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The prostate is a small gland that only men have in their reproductive systems. It is close in shape and size to a walnut. The 
prostate gland is located low in the pelvis, under the bladder, and in front of the rectum. The function of the prostate is to help make a third the semen the body produces. It also helps to keep urine out of semen and enhances pleasurable sensations of arousal. As many men get older problems can arise in the prostate gland. The prostate gland surrounds the urethra which passes urine; this is the source of most problems that develop. The prostate also tends to grow bigger with age and can squeeze the urethra or a tumor can develop that would also make the prostate larger.
Enlarged prostate, prostate cancer and an infection known as prostatitis are the three most common problems that aging men have. There are three tests that can be done to determine if your prostate is healthy or not. A digital rectal exam is a test to feel the prostate for problems. The prostate specific antigen test is a blood test and a biopsy can be done to test for cancer. Prostatitis is an infection or inflammation of the prostate gland. It can affect at least half of all men at some point in their lives. Having this infection does not increase your chances of prostate disease and it is not contagious or spread through sexual contact. Its symptoms include trouble passing urine, chills, fever, and pain in the groin, painful ejaculation, lowered sex drive, and rectal pressure or throbbing. Most cases of prostatitis can be treated with antibiotics for several weeks.
Enlarged prostate is also known as BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia). Hyperplasia means too much growth and benign means not cancerous. Symptoms for Enlarged prostate and prostate cancer can be similar but you can not get prostate cancer from having an enlarged prostate. Symptoms for BPH include trouble beginning to urinate, passing urine often, weak or slow urine stream, and feelings of bladder not fully emptied. It takes many years for enlarged prostate to become a bothersome problem. By the age of 70 all men have some kind of prostate enlargement. It can get almost to the size of a lemon. There are surgeries and drug therapies to treat enlarged prostate.
Prostate cancer happens when cancer cells form in the tissue of the prostate. These cancer cells tend to grow more slowly than most other cancer cells. Cell changes may happen within 10, 20, or 30 years before a tumor gets big enough to cause symptoms. But cancer cells can spread through out the body; so by this time has passed it may have spread to other parts of the body, most commonly the pelvic lymph nodes and bones. Symptoms include weak urine stream, trouble passing urine, pain in hips, back, and pelvis, and painful ejaculation.
Family Health information is available from many different places such as the Internet, medical professionals, so called “old wives’ tales”, traditional remedies and cures as well as from books and from friends. If the remedy is provided by a qualified medical person, then it is likely to be true, and work. However, if the information was provided by a different source, there is no real way to check that the suggestion provided will work. Nowadays, websites can be created in a matter of minutes and can be updated instantly, and as they are not regulated, there is no saying that what is written on a site is true. Many people will look to websites to find out about their medical complaints, but this can do more harm than good. Some websites offering medical information are very vague and don’t really say a great deal, whilst others go into a lot of medical detail that is confusing to those not medically trained. Trusted internet sites, such as those provided by hospitals, or health agencies, and government departments, are most likely to be accurate, and will be kept up to date.
Books providing medical information are likely to be genuine, as it would be hard to get a book published that is factually wrong. Books covering specific ailments or common medical complaints are usually a good place to start, so that you have an idea as to what might be wrong. Some of the famous “Old wives’ tales” types of remedies do work. Friends and family may have their own family or unusual cures or suggestions that work and you may be willing to try them.
Family health websites and magazines are useful sources of information, in that the same question may be asked and answered often, and so the answers are likely to be the same. If you use these sorts of sites, or read these kinds of magazine, then you will be able to assess the quality and accuracy of the information given. You may be the sort of person that goes straight to the Doctors at the first sign of a cold, or somebody who only uses herbal remedies or aromatherapy. You may be the sort of person who never goes to the Doctors, and never takes medication for any ailments, aches or pains.
As someone who has been teaching health informatics students for a number of years, it is rewarding to find this discipline finally receiving the attention and interest it demands. Most health experts have agreed for some time that the two academic disciplines of informatics and genomics are the key disciplines that will shape the future of American healthcare by enabling doctors to have access to personalized healthcare information at the point of care.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act includes specific wording supporting increased funding of health informatics programs around the nation. A recent article in the New York Times has noted that there is a greatly increased demand for “health informatics specialists” who have expertise in medical records, insurance claims, clinical care and computer programming as health care providers look to utilize the $19 billion in stimulus funding directed at implementing and expanding electronic health records.
Health informatics specialists usually start their career or education in computer programming or as health care professionals, and later earn a degree in health informatics and take midlevel or senior jobs at a hospital, doctor’s office, insurance company, drug firm or other organization working with health care data. The experience of the UC Davis Health Informatics program, which I direct, is that most of our graduates have found senior positions in health informatics in both public and private sectors, including a number who have become faculty in health informatics programs, and are now teaching future generations of students.
William Hersh MD, Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health and Science University was quoted in the New York Times as saying , “The health IT people run the servers and install software, but the informatics people are the leaders, who interpret and analyze information and work with the clinical staff.” It is crucial to have highly trained experts in informatics who are able to work across both the disciplines of health and information technology, and who understand and are expert in both. Without these informatics experts it is hard to see how the Obama Administration policies for Health Information Technology can possibly be implemented.
The Web may be chock full of information, and that is great. When it comes to learning more about your child’s health issue, particularly at 2 a.m. during a semi-crisis, it can also make it hard to decide which sites provide trustworthy facts versus unscientific opinions.
Here are the top six Web sites I come back to time and again when I need dependable resources to write about a pediatric health condition.
All of the information on these sites is written and/or reviewed by doctors and other healthcare professionals.
1. Centers for Disease Control: Put your tax dollars to work. The CDC’s web site is updated daily with terrific information about what is in the news, research and other helpful health tips.
2. Kids Health: Sponsored by Nemours Foundation, this great site breaks each health topic into three levels of understanding; for parents, for teens and for children.
3. American Academy of Pediatrics: The AAP offers a terrific library on everything from preemies to poison prevention. Their information represents the consensus view among member pediatricians of what is best for children’s health.
4. National Institutes of Health: The NIH publishes gobs of information about pediatric diseases and conditions. It can be a little more research-oriented (since that’s what the NIH does) but if you’re looking for the latest research, it is a good place to start.
5. Web M.D.: If I know absolutely nothing about a health condition, I will often start at Web M.D. because they do a good job of explaining things in simple terms. From there, I can jump to other sites for more detail, such as #6, Medscape.
6. Medscape: While this site is written for doctors, once I know a bit about a health condition I can understand pretty much everything here. For a parent who has a child with a chronic illness, Medscape will provide the in-depth information you crave. Medscape and Web M.D. are hosted by the same company.
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