The liver is unusually stoic. It can sustain significant damage over many years and give almost no indication that anything is wrong, which is why chronic hepatitis is so often discovered by accident — on…
It usually starts as one trip, somewhere around three in the morning. Then it is two trips, then three, and eventually a man realises he has not slept more than ninety minutes at a stretch…
Type 2 diabetes rarely arrives as an event. It develops over years, and by the time a man notices anything, the process has usually been underway for a long time. The early signs are the…
HIV prevention changed substantially over the past decade, and a fair number of men in northern Alberta have not caught up with it — not through carelessness, but because the information tends to circulate in…
The appointment where a man is told his prostate cancer has been treated successfully is supposed to be the end of the story. For a lot of men it is the start of a different…
High blood pressure is almost always found by accident. A man goes in about a sore shoulder, or for a driver's medical, or to have a cut looked at, and the cuff reading comes back…
Few diagnoses land as heavily as this one, and almost none of that weight comes from the medical facts. Men who are told they have genital herpes often describe the reaction in terms that have…
Most men who end up having a prostate biopsy did not go looking for one. A blood test came back with a PSA higher than expected, or a physician felt something firm during a rectal…
Most men book a medical appointment because something has gone wrong — an injury, a symptom that will not settle, or steady pressure from a partner. Very few book one because a birthday has passed…
Most men who test positive for chlamydia or gonorrhea did not feel unwell beforehand. They came in because a former partner sent them a message, because something looked slightly off for a day or two,…
