When I was a teenager, my father had a heart attack. He was only 42. The common medical wisdom at the time suggested that he was far too young to be stricken by such a condition. But as it turns out, even very young men — of the same age I was when my dad [...]

NOT LONG AGO, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the heavily vetted publication of the world’s most conservative organization of doctors, published a study of men who had taken an extract of saw palmetto, a plant that grows largely in Florida, every day for six months. Use of the herb, the study of 3,000 [...]

OK, I’m dialing the phone now, because I feel really stressed, and the new research from people who study what you’re supposed to do when you’re bummed say — surprise! — that the female way of doing things is superior. Suppressing my instinct to fight or take flight, I’m going to “tend and befriend” instead. [...]

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? [...]