Archive for October, 2006
Mobile phones may cause infertility in men
Friday, October 27th, 2006
The effect of mobile phone on our health has been a debatable issue ever since it became a popular means of voice based communication.
Now a study has found some disturbing findings, especially for men. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine study indicates that men who spend more than four hours a day talking on their [...]
Viagra: Boom in Italy(+10 PCT), little used in Sicily
Thursday, October 26th, 2006
The sexual performance-enhancing pills produced by Pfizer Italia are once again doing very well: since the launch of Viagra, which happened on 14 October 1998, 44 million 680 thousand have bee sold in the country, 5 million of which only in the first six months of 2006, a rise of more than 10 pct compared with the same period of 2005. There was record consumption in Catania and Palermo, though Sicily is at the bottom of the list for consumption compared with other Italian regions.
IMS Health, a company specialized in marketing information for the pharmaceutical industry, has produced a Viagra ranking for cities, with particular emphasis on the drug's consumption in Sicily. From 1998 to 2005 in Catania, 2,087 blue pills were taken per a thousand men, and a total of 477,371 over a 7-year period. On average, 2.09 per Ctania inhabitant over 40. These are figures which put Catania in first place among Siciliancities for the consumption of Viagra, followed by Palermo, where 2,075 pills were taken per thousand men, for over half a million pills in 7 years. In the top ten cities for chemically-enhanced sex in Italy, first place goes to Rome (4,790), then Pistoia (4,755), Rimini (4,627), Florence (4,517), and Pisa (4,319).Milan is in fifteenth place (3,722), Naples in thirty-first (3,400), and Palermo in seventieth.
The last in the rankings for the drug against impotence is Potenza. In addition to Rome, statistics show record consumption in Tuscany (at the top of the regional rankings), Lazio and Emilia Romagna. Southern men don't use the pill much, and Sicily in eighteenth place, almost as if it were a matter of honour. The market for the drug against impotence is in expansion. In the first six months of 2006 turnover grew by 20 pct, an increase which is added to the one in 2005: 15 pct more than in 2004.
Source:http://www.agi.it
IMS Health, a company specialized in marketing information for the pharmaceutical industry, has produced a Viagra ranking for cities, with particular emphasis on the drug's consumption in Sicily. From 1998 to 2005 in Catania, 2,087 blue pills were taken per a thousand men, and a total of 477,371 over a 7-year period. On average, 2.09 per Ctania inhabitant over 40. These are figures which put Catania in first place among Siciliancities for the consumption of Viagra, followed by Palermo, where 2,075 pills were taken per thousand men, for over half a million pills in 7 years. In the top ten cities for chemically-enhanced sex in Italy, first place goes to Rome (4,790), then Pistoia (4,755), Rimini (4,627), Florence (4,517), and Pisa (4,319).Milan is in fifteenth place (3,722), Naples in thirty-first (3,400), and Palermo in seventieth.
The last in the rankings for the drug against impotence is Potenza. In addition to Rome, statistics show record consumption in Tuscany (at the top of the regional rankings), Lazio and Emilia Romagna. Southern men don't use the pill much, and Sicily in eighteenth place, almost as if it were a matter of honour. The market for the drug against impotence is in expansion. In the first six months of 2006 turnover grew by 20 pct, an increase which is added to the one in 2005: 15 pct more than in 2004.
Source:http://www.agi.it
Thursday, October 26th, 2006
As many as 50 per cent of Chinese men aged between 40 and 70 are suffering from erectile dysfunction (ED), according to research released this week.
Furthermore, about 10 per cent of the national adult male population suffer some degree of ED.
However, only 10 per cent of ED suffers on the Chinese mainland take medical treatment, according to research sponsored by German pharmaceutical giant Bayer released in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, on Tuesday.
The study was based on a survey of at least 2,000 men aged between 20 and 75 in major cities such as Guangzhou and Beijing.
Compared with many foreign men, Chinese men remain extremely reluctant to talk about their sexual problems, although the majority of them think it is very important to satisfy the needs of their partners.
Going to see a doctor is torturous for Chinese ED sufferers, according to the survey.
Thirty-seven per cent of the respondents said they were too shy to talk about it to doctors; 16 per cent don't know which doctor to talk to; 12 per cent don't believe in treatment, while 30 per cent simply choose to wait for ED to disappear.
The results reflect a growing concern in the country that many men are unhappy due to their unsatisfactory sexual performance.
Source:http://www.chinadaily.com.cn
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Furthermore, about 10 per cent of the national adult male population suffer some degree of ED.
However, only 10 per cent of ED suffers on the Chinese mainland take medical treatment, according to research sponsored by German pharmaceutical giant Bayer released in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, on Tuesday.
The study was based on a survey of at least 2,000 men aged between 20 and 75 in major cities such as Guangzhou and Beijing.
Compared with many foreign men, Chinese men remain extremely reluctant to talk about their sexual problems, although the majority of them think it is very important to satisfy the needs of their partners.
Going to see a doctor is torturous for Chinese ED sufferers, according to the survey.
Thirty-seven per cent of the respondents said they were too shy to talk about it to doctors; 16 per cent don't know which doctor to talk to; 12 per cent don't believe in treatment, while 30 per cent simply choose to wait for ED to disappear.
The results reflect a growing concern in the country that many men are unhappy due to their unsatisfactory sexual performance.
Source:http://www.chinadaily.com.cn
women's health
Heart disease: erectile dysfunction may predict severity and poor prognosis
Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Erectile dysfunction ( ED ) appears to be associated with cardiovascular and other chronic diseases and may predict severity and a poor prognosis among those with heart disease, according to three studies published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
New medications for erectile dysfunction, introduced in 1998, prompted a 50 percent increase in physician visits related to the condition from 1996 to 2000.
Most previous estimates of the impact of erectile dysfunction have either excluded some men based on age, ethnicity or profession or were compiled before these medications became available.
This led the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Panel on Impotence to call for national epidemiological data to provide information about prevalence and risk factors for erectile dysfunction.
Christopher S. Saigal, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, and colleagues at the Urologic Diseases in America Project analyzed data from the 2001-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examinational Survey ( NHANES ).
A total of 2,126 men age 20 years and older responded to the survey, answered questions about sexual function and underwent a physical examination.
Men who said they were sometimes or never able to maintain an erection adequate for sexual intercourse were defined as having erectile dysfunction.
According to that definition, overall prevalence of erectile dysfunction was 18.4 percent, the authors report.
Erectile dysfunction occurred more often as men aged, affecting 6.5 percent of men aged 20 to 29 years and 77.5 of those aged 75 years and older.
Source:http://www.xagena.it
New medications for erectile dysfunction, introduced in 1998, prompted a 50 percent increase in physician visits related to the condition from 1996 to 2000.
Most previous estimates of the impact of erectile dysfunction have either excluded some men based on age, ethnicity or profession or were compiled before these medications became available.
This led the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Panel on Impotence to call for national epidemiological data to provide information about prevalence and risk factors for erectile dysfunction.
Christopher S. Saigal, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, and colleagues at the Urologic Diseases in America Project analyzed data from the 2001-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examinational Survey ( NHANES ).
A total of 2,126 men age 20 years and older responded to the survey, answered questions about sexual function and underwent a physical examination.
Men who said they were sometimes or never able to maintain an erection adequate for sexual intercourse were defined as having erectile dysfunction.
According to that definition, overall prevalence of erectile dysfunction was 18.4 percent, the authors report.
Erectile dysfunction occurred more often as men aged, affecting 6.5 percent of men aged 20 to 29 years and 77.5 of those aged 75 years and older.
Source:http://www.xagena.it