Prostate cancer kills around 30,000 men every year in the USA. As with every health condition, it’s always preferable to prevent rather than cure prostate cancer, but how can this be done and what’s the latest news on screening?
Prostate cancer preventionWith prostate cancer such a common form of cancer in males in the US,…
Read More
Have you ever experienced that urgent need to go to the bathroom? Or that awful hot burning sensation when you do? Then you probably know what it’s like to have cystitis. Combine that with pain in your lower belly, and in serious cases, a fever, and you can see why folks want to avoid this condition as much as possible. So read on to find out more information about how to prevent cystitis, and how to cope with…
Read More
A vasectomy is a common, long-lasting procedure that is designed to sterilize a man by preventing sperm from entering his seminal stream. It’s seen as an effective alternative for those who no longer want to use condoms or have partners that cannot or prefer not to use medicinal birth control.
Who It’s For
After surveying families, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
Read More
On September 13, 2012, Dr. Ralph Madeb, chief of surgery at Newark-Wayne Community Hospital, and Dr. John Valvo, medical director of robotics at Rochester General Health System, teamed up to perform Newark-Wayne’s first robotic surgery using the hospital’s da Vinci Surgical System. The robotic system was used to perform urological surgery on a patient named John Boden.
Benefits of…
Read More
In addition to the slew of health problems caused by excess weight, obese and overweight men have one more issue to deal with. Fresh research published in the British Journal of Urology International reveals links between waist size and sexual and urinary dysfunction in men. The study was conducted by the Weill Medical Center at…
Read More
With cancer taking the second place spot among leading causes of death in the United States, healthcare specialists and patients alike have massively increased their attention to preventative methods over the last few years.
Prostate Cancer Screening
For fearers of prostate cancer, a disease that kills 30,000 men in the U.S. each year, one of the best…
Read MoreNY Daily News staff writer Lindsay Goldwert reportsmen concerned about having a small penis often have “perfectly average-sized genitalia”.
“Penile size is a matter of great interest among men who are affected by ‘short penis syndrome’ or just believe themselves to have a small penis, even though the dimensions of the organ fall within the normal range,” stated…
Read MoreThe Montreal Gazette reports of a very unexpected finding by Canadian researchers who recently conducted an ultrasound to review a growth on a patient’s testicles: the mass looked like a face staring back at them.
“It was almost like art coming out of this patient’s testicles,” said Dr. Naji Touma, an assistant professor of urology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. “It was an amusing finding.”
[caption id=”attachment_212″ align=”aligncenter” width=”620″ caption=”Ultrasound image of a growth on a testicle. Source: Queen's…
Read MoreAccording to The Local, “France’s News in English”, the Paris-based National Academy of Surgery (L’Academie Nationale de Chirurgie) has published measurements of “average penis size”.
The organization, which dates back to 1731 and is one of France’s most respected medical organizations, has released this information in an effort to discourage men from going through penis enlargement procedures, which they consider extremely dangerous, not to mention highly ineffective.
According to the study, a “normal” penis should be between 9-9.5 centimeters…
Read MoreA study conducted by Korean Urologists from Gachon University and reported in the Asian Journal of Andrology finds that the ratio of the length of a man’s index finger (also known as your “pointer finger”) compared to his ring finger is linked with penis size: The lower the ratio, the longer the penis.
Research conducted on 144 Korean men who were hospitalized for urological surgery measured the patients’ penile length — flaccid and stretched — just after…
Read More