Getting men to pay attention to their own health isn’t easy. When given the chance to read Maxim or schedule a prostate gland exam with the doc (yup, it’s the one with the finger up the butt), I think we all know which is more appealing to the dudes. A few different organizations are wisely using things that men love — drinking beer and growing mustaches, namely — to get them thinking about screening this very important male gland. Pints for Prostates uses the glory of hops to get men to think about getting screened. Some recent studies that swigging beer is actually good for your prostate will prolly help their cause as well! Movember Australia also focuses on prostate health, and raises awareness by getting the gents to grow a moustache in November (Australia’s men’s health month, American prostate health month is in September). So even though it’s months away, our prostate stopped shaving and donned a nice ‘stache in honor of this awesome organization.
Posts Tagged ‘prostatectomy’
Fun With Your Prostate
Posted: Wednesday, May 12th, 2010Surgery Lesson
Posted: Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
“What a surgeon does to a patient — if it were done without consent — would be a felony.” surgeon and inventor Dr. Catherine Mohr tells TED in a fascinating podcast about the past, present and future of surgery. Learn about the brutalities of old-school surgery, performed without anesthesia and often without even clean hands, and familiarize yourself with surgery’s robotic future. This skull dates back 5,000-10,000 years, waaay before aseptic surgical techniques and certainly way before anesthetics. The crazy thing? Anthropologists have determined that from the healing seen on this trephinated skull that the “patient” actually survived this brutal and crude brain surgery. The surgical future includes amazing things like repairing the heart without cracking the ribcage.
Man Gland Drinks
Posted: Friday, December 11th, 2009
Here’s a couple studies sure to be popular with men — both coffee and beer have been tapped as possible ways to help prevent prostate cancer. ABC News wisely notes that these studies tend to get more attention than they deserve because people want to believe them. One doc wondered why prostate cancer rates weren’t already lower since American men have never shied away from either coffee or beer. Note that exercise has also shown prostate cancer fighting properties, but who’s excited about that? {via USA Today}


























