Decades ago, doctors created a test to determine which breast cancer patients should receive hormone therapy. Now, researchers are using the same tactics to advance prostate cancer treatment.

Doctors began testing PSA levels in the 1980s to monitor diagnosed cancers. By the early 1990s, researchers promoted it for ...

Most people know that when blood pressure is too high, it's important to go easy on salt. But what about if your BP is too ...

I do not like to play doctor and self-medicate, but I read that some people have taken both medications together and have ...

In one of your recent columns, you touched upon the long-term use of tamsolusin. I, too, tried tamsolusin, and after several months, I saw no significant improvement to my symptoms. My primary care ...

As Gen Zs and Millennials turn to digital subscription services for hair loss, doctors are warning men to consult a GP in ...

Dutasteride is another 5-alpha reductase inhibitor, like finasteride, which works by blocking the male hormone DHT to stop hair-loss at its source. A prescription is necessary to get the stuff, but it ...

Background Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common male malignancy in the western world. Many men (40%) are diagnosed with localised low or intermediate-risk PCa, which is suitable for active ...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a treatment for advanced prostate cancer that could eliminate a side effect so debilitating that patients often refuse the life-saving ...

Research supports that both finasteride and dutasteride help treat hair loss, particularly when caused by androgenetic alopecia (AGA), also known as male pattern baldness. Finasteride has FDA approval ...