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Warming Up Frosty the Snowman

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The holidays are upon us. As the song goes: “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” Short days. Warm clothes. Scarves. Blankets. Wood fires. Mulled cider. And, of course, “get home early honey, it’s that time of the month!” Does this make you “Frosty the Snowman?” “When sex goes from being fun to being […]

Opening the Door to Men’s Health

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Are men and women really that different? OK, how about if I drop the rhetoric, forget the biology and ask it again? Yup, still true, especially when it comes to medical care. Sobering Facts I spoke at the first U.S. meeting of the Men’s Health World Congress recently in Washington D.C. In a word, it […]

Clearing the PIPES in the Male Reproductive System

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This case of the month involves an actual patient from The Turek Clinic. He was 32 years old and had been having trouble conceiving for three years. His history was entirely unremarkable except for one thing: he had had a pain in his right testicle immediately after ejaculation for as long as he could remember. […]

Is Vasectomy the New Condom?

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Ok, so I pulled the trigger and officially called a vasectomy the “new condom” in the press. Sounds crazy, eh? Of course, a vasectomy doesn’t protect you from sexually transmitted diseases like a condom. But, when it comes to fertility, vasectomies are more reversible than previously thought. Reversal Research Results Here’s the simple reason why […]

Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map

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He was only 10 years old when leukemia struck. And it took many rounds of chemotherapy, radiation and a bone marrow transplant to cure him. Now married, he asked me a simple question: “I know there is nothing in my semen Doc, but can I have my own kids? Sterility after cancer treatment. A tough […]

Men’s Health Begins with Boys

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“Our male youth are in trouble,” says Dennis Barbour, CEO of The Boy’s Initiative. “Their school dropout rates are climbing and they are dropping out of college more than ever. They are failing to adjust to a rapidly changing economy.” Harsh words from a man who really cares about where America’s youth are headed. Where […]

Tori & Dean: Vasectomy As Heirloom Investment

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& Tori Spelling and her husband Dean McDermott recently had their 4th child. Stirring in the news though is why he avoided having his wings clipped after the last child. Dean recently addressed the rumor mill and confirmed that they indeed could afford a vasectomy but simply didn’t do it. So, was it too expensive or […]

Honored by Healthtap

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Ah shucks! Thank you for the honor…you really shouldn’t have! The Grammies? No, the Healthtap Top Doctor Awards. What did I win? A piece of paper. What does it mean? I think it means a lot. What is Healthtap? Healthtap is a social media site that has 50,000 doctors answering medical questions posed by the online […]

A Path to Men’s Health

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& Men are medically underserved. You can argue with me until the cows come home about why, but this simple fact is true. A boy has a pediatrician through adolescence and then…poof…no doctor after that. Sure, several doctors may come and go when he is a young adult but no single provider really” “owns” or […]

Men’s Health 101: Infertility as Disease

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Name a disease that’s about half as common as diabetes, affects both sexes and is running rampant in developed countries? Obesity? Good try. How about infertility? Ah, but is infertility really a “disease” you ask? You thought it was something that happens to a minority of otherwise healthy people, right? Well guess again. What is […]