Screening for prostate cancer has become extremely controversial.

Should healthy men have this test or wait for symptoms?

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force created a firestorm when it suggested routine PSA testing should be reconsidered.

The debate echoes the emotional response to propose changes in mammogram screening for breast cancer several years ago.

What should men do when faced with such confusion in the medical community?

Can prostate cancer be prevented?

If it is diagnosed, what are the treatment options?

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, we talked with Dr. Aaron Katz

to learn everything you need to know about conventional and integrative therapies for prostate cancer.

First, this news.

In the people's pharmacy health headlines, resting a laptop computer in your lap might not be healthy for the gonads.

At least, that's the preliminary conclusion from a study

of 29 healthy men. Researchers exposed semen samples to the electromagnetic field generated by a laptop

connected to the web through Wi-Fi. After four hours, the investigators tested the sperm for

motility. Roughly one-fourth were not moving. In a control sample, 14% lost

motility over four hours, even though the temperature was identical. There was also more DNA damage

in the Wi-Fi exposed sperm. The authors of the study conclude that our data suggest the use

of a laptop computer wirelessly connected to the Internet

and positioned near the male reproductive organs may reduce human sperm quality.

Several experts caution that it's far too soon to conclude that laptops affect fertility and more research is necessary.

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