News & Patient Education

This is something you wouldn’t even wish on your worst enemy, but a record number of men have undergone surgery after fracturing their penis in 2019, according to NHS statistics. This has mostly affected men in their 30s and 40s, while a grand total of 164 men wound up hospitalized with a fractured penis last year. […]

The questions surrounding erectile dysfunction are vast and numerous. It makes sense. We are sexual beings and do not need any hindrances involved in something (sex) that we hold so dearly. So we really need to know now, why is erectile dysfunction on the rise among young men? For older men, the condition is typically […]

Many may not know, that prostate cancer is the second most common cancer (after skin cancer) for men in the United States. The American Cancer Society estimates that for men one in seven will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. This amounts to approximately 220,800 new cases every year. The good news is that the disease […]

Now even though it is hardly that serious, everyone knows that kidney stones can be incredibly painful. Even the famous people on this list with kidney stones can attest to that. Kidney stones are hard deposits of various materials, such as minerals and salts, that form in the kidneys and are usually passed without any permanent […]

More than half a million Americans every year visit the emergency room for problems related to kidney stones. In most cases, the stones eventually pass out of the body on their own, but the process can be excruciatingly painful. Researchers at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital have devised a potential treatment that could make passing […]

As if just having the erectile dysfunction wasn't bad enough, now the news has come out that men with "ED" are more likely to be diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat, according to a new study. Atrial fibrillation, or "AFib", is an irregular or quivering heartbeat that can lead to blood clots, stroke and heart failure. […]

An unsealed federal lawsuit shows an Orlando urologist was performing kidney stone procedures that were not medically necessary and was taking millions of dollars in kickbacks from a local outpatient surgery center. The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Dr. Patrick Hunter; the Orlando Center for Outpatient Surgery, where he performed the procedures; and an […]

There is revolutionary news in the prostate cancer world. A simple urine test currently being developed to screen for prostate cancer can now use samples collected at home! This according to new research from the University of East Anglia and the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital both located in the UK. Scientists pioneered the test which diagnoses […]

Kidney stones hurt. Kidney stones are a bitch. One thing is for sure. If you don't like pain (and who does) or better yet can't handle pain very well then you will agree with a US News & World Report list that puts kidney stones at the top of a list of the most painful conditions, […]

Prostate cancer symptoms usually don’t show until the cancer has grown large enough, but with it being the most common cancer in men in the US, it’s important to recognize the signs when they are developing. Prostate cancer symptoms usually appear when the cancer has grown as it begins to put pressure on the tube […]

Everyone can agree that kidney stones are one of the most painful medical conditions you can experience. Experts and patients agree. Typically formed from calcium, kidney stones are hard pellets formed by excess minerals and salts inside the kidney. If they somehow travel out of the kidney and into the ureter, they can block the flow […]

In 2001, a urologist performed a bladder suspension surgery to address incontinence. During the surgery, the urologist placed titanium anchors into the patient's pelvic bone using an anchor driver, which is a metallic device. In 2015, part of the anchor driver was found inside the plaintiff’s body near her pelvic bone and was removed. In […]