Penis in Medical News

Penile extender increased flaccid length by almost a third says independent clinical study

... were able to increase the flaccid length of their penis by up to 32% and their erectile function by up to ... the traction and a silicon band to hold the penis in place. The men were told to increase the ... available that aim to elongate the shaft of the penis or enlarge the penile girth" says Dr Gontero. ...

'The Penis Diet': A Healthy Solution for Men Challenged by Erectile Dysfunction

... medical condition of erectile dysfunction, The penis Diet offers an informative how-to ... are the best way to achieve an erection, The penis Diet offers something they can really sink their ... D.C. and Marc D. Grobman, D.O., F.A.C.P., The penis Diet, offers solutions that, unlike ED drugs, ...

The Time To Rethink Male Circumcision Is Now, Group Says In Launching www.intactamerica.org

... value as a normal, sensitive and functional body part, protecting the penis from injury and contamination, and playing a role in sexual pleasure due ... pain control. The foreskin is forcibly separated from the head of the penis with a metal instrument, and then cut off. In addition to pain and ...

Intact America Launches Campaign to Change How America Thinks About Male Circumcision

... value as a normal, sensitive and functional body part, protecting the penis from injury and contamination, and playing a role in sexual pleasure due ... pain control. The foreskin is forcibly separated from the head of the penis with a metal instrument, and then cut off. In addition to pain and ...

No-nose bicycle saddles improve penile sensation and erectile function in bicycling police officers

... bicycling police officers alleviating pressure to the groin and improving penis health. Different saddle designs may require some re-learning of 'how to ... the health benefits to having unrestricted vascular flow to and from the penis and less penile numbness is self-evident." Dr. Irwin Goldstein, ...

Lots of Sex May Prevent Erectile Dysfunction

... Sadeghi-Nejad said. "Anything you can do to increase oxygenation in the penis will help get patients back to normal." If one can naturally engage in ... concept," Sadeghi-Nejad said. "Anything you can do to bring blood to the penis is beneficial," he added. More information For more about sexual ...

Most patients who have male-to-female sex-change surgery are happy, despite complications

... five per cent made no comment. All the patients studied had had their penis surgically removed, their urethra repositioned and female labia ... per cent had a clitoris constructed using a section of the glans of their penis and 91 per cent had a skin-lined vagina. The outcome of this complex ...

Multimedia Release: British Men Think Talking About Impotence is "Just Not Cricket"

... professional, qualified medical advice puts the patient at risk. What is impotence? Impotence, or erectile dysfunction, occurs when the penis does not get hard (erect) enough to allow a man to have sexual activity. This happens because not enough blood can get into, or stay, in the ....

FDA Orders Label Warning for Testosterone Gels

... of premature male characteristics in boys and inappropriate male characteristics among girls. The effects included "inappropriate enlargement of the penis or clitoris, premature development of pubic hair, advanced bone age, increased libido, and aggressive behavior" among the eight cases analyzed, ...

Topical Spray Helped Men With Premature Ejaculation

... of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, U.K., said in a news release. "Our study shows that when the PSD502 spray was applied to the man's penis five minutes before intercourse it improved both sexual performance and sexual satisfaction, which are key factors in treating premature ...

Premature ejaculation spray enables men to last 6 times longer after penetration

... common problems were loss of erection and a burning sensation in the vagina. "Our study shows that when the PSD502 spray was applied to the man's penis five minutes before intercourse it improved both sexual performance and sexual satisfaction, which are key factors in treating premature ejaculation" ...

Circumcision Guards Against STDs

... appear in the March 26 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine . Quinn said there are several reasons that removing the foreskin of the penis might help reduce transmission of certain infections. The foreskin, he explained, has two different sides. The outside is much like regular skin ...

Both Latino and non-Latino women likely to accept HPV vaccination for selves and children

... primarily designed to prevent cervical cancer in women. HPV infection also can cause genital warts and other genital tumors, including cancer of the penis or anus in males. Worldwide, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women and the third most common cause of cancer death. Cervical ...

Pearly Penile Papule Patients Can Successfully Be Treated with Targeted CO2 Technology at La Jolla Cosmetic Surgery Centre

... do not cause any physical health problems, pearly penile papules do affect a man’s psychological well-being. The tiny white dots that mar the penis cause intimacy issues because embarrassment and reduced self-confidence are common side-effects of this condition. Now there is a successful ...

U.S. Reported 25,000 Cases of HPV-Related Cancers Annually

... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the most common sites for HPV-associated cancers were the cervix, head and neck, anus, vulva, penis and vagina. HPV-associated cancers occur most often in the cervix -- about 10,800 per year. Black and Hispanic women had higher rates of cervical ...

Zebrafish enable scientists to study the migration of neurons that enable sexual maturity

... up will help. Current treatment for delayed puberty includes giving girls estrogen to help their breast develop and boys testosterone to enlarge the penis and scrotum (treatment won't enlarge the sperm- and hormone-producing testes). Expensive gonadotropin injections to stimulate ovulation in women and ...

Programs succeed in reducing risky sex among HIV-positive minority men

... so that participants can revisit and practice skills that they have learned, he said. For instance, participants can practice applying condoms to a penis model so they become familiar with the common errors in using condoms and feel more confident in using one correctly. "Interventions that ...

Good sexual intercourse lasts minutes, not hours, therapists say

... Thirty-four, or 68 percent, of the group responded and rated a range of time amounts for sexual intercourse, from penetration of the vagina by the penis until ejaculation, that they considered adequate, desirable, too short and too long. The average therapists responses defined the ranges of ...

Sexual performance may hold key to men's health

... What is less well known is that not only blood vessels to the heart are affected by obesity but similar effects occur with the blood vessels to the penis with resulting erectile dysfunction and poor urinary tract function. Australian men care about erection problems, perhaps more so than possible ...

