Men's Health

You’ve probably seen the public service announcements: A man clutching his chest in anguish, a sure sign that he’s experiencing an acute heart attack. And it’s true that, for men, the most concrete sign of a heart attack in progress is the chest tightening and pressure known as “typical angina.”…

$8.5 billion dollars per year: that’s the amount spent each year for hair loss treatment.  That’s a lot of money- and it apparently represents a lot of anguish when it comes to hair loss. So how much bang(s) have these spenders gotten for their hair loss bucks? Not so much,…

If you’ve confronted thinning hair or outright hair loss, you know the feeling: scrambling to find a way to slow the progression, wondering what you could be doing to prevent bald spots or further hairline erosion. It’s estimated that the average person loses 50-100 hairs a day, but if you’ve…

While articles abound regarding women’s health and aging, it’s less common to see guidance for healthy aging in men. However, given sex differences in aging, it’s important that men (and the women who care for them!) understand specific concerns regarding aging in men. For an overview of health tips for…

The biologic differences between men and women are probably obvious to you, but what’s also becoming clear is that men and women age differently. There are disparities in life span, diseases which afflict them, how they respond to different treatments, and even how they gain weight and store fat. There’s…

These days there’s so much advice about what to eat in order to stay healthy that it’s hard to keep it all straight. But here’s one new piece of advice that’s worth remembering: According to a new study out of Harvard, men who consume many daily servings of leafy greens,…