Stemming the Tide of Declining US Life Expectancy: Implications for Drug Pricing Legislation
While it is encouraging that legislators are working to lower health care costs, it’s imperative that the means of achieving these goals also maintains a high quality of care, access to innovative treatments, and protects patients’ relationship with health care providers. Unfortunately, that is not the case of Speaker Pelosi’s drug pricing package known as...CONTINUE READING→
Fail First is the Wrong Prescription for Patients
As policymakers and health care stakeholders consider reforms to address the cost of medications, Men’s Health Network (MHN), the leading health advocacy and education non-profit for advancing the comprehensive health of boys and men in America, urges lawmakers and regulators to reject outright policies that will prevent or constrain patients from accessing effective medications necessary...CONTINUE READING→
What Urination Tells You About Your Prostate
Name the gland in your body that is important for male fertility when you are young but messes up urination as you age. The inimitable prostate. An organ critical for the continuation of the species but a urinary rabble rouser as its owner ages. It’s a Wrap Wrapping itself firmly around the urethra (urine tube)...CONTINUE READING→
Five Symptoms that Men Should Not Ignore
Those organs between your legs work for the most part, right? Maybe there’s some day-to-day variation in how things perform, like having a slower urinary stream in the morning or some trouble keeping things up now and again, but overall things work just fine. And that is how it should be. But there are certain...CONTINUE READING→
How to Save Your Marriage Before It’s Too Late
“I Love You, But I’m Not in Love with You.” What Does It Mean? I’ve been a marriage counselor for fifty years now. I’ve heard these words from both women and men. Whether you’re a man hearing them from your spouse or a woman hearing them from yours, the feeling is devastating. Most of the...CONTINUE READING→
Forget About Whether Bigger Is Better: Is it Even Possible?
You may be convinced that you are not very well endowed in your private parts. Certainly, using the Internet to figure out where you stand on size won’t help you feel any better about yourself. And, you can always find someone who will promise to make you bigger and better in any number of ways....CONTINUE READING→
The 5 Stages of Marriage and How to Accurately Read Your Love Map
We all want real, lasting, love. Yet, too many of us end up getting blown apart by the Divorce Bomb. True, some marriages should never have begun and some should end, but too many good marriages end up on the rocks because we have a faulty love map. Here I will give you some tools to...CONTINUE READING→
The Only Upside of a Broken Back
One man was in a terrifying logging accident. Another dove into a shallow pond as a teenager. A third was the victim of a drive-by shooting. And yet another was in a horrific car crash. Miraculously, after surviving these unreal incidents, they shared the same problem: a spinal cord injury. And they all came to me for...CONTINUE READING→
Biology is No Longer Destiny and You Can Now Vastly Improve Your Health, Sex, and Love Life.
Most of us believe that our genes determine everything from the levels of testosterone we are born with to how long we will live. But the new science of epigenetics shows that we can take back control of our lives and actually change the way our genes work. That’s good news for everyone, but particularly...CONTINUE READING→
IVF and ICSI: Is Less Actually More?
It is the single biggest advance in fertility technology since in vitro fertilization (IVF) was developed 40 years ago. It helps men with even the most severe forms of infertility to father children. It allows human eggs to begin life when they would not have otherwise done so. And it’s used in the vast majority of cases of IVF nowadays....CONTINUE READING→