The impulse after a worrying encounter is to get tested immediately, and it is a reasonable one. The difficulty is that a test taken the next morning is largely uninformative. A negative result at that…
Pelvic floor training has a reputation problem among men. It is widely assumed to be something recommended after childbirth, and the exercises are usually explained in a single sentence at the end of an appointment:…
A lab report is an awkward document. It arrives through a portal or in the mail, dense with abbreviations, decimal places and reference ranges, with a handful of values marked high or low in a…
It tends to be noticed first thing in the morning — a small amount of discharge, or a stain on the underwear, or a stinging sensation partway through the first urination of the day. Sometimes…
The stream weakens gradually enough that most men cannot say when it started. It takes longer, it splits or sprays, it stops and restarts, and eventually there is a sense that the bladder never quite…
Most men last thought about vaccination in a school gymnasium. After that the subject disappears, apart from the occasional tetanus shot in an emergency department after a nail through a boot, and the annual flu…
Few findings in medicine have changed the lived experience of a condition as completely as this one, and few are as poorly known outside the people directly affected. The short version is that a person…
Overactive bladder rearranges a man's life quietly. He knows where the washrooms are on every route he drives. He stops drinking anything after mid-afternoon so the night is manageable. He picks the aisle seat, declines…
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…
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.…
