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  • April 2008
    • Volatile Market Hooked on Testosterone

      Volatile Market Hooked on Testosterone

      The buying and selling of the world's wealth is at the mercy of aggressive men and their hormonal fluctuations, neuroscientists have discovered. While that doesn't come as a big surprise, the study isolates the major role that testosterone plays in making boorish traders exceptionally bullish—and the part the hormone cortisol plays in slumps, reports the Daily Telegraph . More »

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      stock market   Wall Street   men   hormones   testosterone   bear market   medical studies   risky trading   bull market   masculinity   hormone therapy

    • Medicare May Be Behind Prostate Treatment Move

      Medicare May Be Behind Prostate Treatment Move

      Slashed Medicare reimbursement might have altered how doctors treat prostate cancer, pushing them to favor castration surgery over hormone therapy, USA Today reports. A study in the journal Cancer shows hormone-therapy injections jumped in the 1990s and early 2000s, while castration surgeries decreased. But when Medicare halved what it paid for the therapy, injections dropped 14% and surgical castration rose 4%. More »

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      doctor   surgery   Medicare   prostate cancer   urology   hormone therapy

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