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Cranberry Women’s Formula For Improved Health
By Dr. Gifford Jones
“How can I rid myself of recurrent urinary infections?” a distraught patient asked me. Several courses of antibiotics had failed to end her discomfort. Now, with Cranberry Women’s Formula, there’s a natural treatment that helps to prevent frequent bladder infections, improve general health and, in the bargain, fights obesity.
Every year an estimated 30 to 50 million North American women suffer from cystitis. And they’re tired of hearing, “We know where you’re going!”
Diapers are not just for babiesBy Dr. Gifford Jones
“We know where you’re going!” is not a phrase that women want to hear. But due to an aging population increasing numbers of women are rushing to the bathroom. Some are suffering from urinary infection or an overactive bladder. But increasing numbers of women need frequent changes of diapers due to urinary stress incontinence. Unfortunately, many women with this problem are too embarrassed to seek help. But there are ways to help relieve patients of this annoying disorder.
Scotty Bowman is Teaching More Than HockeyBy Dr. Gifford Jones
There’s a funny cartoon in The New Yorker magazine. It shows an elderly couple at the pharmacist’s counter. The man is saying, “I want the night-before-pill and she wants the morning-after-pill!
Let’s hope these cartoon characters had a pleasant and successful evening. But what happens to real people? And can the world’s most famous hockey coach make a difference for males too embarrassed to seek help for erectile dysfunction (ED)?
A New Treatment Of The Overactive BladderBy Dr. Gifford Jones
Have you ever heard of “Toilet Mapping”? The best description of this comes from a patient of mine who asked, “Do you know how to get to know a city well?” I replied,
“I guess when you’ve lived there a number of years”. “No” she responded, “It’s when you know where all the bathrooms are located.”.
Operation Helps Men Urinate Like TeenagersBy Dr. Gifford Jones
What should men and their wives know about the New Gold Standard? No, not the one associated with the London England Gold Market. Rather, the new gold standard of treating benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) in men. A report from The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is good news for hundreds of thousands of males who every year require surgery for this condition. And who worry that it may affect their sexual health.
The Testicles Top Song: “It’s Too Darn HotBy Dr. Gifford Jones
There’s a story that should have made headlines around the world, but somehow it collected dust. In 2002, the British Journal, Lancet, reported that a scientist had suffered burns to his penis and scrotum while using a laptop computer. You might quickly conclude that he was naked and had fallen asleep with his laptop on his lap, but that was not the case. Rather, he was working with his trousers and underpants on. For want of a better word he had simply been “lap-scorched”.
The Billion Dollar Erectile RaceBy Dr. Gifford Jones
How many times a week are we supposed to make love? Moreover, if erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs don’t work, what are you supposed to do?
The race of the century has started. No, it’s not a recap of the great horse race between Sea Biscuit and Northern Dancer. Rather, it’s the contest between three ED drugs. The prize for the winner? Billions of dollars.
Cran-Max Cranberry To Prevent Urinary Tract InfectionsBy Dr. Gifford Jones
Why didn’t doctors listen to their mothers? For years they counseled that cranberry juice was an effective way to treat urinary tract infections (UTI). Yet doctors passed off their advice as just another old-wive’s tale. Research now proves them wrong. And there’s a new super-charged clinically proven cranberry supplement, “Cran-Max”, to help people suffering from the “We-know-where-you’re-going” syndrome.
What Men and Their Wives Don’t Know About AndropauseBy Dr. Gifford Jones
Has your husband become grumpy, sad, lacking in energy, falling asleep after dinner and finding less enjoyment in life? You may even have noticed that his pants are longer than they used to be. And that for the first time he’s having sexual problems. If so, he may be suffering from the male change of life, known as Andropause. And a wee dab of AndroGel may be all that he needs.
Dr. Jean Mailhot, Endocrinologist and Director of the Laval Andropause Center, says that one million Canadian men suffer from testosterone insufficiency. And that in the U.S. as few as five per cent of American men with low testosterone are being treated.
Toss Mountain Bikes Away Before Romancing Your LadyBy Dr. Gifford Jones
Mountain bikers are an athletic macho group. But are they good lovers? And how many have trouble getting their wives pregnant? Recent studies show that mountain bikers get more than exercise when they travel over the Swiss Alps.
Dr. Ferdinand Frauscher, head of the department of radiology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, recently reported interesting findings about mountain bikers to the Radiological Society of North America meeting.
Is Impotence An Alarm Bell For Heart Attack?By Dr. Gifford Jones
What caused the sudden heart attack? Ask anyone this question and many would accuse too much cholesterol, chronic stress, smoking, obesity or bad genetics. But what about the role of the male hormone testosterone in causing cardiovascular disease? Is erectile dysfunction (ED) an early warning sign of heart attack? And what can we learn about testosterone treatment from a London Harley Street specialist?
Recently much has been written about the male menopause (Andropause). How decreasing amounts of testosterone contribute to the increasing number of impotent males. But it appears there’s more to testosterone than sexual potency.
PSA Screening Results in 30 Percent Over-DiagnosisBy Dr. Gifford Jones
For women, a telephone call reporting that mammography has detected an abnormality, and a second picture is needed, triggers instant fear of breast cancer. For men, an elevated PSA (Prostate-Specific Antigen) test has the same devastating effect. They dread the thought that they’ve developed cancer of the prostate gland with all its grim implications. But how accurate is the PSA test? And if a malignancy is present, what is the best treatment?
New Treatment For The Fractured Male OrganBy Dr. Gifford Jones
“So you’re the doctor who wrote that column!” I’m still greeted by that remark even though it’s 11 years since I first wrote about “The Fractured Male Organ”. I know doctors shouldn’t make light of a patient’s medical problems. But I couldn’t stop chuckling when I first researched this malady. Now there’s a new treatment for this embarrassing problem.
A man was admitted to the emergency department at 1:00 A.M. in obvious distress. He was agitated, his skin cold and clammy suggestive of blood loss. Doctors were shocked to find a markedly swollen penis as the cause which required immediate surgery to remove a large blood clot.
Your Kidneys And a Brown Paper BagBy Dr. Gifford Jones
Can a brown paper bag decrease the epidemic of renal disease in this country? Today, more than 20 million North Americans suffer from chronic kidney disease. That’s 1 in 9 adults. Another 20 million are at risk.
But the number of cases is growing. A report from Johns Hopkins University claims the number of people with advanced kidney disease has doubled during the last 10 years. And the number with end-stage kidney disease who require renal dialysis is growing at the rate of 7 percent a year. And it’s creating a huge economic problem.
Feeling a Little Sexy and Wonder Why?By Dr. Gifford Jones
Are you feeling a little sexy lately and have no idea why it’s happening? If that’s the case you had better check your medicine cabinet. You may be taking a well-known product sildenafil (Viagra) approved for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED) without knowing it. How can this happen?
Health Canada recently issued an alert to health care professionals about the safety of a herbal product called Hua Fo. Manufacturers claimed it was the “natural” Viagra for men. The suggested dosage, two tablets twice a day.
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