August 5, 2009 - 15:15 AMT
Yerevan hosts "Man's health - from theory to practice" seminar
A 2-day seminar titled "Man's health - from theory to practice" kicked off in Yerevan today on the initiative of DAAD Alumni Armenia and the National Institute of Health.

The participants of the seminar are urologists, andrologists, sexual pathologists, endocrinologists and other specialists engaged in diagnosing, preventing and treating male diseases. Special attention will be paid to the problems of reproductive function of men.

According to DAAD head Rafael Badalyan, quite half of men over 40 have health problems.

"To avoid these problems, men should not feel ashamed of being examined. Besides, they should maintaining a healthy lifestyle," he said.

The results of numerous surveys showed that men's lifetime is 5 years less than women's.