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…
Rise of the Instant Family
Using sex to conceive, the chance of having twins or higher multiple births is about 1-2%. With assisted reproduction, including intrauterine insemination (IUI) in the office and in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the…
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…
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,…
Are Fathers Better Citizens?
As a surfer, I remember charging pretty big walls of cold, wintery Northern California water with the goal of getting a fast, albeit short, adrenaline-stoked ride. Years ago on Thanksgiving, I was…
Guide to Surviving the Holiday Season
Two patients told me that they were getting divorced this week. They came to the office and thanked me for all that I have done for them. They wished that the assisted…
Fertility from Sterility
Do you think it is possible to have your own children with absolutely no sperm in the ejaculate? Why yes. It happens on a daily basis in my practice. Honestly, the word “sterility” has…
Fitting Into Your Genes
“Why Me? I take great care of myself.” I often hear this common question from men with low or no sperm counts who are unable to conceive. In fact, they usually are taking…
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…
Cancer’s Second Hit
“This is as hard on me as having cancer was. The difference is that being infertile is not life threatening; having cancer is.” These are the words of a young cancer survivor…
February 4, 2012
Paul Turek, MD — Ernie, Sounds like you have nonobstructive azoospermia. Wondering whether your doctors identified any genetic (y chromosome or other chromosome) or...
February 3, 2012
ERNIE — DEAR DR. TUREK,
MY SPERM TEST SHOWED A HIGHER FSH LEVEL,AND NO SPERM AT ALL.
I HAD A BIOPSY WHICH RESULT CONCLUDED...
February 1, 2012
Tony | Men's Health — When the first report on the WiFi effect came out, I don't really believe that it has much effect on...
January 29, 2012
rabah — docteur je vous remercie pour le nobles services offert aux steriles comme moi. jai une azoospermie secretoire depuis 20 ans..biobsie=...
