Bicycle Seat Design Can Directly Affect A Man's Sexual Function Long suspected by the 5 million recreational bike riders and sexual medicine experts, bicycle seat design-shorter noseless seats versus the standard protruding nose extended seat-can directly affect a man's sexual function, based on the nation's first prospective study of healthy policemen riding bikes on the job. The study is published in the current issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine. Dr.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comUS Pharmacopeia Announces New Standards To Protect Patients From Counterfeit And Adulterated Medicines With counterfeit and adulterated medicines posing an increasing risk to patients in the United States and worldwide, the U.S. Pharmacopeial (USP) Convention today announces new standards for two widely used drug products that have been involved in episodes of adulteration resulting in patient deaths. The release of these standards, for the blood thinner heparin and the sweetener glycerin, comes on the heels of recent and dangerous incidents involving the two products.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMayo Clinic Study Finds Younger Men With Erectile Dysfunction At Double Risk Of Heart Disease Men who experience erectile dysfunction between the ages of 40 and 49 are twice as likely to develop heart disease than men without dysfunction, according to a new Mayo Clinic study. Researchers also found that men with erectile dysfunction have an 80 percent higher risk of heart disease. "The highest risk for coronary heart disease was in younger men," says researcher Jennifer St. Sauver, Ph.D.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comInsulin May Protect Brain Against Alzheimer's Scientists from the US and Brazil have discovered that insulin may slow or prevent the damage and loss of memory of Alzheimer's disease by blocking the action of abnormal proteins that attack brain cells, leading to the suggestion that Alzheimer's may actually be a third type of diabetes caused by weakening of insulin signalling in the brain.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPfizer Drops Application To Switch Viagra 50mg To Non-Prescription Status In Europe Pfizer announced today that it has withdrawn its application to switch the legal status of the 50 mg tablet strength of Viagra from '
prescription only' to 'non-
prescription' in the European Union (EU). Viagra is a well established oral medication for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED) and all current doses of Viagra will continue to be available to patients by
prescription from their doctor.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSurgeons Find Sexual Dysfunction Is Common A Year After Major Trauma Sexual dysfunction is prevalent long after physical injuries from major trauma have been treated and resolved. Nearly a third of patients who had sustained moderate to severe trauma reported some degree of sexual dysfunction, and most characterized the dysfunction as severe, a year after a traumatic event.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMale Sexual Function Comes Back Faster With New Surgical Procedure Developed At CINJ A new robotic surgical technique developed at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) for the removal of all or part of the prostate gland is showing what investigators call a "dramatic improvement" in a male's sexual potency rate. The results were recently presented at the 26th World Congress Endourology meeting in Shanghai, China. CINJ is a Center of Excellence of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and has also developed a Center of Excellence for robotic surgery.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comBill Would Exempt Community Pharmacists From CMS Durable Medical Equipment Accreditation Requirements Reps. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Marion Berry (D-Ark.) recently introduced a bill (HR 616) that would exempt community pharmacists from CMS accreditation requirements to sell durable medical equipment to Medicare beneficiaries, CQ HealthBeat reports.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCHEST 2008: New Pulmonary Hypertension Research Presented #6363 TADALAFIL PROVES EFFECTIVE THERAPY FOR PULMONARY HYPERTENSION New research shows that the erectile dysfunction drug, tadalafil, may be an effective adjunct therapy for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Italian researchers randomized 405 patients with PAH, of whom 53 percent were taking concomitant bosentan, to two study arms. The groups received either tadalafil or placebo orally once daily as monotherapy or as add-on therapy to bosentan.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comFertility Drugs Do Not Increase Ovarian Cancer Risk A large study of infertile women in Denmark concluded that using fertility drugs does not increase a woman's risk of developing ovarian cancer. The study was the work of researchers from the Danish Cancer Society at the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen, and The Juliane Marie Center at Copenhagen University Hospital, and was published online on 5 February in bmj.com.
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