The condition means having too much iron in the blood.
It is estimated that one in five Irish people carry this gene and one in 86 will go on to develop haemochromatosis.
It is associated with both men and women aged more than 40.
Its symptoms include excessive tiredness, male impotence, liver enlargement, arthritis in the hand and […]
Experts are calling for cigarette packets to carry a warning that smoking can cause blindness.
The move comes as new evidence suggests smoking - and passive smoking - can cause erectile dysfunction medicine
macular cause impotence smoking - the UK’s leading cause of blindness.
The, as yet, unpublished European Eye Study of 5,000 AMD patients in the […]
Many men diagnosed with low-grade prostate cancer do not benefit from radical treatment, research suggests.
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calculated that, even without treatment, only about 1% of men aged 55-59 with diagnosed low-grade disease would die within 15 years.
Side effects of radical treatment such as surgery and radiotherapy can include psychological erectile dysfunction
and impotence.
The […]
The public are being asked to choose a series of picture warnings to appear on cigarette packets from next year.
People can give their opinion on a range of images designed to highlight the dangers of smoking on a website set up by the Department of Health.
Evidence shows that images have a greater impact than written […]
British men are suffering high rates of stress and depression due to overwork, a survey suggests.
More than one in three men turn to alcohol to try and switch off from work and 17% have been to see a doctor about their stress levels.
Experts said men were making themselves ill by not facing up to problems […]
Top European pharmaceutical firms are using unscrupulous marketing practices to promote their products, a consumer report says.
The Consumers Erectile dysfunction treatment
lobby group accused drugmakers of using the methods to get doctors to prescribe products and persuade consumers they need them.
It said there was a “shocking” lack of publicity about where the $60bn (33bn) annual […]
The bodies of two young stepsisters who disappeared in the eastern city of Liege three weeks ago have been found, Belgian police have confirmed.
Chief prosecutor Cedric Visart de Bocarme said Stacy Lemmens, seven, and Nathalie Mahy, 10, were murdered.
The girls disappeared during a street party. Their bodies were found 400 metres from where they were […]
On clear summer days, when the sun burns fiercely, what seems like half of Montevideo’s population migrates to the Ramblas, the waterside promenades that edge the peninsula city.
Matrons walking their dogs politely make way for joggers both young and old.
Children hurtle by on roller skates and bicycles.
And courting couples sit looking out over the calm […]
Pictorial health warnings on cigarette packets are more likely to encourage smokers to quit, a Canadian study says.
The University of Waterloo-led research also found large and regularly updated text warnings were more likely to be noticed then smaller ones.
Activity education health
s looked at different approaches taken in four countries - Canada, the US, the UK […]
The anti-impotence drug Viagra will be available on the High Street without a prescription from 14 February.
Boots the chemist is introducing a trial scheme at three of its branches in Impotence in male.
Men aged between 30 and 65 will be able to buy four pills for 50 after a consultation with the pharmacist.
But Dr Jeff […]