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A Queen's University research team has found that a painful pelvic affliction associated with adult men occurs as frequently in adolescent boys.

A prostate cancer drug developed by the biotechnology company Dendreon prolonged the lives of men in a decisive clinical trial, the company said.

The photos you take of your children today could be a predictor of the success and happiness of their marriage in the future. So says new research from Depauw University in Indiana.'Smile intensity predicted whether or not participants divorced at some point in their lives,' noted ... ...

Autism in Film For many years, if you wanted to rent a movie about autism, you had only one choice: Rain Man. Although it never hurts to revisit such a classic, in recent years there has been a virtual explosion of movies featuring autistic characters very different from Rain Man’s savant. [More]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older men who were big during their 20s face an increased risk of suffering from an abnormal heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation.

For the first time ever in the UK, an organisation representing the profession of psychotherapy and counselling is devoting a conference exclusively to the mental health of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and other sexual minorities. The Working with Gender and Sexual Minorities conference comes in the wake of research that one in six therapists still regard homosexuality as a curable affliction.

Study after study point to the connection between oral health and a person's general well-being. However, for thousands of Americans waiting for an organ transplant each year, maintaining good oral health, free of infection, is critical for successful organ transplantation and requires specialized dental care.

The Oral Cancer Foundation today called for the U.S. Senate to grant the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority over tobacco products in response to the tobacco industry's most aggressive marketing campaign targeted at women and girls in over a decade. The U.S. House of Representatives voted to give the FDA such authority approximately two weeks ago.'The percentage of oral cancer patients represented by women has increased tremendously over the past four decades, and we believe the marketing efforts of the tobacco industry is a major causal factor,' said Brian Hill, founder of the Oral Cancer Foundation. 'Before Virginia Slims began aggressively targeting women in the 1960s, roughly one-in-ten oral cancer victims was female. Since then, the ratio has quintupled to one-in-two.' Hill also noted that lung cancer surpassed breast cancer as the number one cancer killer of women in 1987, and that while overall cancer rates are declining for men and women, lung cancer is not decl

Munich - Men can avoid nicks and cuts from their razors by shaving before breakfast, according to a German-language skin care website run by several organizations active in promoting cosmetics and health care. As the stomach starts to digest, the hea...

A study found that children born to women who took the anti-epilepsy drug valproate while pregnant tended to score significantly lower in IQ tests by an average of 6 to 9 points at age 3 than children born to mothers who took other anti-epilepsy drugs. The researchers said the findings support the recommendation that women of childbearing age should not be offered this drug as a first choice.