If death doesn’t scare you enough to make radical changes to protect your heart health, how about a fate some guys might consider worse than death: impotence? We’re all too familiar with the grab-your-chest symptoms of heart attack and disease. Less well-known is that the artery supplying blood to the penis is much smaller than [...]

Most people are quite happy with concepts of mother-baby love and have no difficulty accepting such notions. However, love clearly does not stand still – it changes and matures. In the

mother-baby relationship love is both given and received by both parties, to their mutual satisfaction. This clearly has to happen biologically or mothers would not [...]

This is an operation to remove the womb. Once the scars are healed, the operation does nothing to impair intercourse but women say that it alters their orgasmic sensations, which is hardly surprising since the womb contracts during an orgasm. Because of this (amongst other reasons) some surgeons try to keep the cervix and lower [...]

HIV-positive women carrying the virus can infect their unborn baby. The number of women attending ante-natal clinics who are so infected is not known since many refuse to be tested. Sketchy evidence suggests it may be 0.3 per cent in London. If the pregnant woman is well, pregnancy does not seem to hurry progress towards [...]

This is a fungus which infects humans. A woman can get it in her vagina where it causes intense itching, soreness and a thick, curdy, white discarge. A doctor can confirm the diagnosis by taking a swab and examining it under a microscope. In a man, thrush may produce no symptoms or there may be [...]

Is it true that some people use their children as an excuse not to have sex?

Yes, it is and this is especially true of women. Ideally a woman should discuss with her husband why she does not want sex or get help from a professional. Keeping quiet and making the children an excuse is damaging [...]

As its name suggests, the p24 antigen test is designed to detect a specific protein from the surface of the virus: the p24 antigen. Antigens stimulate a person’s immune system to make antibodies, which are also proteins, and help the body to fight off the infection. The p24 antigen test may detect the presence of [...]

Symptoms usually take about four weeks (with a range of fifteen to fifty days) to appear after infection with hepatitis A. Fewer than one in ten children below the age of three develops symptoms, whereas most adults become symptomatic. Symptoms usually start abruptly with muscle aches, headache, fatigue, malaise, loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting. [...]

BV is not really transmitted from one person to another, except possibly in women who have sex with other women. Although it occurs more commonly in women who are sexually active than in women who have never been sexually active, there is no evidence that the causative bacteria are transmitted from men to women. Rather, [...]

Okay, the biopsy is positive, and the diagnosis is prostate cancer. But what does this mean? The next step is to determine the stage—how far the cancer has spread—and the grade—how the cancer cells look, as an estimation of how fast they’re growing.

Setting the Stage for Treatment

There are two different ways to classify prostate cancer: [...]