Alright everybody, put away your books and notes…it’s quiz time! I’ve been blogging here for more than half a year, passing along a lot of news and information, so let’s see how much you’ve learned. Fortunately for our purposes here, the doctors and editors at http://eMedicineHealth.com (a division of WebMD) have provided an online quiz that they call, “Impotence (Erectile Dysfunction) Quiz: Test Your Medical IQ of ED.” It’s short – only 16 questions, all either True/False of Multiple Choice – and shouldn’t take much more than ten minutes to complete. Read More

As part of the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project, the University of Chicago conducted a study of more than 3,000 American adults, ages 57 to 85. The focus was on older men, using the logic that these men would (a) be more likely than their younger counterparts to have sexual problems and (b) they are also more likely to experience “partner betweenness”, since over time a couple's social circles tend to overlap. The data showed that about a quarter of men experience partner betweenness and that these men are 92 percent more likely to report erectile dysfunction. Read More