Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:56 PM EDT
In case you had any doubts — and how could you after all those football-through-the-tire, middle-aged-men-channeling-Elvis, kitchens-turning-into-rainforests commercials — men value their erections.
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Fri Oct 7, 2011 5:45 PM EDT
When it comes to your prostate, is it really better not to know?
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Wed Oct 5, 2011 1:08 PM EDT
Scientists for the first time have derived thriving colonies of embryonic stem cells from human embryos created using cloning technology.
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Tue Oct 4, 2011 1:53 PM EDT
A huge spike in the number of head and neck cancers linked to HPV over nearly two decades is raising alarms about the risk of the sexually contracted infections in a whole new population: men.
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Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:36 AM EDT
As any woman who lives with a man can tell you, she’d almost rather get the flu herself than have him get it — not out of any tender altruism, but because she knows what a big baby he’ll be.
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Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:04 AM EDT
We’ve all seen a few people, like maybe grandpa or grandma, with those little patches of yellowish plaques around the upper and lower eyelids. You know the ones, the tiny patches that look something like chicken fat. (Click to see what we're talking about.)As it turns out, if somebody you know has these (and it can occur in younger people, too), you should encourage them to be checked carefully for heart disease. A study published in the most recent British Medical Journal found that these patches, called xanthelasma, were predictors of heart attack, heart disease and death.
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Mon Sep 12, 2011 3:07 PM EDT
Fathers may no longer have the excuse that they aren’t born for child care. Actually, they’re designed for it, according to a new study that finds a significant drop in testosterone levels in new dads, suggesting that men may be wired to nurture.
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Wed Sep 7, 2011 4:32 PM EDT
It sounds like the opening line of a joke: French wife sues her ex-husband over his refusal to, uh, perform during their marriage. But the widely publicized lack-of-passion lawsuit raises the question: How much is marital sex worth?
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Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:14 AM EDT
I recently approached a woman in my local gym, admiring her turn at the weight machines. "Wow, you are really strong," I said. "That's an awesome amount of weight." She looked at me blankly. "What's wrong with it?"
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Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:37 AM EDT
Jim Carrey’s to 22-year-old actress Emma Stone has caused an Internet sensation, mostly because it's assumed that the 49-year-old grandfather is having a very public midlife crisis. The collective verdict of his adoring confession of love to the "Crazy, Stupid, Love" star: Creepy.
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Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:32 AM EDT
As any single person with married friends can testify, their constant patter about how great marriage is for just about everything (Your heart! Your mood! !) can be a little annoying. Research supports those pitying glances they shoot in your direction when you defend your singleness; long-term committed relationships like marriage really are good for your health. But, still.
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Sun Aug 21, 2011 1:22 PM EDT
Who is filling the pews in American churches? It is increasingly likely that they won’t be working class white people, according to new research.
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Mon Aug 15, 2011 11:52 AM EDT
People do stupid things all the time and they do them in all geographic regions, but as any regular viewer of Comedy Central’s "Tosh 2.0" can tell you, there does seem to be an uncanny correlation between certain regions of the country and the kind of risk-taking behavior that could get you seriously hurt or even killed.
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Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:39 PM EDT
The United States has now recorded its first death from a vampire bat bite, according to the .
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Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:12 AM EDT
Psychologist and social scientist Dacher Keltner says the rich really are different, and not in a good way: Their life experience makes them less empathetic, less altruistic, and generally more selfish.
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Tue Aug 9, 2011 9:01 AM EDT
A man needs a little guy-on-guy interaction without his woman interfering if he wants to perform well with her in the sack.
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Thu Jul 28, 2011 1:18 PM EDT
Say it ain’t so, Hef!
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Mon Jul 11, 2011 9:11 AM EDT
For several years, public health officials have been concerned that gonorrhea, one of the most prevalent STDs in the world, to the last widely available antibiotics used to treat it, a class of drugs called cephalosporins.
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Fri Jun 24, 2011 9:08 AM EDT
Should doctors be allowed to give pills to patients they’ve never seen, whose names they don't know, for a disease somebody may or may not have?
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Thu May 26, 2011 6:27 PM EDT
The summer of sluts was kicked off this week when msnbc cable host Ed Schultz, perhaps channeling Dan Aykroyd in his old "Saturday Night Live" debates with Jane Curtin (“Jane, you ignorant slut!”) called conservative radio personality Laura Ingraham a . Schultz apologized, but was suspended from his cable show for a week.
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Thu May 19, 2011 8:27 AM EDT
Arnold Schwarzenegger
(or, more accurately, a lust child) and the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is now sitting in a Rikers Island cell a hotel maid and has admitted to at least one past affair.
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Fri May 13, 2011 8:29 AM EDT
When young women visit the emergency room complaining of symptoms that mirror those of a sexually transmitted disease, many aren't tested for a possible infection — unless the young woman happens to be African-American, that is, provocative new research shows.
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Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:51 AM EDT
It’s the subject no one wants to discuss: sexually transmitted diseases. And even fewer want to have an in-depth conversation with their doctor or nurse about them.
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Tue Mar 1, 2011 3:48 PM EST
The human papillomavirus is a man's issue.
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Fri Jan 7, 2011 9:05 AM EST
The French, of all people, seem to be having troubles in the bedroom.
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