Category: Male Health

Male Infertility Treatment: Dr. Paul Turek’s Artificial Testicle Implant? Here’s good news for infertile men. If two scientists from San Francisco, California are successful, in about a decade, infertile men may be able to produce their own sperm and conceive children.

The two men hope to create the world’s first artificial human testicle that can produce sperm. Now with a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, they have embarked on the project, which they hope to finish in five to seven years.

Previous studies have shown scientists treating infertile male mice by producing sperm using stem cells from the mouse, but this has not been replicated in humans, said Dr. Paul Turek, one of the researchers and director of the Turek Clinic, a men’s health medical practice in San Francisco.

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Marketing, profit drive demand for robotic surgeries: Aggressive marketing is driving exploding demand for robotic-assisted surgery for prostate cancer, even if new research shows that it isn’t any better than low-tech surgery.

And marketing, in turn, is driven by big bucks that makers and operators of the new laparoscopic robots can make, the New York Times suggests in a report.

One in six American men develop prostate cancer in their lifetime. Treatment options include radiation and watchful waiting, but the most popular is surgery.

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Kegel Exercise for Men Benefits: It Cures Your Overactive Bladder. The pelvic floor exercises long known to help women with overactive bladders have also been found to help men plagued by the same problem. What’s more, a new study found that the exercises worked as just well as medications.

“Behavioral treatment is just as effective as drug treatment in males with overactive bladder, and that’s big,” said Dr. Jason M. Hafron, a urologist at the William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, who wasn’t involved in the new work.

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In US, UK: Surgery to correct “man-boobs” on the rise
“Being a man and having breasts is as bad as it sounds,” says Steve Beale who endured taunts and cruel
cruelty as he was growing up, all because he developed a condition called gynecomastia—or abnormal growth of male breast tissue.

“My breasts appeared in adolescence, around the time I was expecting mutant superpowers instead. And I got tortured for it at the rugby team changing-rooms at a West Country boys’ grammar,” Beale recalls in the article Why a bloke like me had a boob job, published by The Guardian in November 2003.

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Semen Allergy: Do You Have Post Orgasmic Illness Syndrome or POIS? Let’s add this to our file of weird health conditions. Did you know that some men can be allergic to their own semen? Strange, no? But some researchers from the Netherlands have recently confirmed that some unfortunate men out there really suffer from this condition.

They even have a cute name for it: POIS or post orgasmic illness syndrome.

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