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.
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A Well Lived Life

  Dear William, You called several months ago from across the country to talk with me, as many others do. The story you told moved me as many others do. But the way…

The Sunny Side of a Broken Back

I have a lot of patients in my practice who have broken their backs. Not figuratively by working so hard, but literally, by having spinal cord injuries. Some have been crushed by rolling…

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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  • February 3, 2012 20:57

    Here are some common, basic reasons why men have a lower sex drive and that have nothing to do with testosterone... http://t.co/he94nCCt

  • February 2, 2012 19:01

    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

  • February 1, 2012 23:17

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

  • February 1, 2012 16:58

    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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