TUESDAY, May 9, 2017 (HealthDay News) — Testosterone — the male sex hormone — may be the reason why so many more women have asthma than men, new research suggests.

The study found that testosterone suppresses an immune system cell involved in allergicasthma.

Allergic asthma is an inflammatory condition that causes the airways to swell, making it hard to breathe. The swelling and inflammation is triggered by an allergic reaction.

Before puberty, the condition is more common among boys than girls. Afterwards, however, it is twice as prevalent and more severe among women than men, the researchers explained.

“There is a very interesting clinical observation that women are more affected and develop more severe asthma than men, and so we tried to understand why this was happening,” said study leader Cyril Seillet, from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Australia.

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Phimosis definition and facts

• Phimosis is the inability to retract the foreskin behind the head (glans) of the penis.
• Symptoms of may include:
  • Difficulty or pain during urination
  • Painful erection
  • Paraphimosis (A medical emergency where the foreskin can’t return to it’s normal location once retracted.)
• This penis disorder usually is divided into physiologic and pathologic phimosis.
  1. Physiologic phimosis is the normal condition in which children are born with a tight foreskin, and separation occurs during late childhood and early adolescence.
  2. Pathologic phimosis happens because of an infection, inflammation,

Treating prostate cancer with a single, high dose of radiation delivered precisely to the site of the tumour results in good quality of life and fewer trips to the hospital, with adverse side effects that are no worse than if the radiation treatment had been given in several lower doses, claims a recent study.