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University of Illinois researchers did some tests on rats, and found that combining the 2 vegetables helped to prevent prostate cancer:

Chinese doctors say they successfully transplanted a penis on a man who lost his own in an accident, but had to remove it two weeks later because of psychological problems experienced by the man and his wife.

As word spread of the doganagis' work, more locals showed up. Ten of the operations were on boys with a congenital anomaly called hypospadia, in which the urinary opening is not at the tip of the penis. The condition is considered shameful in Afghanistan's male-dominated culture.

Russian doctors have managed to make a new penis for a patient who had lost his organ in a dog attack, the Moskovsky Komsomolets daily reported on Thursday. The victim was so thin that his cousin had to become a skin donor for the successful operation.

In fact, as much as I wish it were, breaking your penis isn’t rare. Guys do it when they get all pile-drivery and they miss the bull's-eye, or when she’s riding Bronco Billy and slips off the saddle. Bend a penis past the breaking point and you can snap the inner chambers, releasing blood into surrounding areas.

Men have a built-in system to find out if their arteries are healthy or not. All they have to do is look below their belt. Roizen and Oz claim that the penis is a man’s dipstick. It can tell how everything is functioning throughout the rest of a man’s body.

A year-and-a-half after A's circumcision ceremony, his parents had to have their son re-circumcised under anesthesia after the first mohel 'didn't cut off enough.' The parents sued the first mohel, and won NIS 45,000 in damages.

he hot favourite to win the German version of Pop Idol is planning to use her winnings to buy a penis.

Didi Knoblauch, 25, one of the finalists on Germany Searches for a Superstar, was born a girl but is now half way towards becoming a boy.

The first surge of testosterone happens in the uterus, a few weeks into development, causing an embryo with the XY combination of chromosomes to develop male sex organs.

A second and poorly understood surge happens during infancy. About its only noticeable effect is when a baby boy's spontaneous erection shocks his parents.

"Circumcision is a very contentious subject," says Dr. Edgar Schoen, the former head of pediatrics at Kaiser Oakland, Calif., whose new book On Circumcision is reigniting the debate about circumcision. "After all, you're talking about a subject that transcends psychology, medicine, religion and sex.

"It's not merely a simple operation."

Schoen, who lives in Point Richmond, is an outspoken proponent of performing infant male circumcision, and his new book is full of lively historical anecdotes and modern-day medical statistics that make the decision to have the operation performed seem like a no-brainer.

These three peer-reviewed articles research the pathophysiology of the erectile dysfunction (ED) associated with bicycling. They together report that the high pressures in the perineum while straddling a saddle compress and temporarily occlude penile blood flow. They also hypothesized that the lining vessels of the compressed arteries become damaged, thus leading to potential permanent artery blockage.

However, not all men who ride bicycles will develop erectile dysfunction. One past study suggested that sexual health consequences adversely affect 5% of riders (based on survey data that would therefore include 1,000,000 riding men with ED).

At last we know where the penis is represented in the male brain.

The genitalia's location on the "homunculus", the brain's map of body parts, has been in dispute since the 1920s. Now Christian Kell at the University of Frankfurt in Germany has put eight men into an MRI scanner to help settle the question. Using a soft brush, Kell stroked parts of each volunteer's body while recording brain activity.

Moderately potent topical steroids are just as effective as highly potent ones for treating phimosis and offer a lower risk of side effects, new research suggests.

Phimosis is a condition in which the foreskin opening is too small for it to be pulled back over the head of the penis. Phimosis can affect 8 percent of boys between the ages of 6 and 7. Although phimosis can resolve by itself, it is often treated by circumcision, in which the foreskin is surgically removed.

Peyronie's disease isn't a disease, but a condition that affects the penis. A plaque or hard lump forms on the upper or lower side of the penis in the layers of erectile tissue. The plaque may begin as inflammation (redness and swelling) and harden into a scar. It is not cancerous. Researchers aren't sure what causes the plaque to form. Some have suggested it comes from injuring the penis by hitting it or bending it, especially during intercourse, but this doesn't explain why most cases develop slowly or why many cases go away on their own.

