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Weekly News Roundup
October 31, 2016
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Dennis J. Barbour, JD, Editor
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Birth control: Male contraceptive injection 'shows promise'
A hormone injection has been shown to be a safe and effective method of contraception - for men.
US researchers say the jab was almost 96% effective in tests on around 270 men who were using it, with four pregnancies among their partners. However, a relatively high number developed side effects, including acne and mood disorders. Researchers have been investigating potential for male hormonal contraceptives for around 20 years. They have all been looking for an effective way of suppressing sperm production without causing unpleasant or unbearable side effects.
Because men constantly produce sperm, high levels of hormones are needed to reduce levels from the normal sperm count of over 15 million per millilitre to under one million/ml.
BBC, October 28, 2016
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| GSK Will No Longer Supply HPV Vaccine in U.S.
In a statement to
FiercePharma, a spokesperson for GSK said, "With another HPV vaccine available in the U.S., patients will continue to have an option to help prevent HPV infection. Our license with the FDA is still in effect and the vaccine has 107 regulatory approvals covering 136 markets internationally." Two other HPV vaccines that are currently available include
Gardasil
(HPV Quadrivalent [types 6, 11, 16, and 18) and
Gardasil 9
(HPV 9-valent vaccine [recombinant], both from Merck. In addition to being approved for girls and women (9-26 years of age), Gardasil and Gardasil 9 are indicated for use in boys and men 9 through 26 years of age to prevent anal cancer, genital warts, and anal intraepithelial neoplasia Grades 1, 2, and 3 caused by specific HPV types.
MPR, October 28, 2016
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| Sons 'fear talking to their fathers about mental health'
When depression hit Keenan Atkins in early secondary school, he was scared to talk to his father about it.
Men of his dad's generation are afraid to talk about their feelings in case they are seen as "weak", he says. And this seems a common experience for teenage boys, with 49% telling a survey they would feel uncomfortable talking about mental health with their dads. A third of boys also told the survey, for the Time to Change campaign, their fathers do not talk about "feelings". The poll of 1,000 16- to 18-year-olds suggests more than a quarter of young men of this age experience mental health symptoms on a weekly basis. The research aimed to shed light on how teenage boys' own attitudes to mental health are influenced by their fathers' behaviour.
BBC, October 28, 2016
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These are banner times for penises onscreen. In the last 18 months or so, I've seen casually naked men on "The Affair" and on "Girls," plus casually naked robots on "Westworld." Penises have appeared on "Game of Thrones" (where one was once violently disappeared) and been simulated by a killer drill on "American Horror Story: Hotel." They were in movies like "Get Hard" and "Unfinished Business"; one was there-ish on John Cena in "Trainwreck"; they showed up in stunt form on a meek Adam Scott in "The Overnight" and through the boxer briefs of a smugly sunny Chris Hemsworth in "Vacation." A vast majority of these penises are funny, casual, unserious. Their unceremonious appearance - as naturalism, comedy, symbolism, provocation - is new, and maybe progressive. But that progress is exclusive, because these penises almost always belong to white men. As commonplace as it has recently become to see black men on television and at the heart of films, and as normal as it's becoming to see male nudity in general, it has been a lot more difficult to see those two changes expressed in the same body. A black penis, even the idea of one, is still too disturbingly bound up in how America sees - or refuses to see - itself. I enjoyed HBO's summer crime thriller, "The Night Of," but it offered some odd food for thought: The most lovingly photographed black penis I've ever seen on TV belonged to a corpse in the show's morgue. Meanwhile, the series's most sexual black character was a rapist inmate.
New York Times, October 27, 2016
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Triple M presenter Gus Worland has released a new ad showing men crying as part of his quest to lessen the suicide rate of Australian men. The spot, which closed out Worland's three-part ABC series Man Up, is being praised for its interpretation of what "manning up" should really man. "Why do we tell boys to stop crying, to harden up, to grow a pair? F-k that. If you feel down, speak up," the voice over says. "Because silence can kill." The ad ends with a slate listing all the people who would be affected by "your" suicide - your mum, boss, barber, dog and so forth.
9news.com.au, October 27, 2016
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Were YOU bullied as a child? Why the effects could last a lifetime: Victims are 'twice as likely to suffer mental health problems as adults'
- Study tracked the mental health of 9,000 people over 40 years
- Found consequences of childhood bullying were still 'significant' at 50
- Persistent bullying was also linked to adult relationships breaking down
- Researchers suggest interventions could save the NHS millions in care
The study, by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and King's College London, tracked more than 9000 people over 40 years. It found more boys than girls used mental health services in childhood and adolescence. Conversely, more women than men were found to use it in adulthood. Lead researcher Dr Sara Evans-Lacko said the impact of childhood bullying was most notable at an early age. More young males using mental health services could be the result of more adults recognising and referring boys, who show more outward signs of bullying than girls, it is believed. Meanwhile, the higher use of mental health services among women could be down to men feeling more stigmas associated with mental health problems - and consequently not seeking support.
'Bullying may also set the conditions for a cycle in which people are at risk of exposure to further victimisation in later life,'
Professor Louise Arseneault from King's College London
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Daily Mail, October 26, 2016
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The startling rise in oral cancer in men, and what it says about changing sexual habits
Oral cancer is on the rise in American men - jumping 61 percent from 2011 to 2015, according to a new analysis of insurance claims. The most dramatic increases were in throat cancer and tongue cancer, and the data show that claims were nearly three times as common in men as in women during that same period with a split of 74 percent to 26 percent. The startling numbers - published in a report on Tuesday by FAIR Health an independent nonprofit - are based on a database of more than 21 billion privately billed medical and dental claims. They illustrate both the cascading effect of human papillomavirus (HPV) in the United States and our changing sexual practices. Surveys have shown that younger men are more likely to perform oral sex than their older counterparts and have a tendency to engage with more partners. "These differences in sexual behavior across age cohorts explain the differences that we see in oral HPV prevalence and in HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer across the generations and why the rate of this cancer is increasing," Gypsyamber D'Souza, an associate professor in the Viral Oncology and Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said at the time. The work was published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Washington Post, October 25, 2016
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PharmaJet® and Vaccibody collaborate on HPV vaccine development Needle-free device cited to improve patient compliance
"We are pleased that the PharmaJet device is being used for this important study, and are encouraged by the improved compliance that needle-free may provide. This is consistent with our survey data that shows 93% of patients would choose needle-free again for their next vaccination
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," said Ron Lowy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PharmaJet Inc. "Given that multiple vaccine doses are required for the HPV vaccine, improved compliance with needle-free is an important advantage."
PR Newswire,October 25, 2016
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The Weekly News Roundup is produced by The Partnership for Male Youth and is released every Monday.
For more information contact Dennis J. Barbour, JD. News Roundup editor and President/CEO of the Partnership, at [email protected].
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