The WHYALLA MALE-OUT COMMUNITY FUN DAY is fast approaching. The day is being held to coincide with National Men’s Health Week which runs from June 11-17, 2012. The Whyalla event is being held at the University of SA Whyalla Campus on Nicolson Av...
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How do you know when your new cancer drug is working better than expected? When they shut down the clinical trial so that every participating patient can receive it.
Johnson & Johnson's Zytiga is kind of a big deal. The FDA approved its use last y...
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A Relationship Based Parenting Program
A 6 week parenting program with a focus on your relationship with your child and how to strengthen it.
Starting on Tues. 29th May 2012 1.30pm – 3.30pm and Wed 6th June, 6.00pm - 8.00pm
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EFFECTIVE MEN’S HEALTH PROMOTION men’s health promotion training program
Forum 1, Hyde Park Inn, 271 Elizabeth St, Sydney
EFFECTIVE MEN’S HEALTH PROMOTION is a new improved version of Australia’s leading men’s health...
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In this month's issue:
'Mansome' examines men's self-image, grooming
‘Men Care’ project in Coffs Coast
Current Training Programs (Effective Ways of Engaging Men, Effective Men’s Health Promotion)
more than just a haircut
the high cost...
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"We must intervene early and invest smarter" ... the Minister for Mental Health, Mark Butler. Photo: Quentin Jones
MENTAL ILLNESS in young men costs the Australian economy more than $3 billion per annum, a new report to be launched by the minister for...
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This case has stirred the Australian press for almost a month now. I posted this piece about it some two weeks ago. It’s the case of the Australian woman who moved to Italy to study the language, met an Italian man, married him and ha...
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Despite President Obama’s 2011 Father’s Day lament on the irresponsibility of “deadbeat fathers” footloose and fancy free from taking responsibility for their children, in fact the two major structural threats to fathers’ ...
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The student union at Simon Fraser University in B.C. has made the apparently contentious decision to finance the creation of a Men’s Centre on campus. Motivated, surely, by deep-seeated patriarchal values, the union approved a budget of $30,000 t...
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There are just a couple of spots left for the Men on the Move retreat for men at Serpentine this coming weekend.
If this has interest for you, we invite you to join with the other men who also seek a greater understanding of themselves; want to improve...
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Mud glorious mud ... The joys of being a boy.
I’m as much of a fan of martial arts as I am of major dental work. But this week, as I watched my little boy wrap a white belt around his skinny waist, join a line of his mates and learn to kick, my ...
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The Middle Men
Wednesday 30 May, 10:00pm
The concept of ‘middle age’ is changing as recent generations are living longer and healthier lives. Men in the 21st Century are entering their ‘second adulthoods’ in radically different...
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The Middle Men
Wednesday 30 May, 10:00pm
The concept of ‘middle age’ is changing as recent generations are living longer and healthier lives. Men in the 21st Century are entering their ‘second adulthoods’ in radically different...
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By SUSAN GREGORY THOMAS
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When K.J. Wiemer got married in the 1990s, he didn't think he was becoming a husband. Rather, he says, he saw himself as "one of two 20-something professionals living together, who were now entering the phase of 'o...
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