

Symptoms of an enlarged prostate - known medically as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) - can range from a weak, slow urinary stream, to hesitancy and straining to urinate, to an inability to empty the bladder completely, to more serious complicati...

The first study to examine the probability of HIV infection per act of heterosexual sex among a population with multiple sexual partners has found that uncircumcised men have more than twice the risk of acquiring HIV than do circumcised men. In the...

Help may be at hand for irritable, middle-aged men whose memories, muscle mass, bone density and sex lives are declining, says Queen's urologist Dr. Alvaro Morales. But older men experiencing these symptoms - which in combination provide evidence of...

According to results gathered by the Second National Registry of Myocardial Infarction (heart attacks), winter was the top season for heart attacks, followed by fall, then spring, then summer. The December issue of the Harvard Men's Health Watch loo...

Prostate screenings could be 'teachable moment' to encourage colon checks - Colon cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death in men, but according to a new University of Michigan Health System study, fewer than half of men surveyed were up-to...

Second annual report published on National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England - The suicide rate for young men has fallen to its lowest level for almost 20 years, having dropped almost 30 percent from its peak in 1998, according to the second r...