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This Giving Tuesday: Be the Change Men’s Health Needs

November 26, 2025October 27, 2025MHN EditorAdvocacy, Boys, Disparities, Economics, Editorials, Education, Family, Family Issues, Fatherhood, Growing Up, Health, Legislative, Lifestyle, New Again, Policy, Public Policy, RegulatoryLeave a comment

Giving Tuesday is next week, and Men’s Health Network (MHN) is calling on supporters to help close the Lifespan Gender Gap and build empathy for men’s health. This year, MHN expanded outreach across communities, churches, and schools, relaunched the Congressional Men’s Health Caucus, and supported bipartisan resolutions like H.R. 1300 (PSA Screening for HIM Act) and H.R. 675 (Prostate Cancer Awareness Month), advancing prevention and early detection nationwide. From toolkits that reached thousands to Ambassadors leading local events, MHN continues reaching men where they live, work, play, and pray. Your support powers awareness, education, and advocacy that saves lives.Continue reading

Barriers to Men Seeking Preventive Care: Improving the Health & Wellness of Men & Boys!

February 26, 2025February 18, 2025MHN EditorBoys, Family Issues, Health, Health, Lifestyle, Sex, STDsLeave a comment

In an effort to catch women's health up, there has been an overcompensation of preventative resources dedicated to women resulting in an eventual gap in men’s preventative services (Baker, 2021). With more and more preventative ads as well as interventions targeting non-men, many men are being left behind and ignored. The combination of men interacting with preventive services less and preventive services not focusing on men, an exponential effect of preventive care being underutilized takes place.Continue reading

The Lancet Commission on The Future of Prostate Cancer

April 30, 2024April 29, 2024JenniferTAdvocacy, Anxiety, Boys, Disparities, Economics, Education, Education, Fatherhood, Health, Health, Lifestyle, Masculinity, Mental Health, Policy, Public Policy, Regulatory, Testicular4 Comments

The Lancet Commission on The Future of Prostate Cancer The Lancet Commission is an independent medical journal that, since its inception in 1823, has sought to disseminate scientific information and analysis on a broader scale in the pursuit of a healthier international community. At the beginning of April, 2024, the commission produced and published...

How Sperm May Be Related to Autism Diagnoses

July 13, 2021July 13, 2021Dr. Paul Turek, Medical ContributorFamily, Lifestyle, Masculinity, SexLeave a comment

You see the headlines, “Autism increased tenfold,” “Autism 1 in 2 by 2025,” and you wonder if it’s really true and why. Well, the fact is that autism rates are increasing among children. In the 1970s, autism spectrum disorder was reported in 1 in 5,000 children. In 2009, it was 1 in 110. Currently, about 1...

Autism rates continue to rise, but the reasons why aren’t clear

March 17, 2021March 17, 2021Robin MatherBoys, Family, Health, Health, Mental HealthLeave a comment

Autism affects more than 3.5 million Americans, with boys four times more likely than girls to be afflicted, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says. Autism increased in children in the United States by 119 percent from 2000, when the rate was one child in 150, to 2010, when the rate was one...

Getting your COVID-19 vaccine is smart and good for public health. Do it.

March 12, 2021March 12, 2021Brandon RossDisparities, Economics, Editorials, Education, Health, LifestyleLeave a comment

This past year has brought so much uncertainty and hardship to so many people throughout the world due the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as of Wednesday, March 10, 2021, there have been roughly 29 million cases and just over 526,000 deaths in the United States of...

How to choose the best treatment if you have prostate cancer

March 8, 2021March 8, 2021Robin MatherHealth, ProstateLeave a comment

A Vanderbilt University study is helping men make more informed decisions about how to treat their prostate cancer. The study provides evidence about side effects of each of three methods to treat prostate cancer. Prostate cancer affects three million men in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracks prostate cancer...Continue reading

Can Schools Help Fill the Void Fatherless Boys and Girls Experience? ABSOLUTELY!

May 2, 2018April 17, 2018Terry BrennanEducation, Family Issues, FatherhoodOne Comment

Male primary school teachers have become an endangered species. While pre-school and kindergarten gender disparities are worst, where women comprise 97.7 percent of teachers, elementary and middle schools aren’t significantly different. Between 1987 and 2012, the percentage of male teachers declined in every measured period, falling to 23.7% of all teachers. The future gender uniformity was exhibited in a...Continue reading

Wanted: More Male Teachers. Lots More.

August 31, 2017August 15, 2017Armin BrottHealthLeave a comment

Dear Mr. Dad: My twins (one boy, one girl), are starting fourth grade in the fall and we just found out that their teacher is a woman. That isn’t a problem, of course, but when my wife and I started talking about this, we realized that the twins have never had a male teacher, and...Continue reading

The Young American Male: A Shameful Chronology of Neglect

August 23, 2017September 15, 2017Mark Sherman, Ph.D.EducationLeave a comment

A Colleague Learns a Decades-Long Truth: Academics Barely Care about Young Men I was saddened but not surprised to read of my esteemed colleague Glenn Geher’s recent experience at our college (where I am an emeritus). At a meeting of administrators to discuss a panel of “highly successful female alumni,” where faculty were urged to encourage their...Continue reading