A person who has been infected in the anal area through receiving anal intercourse may develop rectal ulcers with pain and discharge. Even if a person has not received anal intercourse but has an LGV infection in the genital area, it is possible for the infection to spread to the anal and rectal area and [...]

People often find out they are positive for hepatitis C when they are donating blood or after routine testing reveals mild abnormalities in their liver function tests. To many this information is a great surprise. Some may have engaged in high-risk activity (such as injection drug use with equipment sharing) perhaps twenty or more years [...]

Usually a person is not aware that infection with cytomegalovirus has occurred, because there are often no symptoms with initial infection. Some people develop a flu-like syndrome when first infected, with fever, fatigue, muscle aches, headache, and mild liver inflammation. This can mimic mononucleosis, which is caused by another virus in the herpes family, the [...]

Medical science has devised a promising new means of hunting for prostate cancer cells in the blood. It’s called molecular staging because the techniques it uses come from the high-tech field of molecular biology.

There are several ideas at work here. One is that PSA is only made by prostate cells. (This is not entirely true; [...]

Here’s a confounding fact: At autopsy, “incidental” prostate cancer—small clusters of cancer cells, an apparently latent form of cancer that resides in millions of men—is found in 30 percent of men of every race and culture in the world. In some men, this latent cancer never poses a danger. In others, however, it does.

There are [...]