Posted on July - 18 - 2011
Barely a month goes by without another male celebrity admitting to a hair transplant.
Earlier in the year, TV chef Gordon Ramsay was photographed leaving a Los Angeles clinic sporting the telltale surgical cap. Manchester United soccer ace Wayne Rooney unveiled his replenished head on Twitter last month, telling fans that it was “still a bit bloody.”
This celebrity endorsement reflects a growing trend, with more than an estimated 226,000 men worldwide now getting surgical help to improve their crowning glory every year, and new hair-loss clinics sprouting at an alarming rate. Even
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Posted on July - 18 - 2011
As many as one in every four men has a gene mutation that makes it harder for their sperm to reach female eggs, researchers at the University of California, Davis found in a study released today.
Published in the July issue of the journal Science Translational Medicine, the UC Davis research sheds light on one potential cause of male infertility. Researchers emphasized that many other factors -including sperm quantity, vigor and shape – also play a role.
But about 20 percent of male infertility cases now have no identifiable cause. The newly discovered mutation could account for a majority of those, said Charles Bevins, one of the senior authors of the paper and a professor at the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology.
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Posted on July - 17 - 2011
Are you a man under lots of stress? Are you hiding the fear of losing your job? Or, are you under a lot of pressure because you’re comparing yourself to your successful friends?
Chances are, you aren’t telling anyone about the pressure or pain.
Men are taught to silence their feelings, swallow pain, and hold the pressure inside. The truth is, however, that emotions will ooze out of you in some manner. In fact, your emotions may come gushing out.
Consider a friend of ours we’ll call Jack. Jack just lost his job.
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Posted on July - 17 - 2011
“Manly” hands might signal an increased risk of suffering a knee injury, if one study is correct.
The study, which targeted more than 1,000 middle-aged and older U.S. adults and was published in Arthritis & Rheumatism, found a higher risk of knee injuries among men with a bigger discrepancy in the lengths of their index and ring fingers.
In general, men tend to have relatively short index fingers and longer ring fingers, while women show more equality in those two digits. A greater difference between the two fingers, whether in a man or a woman, is thought to reflect greater exposure to testosterone in the womb.
Ida Haugen of Diakonhjemmet Hospital in Oslo, Norway, and her team analyzed data on 1,020 U.S.
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