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The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has prepared a draft recommendation against prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based screening for prostate cancer. While not binding, primary care doctors usually follow USPTF guideline. Insurance companies have already begun discussions about ceasing psa test coverage.

The psa test has limitations, as well as benefits. This is no doubt that we need a better test, and we need treatments that don't put men at risk for impotence and incontinence. But, psa testing is what we have, today, in 2011and, likely, all that we will have for next few years.

I have been quoted in the N Y Times and other outlets about this. And, Malecare will be collaborating with our brother prostate cancer organizations to create an appropriate response from our community. But, we need to know what you think!

Please tell us how PSA testing affected your life. Go to http://psaandme.org/ and post a few sentences or paragraphs. You can post your thoughts with your name or anonymously. Without your voice, we are nothing.

Article here. Wouldn't having female advocacy groups and no equivalent for men be a Title IX violation? Excerpt:

'Female Dartmouth students have access to more support than their male peers. Female advocacy groups at Dartmouth include Women in Business, the Society of Women’s Engineers, Women in Leadership and the Women in Science Program, which provides faculty mentors and paid internships to freshmen women. Link Up pairs first-year women with senior mentors. It’s unfair that men do not have similar opportunities for mentoring or support.

Article here.

'FAST FACTS:
A Bartlett man is free after being falsely accused of attempted rape
Police say the victim admitted that she made up the story
Maher Garada says his business in Bartlett is now suffering

(Memphis 10/6/2011)-A Bartlett man says his reputation has been ruined and life destroyed by woman who falsely accused him of a crime.

Maher Garada was arrested last week and charged with attempted rape.

He was released from jail several days later after police discovered Angela Poindexter, made up the entire story.

But Garada says the damage has already been done.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'Men accused of rape should have their identities kept secret, according to a leading lawyer in Jersey.

Currently the victim of any sexual crime is kept anonymous, but the identity of the accused is revealed.

This has led to cases nationally and locally where men who were later proved innocent in court were victimised by members of the public.

The alleged victim's identity is protected by law, mainly so that the victim feels confident in giving evidence.

But if it is a false allegation, labelling an innocent man a rapist can have a detrimental effect on his life.

Hazel Jury, from Victim Support, explained: "We'd like to make it as easy as possible for people to come forward with that allegation, but obviously on the other hand if it proves to be a false allegation - and that does happen from time to time - that in itself is very unjust and can have a devastating effect on that person's life, anyone who's been accused of anything that can be unjust and unfair it will resonate with them."'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A woman who police say filed a false attempted rape claim against a Bartlett man waived her preliminary hearing this morning and was held for the action of the Shelby County grand jury.

Angela Poindexter’s bond was set at $25,000 — almost equal to the $30,000 bond under which Maher Garada, the man she accused of trying to assault her, was held for six days.

Poindexter, of Memphis, has been in custody since she acknowledged Tuesday that her claim about Garada, 50, ripping her clothes and trying to assault her was false
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In court this morning, prosecutor David Lakin sought the same $30,000 bond for Poindexter, saying it was only fair since Garada was held on that amount.

Municipal Judge Freeman Marr noted that bonds were not set as punishment, but as a way to assure the defendant would return to court.'

Sheesh, this demeaning misandrist garbage never stops. First William Bennett, then this piece of garbage from the Daily Mail Online. Excerpt:

'Like the original Madonna and child, the young woman on the Tube has her beloved draped around her, his head nestling on her shoulder.

As he snoozes, she texts idly with one hand, while the other absent-mindedly strokes his arm, soothingly, maternally. But this is no serene scene of mother and son — this is a couple. A couple of adults.

If you are forced to use public transport, you see them all the time. Soppy young blokes in skinny jeans, hair artfully arranged to mimic a guinea pig in a hurricane, being mollycoddled by a domineering, post-Spice Girls vixen who, if figures released last week are correct, also earns more than him.
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No one’s saying everyone should conform to a gender stereotype, or that men should be ‘dissing’ their women like some caricature of male aggression.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Women are not the only victims of domestic violence.

Lisa Moore knows this from personal, painful experience.

Her brother, 45-year-old Randy Ferguson, was shot to death by his wife five years ago, bringing a terrible end to years of constant verbal and emotional abuse.

"I watched my brother suffer in shame for years," Moore said. "It was hard for me. I introduced my brother to her. They seemed to have it all together in the beginning, but I quickly learned I had made the biggest mistake of my life. ... She was controlling, manipulative and jealous."

And violent.

Although physically half her husband's imposing size, Angela Ferguson's relentless harassment psychologically and emotionally reduced the man to nothing, Moore recalled. Beaten down, his self-esteem crushed, he watched all his hopes for salvaging his marriage crash in dust, smoke and ruins.

Article here. Excerpt:

'THE Fiji Women's Crisis Centre is concerned at the increasing rate of child abuse cases in the west.

According to centre officials, a total of 17 incidents have been recorded so far this year compared to 11 registered at the end of last year.

Centre co-ordinator Shamima Ali urged members of the public, especially men, to be responsible and to respect children.

