Men’s Health: Between the Ears or Below the Beltline?

June is Men’s Health Month, so as one of the ‘Mine’s men in the trenches, I’ve been asked to cover what’s unique about diabetes and men. You might be surprised to learn that it’s not all below the waistline (although some of it is). Diabetes uniqu…

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Back to School – Always Touchy with Diabetes One of the best parts of hosting diabetes giveaways is knowing that someone in the Diabetes Community will be getting a fun gift that can help them out in some way with their D-Life.And the very best part is hearing back from those winners about h......
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How a Frankenpenis Helps Medicine No, I’m not showing you a picture of a penis transplant! Here is a beautiful picture of South Africa’s landscape. First heart transplants and now penis transplants! Maybe it’s the ocean air, maybe the bucolic African terrain, or maybe it’s the hardy souls who live there, but South Africa has done it again. The first working interhuman penis transplant. Urination? Check. Sexual function? Check. A veritable functioning Frankenpenis. Big Cojones Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant in South Africa in 1967. Beat out Texas and Stanford by a couple months. Now they’re at the leading edge of urology...
2015 Father’s Day 8k The 6th annual Father's Day 8K will be run on a flat and fast out-and-back course along the C&O Canal Towpath. The first 300 participants will be provided a technical race shirt, and awards will be given out at the post-race celebration to the top 3 M/F overall, the top M/F in each 10-year age group, and the top Father-Son and Father-Daughter teams. Email fathersday8k@gmail.com to enter the father-child team competitions. There will also be a Kid's Kilometer Fun Run just after the race start. All children must be entered using a registration form with a parent's or guardian's...
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