HIV Testing for Men: Why Knowing Your Status Changes Everything
A lot of what men believe about HIV was formed in the 1980s and 1990s and has not been updated since. The picture that comes to mind is a fatal illness, a wasting decline, a…
Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer: When Monitoring Is the Right Treatment
5 September, 2026 active surveillance Dr. Raymond Nash low prostate cancer PSA testing watchful waiting 8:15 am
Being told you have cancer and then being told the plan is to watch it produces a particular kind of unease. It sounds like inaction, or like being placed at the back of a queue.…
Health Anxiety in Men: When Worry About Illness Becomes the Illness
2 September, 2026 Anxiety Disorders Dr. Isaac Klein Dr. Raymond Nash Health Anxiety Obsessive 7:50 am
It might have started with a genuine scare — a colleague’s heart attack, a relative’s diagnosis, an abnormal result that turned out to be nothing. Since then a man finds himself checking. He palpates the…
Understanding Syphilis: Stages, Symptoms, and Why Testing Matters
30 August, 2026 Canada Dr. Raymond Nash Health Loss Medical Men's Health Self Sexual Health sti Symptoms syphilis 2:20 pm
For most of the last several decades syphilis was something Canadian physicians read about rather than diagnosed. That has changed. Rates have climbed substantially across Alberta and elsewhere in the country in recent years, including…
Testicular Torsion: The Emergency That Can’t Wait Until Morning
Testicular torsion is one of very few genuine emergencies in urology, and it is defined by time more than by anything else. The spermatic cord twists, the blood supply to the testicle is cut off,…
Understanding Penile Cancer: A Rare Diagnosis Worth Recognizing
Penile cancer is genuinely rare in Canada, and most men will never encounter it. The difficulty is not how often it occurs but how long it typically takes to reach a physician. The average delay…
Preparing for Urological Surgery: Questions to Ask Before You Consent
The consent conversation often happens at the least useful moment. A man has just been told he needs an operation, he is still absorbing the first half of what was said, and a form appears.…
Hydration, Heat, and Physical Work: Staying Safe on Site
15 August, 2026 dehydration Dr. Raymond Nash heat exhaustion heat stress heat stroke hydration 4:35 pm
A Peace Country summer is short, and the work does not pause for it. Men on rigs, in the trades, on farms and on road crews put in long days in heat that the region…
Semen Analysis Explained: How to Read Your Fertility Results
12 August, 2026 Dr. Raymond Nash male factor infertility Male Fertility semen analysis sperm morphology sperm motility 2:20 pm
Producing a sample for a semen analysis is, for most men, the least dignified part of trying to have a child. Then a report arrives full of terms like motility, morphology and concentration, with some…
Family Health History: What to Ask Your Father and Why It Matters
6 August, 2026 age at diagnosis Dr. Raymond Nash family health history Men's Health prostate cancer PSA screening 9:40 am
Most men can describe their father's work history in detail and could not say what he was treated for after sixty. The information exists — it is sitting with a parent, an uncle, an older…