Mens Health Animations

Terrence Higgins Trust Re-Launches Support Group For Gay Men With Hepatitis C And HIV, UK
On Thursday 12 August, Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) will be running another six week course for gay men who are living with HIV and Hepatitis C. The group will meet each week from 6.30 - 9.30pm in central London. The course looks at living with both HIV and Hepatitis C, but the primary focus will be on Hepatitis...

Motivating Men To Seek Cancer Screening
In Germany, several national health campaigns promote cancer screening by announcing that only one in five German men gets screened. This is supposed to motivate men to have an examination...

Male Narcissism - Hostility Toward Heterosexual Women Most Of All
Heterosexual women bear the brunt of narcissistic heterosexual men's hostility, while heterosexual men, gay men and lesbian women provoke a softer reaction, according to psychologist Dr. Scott Keiller from Kent State University at Tuscarawas in the US. This is likely to be due to women's unparalleled potential for gratifying, or frustrating, men's narcissism...

Federal Agents Seize FastSize Extenders And FastSize EQM Erectile Quality Monitors
At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Marshals seized $346,954.43 worth of FastSize Extender devices and FastSize EQM Erectile Quality Monitor devices, as well as component parts used in the manufacture of the FastSize Extender. The FastSize Extender and the FastSize EQM Erectile Quality Monitor are manufactured and distributed by FastSize, LLC of Aliso Viejo, Calif...

Don't Blame The PSA Test For The 'Overtreatment' Of Prostate Cancer
A new report published in the July 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine claims many men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer undergo aggressive therapy, even when they have low PSA scores and low-risk disease, saying "these results underscore the fact that PSA level, the current biomarker, is not a sufficient basis for treatment decisions...

Researchers Identify Risks Of Hypertension In Young Adults
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers reveal in a new, large-scale study that "normal" blood pressure at age 17 can still predict hypertension at early adulthood and that teenage boys are three to four times more likely to develop high blood pressure in early adulthood than girls...

Proposed Lowering Of PSA Threshold For Biopsy Could Result In Increased Overdiagnosis And Overtreatment Of Prostate Cancer, Study
New research from the US suggests that most American men diagnosed with prostate cancer receive aggressive treatment, even if their prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level is below the current recommended 4...

Circumcising Gay Men Would Have Limited Impact On Preventing HIV
Adult circumcision has been proposed as a possible HIV prevention strategy for gay men, but a new study by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health presented at the XVIII International AIDS Conference suggests it would have a very small effect on reducing HIV incidence in the United States...

Most Men In Long-Term Study Of HIV Report Low Use Of Illicit Drugs
Most older gay and bisexual men enrolled in a long-term study of HIV used recreational drugs infrequently over a 10-year period, report University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health researchers at the XVIII International AIDS Conference...

Childhood Sexual Abuse And Social Shaming Linked To Health Issues Later
Gay and bisexual men enrolled in a long-term study of HIV who reported sexual abuse and social shaming in childhood experience psychosocial health problems later in life that could put them at greater risk for HIV, report University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health researchers at the XVIII International AIDS Conference...

Study Links Consistent Condom Use To Lower HPV Risk Among Men
Men who consistently use condoms during sex are less likely to contract human papillomavirus than those who do not, according to a study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Reuters reports. There are more than 100 strains of HPV, some of which can cause genital warts and lead to cervical cancer in women and anal and penile cancers in men...

Lifelong Doubling In Death Risk For Men Who Are Obese At Age 20 Years
Men who enter adult life obese face a life-long doubling of the risk of dying prematurely, new research has found. In a study presented at the International Congress on Obesity in Stockholm, researchers tracked more than 5,000 military conscripts starting at the age of 20 until up to the age of 80...

How Sexual Agreements Affect HIV Risk, Relationship Satisfaction
A new study examining the relationship dynamics of gay male couples finds that couples make "sexual agreements" -- rules about whether sex with outside partners is allowed -- primarily because they want to strengthen and improve their relationship rather than for protection against HIV...

New Epigenetic Player In Mental Retardation And Facial Birth Defects
A subtle mutation affecting the epigenome - a set of dynamic factors that influence gene activity - may lead to an inherited form of mental retardation that affects boys, find researchers at Children's Hospital Boston. The disorder, which also involves cleft lip or cleft palate, appears to hinge on an enzyme working in a biological pathway that may offer several potential drug targets...

New Research Finds That Obese Men Are Less Good At Tasting Fat And Less Responsive To The Effects Of Fat In The Gut Than Lean Men
Research presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, finds marked differences between obese and lean men in how they respond to the taste of fat...