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It comes as Men's Health Week kicks off today across the midlands.
Irish men need to take charge of their own needs when it comes to opening up and talking about medical matters.
Pharmacists are inviting men to to make use of their local pharmacy and to talk in confidence about their needs.
Men's Health Week kicks off today and the Irish Pharmacy Union is asking men to do at least one thing to help themselves.
Pharmacist Tomas Conefrey described some of the issues they're tackling.