Men who drink one or two glasses of red wine each day may decrease their risk of lung cancer, even if they are smokers, researchers report. The findings were published in the October issue of the, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

“An antioxidant substance in red wine may help to prevent lung cancer. The findings provide momentum for future research to find out if there is something in red wine that may help to either prevent or treat lung cancer.” said lead researcher Chun Chao.

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LONDON (Reuters) – A Chinese herbal medicine known as “horny goat weed” is a potent substitute of Viagra for impotent men, Italian researchers said.

The herb has established its repute as a natural aphrodisiac. The research, which did not observe whether the herb truly increases desire, could lead to new drugs to help men get erections, said Mario Dell’Agli, who led the study.

“This could be the natural Viagra. The novelty is that we have synthesized a new molecule that one day may be able to replace Viagra.”

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LONDON – Widespread antidepressant drugs may impair men’s fertility by destructing the DNA in their sperm, according to research, reported in New Scientist magazine.

A study conducted on thirty-five healthy men given paroxetine (Paxil or Seroxat) by GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) found that, the percentage of sperm cells with fragmented DNA rose from 13.8 % to 30.3 % after just four weeks treatment.

The researcher, Peter Schlegel and Cigdem Tanrikut of the Cornell Medical Center in New York concluded, “The fertility potential of a substantial proportion of men on paroxetine may be adversely affected by these changes in sperm DNA integrity.”

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NEW YORK – Being obese may faint a man’s hope of becoming a father, even if he is healthy superficially, a new study concludes.

Researchers came to know that among 87 healthy men ages 19 to 48, obese were less likely to be a father. Precisely, they exhibit hormonal variation that leads to a reduced reproductive capacity, the researchers report in the journal Fertility and Sterility.

As compare to thinner men, obese had reduced levels of testosterone in their blood, as well as poorer levels of luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), both hormones are essential for reproduction.

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