
Increasing Testosterone Use Raises Safety Concerns
Too many men are getting testosterone for the wrong reasons
Carina Storrs is a freelance writer in New York City. The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting provided travel support for this story, which originally appeared in Nature.
Too many men are getting testosterone for the wrong reasons
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