Phimosis, an inability to retract the foreskin fully, is common and harmless in infants and pre-pubescent males, with only about 44 percent of boys having a fully retractable foreskin by age 10. Minimal treatment in the teenage years involves waiting, stretching as in normal masturbation (by emulating thrusting with hand movements, so the foreskin moves over the glans and is gently stretched over time - the Beaug� method (http://www.cirp.org/library/treatment/phimosis/beauge2/)) or application of steroids. This normal situation is sometimes called preputial adhesions or physiological phimosis. True phimosis involves irritation, dysuria, bleeding, acute or chronic urinary retention and non-retractability. It affects about 1.5% of uncircumcised males by age 17.

Sam Freeman is a walking advertisement for early cancer detection.

Since his prostate was removed in January, the 61-year-old Roman has been healthy, cancer-free and working full time as director of Coosa Valley Technical College’s Certified Literate Community Program.

But things could have turned out differently if Freeman hadn’t happened to take a free blood test at a local health fair last fall.

“I didn’t have any symptoms,” Freeman recalled. “On a whim I had my bloodwork taken, and I forgot about it, really.”

My friend Ellen Friedrichs often hits me with questions like "Can I break my penis?" and "Are there any long-term effects of masturbation?" Friedrichs, who has a master's in health education, offers workshops for teens on various sexual topics including STD prevention, safer sex, puberty, and pregnancy predicaments. She writes for Planned Parenthood's teenwire.com site, where she responds to almost 200 questions a week; teaches human sexuality at Rutgers; works with teens in a South Bronx after-school program; and recently launched her own site, sexedvice.com, to reach a wider audience

Woods couldn't hug his father, Earl, the man who put clubs in his crib, the Vietnam vet who coughed and jangled keys in Tiger's backswing as part of what Earl would call "psychological warfare."

"This is for Dad," Tiger said through tears during his championship ceremony. Earl had made it to Augusta, but not to the course. Cancer had taken a vile path from his prostate to other parts of his body. "I can't wait to get home to see him," Tiger said, "and give him a big bear hug."

A Russian man born with genitals so small that he was unable to have sex has been given the chance to lead a normal love life after a new penis was “grown” on his arm during pioneering surgery.

In an 11-hour operation, plastic surgeons in Moscow removed the 28-year-old’s undersized penis and stitched it on to his left forearm, where they grafted on additional flesh and tissue taken from his inner arm. The newly enlarged organ, which had grown from less than 2 inches to nearly 7 inches, was reattached to his groin.

His surgeon, Professor Mikhail Sokolshchik, of the National Medical Surgical Centre, hopes that the patient will eventually be able to have sexual relations and father children.

The frenulum is like the joining ridge under the tongue. A small sheet of skin underneath the glans joins the glans to the foreskin. On the erect penis, if the frenulum is too short it causes the foreskin to slide forward.

The tethering effect of this "bridle" causes pain when the foreskin is tugged back. This can happen especially during intercourse. A tight frenulum will often rip and bleed during intercourse.

Some men faced with high test results, however, may have undergone unnecessary treatments, with debilitating side effects such as infertility, incontinence and impotence.

For others, a normal PSA has also be misleading. In these cases, undetected prostate cancer has grown and spread to other parts of the body, sometimes resulting in death.

Nevertheless, if caught early, men have a 100 percent, five-year survival rate - a surprisingly positive statistic compared to many other types of cancer. Clearly, early detection is a key to curing prostate cancer.

The cause of lichen sclerosis et atrophicus is unknown. It may occur at any age. The lesions are shiny, white, smooth-surfaced papules that coalesce symmetrically and become atrophie with telangiectasia and purpuric changes. These skin changes frequently occur around the vulva and anus where patients complain of itching and burning. In men, the foreskin and glans penis may be involved. These problems may lead to shrinkage of the vulval tissue and balanitis xerotica obliterans. Similar skin changes do occur elsewhere on the body as in this patient, who has a typical 'cigarette paper'-like area on the forearm.

A San Diego, California-based group that calls itself a health and human rights organization recently submitted a proposed bill to Congress called the Male Genital Mutilation Bill ("MGM bill"). The bill, if adopted, would ban the practice of circumcising baby boys.

