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Does prostate cancer treatment help older, sick men?

Older men with other illnesses may not live long enough to benefit from aggressive prostate cancer treatments, such as prostate...

Pricey radiation no better post prostatectomy-study

Men who get an older and less costly form of radiation after their cancerous prostates are removed fare just as well as men...

Sex supplements often contain Viagra ingredients

Herbal supplements aimed at improving men's sexual abilities often contain the active ingredients in erectile dysfunction...

Sickle cell disease accounts for many priapism cases

Thanks to commercials for erectile dysfunction drugs, men know to seek medical attention for "erections lasting more than...

PSA test leads to further procedures, harms: study

Most older men with prostate cancer found by prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests and biopsies opted for treatment in a...

Inspection yields another compound pharmacy recall

The crackdown on specialty pharmacies that compound drugs into customized doses on Monday yielded another recall after an...

Estrogen alternative eases sex pain for older women

A daily dose of ospemifene, an estrogen-like drug, helped lessen pain during intercourse caused by vaginal atrophy in postmenopausal...

Impotence drug may help muscular dystrophy patients

Eli Lilly's erectile dysfunction drug Cialis can correct abnormal blood flow in patients with a certain type of muscular...

[DRGD] - Viagra price cut in Canada after court loss

Pfizer Inc has cut the Canadian price of its Viagra erectile dysfunction drug after the country's Supreme Court opened the...

Testosterone, Viagra not a winning ED combination

Using a testosterone gel in addition to Viagra doesn't make the little blue pill work any better, according to a new study....

Canada's top court strips Viagra patent from Pfizer

Canada's Supreme Court struck down the patent on global pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer Inc's Viagra erectile dysfunction drug...

U.S. judge backs Catholic firm over contraception mandate

A Catholic-owned family business in Michigan does not have to comply with the provision of the new U.S. healthcare law that...

Like girls, U.S. boys may be hitting puberty earlier

Boys in the United States may be entering puberty earlier than in generations past, a new study has found - suggesting it's...

Women with genital cutting have poorer sex life

A new study confirms that women who were forced to undergo genital cutting as young girls have a poorer sex life years later....

How compounding pharmacies rallied patients to fight regulation

When senators met nearly a decade ago to consider the dangers of pharmacies that mix or alter drugs with little federal oversight,...

FDA cracks down on websites for selling bad drugs

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said it has cracked down on thousands of online pharmacies for selling...

Sex problems common with breast cancer drugs

Women treated with hormone-blocking drugs to stave off breast cancer recurrences are often dissatisfied with their sex lives,...

Benefits of PSA testing may outweigh harms: study

The possible benefits and harms of prostate cancer screening have been hotly debated in recent years, but for the first time...

Prostate cancer surgery fails to cut deaths in study

Prostate cancer surgery didn't appear to save lives compared with observation alone in a new study that tracked men for a...

US task force: End routine prostate cancer screening

A task force advising the U.S. government on Monday recommended against routine use of prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels...

Court reverses veterans healthcare overhaul

A federal appeals court has reversed a ruling that ordered a major overhaul of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs because...

Texas cannot exclude Planned Parenthood from health program-judge

A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked a new Texas rule that would have excluded Planned Parenthood clinics from offering...

FDA approves Vivus drug for erectile dysfunction

U.S. health regulators on Friday approved Vivus Inc.'s avanafil treatment for erectile dysfunction, giving the small company,...

EU plans to block fake drugs spark industry row

A European Union plan to tighten drug packaging rules in a bid to stamp out counterfeits has triggered a row between makers...

Pricier therapy no better for early prostate cancer

A new study suggests that expensive, high-tech proton beam radiation doesn't do any more for men with prostate cancer than...

Sexual side effect warnings added to Merck drugs

Warning labels for Merck & Co's drugs for baldness and enlarged prostate will add notices of sexual side effects that continued...

Migraines likelier in men with impotence

Men who have been diagnosed with erectile dysfunction are 63 percent more likely to also have had a diagnosis of migraine...

Spain, UK raids seize 300,000 doses of fake drugs

Police across Europe seized almost 300,000 doses of counterfeit anti-impotence and weight-loss medicines, highlighting the...

New data fuel debate over prostate cancer screening

Updated results from a long-term study concludes that regular prostate cancer screening cuts the risk of death from prostate...

CORRECTION: US court lets two CVS stores sell controlled drugs

A U.S. appeals court ruled that CVS Caremark Corp may continue selling potentially addictive prescription drugs at two Florida...

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