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The symptoms of diabetes mellitus include frequent urination and recurrent urinary tract infections. A vaginal yeast infection with severe itching is often a sign of diabetes in older women. You may become excessively thirsty and feel generally ill, with some weight loss and a decreased appetite. If you are overweight, you may not experience weight [...]

If your back pain is the result of a tumor in the spine, you will no doubt require surgery, special drugs, or radiation therapy, alone or in combination. Illnesses such as Paget’s disease are treated with medications that decrease the metabolic activity within the bones and relieve the pain. A sudden compression fracture usually causes [...]

A hearing aid will not return hearing to all deaf people. An audiogram is helpful in determining whether your hearing is likely to improve with the use of a hearing aid. Therefore, this test should be done before one is purchased. The advice of an ear, nose, and throat specialist should be sought before you [...]

How Is Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosed? Your physician should be aware that some medications precipitate or aggravate Parkinson’s disease. A careful history and physical examination is usually required to confirm the diagnosis. Your physician should watch you walk, turn, and get out of a chair. He should also feel the way your arms move as he [...]

Because the brain is surrounded by bone, there is very little room for a tumor to grow without increasing the pressure within the skull. Therefore, the symptoms of brain tumors occur fairly early, when the growths are still small. Some brain tumors start within the brain itself and cause their damage by enlarging quickly, rather [...]

Sometimes cells in the body grow and multiply without listening to the body’s commands. The result is a tumor, either benign or malignant. Benign tumors do not spread to other parts of the body, but they cause damage by pushing aside and pressing on neighboring tissues and organs. Malignant tumors invade adjacent tissues and cells [...]

Kidney problems occur in men and women. The two kidneys lie deep within the body on either side of the spine just below the diaphragm, the muscle that separates the abdomen and chest. Blood passes through the kidneys from the renal (kidney) arteries, and the kidneys filter the blood and remove waste products, which are [...]

I certainly did. Unlike the vacuum penis pump or the injection of the tri-mixture into the penis, the ED medications are able to tap into the emotional experience of sex. The pump is a machine. It gets the job done, but it doesn’t require that the man using it have any erotic or romantic involvement [...]

A much more extensive study was begun. This time, 351 patients, between the ages of twenty-four and seventy, participated. Randomly, the men were assigned to take the pill at one of three doses (10, 25, or 50 mg) or a placebo. After twenty-eight days, almost 90 percent of the men taking the 50 mg pill [...]

Removal of the prostate can affect the ability to have an erection. This is the invariable result of the most commonly performed procedure, known as the radical prostatectomy. A newer surgical technique now attempts to preserve the appropriate nerves in order to safeguard erectile function. However, 50 percent of the men will experience erectile difficulties, [...]