The MGM bill has not yet found a Congressional sponsor and is therefore unlikely to go anywhere in the near future. Nonetheless, it raises important questions about the relationship between the protection of children, gender equality, and religious freedom, questions that have ramifications beyond the proposed bill itself.

1) 94% of men lie about there penis size. According to condom manufacturers only 6% of men use extra large condoms.

2) The average man is 5.1 inches long when erect (no matter what you have heard ladies thats the truth).

3) 80% of American men are circumsized. Even tho Pediatrics say it is not necessary.

4) No matter what all the adds say nothing can make your penis grow but time(most men reach the end of their growth by the early 20’s)

5) There is no correlation between penis size and shoe size, hand size, or nose size.

6) Blue balls does exist!!!! Technically called “prostatic congestion".

7) Only 16% of men shave their privates

Bi-Lateral Orchiectomy, which means they remove BOTH testicles due to cancer or fear of cancer, is also nothing that will change your normal routine of life. Natrually, you will not be able to father children with no testicles - so you will definately want to bank sperm if you are planning on ever having children of your own. Medical advances has made it easy to "replace" testosterone levels in your body and maintain a normal, happy sex life! Talk to your Doctor about different hormone replacement options. Currently there are daily gel applications and shots available. To learn more about "Sex and Testicular Cancer", Click Here.

It's the most common major cancer in America, even though it affects only one sex. Lifetime odds of getting it are 1 in 6. Testing for it is controversial, and treating it robs many of a body part that's important to their sexuality. This isn't breast cancer, a disease tattooed into the American psyche. It is its male counterpart, prostate cancer, which has made a much fainter mark

The 37-year-old man was serving a six-month sentence in Plzen jail in the south-west of the country - and woke wardens in the early hours of the morning complaining he had an erection that would not go away.

He told staff it was extremely painful and after prison doctors called to examine the erect member were unable to help, the man had to be taken to a specialist hospital in Prague, where surgeons were forced to operate to treat the problem.

They said the man had been suffering from a rare condition known as priapismus in which blood becomes trapped in the penis during an erection and can only be treated through immediate surgery, local daily Pravo reported.

In a remarkable feat of tissue engineering, major parts of the penises of several rabbits have been replaced with segments grown in a lab from their own cells. The animals were able to use the reconstructed organs to mate.

The next step is to try to recreate the entire organ from scratch. The technique could make it possible to reconstruct the penises of men who have suffered injuries or those of children born with genital abnormalities.

And now for proof that some laptops run hotter than a badger. A 50-year old scientist, previously healthy, burned his penis after placing his laptop on his, err lap, for an hour. Oh, he was fully dressed in trousers and underpants, according to this letter printed in the Lancet, the UK's best-known medical journal.

Pop culture fans are mourning the death of Optimus Prime today as the famous Transformer passed away last night from prostate cancer on the new Cartoon Network Show, "Robot Chicken."

"When it comes to prostate cancer, there's more than meets the eye," National Prostate Cancer Coalition CEO Richard N. Atkins, M.D. said. "Often times when one has symptoms for prostate cancer it's already in its late stages, that's why early detection is so important."

The scene from Robot Chicken, a new show created by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, showed Optimus Prime with incontinence (or urination) problems followed by a trip to the doctor and then death.

No cases of HIV transmission through unprotected receptive oral sex were found by researchers at UCSF's Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) in a new study. The study looked at men who have sex with men and who exclusively practice oral sex as the receptive partner. "HIV infection through receptive oral sex is a very rare event - statistically our study showed a probability of zero - and is rarer than HIV infection through receptive anal intercourse using a condom," said the study's lead author Kimberly Page Shafer, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine at UCSF's CAPS. The findings are being published in the November 22, 2002 issue of AIDS.

