Male sexual health has taken on increased importance as the United States population ages, develops coexisting medical conditions, and undergoes interventions that can affect sexual health.
Male infertility presents a particularly vexing clinical problem. While the patient's semen may seem to be the target for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions and analysis, a positive outcome is in fact manifested by another person, a mother, giving birth to a child.
The true incidence of male urethral stricture disease is unknown, despite the fact that urethral strictures may have great negative impact on patients.
Children in the sixth and seventh grades that are exposed to alcohol advertising at high levels were 50 percent more likely to drink and 36 percent more likely to intend to drink than children whose exposure to alcohol advertising was very low.
Investigates the prospective influence of social influence and social bonding variables on the development of alcohol outcome expectancies among adolescents with and without drinking experience.
Potentially deadly influenza outbreaks in nursing homes are less likely to occur when large numbers of staff and residents get flu shots. Nursing homes were 60 percent less likely to have an outbreak if more than 55 percent of the staff and more than 89 percent of the residents were vaccinated for influenza.