Bladder cancer has one of the strongest occupational associations of any cancer, and one of the longest delays between exposure and disease. The chemicals responsible — aromatic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons among them —…
Sexual health screening tends to be treated as a young man's concern. It is offered in a man's twenties, occasionally in his thirties, and then quietly drops off the list — not through any deliberate…
Most men notice it in the shower or while getting dressed: a soft bulge low in the groin, sometimes extending toward the scrotum, that appears when standing or straining and disappears on lying down. There…
Ask men who have put off getting tested what they were actually avoiding, and the answer is almost never the swab or the needle. It is the conversation. The moment of saying out loud why…
A good number of men arrive at a urology appointment having already concluded that the matter is closed. They tried one of the oral medications, perhaps a sample from a friend or something ordered online,…
Most prevention advice about sexually transmitted infections is written as though people behave consistently, plan ahead, and make decisions sober. Real life is less tidy. Condoms get used sometimes and not other times, decisions get…
The oral medications for erectile dysfunction are among the most recognisable drugs in the world, and also among the most misunderstood. Men arrive at appointments having already formed firm opinions about them — that they…
Mpox entered general awareness in Canada as an outbreak concentrated in networks of men who have sex with men, and it has largely stayed filed under that heading since. That framing has been unhelpful in…
Kidneys are among the few organs that give no warning at all until a great deal of function has already gone. There is no ache, no change in how much a man passes, and no…
The reasoning is understandable and it is wrong. Nothing hurts, nothing looks different, nothing has changed — therefore there is nothing to test for. It is the same logic most men apply to blood pressure…
