Men's Health

While women’s health often commands the spotlight, male-specific health issues deserve equal attention. Increase your understanding of risks, symptoms and conditions, and how to treat them.

Can saliva foretell heart disease?

Study: People with clogged arteries often have a different type of bacteria in their spit.

Boost your bacteria—kick the habit

Your gut microbe undergoes significant changes when you quit smoking—and that's probably a good thing, researchers say.

Lung cancer survival improving

Study: The key is early detection. At a high risk? Get screened.

Patient Story

‘You saved my life, man’

A Michigan State Police trooper in need of a new liver gets a living donor transplant—from a friend on the force.

Illiteracy—a dementia risk?

The ability to read and write allows people to engage in 'cognitively enriching' activities that exercise the brain.

Are you able to recognize heart attack symptoms?

Millions of Americans are unable to do so and therefore less likely to seek help when trouble arises.

‘Tis the season to fashion your fitness

Every few months, tweak your workout by introducing new activities that fit the weather.

Want to gain years? Master blood pressure

Study: A typical 50-year-old with hypertension could gain three extra years of life by aggressively treating the condition.

Avoid skiing injuries by training now

Preparing in advance can lead to a safer winter on the slopes.

9 in 10 lose sleep to binges

Television, video games and endless other distractions are stealing away our slumber.

Patient Story

‘A small, big miracle’

Hurtling down the road to amputation, a funeral director undergoes a last-ditch endovascular intervention to save his leg.

Survey: Americans are stressed

Health care, politics and societal violence are the issues most likely to instigate feelings of distress.