Enticing Men To Better Medical Care
AN overload of women’s gossip magazines in doctors clinics may be preventing blokes from seeking proper medical care, a Townsville GP says.
AN overload of women’s gossip magazines in doctors clinics may be preventing blokes from seeking proper medical care, a Townsville GP says.
Men are still taught as boys that the body is something that is designed to be a perfectly performing machine, not something to be cared for and nurtured,” said Michael Addis, professor of psychology at Clark University and author of “Invisible Men.” “But men base self-esteem on body image and weight.
Lilly, a leading pharmaceutical company, held an awareness campaign for pharmacists to inform the men on ways to help them get the best from prescribed treatments.
According to a survey by the American Academy of Family Physicians, 38 percent of men go to the doctor only when they’re extremely sick or when symptoms don’t go away on their own. But feeling healthy isn’t the same as being healthy, and waiting around for problems to get better with time could lead to complications or late diagnoses.
Maori women are presenting at the doctor with fake symptoms in order to obtain medicine for their male family members, a new study shows.
The first clinical trial to test the effects of resveratrol found that a small daily dose of a purified resveratrol supplement lowered blood pressure in a small group of obese men.