Award-winning urologist - and pioneer in Men’s Health - Dr. Paul Turek blogs weekly about issues such as infertility, vasectomy and vasectomy reversal, sexual and hormonal dysfunction and more. Keep up with latest in this fascinating field of medicine.
January 2010
Do you agree with the Ancients on the good of the hood?

For the Good of the Hood

To circumcise or not. A loaded subject to be sure. The practice of male circumcision is ancient, likely far older than the biblical account of Abraham in Genesis. The Jewish faith, but not…

Getting There Early or On Time: Which is Better?

What is the most common sexual health problem affecting men? That’s easy, it’s erectile dysfunction, right? Nope. Try premature ejaculation. Hands down more common than erection issues, affecting 25-40% of men in the…

The Quiet After the The Storm of Cancer

I have to admit, the testis “mapping” procedure that I developed some years ago has truly been a workhorse technique for my male infertility practice. And for the practices of other male reproductive…

Weighing Your Options

What you weigh affects how your sperm play. And your fertility. Overweight men tend to have lower semen volumes, less sperm and more oddly shaped sperm. The same is also true for men…

Keeping the Family Jewels Shining

As a living, breathing being on this good earth, we tend to take things for granted. The ability to have offspring can be one of them. That is, until the day that a…

About Dr. Turek

A founder of the male fertility and male sexual healthcare movement, Dr. Paul Turek is also an internationally recognized master microsurgeon who specializes in vasectomy and vasectomy reversal, FNA testicular mapping, sperm retrieval and male erectile and sexual dysfunction.

He is a former Academy of Medical Educators Endowed Chair Professor of Urology, Obstetrics & Gynecology at UCSF and while there, directed a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for training new leaders in men's reproductive health. He has authored more than 175 publications on genetic, urological and epidemiological issues in men's reproductive health and regularly consults for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the NIH and other branches of the US government and industry on matters relating to men's reproductive health. He currently holds an NIH grant to create a human artificial testicle to make sperm.

He is Past-President of the American Society of Andrology, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the Société Internationale d'Urologie and the Royal Society of Medicine (London). Dr Turek is also Editor of the Reproductive Volume of Netter's Images, 2nd Edition. His hobbies include vintage cars and long board surfing.

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    Wow. Israel’s IVF rate per citizen is almost 10 times ours in the US! Why? The State pays for it. http://t.co/h3Eh9Com

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    Happy early Valentine’s Day everyone! Next time, consider the surest form of contraception ever developed- vasectomy! http://t.co/InHZa4yS

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    Not sure that we are fans of this practice for everyone, but making young women more aware of their biological... http://t.co/SF1qGl4w

  • January 31, 2012 19:32

    Dr Turek comments today on ABC News about a new form of male birth control: http://t.co/yhEHwQL7

  • January 30, 2012 16:47

    New DrTurek Post: Your Hair or Your Hormones - It’s the perfect drug for 40 million men in America who are goin... http://t.co/jpVecb7D

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