Men who come in asking about low testosterone usually arrive with a list of symptoms: no energy, no drive, difficulty putting on muscle, low mood, poor concentration. It is a reasonable list and it points…
A man who has put on twenty pounds over a decade generally knows it, and generally has a plan involving January. What he is less likely to know is whether any of it matters medically,…
The appointment was booked for something else. A refill, a work medical, a sore shoulder. The other thing — the lump, the leaking, the blood, the fact that sex has stopped working — was rehearsed…
The medication worked. That is the frustrating part. The mornings stopped being unbearable, the constant background dread lifted, and work became possible again. Then, somewhere in the second month, a man notices that his interest…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
