Israeli Holocaust survivor could be world's oldest man: Guinness
An Israeli Holocaust survivor may be the world's oldest man at 112, Guinness World Records said Thursday, providing he can find the documents to prove it.
View ArticleThailand reports 2nd MERS case in a man from Oman
Thailand has reported its second confirmed case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, detected in a 71-year-old man from Oman who arrived in Bangkok on Friday.
View ArticleMan has distorted vision after inhaling poppers
A 52-year-old man developed distorted vision after inhaling poppers for the first time.
View ArticleHow police witnesses could be misled by a simple wave of the hand
How easy do you think it would be for someone to convince you that you'd seen something that never really happened? What about them doing this without actually saying anything misleading? That would...
View ArticleMERS virus kills Qatari
A 66-year-old Qatari man has died after contracting the MERS virus, in the first fatal case in the Gulf state for 10 months, health officials announced Thursday.
View ArticleReport describes primary clear cell sarcoma of head, neck
(HealthDay)—Three cases of primary clear cell sarcoma of the head and neck have been described in three male patients, according to a review published online June 6 in the Journal of Cutaneous Pathology.
View ArticleMale general practitioners more likely to consider heart disease a 'man's issue'
Male general practitioners (GPs) are more likely to consider heart disease a "man's issue" and neglect to assess cardiovascular risk in female patients, reports a study of 52 GPs and more than 2200...
View ArticleMany men ignore testicular cancer symptoms for months
(HealthDay)—Early detection and treatment of testicular cancer is key to beating the disease, a urology specialist says.
View ArticleOfficials confirm Zika-related death in Utah was a man
Utah health officials say the Zika-infected person who died last week of an undetermined cause was a man.
View ArticleHIV stigma influenced by perceptions of masculinity, study reveals
Whether an HIV-positive man has met cultural expectations of masculinity might impact how much stigma he experiences, according to a new study from Binghamton University, State University of New York.
View ArticleDoctors in India remove 40 knives from man's stomach (Update)
Doctors in northern India have surgically removed 40 knives from the stomach of a man who had swallowed them over the past two months, one of the physicians said Tuesday.
View Article'Bagpipe lung' death prompts warning for wind musicians
Musicians were warned Tuesday to clean their wind instruments regularly after British doctors reported that "bagpipe lung" had killed a man who inhaled fungi growing inside his pipes.
View ArticleSpain screens 200 people after man dies of Congo fever
Health authorities in Spain have begun screening around 200 people after a rare, deadly virus known as Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever killed a man and infected a nurse who treated him, officials said...
View ArticleObese Mexican man removed from home
A Mexican man who weighs about 1,100 pounds (500 kilos) and hadn't left his bed in six years has been removed by medical personnel for treatment.
View ArticleAustralian man bitten by venomous snake twice in 3 days
A man working to clear trees and shrubs in the Australian Outback was bitten by venomous snakes twice in three days.
View ArticleWhy are black men missing from prostate cancer research?
Black men are three times more likely to develop prostate cancer than other demographics, yet black men are consistently underrepresented in research studies, say researchers from King's College London...
View ArticleHong Kong reports second human case of bird flu
Hong Kong on Friday confirmed its second human case of bird flu this season, days after an elderly man died of the virus.
View ArticlePatient infected with HIV despite long-term adherence to PrEP
(HealthDay)—In a letter to the editor published in the Feb. 2 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, authors present the case of a Canadian man infected with HIV despite long-term adherence to...
View ArticlePeople assume sexists are also racist and vice versa
The stigma associated with prejudice against women and people of color seems to transfer from one group to another, according to new findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the...
View ArticleWhy we desire partners who have had relationship experience
Mate copying (sometimes called mate-choice copying) is where an individual is preferred as a future romantic partner simply because they have relationship experience.
View ArticleStroke recovery window may be wider than we think
Stroke survivors may experience delayed recovery of limb function up to decades after injury, according to a new case study. The article, published ahead of print in the Journal of Neurophysiology, was...
View ArticleMan loses feeling in legs after long-term denture fixative use
A 62-year-old man lost the feeling in both his legs after the regular long term use of a denture fixative containing zinc, reveal doctors writing in the online journal BMJ Case Reports.
View ArticleMan develops cyanide poisoning from apricot kernel extract
A 67 year old man developed cyanide poisoning from apricot kernel extract, reveal doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports.
View ArticleMan develops severe liver damage after taking epsom salts
A 38-year-old man developed serious liver damage after taking epsom salts to treat gallstones, reveal doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports.
View ArticleSeychelles reports plague case linked to Madagascar outbreak
Authorities in Seychelles say a man was diagnosed with pneumonic plague after returning from Madagascar, where a plague outbreak has killed dozens of people.
View ArticleThe hidden trauma of male infertility
There has been a lot of alarm in recent years about the declining fertility rates of Western men and the potential problems this may pose.
View ArticleUS man's tattoo leaves doctors with life-or-death dilemma
A Florida hospital faced an unsettling ethical quandary when paramedics brought in an unconscious patient with "Do Not Resuscitate" tattooed across his chest—leaving doctors grappling with whether the...
View Article'Man flu' may be real
The much-debated phenomenon of "man flu" may have some basis in fact, suggests an article published in the Christmas issue of The BMJ.
View ArticleDon't hold your nose and close your mouth when you sneeze, doctors warn
Pinching your nose while clamping your mouth shut to contain a forceful sneeze isn't a good idea, warn doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports.
View ArticleGroup recreates DNA of man who died in 1827 despite having no body to work with
An international team of researchers led by a group with deCODE Genetics, a biopharmaceutical company in Iceland, has partly recreated the DNA of a man who died in 1827, despite having no body to take...
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