A Year Without Answers II
This is the second of two guest posts from a patient who lives in Europe. He recently recontacted me about his experience with male infertility and how it affected him. Moved by his…
The Incredible (Renewable?) Egg
It’s hard to keep up anymore; things are changing so quickly in fertility medicine. Just in the last week, a Harvard researcher discovered stem cells in the human ovary and a 66 year…
It’s in the Steak
In quiet moment on the couch, I recently asked my 8-year old daughter what the word “hope” means to her. “If life were a meal, hope belongs in the steak,” she said. The…
Your Hair or Your Hormones
It’s the perfect drug for 40 million men in America who are going bald. Take it once a day to keep the hair on your head and shrink the prostate, which also commonly…
The Artificial Testicle: Funded!
It is the stuff of dreams in academic medicine: an NIH (National Institutes of Health) research grant. Get one of these and you’re pretty much assured of getting tenure and succeeding at…
The Wall of Holiday Cards
I always tell grateful patients that the kindest thing that they can do for me is to send a holiday picture of the family. We have a wall in the clinic that…
Recipe for Making a Walrus
How do you help a 2700 lb Walrus conceive? Very carefully. In fact, only a handful of walruses have conceived in captivity over the last century. In the U.S., it is 10…
Wi-Fi, Sperm Counts and Fertility
Maybe it’s time to rename the “laptop” computer something else and keep if off our laps (how about mobile computers or “mobees”?). First we hear that they generate heat that elevates scrotal temperature,…
An Ounce of (Fertility) Prevention
“I’ve been told that my cancer is now cured… how do I get my fertility back? Patients ask me this question weekly all the time and I am glad to help. Some of…
The Recipe for Man Made Sperm
Stem cells rock. While the stock market tumbles, stem cell science is sizzling. I know, you’re thinking: what is he talking about? No diseases have been cured with new stem cell technologies. But, from what’s being discovered almost weekly now, I can tell you that male infertility is likely to be one of the earliest boxes ticked on the “Diseases to Cure” list for stem cells.
May 20, 2012
Arthur — This is a wonderful reply - I can relate in so many ways. As a cancer survivor, I had...
May 13, 2012
Paul Turek, MD — Dear Shahid, That is quite a story! I must admit, the reaction that your husband is having to hearing the...
May 13, 2012
shahid — Dear Doctor,
I live in Pakistan. I am 32 and my husband is of 33 years old. We got married in...
