If there were a medical specialist whose practice focused on the health problems specific to men, would you choose him as your doctor as opposed to, say, an internist? If you’re like most men, probably not. THAT’S BECAUSE you’re more likely to maneuver outside the health-care system entirely, and if you do go to a [...]

Consider the following terms: male menopause, andropause, viropause, the male climacteric and Androgen Deficiency in Aging Men — or as some manage to refer to it with a straight face, ADAM. All of these terms presume to describe the decline in testosterone among middle-aged men. Now, it seems, it’s not enough that Adam blew his [...]

Not that long ago, men rarely had to concern themselves with their doctor’s gender — there were so few female physicians who weren’t pediatricians or psychiatrists that the chances of encountering one were practically nil. Today, more than half of medical school students are women. Is that going to present a problem for some men? [...]