Experts Pay Attention to Men's HealthChinese sociologists and medical experts Monday urged the whole nation to pay more attention to men's health and carry out proper medical treatment for male patients.The publicity office of the Men's Health Day organized a symposium on men's health and family planning in Beijing, which was attended by professors Guo Yinglu and Hu Peicheng at Beijing University Medical Sciences College, research professors Liu Ying,Li Yinhe and Lu Jianhua from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and research professor Chen Zhenwen at the Science and Technology Institute under the State Family Planning Commission (SFPC). Sociologist Liu said men should take the same responsibility as women when it comes to implementing family planning. Men's health protection has an important bearing on safeguarding the reproductive health of the human beings. Guo, who is also an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), said andrological research in China is focusing on sexual functional abnormalities, sexually transmitted diseases and sterility in men. With an increasingly bigger aging population, the nation has seen a high incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes and erectile dysfunction (ED). According to an authoritative estimation, more than half of the Chinese men over 40 years old suffer from ED. Guo suggests the government and medical organizations should extensively popularize medical sciences in andrology among the masses. From 2000 on, the SFPC sets October 28 as Men's Health Day. Under help of the manufacturer of ED curative Viagra, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Ltd., the SFPC will launch a nationwide knowledge promotion campaign in 15 big cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing and Hangzhou. |
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