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The new results are very good news, said Dr. Ashutosh Tewari, chairman of urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. "When you find the cancer at the same stage, you can have the same survival outcome," Tewari said. "This is important news." … [Read more...] about With Equal Care, African American and White Men Have Same Prostate Cancer Survival

Beijing had repeatedly declined offers of assistance from outside experts, such as scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Alex Azar, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Informed that a team from the WHO would soon travel to China, Azar said he was “delighted” and assumed that CDC officials would be included. … [Read more...] about As coronavirus outbreak worsens, China agrees to accept help from WHO

An open relationship first came up in discussion the next year, after cheating allegations against a relative rocked the family. They didn't know the term "polyamory" until years later, but already saw an opportunity to invite more people into their lives. Billy Holder had always believed that he was "different," that he wanted to date more than one person at a time, but he wanted to do it with his partner's knowledge and consent. … [Read more...] about Polyamorous relationships: When three isn’t a crowd

"We would predict that males should have additional time and additional energy, which they might use to increase their fitness by mating with additional females," said Dieter Lukas, a postdoctoral researcher in the department of zoology at the University of Cambridge. "Why then do males in some species stick around rather than try to find additional females?" … [Read more...] about Monogamy: Who needs it?

But other studies have found some differences. In a 2014 study, a University of Cambridge researcher, Valerie Voon, used functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan the brains of 38 men, half of whom struggled with compulsive sexual behavior, while they viewed either porn videos or sports footage. She found that three regions of the brain were more active in people with compulsive sexual behavior compared with the other volunteers. These were the same regions that are activated in drug addicts when shown images of drugs. … [Read more...] about Is sex addiction real? Depends on whom you ask