Before the new penis took its more or less natural forms, doctors prepared an appropriate "filling" for it so that the man could lead a normal physical and sexual life. Surgeons made the urethra and fixed the new phallus with the help of two tube-like silicone implants, which would be perform the erectile function. After that the doctors attached the man's micro-penis to the top of the new reproductive organ, which was growing on the man's arm. They also connected the new urethra with the old one and successfully completed all other procedures having attached skin and blood vessels. When the microsurgical stage of the operation ended, the surgeon reattached the whole construction back to the man's crotch. The swollen blue and red piece of meat hardly bears any resemblance to what is generally considered to be the male genitalia. Bruises and edema will fade away in a week or two, the surgeon said.

Scientists believe the shape of the penis may have evolved to help men remove the semen of love rivals during sex.

Tests led a team of US researchers, headed by Professor Gordon Gallup, to conclude that the penis acts as a "semen displacement device" and its shape has evolved in part to displace another man's semen.

Despite the good work from Brook in Brixton and Camberwell a charity providing youngsters with free contraception youth council members said many youngsters did not know about the free services, while others felt the stigma of STDs stopped them seeking help.

Members said bolder action was needed in schools to educate pupils, as many were clueless about using contraception, and they called for the use of a model penis and demonstrations of how to put a condom on.

A Lambeth Primary Care Trust (PCT) report said it was working to promote free and cheap condoms across the borough and would use pharmacies to offer free supplies of emergency contraception to teenage girls.

A Vietnamese man who took a fake tablet of the impotence drug Viagra was hospitalised after his erection lasted two days, doctors said on Thursday.

The 47-year-old man was admitted on Sunday to Binh Dan Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City from nearby Vinh Long province, two days after taking the Chinese-made tablet, said a doctor from the hospital where he was treated.

The man bought the pill from an acquaintance for less than two dollars on Friday and took it that evening.

He did not have intercourse after taking the pill, but could not get rid of the erection, said the doctor who declined to be named.

Doctors performed a minor operation to drain some blood from the man's erect penis. They were not sure what was contained in the pill since no samples were available.

A 50-year-old Reno man told authorities he castrated himself to lower his libido and learned of the procedure on the Internet, police said.

Washoe Medical Center officials cited privacy issues on why they could not release any information on the man.

About 1:30 a.m. Monday, police said the man called 911 and asked for help because he could not stop the bleeding from a self-castration operation.

Testicular ultrasound needs to be done by an experienced technologist and interpreted by an experienced radiologist. Notice I said interpreted. Because that's what one does with an ultrasound: interpret the image. Even in the best of situations, some testicular tumors are difficult to see or PERCEIVE.

Researchers in Denmark have discovered a way to detect early signs of testicular cancer before it has started to spread. Their findings are the first step towards developing a simple screening test for men at risk of the disease. Writing in Europe's leading reproductive medical journal Human Reproduction[1] today (Thursday 3 March), doctors from the Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen report the first diagnosis of pre-invasive testicular carcinoma in situ (CIS) in a semen sample from a 23-year-old man. The man had been included in the researchers' study as a supposedly healthy control, with suspected infertility problems but no suspicion of cancer.

Aphallia is a very rare condition summarized as the congenital absence of the phallus in a genetically and hormonally "normal" male child. Under Dr. Money's now-debunked theory that any child could be reared either as a boy or as a girl with appropriate surgeries and socialization, doctors traditionally instructed genetic males with aphallia to be raised as girls, simply because gonadectomy and vaginoplasty were easier to perform than phalloplasty. But now that we know we cannot rely on Money's theory, how should these children be raised? That is the question addressed in the recent issue of Pediatrics.

If you were circumcised and always wanted a foreskin of your very own, you can now get one.

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have reported promising results with an experimental cancer vaccine that primes the body's immune system to attack tumors.

This is the first time that a therapeutic cancer vaccine appears to have allowed patients to live longer - on average by 4.5 months.

Method: Latex or plastic sheath placed over penis before intercourse

Failure rate: 15 percent (typical); 2 percent (perfect)

Cost: 25 cents to $1 each

Noncontraceptive benefits: Protects against sexually transmitted infections; delays premature ejaculation

Dangers: Anaphylactic reaction to latex

Potential side effects: Decreased sensation, allergy to latex, loss of spontaneity

Experts increasingly believe the PSA test leads to needless treatment such as radiotherapy, when men could be monitored and live with the cancer without it ever causing a problem. Researchers studied prostate tissues collected over 20 years, from the time it first became standard to remove prostates in response to high PSA levels to the present.

