1. A plumber for my prostate?

   11/04/14

   worked in some messy places in my life, but nowhere as grim sounding as that. 'It starts a growth ... I stuck with the Prostate. 'It sits under the bladder and in front of the rectum.' Now I have ... I had this problem with a tap in the bathroom once. 'Put your finger over the end of the tap and ... More

2. Paul: 'I know what it's like at the bottom'

   04/08/16

   6 months in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne searching for him before I found him. I found my way through with heartache ... Paul, now in his 30s, says getting involved with Men's Sheds is helping put alcohol behind ... him. I have a long history of problems with mental health starting many years ago with the death of my ... More

3. Covid - 19: Honest communications

   04/05/20

   communicate directly with men with clear targeted age- and gender-sensitive information. We've even had ... Covid-19 video We've also challenged the UK's creatives in the advertising industtry and ... elsewhere to come up with ways to talk to men about Covid-19: Try our creative challenge: how can we ... More

4. Ryan Resolves

   03/01/17

   but every year it sends some people into frenzy for fresh start. Out with the old and in with the new. ... washer in my own kitchen. Seventy five pounds it cost me.'That includes the call out fee mate,' ... he said with a smile. I resolved then and there to learn karate in the New Year to deal with any smug ... More

5. Nigel: ‘A pharmacist saved my life’

   03/06/14

   like the look of my blood tests. Me and what he was seeing in the tests didn’t match. I went for repeat ... in the evening. 'I don't think you'll last Christmas' I went back. My blood ... failure was caused by high blood pressure and the fact that my kidneys were small to begin with. I’d had ... More

6. Covid - 19: Better Data

   01/03/22

   statistics pages show that we've had some success but there's still work to do. News stories We ... More

7. Men without children

   10/07/16

   involuntarily childless man. I always expected to be a dad and there have been times in my life when becoming ... a working class area of Manchester, my parents could always close down any boundary-pushing request with the ... and angst I had with my partner. In my 40s, I changed career and trained as a counsellor. It was the ... More

8. Are you a sex or porn addict?

   23/01/23

   addictive in the same way as drugs and alcohol. When the brains of people with pornography addiction were ... pornographic images as when drug addicts see their drug of choice.  An estimated 1 in 25 people struggles with ... According to a survey of 350 sex addicts published in my book, Understanding & Treating Sex Addiction, ... More

9. Stranger Than A Talking Dog

   25/10/16

   Heyderman’s ‘Coping With Breast Cancer’ is one of the few books on the subject to discuss the condition in ... effective with age, the risk of cancer increases.’  Size matters In female breast cancer, hormones, ... treatment of both sexes while men who have the rare Klinefelter’s syndrome in which they are born with an ... More

10. Tim: Why I hate Elvis Presley

    26/04/18

    perfect as far as my emotional heart was concerned. This time I fell in love with another nurse called ... In 1995, Tim Lezard underwent 16 hour heart surgery and wasn't expected to survive. My ... how I described it in an article I later wrote for my local paper. 'I was told I’d never walk ... More

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