Prostate Restored
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Your personal health risk factors include your age, sex, family health history, lifestyle, and more. Some risks factors can't be changed, such as your genes or ethnicity. Others are within your control, like your diet, physical activity, and whether you wear a seatbelt.
There are five main aspects of personal health: physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual.
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How high can PSA levels go with prostatitis? PSA levels can vary by age and individual. As mentioned before, there is no “standard range” for PSA...
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How high can PSA levels go with prostatitis? PSA levels can vary by age and individual. As mentioned before, there is no “standard range” for PSA...
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Treatment intravenous antibiotics for severe infections. muscle relaxants to relieve spasm of the pelvic muscles. non-steroidal anti-inflammatory...
Read More »Talking about health risks can seem intimidating. Even doctors sometimes have trouble with risk concepts. That’s why NIH supports research to improve how medical staff and others communicate health risks and prevention strategies to patients and the public. “Math in general is hard for a lot of people. Yet math is often hidden in everyday activities that affect our health,” says Dr. Russell Rothman, a physician and scientist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Rothman’s research focuses on helping people understand and work with numbers, so they can reduce their risks for diabetes and excess weight, including childhood obesity. Studies show that the way we hear and understand health statistics can be influenced by how the numbers are described, or how they’re “framed.” Different descriptions can affect how clear the information is and also what emotions it stirs. For example, the statement: “More than 20% of Americans will eventually die of cancer” might sound less scary from a different perspective: “Nearly 80% of Americans will not die of cancer.” The same information might seem clearer described as a ratio: “More than 1 in 5 Americans will eventually die of cancer.” Research shows that pictures or diagrams are often the most understandable—for instance, showing 5 human figures with 1 in a different color. To understand the potential risks or benefits of a medical treatment or behavior change, it helps to focus on a math concept called “absolute risk.” Absolute risk is the chance of something happening, such as a health problem that might arise over a period of time. For example, a disease might affect 2 in 100 middle-aged men over their lifetimes. If a certain drug lowers their risk for the disease to 1 in 100, the drug has reduced their absolute risk by 1 person in 100, or 1%. Another way to think of it is that you’d need to treat 100 people with this medicine to prevent just 1 additional person from getting the disease. Often, however, you might hear numbers that use a related concept called “relative risk.” Relative risk compares the absolute risks of one group to another. In the example above, you could also say that the drug reduced the risk of disease by 50%, since 1 is half of 2. Looking at relative risk alone, you may mistakenly think that the drug is highly effective. “Many times, the relative risk sounds much greater than the absolute risk, which can be confusing,” Rothman explains. When you hear numbers about risk, it’s best to focus on the absolute risk.
If someone is found to have cancer in their lymph nodes, it's usually a bad sign that the cancer has or will soon spread to other parts of the...
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PSA testing The blood test, called a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, measures the level of PSA and may help detect early prostate cancer. If...
Read More »Health risks can be especially hard to grasp when emotions run high, such as when people are faced with a serious illness. One recent NIH-funded study found that people with advanced cancer tended to expect better outcomes and longer survival times from treatment than their doctors did. Most patients didn’t realize that their outlook differed from their doctors. Such misunderstandings might affect whether patients choose to undergo harsh treatments. “Communication is a 2-way street,” says the study’s lead researcher, Dr. Ronald M. Epstein of the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York. “For effective discussions to occur, doctors must provide encouragement and answers. And patients have to ask important questions.” Epstein and colleagues are developing methods to help doctors and patients have realistic discussions about topics such as emotions, treatment choices, and likely outcomes.
You can sleep in any position as long as the bedside bag is below your bladder. Do not place the urine bag on the floor. Dec 3, 2020
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The prostate can regenerate when androgen is restored. A team of researchers led by Dr. Charles Sawyers of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center...
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The recommendation for a healthy person, without weight problems, and who does not base his diet on an excessive consumption of sugars would be to...
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26 April - World Intellectual Property Day This day is celebrated every year on 26 April and was established by the World Intellectual Property...
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