"Any child who is being abused sexually or otherwise is required to contact the centre or the police," Ms Ali said.

"People should support women and children who are in this situation. And men, please, change your abusive behaviour and treat women and girls as equal human beings and respect them."'

Article here. Excerpt:

'The murder trial of Barbara Sheehan, the Queens school secretary who shot her husband with 11 bullets, often bears the hallmarks of a dysfunctional wake.
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Jacquelyn C. Campbell, an expert witness on domestic violence from Johns Hopkins University, likened an abused woman to a dog who receives a shock every time it tries to leave a cage, eventually remaining frozen in place, even when the cage door is left opened.
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But the Queens prosecutor, Debra Pomodore, attacked the syndrome as little more than “pseudoscience” embraced by the defendant out of desperation to stay out of prison. Moreover, Ms. Pomodore, an assistant district attorney, argued, being abused was not an excuse for an open season on killing men; of the nearly four million women abused each year by their husbands in the United States, only 500 to 600 killed them, she said.
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Article here. Excerpt:

'Michael Dowd, Sheehan's lawyer, has made a career of defending women who kill their tormentors. In a 1991 paper discussing the battered women's defense, he wrote about the difficulties of surmounting the skepticism that women in such cases face.

"The denial of the equality of women in cultures which perceive such treatment as both acceptable and lawful is essential to the existence of domestic violence," Dowd wrote. "This denial is the cornerstone of men's violence against women and ultimately operates to deny battered women a fair trial when they are successful in fighting back against their abusers."
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It is not easy for battered women to obtain such verdicts. The fact that the defendant remained in the relationship, rather than fleeing or seeking help, can work against her. Prosecutors will often ask whether the defendant reported the abuse or told anybody.'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Working in an office full of women, many of whom are young, single gals, I hear all the time, “Where are all the good men out there?” Even in this post-feminist age of asserting independence from men and having both a career and a family, women still want their prince and these days, he can be really tough to find.

Bill Bennett, who used to work for President George H. W. Bush and is now at the Claremont Institute, just came out with a new book called, "The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood," and it could not have been released at a better time.
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These men should be studying in college, getting a job, and contributing to society through the workforce and family. How in the world do they have time to play video games for hours? The answer is that they just don’t ever grow up.

Story here. Excerpt:

'NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Memphis woman who spent 26 years on death row and came within two months of being executed for hiring a stranger to kill her husband was freed Friday from a Tennessee prison.

Gaile Owens, 58, was greeted by a small group of supporters outside Tennessee's Prison for Women. Owens was all smiles as she pushed a yellow laundry cart containing her belongings past the prison's razor-wire fence to freedom.

Owens was sentenced to die in 1985, but her death sentence was commuted to life in prison last year and she won parole last week.
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Supporters had urged her release, claiming she was a battered wife who didn't use that defense because she didn't want her young sons to know about the physical and sexual abuse.
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Sidney Porterfield, the man she was accused of hiring to kill her husband with a tire iron, was also sentenced to death. He is still on death row.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'She had always admitted to killing her husband, using two guns to fire 11 bullets inside the couple’s home in Queens. But she insisted she had no choice: if she had not shot him, he would have surely killed her first.

On Thursday, a jury in State Supreme Court in Queens agreed, clearing the woman, Barbara Sheehan, of second-degree murder charges in a case that had been viewed as a strenuous test of a battered-woman defense. Her son and daughter, the children of her slain husband, wept with joy.

During the trial, the jury heard how Ms. Sheehan had been relentlessly abused by her husband, Raymond Sheehan, a former police sergeant, during their 24 years of marriage. But the critical question at trial was whether Ms. Sheehan was in imminent danger when she killed her husband; New York State’s self-defense law justifies the use of lethal force when a threat to a person’s life is deemed immediate.
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Article here. Excerpt:

'Men commit more crime than women but there's one category where women hold the distinction – embezzlement.

In a national trend that is playing out in series of Sonoma County cases, women are more often arrested on charges of stealing from employers, churches or community organizations.

Their dominance is likely a result of the positions they occupy such as bookkeepers and bank tellers that allow greater access to financial records, checking accounts and cash, experts say.

And a perception that women are more trustworthy than men may lead to even more opportunity to misappropriate funds, said Richard Scott, a Santa Rosa lawyer specializing in embezzlement defense.'

Story here. Excerpt:

'A cheating Melbourne wife who committed the ultimate betrayal by plotting to have her lover kill her millionaire husband on his birthday, has been found guilty of attempted murder.

Vicky Soteriou, 44, had her lover Ari Dimitrakis stab her husband Chris as she walked arm-in-arm with him after celebrating his 44th birthday at a Melbourne restaurant in January last year.

Chris Soteriou suffered life threatening injuries.

Until that night Mr Soteriou believed he had the perfect marriage and the perfect life.

He woke from a coma to be told his wife had been cheating on him and was told a few days later that she had plotted to kill him.

After nearly two years of "hell" Mr Soteriou finally saw justice on Friday.

He yelled out "yes" and wept as a Victorian Supreme Court jury found his wife guilty of attempting to murder him.'