Erectile Dysfunction: A Harbinger of Heart Trouble

... of the department of urology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. "A man could perceive decreased blood flow to the penis as being a less strong, a weaker erection, and that may actually be one of the first indicators of blood vessel disease." One recent report found ...

Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Men with chronic heart failure can have active sex lives

... decreased exercise capacity, patients with chronic heart failure have blood vessel and circulation abnormalities that can reduce blood flow into the penis and interfere with the ability to maintain an erection. And erectile dysfunction can be caused or worsened by many of the medications that are ...

Sexual function affected by stem cell transplant according to long-term study

... changes to the vaginal lining that can contribute to sexual dysfunction in women. For males, testosterone levels and the cavernosal arteries of the penis are affected, eroding libido and erectile function. Lack of interest or libido explained sexual inactivity in part for nearly 20 percent of ...

Number of Partners Doesn't Explain Gay HIV Rate

... researcher said. "That puts gay men at much higher risk overall," he said. In addition, HIV transmission is more easily transmitted through the penis than via the vagina or the anus, Goodreau said. Heterosexuals tend to maintain the same role (insertive vs. receptive), while gay men can switch ...

Penis Loses Its Most Sensitive Parts During Circumcision Process

... fine-touch pressure thresholds of the adult male penis in circumcised and uncircumcised men and compared ... The most sensitive location on the circumcised penis was the circumcision scar on the ventral surface. ... that five locations on the uncircumcised penis that are regularly removed at circumcision had ...

Urologists Begin Clinical Trials on Treatment of Peyronies Disease

... not only looked at the effect of the device on penis curvature but also at its potential as a non-surgical penis enlargement product. In the clinical ... by the research and development firm, the penis extender was shown to correct Peyronies disease ...

Research Says Small Penis Syndrome Affects Men Than Women

... research projects into penile size and small penis syndrome carried out since 1942. By ... to use weights to increase the length of their penis and Dayak men in Borneo pierce the glans of their penis and insert items into the holes to stimulate ...

Brazil Spider Offers Hope for Those Suffering from Erectile Dysfunction

... the chemical that seems to be responsible for the penis boost. “The erection is a side effect that ... tiny needle-like device inserted into each rat’s penis measured the pressure change, which corresponds ... with the peptide showed a significant increase in penis pressure. The scientists also found an ...

Prostate Cancer Treatment Affects Penile Length

... Length of the penis is significantly reduced in patients who undergo ... before and after the treatment. The length of the penis was shortened by almost forty percent of the ... its kind to report changes in the length of the penis after treatment of prostate cancer. He also feels ...

Penis Enlargement Exercise DVD Launched

... maintaining their status as providers of the best penis enlargement //exercise program on the market with ... commitment to providing customers with the best penis enlargement experience possible. ... of constant Internet access, most providers of penis exercises still choose to remain locked in their ...

Chinese Surgeons Perform First Penis Transplant

... surgeons successfully performed the world's first penis transplant, but were forced to remove it after ... some mental problems.// The man had lost his penis in an accident and was unable to urinate or have ... doctors said. Doctors had attached a 10cm penis to the 44-year-old patient from a dead donor. The ...

Hype and Hoopla: Penis Mightier than the sword (read: Enlarged Penis)

... Think a dozen times before deciding upon a penis enlargement procedure. Too much hype and hoopla ... it is still under weather down under, post penis enlargement surgeries, with most men dissatisfied ... with psychological concern about the size of the penis -- particularly if it is normal size -- there is ...

Gene Therapy a Better Alternative to Viagra Please

... help smooth muscle cells relax. Relaxing the smooth muscle in the penis allows it to fill with blood and achieve an erection. Dr Geoff Hackett, ... Dr Arnold Melman. However, the human trials involved injections into the penis and some experts queried whether men would choose this option. ...

New York City Plans to Promote Circumcision

... as a physical barrier, trapping HIV next to the mucosal surface of the penis for a longer period of time. In this moist environment, the virus can also ... glans develops more epithelial keratinization, a process which makes the penis less susceptible to viral invasion. The WHO endorsement had come in ...

Males Adapt To Battle With Competing Sperm

... authors note, simulated phalluses that most closely resembled the human penis removed an ejaculate-like substance from an artificial vagina. This could potentially signify that that the penis developed its shape to act as an anatomical squeegee. But sperm ...

Impotent? No Problem – Have An Injectio

... gene). This gene encodes a protein, which relaxes smooth muscle in the penis and allows blood flow into it. The gene is incorporated into a ... to 7500 micrograms of the hSlo plasmid into the corpus cavernosum of the penis and monitored for 24 weeks.” Patients who were given the two highest ...

Cialis- Bringing Respite To ED Effectively

... help men in achieving an erection. Cialis helps increase blood flow in the penis when a man is sexually stimulated. Cialis can help men with ED get and ... activity. Once a man has completed sexual activity, blood flow to his penis decreases, and his erection goes away. Cialis is clinically proven ...

American Wins Lawsuit Over Penile Implant Malfunction

... plastic implant, Dura-II, was meant to allow him to position the penis upward for sex, then lower it. However, after the implant, he could not position his penis downward at all! He said he could no longer hug people, ride a ...

Minimizing The Risk Of HIV Spread

... Researchers say their study was limited as biopsies of the penis are rarely taken, and most studies to date have used material from ... population studies correlating levels of DC-SIGN expression in the penis with HIV transmission rates could provide crucially important data. In ...

Circumcision Found To Prevent HIV Spread

... Researchers say their study was limited as biopsies of the penis are rarely taken, and most studies to date have used material from ... population studies correlating levels of DC-SIGN expression in the penis with HIV transmission rates could provide crucially important data. ...