Consumer advertising about drugs to treat testosterone deficiency may be good for pharmaceutical companies, but not so good for men’s health, according to an editorial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). University of California Davis physician Richard Kravitz said in the editorial that an increase in ads and prescriptions for hormone-replacement… Continue reading Low-Testosterone Ads Can Lead to Over-Prescribing
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Low T? No Worries! Therapy Won’t Raise the Risk of Prostate Cancer.
Men with low levels of the male sex hormone testosterone need not fear that testosterone replacement therapy will increase their risk of prostate cancer. This is the finding of an analysis of more than a quarter-million medical records of mostly white men in Sweden. The research was led by investigators at New York University Langone… Continue reading Low T? No Worries! Therapy Won’t Raise the Risk of Prostate Cancer.
Men with “Low T” Have Higher Rates of Depression
Researchers at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., led by Michael S. Irwig, M.D., found that men referred for specialized consultive care for borderline testosterone levels had much higher rates of depression and depressive symptoms than those of the general population. A release from the university quotes Dr. Irwig, associate professor of medicine and… Continue reading Men with “Low T” Have Higher Rates of Depression