Seeing the doctor when you're sick is a step in the right direction, but it's only a small piece of the wellness puzzle overall. Getting annual checkups reduces your chances of dealing with a chronic ...

AWARENESS MONTH, AND ACCORDING TO THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, THE DISEASE SEES OVER 300,000 NEW CASES YEARLY, AS WELL AS MORE THAN 35,000 DEATHS A YEAR, MAKING IT CRUCIAL FOR MEN TO UNDERGO A ...

North Carolina ranks seventh in the country in prostate cancer deaths. Black men in the state have the highest incidence in the world. The challenge is to convince men who think they are healthy that ...

Personal health and fitness have always been important to Nigel Graham — volunteer firefighter, Northern Ireland native, Spartan ® race veteran and key member of the Aflac flock in Columbia, South ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Gentlemen, if you’re over age 45, it’s time again for your annual prostate screening. No, not that ...

A study presented at the American Urological Association annual meeting evaluated an intensified MRI-based screening program for men at high genetic risk for prostate cancer. The work that we were ...

Science is not shy about ambiguity, never more so than when it comes to medical advice. So here’s the latest recommendation on prostate-cancer screening: Men should continue to have both a manual ...

Gilbert Zylka, 79, goes every October to have, among other things, that annual prostate exam. Last time, it came up with a lump. After a trip to the urologist and a biopsy, he was diagnosed with ...

Digital rectal examination (DRE) is neither helpful nor useful as a solitary prostate cancer screening tool in middle-aged men, say investigators reporting the PROBASE study. The study compared ...