Thousands of men may have had needless surgery because the test commonly used to diagnose prostate cancer is flawed scientists revealed last week ...

When treating sexual problems using Western medicine, it is not a totally different ball game altogether.

Its causes - such as diabetes, hypertension and stress - will also be treated and of course the 3 famous pills - Viagra, Cialis and Levitra - will also be considered.

However there's a new kid on the block - not in pill form - but in a tube.

This cream - Befar - is said to be just as effective ...

As a parent of a newborn boy who makes the decision to keep your infant’s foreskin intact, you will need to be sure to care for the penis to ensure that it stays clean and healthy. The good news is that the intact penis requires very little worry. The most important thing to remember is that the foreskin must never be retracted by force.

Rabbis should use a tube to suck blood from circumcision wounds rather than sucking directly with their mouths to protect infants and rabbis from disease, the leading Orthodox rabbinical group said on Thursday.

In a traditional Orthodox practice during the bris, or circumcision ritual of baby boys, rabbis have been using their mouths to suck blood from the penis wounds and surrounding tissue for thousands of years.

The use of contaminated syringes to inject drugs for impotence led to an outbreak of a serious heart infection in Israel caused by a pathogenic mold, investigators report.

The outbreak of endocarditis, an inflammation of the tissue surrounding the heart, was first detected when an 84-year-old man died of Phialemonium curvatum endocarditis in March 2002. In reviewing his medical history, it was discovered that he had been trained to self-inject drugs for impotence from prefilled syringes into his penis. ...

Don Cooley has used Furl to generate a set of prostate cancer information which is available through the "front door" of http://www.phid.prostate-help.org . This page has information on accessing the site as well as getting daily e-mailed updates of new content prefabricated search queries, new entries from the last seven and 30 days (very active), and a search form to search all the content directly.

From the Cleveland Clinic: Prostate Cancer: Screening Guidelines

Short, unbiased and to the point.

I struggle with this subject daily. When I'm pressed for time, I find that I order the PSA, do the DRE and discuss it far less than I should. These are generally patients who have had annual PSA tests done int he past - and have been told by someone that she "need to have a PSA." When I'm not so pressed for time ...

Peyronie's Disease - Background and Description Peyronie's Disease was first described in 1743 by a French surgeon, Francois de la Peyronie and was written about as early as 1687. The disease is oftentimes associated with impotence. The most common symptom of Peyronie's Disease is a curvature, lump or hard area observed in the penis.

In men 55 and older, 20-50% have hypogonadism, which is lower testosterone, the pathological basis of andropause. Obese and diabetic men are more likely to feel symptoms because an enzyme in the fat tissue causes testosterone to turn into estradiol, a female hormone in every man's body. Diabetics often are insulin-resistant and this can depress testosterone production and increase leptin, a hormone for obesity. Premature aging, andchanges in hair growth and skin quality are immediate signs. Others include depression; memory ...

Ever wanted to know the history of the penis? Read all about it. This is penis history way before the term "erectile dysfunction" even had lips to pass.

So I was just browsing through some fun journals (Integrative and Comparative Biology, always good for some unusual stuff) and ran across a paper with a wonderful title: "The Functional Morphology of Penile Erection: Tissue Designs for Increasing and Maintaining Stiffness." If that kind of thing will sell commercial air time during the Super Bowl, it's got to be popular.

As is typical, though, while the promise of salaciousness drew me in, it was the science and the ...

You may be embarrassed about Erectile Dysfunction, but don't let that stop you from seeing a doctor.

Erectile dysfunction is sometimes more than just an issue that negatively impacts a man's quality of life -- it can also be an early sign of heart or blood vessel problems, according to experts.

Consequently, men need to tell their doctors as soon as they develop erectile dysfunction (ED), so their doctors can order additional tests to make sure their heart and blood vessels are healthy, lead author Dr. Kevin Billups of the University of Minnesota School of ...