Age-related increases in estrogen may be the reason why inguinal hernias are common among older men, new research with rodents suggests. Inguinal hernias occur when soft tissue — often part of the ...

Using a novel, medication-based approach, a new Northwestern Medicine study successfully reversed existing inguinal hernias in male mice and fully restored their normal anatomy without surgery. Even ...

Surgical repair of an inguinal hernia can alleviate pain and prevent a HERNIA ACCIDENT, although such surgery is not risk-free. Many men without troublesome symptoms, therefore, delay surgery until ...

John Syng Dorsey [1] once stated: The large proportion of mankind who are afflicted with this complaint; -- the great variety of forms in which it appears; -- the fatality which results from its ...

Does herniorrhaphy impair male fertility? In a paper recently published in Annals of Surgery, [1] the authors studied fertility outcomes in 32,621 Danish male inguinal hernia patients operated with ...

FOR many men, the occasional ache or bulge in the abdomen is brushed off as nothing serious. But beneath the surface, hernias are more common, and potentially more dangerous, than many realise. Silent ...

Currently, the only available treatment is surgery to repair the weakened area Mice were treated with an anti-estrogen drug currently approved to treat breast cancer ‘Blockbuster’ findings also ...