Solve premature ejaculation

WORRYING that they climax too soon is one of the most common problems men write to me about so for starters it may reassure you to know that the average man lasts for just five minutes of full sex.

I realise that if you barely get started before you climax, five minutes may sound wonderful, but at least it should reassure you that few men are lasting for hours, which is the impression given by lots of sex films and pornography..

Warning over fibroids treatment

UK doctors say a treatment for heavy periods caused by fibroids can seriously harm a subsequent pregnancy.

An Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital study looked at the outcomes of 215 pregnancies following uterine artery embolisation (UAE) treatment.

The researchers found much higher rates of miscarriage, caesareans and heavy bleeding after delivery, and call for caution in recommending the treatment.

The study appears in the journal, The Obstetrician and Gynaecologist.

UAE has been available as a treatment in the UK since 1995.

Sleepy people eat more: study

People suffering from sleep deprivation are likely to be unable to resist high calorie foods, a study found. -- PHOTO: AP

PEOPLE suffering from sleep deprivation are likely to be unable to resist high calorie foods, a study found.

Inadequate sleep leads to an increase in the hormone ghrelin, which tells you when to eat, and a decrease in the hormone leptin, which tells you to stop eating, Shelby Freedman Harris, the author of the report, said.

Dengue vaccine could be ready by 2015

French drugs group Sanofi said on Friday that its vaccine against dengue, a mosquito-borne infection that kills thousands of people around the world each year, could be launched in about four years. -- PHOTO: AP

BANGKOK - FRENCH drugs group Sanofi said on Friday that its vaccine against dengue, a mosquito-borne infection that kills thousands of people around the world each year, could be launched in about four years.

'The vaccine could be available... around 2015,' Jean Lang, head of vaccine development at the group's subsidiary Sanofi-Pasteur, told reporters in Bangkok.

A birth-control pill for men?

A posed photo of a man popping pills into his mouth. Contraceptives for men could be developed soon, according to scientists at Columbia University -- ST PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: WANG HUI FEN

CONTRACEPTIVE pills for men could be developed soon, Daily Mail reported on Tuesday.

Scientists at Columbia University in New York claimed that they have developed 'a drug which temporarily stops sperm production without causing any long-term harm to male fertility.'

Scientists have been trying to come up with a male equivalent of the pill for years, but have not yet succeeded. The new pill impairs the male body's ability to use vitamin A, which is vital for the production of sperm.

Extra radiation lowers breast cancer recurrence: Study

Health Journal (Breast Cancer) : CHICAGO - EXTRA radiation treatment lowers the rate of breast cancer recurring in women who have had tumours surgically removed, according to preliminary results of a study published on Saturday.

'These results are potentially practice-changing,' said Timothy Whelan, an oncology professor at McMaster University of Canada and lead author of the clinical study.

Prof Whelan presented the findings at the 47th annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, being held in Chicago. More than 1,800 women who had breast-conserving surgery participated in the study, receiving whole breast radiation (WBI) alone or WBI along with radiation to the surrounding lymph nodes.

German E. coli outbreak 'stabilising'

A patient infected with enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) is being dialysed at the Marienkrankenhaus hospital in Hamburg, northern Germany, on May 24, 2011. -- PHOTO: AFP

HAMBURG (Germany) - AN OUTBREAK of E. coli poisoning that has killed at least 18 people appears to be stabilising, a senior doctor in the German city of Hamburg, the epicentre of the outbreak, said on Friday.

'The situation is that the number of new infections appears to be stabilising somewhat,' said Mr Reinhard Brunkhorst, president of the German Nephrology Society dealing with kidney diseases.

'We are dealing here in fact with the biggest epidemic caused by bacteria in recent decades,' he told reporters.