by Dr. Lawrence Newman | Mar 11, 2016 | blueberries, ED, erectile dysfunction, Exercise, Healthy Eating
We’ve all seen movies that have a scene where one partner is waiting in bed and the other partner arrives home to see a trail of rose petals leading to the bedroom…but perhaps a trail of blueberries would be more beneficial. A recent study showed that men...
by Dr. Lawrence Newman | Mar 4, 2016 | low T, low testosterone, prostate, urologist
Are you feeling tired all the time? No pep in your step? Don’t enjoy the activities you used to as much as before, including in the bedroom? You could be suffering from low T, or a low blood testosterone level. There is a simple blood test to see if this is...
by Dr. Lawrence Newman | Feb 29, 2016 | erection, penile fracture, penis, peyronie's disease, urologist, xiaflex
Penile fracture? What? That’s possible! Unfortunately yes. But this is not the same thing as fracturing your arm or leg. A boner is not a bone. And this can only occur when the penis is erect. The corpora cavernosa are the cylinders inside the penis that...
by Dr. Lawrence Newman | Feb 20, 2016 | bladder, bph, doctor, prostate obstruction, urine, urologist
Sometimes prostate obstruction does not cause the bladder to not empty enough, but does cause thickening and strengthening of the bladder muscles but also quite a bit of irritability of the bladder. This is a situation where prostate obstruction AND overactive...
by Dr. Lawrence Newman | Feb 19, 2016 | bladder, prostate obstruction, urine, urologist
If prostate obstruction of the urine flow is significant and ignored, the bladder may not empty well, and the bladder tissue may get stretched out and weakened over time. At some point, even after treatment of the obstruction, the bladder may be too damaged to...
by Dr. Lawrence Newman | Feb 15, 2016 | bladder, bladder ultrasound, nocturia, overactive bladder, prostate obstruction, urethra, urinary frequency, urine
Urinary frequency and nocturia (waking up at night to void) can occur with prostate obstruction or with an overactive bladder. The treatment for each cause is very different and the best way to usually tell the difference is by having a bladder ultrasound after...
by Dr. Lawrence Newman | Feb 9, 2016 | doctor, medical training, surgical residency
The rules which have been in use for the past years regarding the number of consecutive hours that a “surgical resident” is allowed to be on-call are mainly based on one individual case with a bad outcome so I am glad that this article here shows a scientific study...
by Dr. Lawrence Newman | Jan 28, 2016 | bladder, bph, enlarged prostate, urethra, urinary tract infection, uti
This will be a starting point for a series of blogs on the symptoms related to BPH, or enlarged prostate. Symptoms can vary, and symptoms that seem to be from the prostate can be from other things, so the situation is not always clear. Common symptoms often...
by Dr. Lawrence Newman | Jan 10, 2016 | erectile dysfunction, kidney stones, prostate cancer, Uncategorized
When a patient is diagnosed with prostate cancer, kidney stones, or erectile dysfunction, or almost any urologic condition, the evaluation process, treatment, and post-treatment monitoring can affect not only the patient but also family members. As one of the Las...
by Dr. Lawrence Newman | Jan 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
A new area of medical research is the study of the human microbiome. The human body normally has billions and billions of bacteria on all external surfaces including skin, inside the nose, and in the intestines. It is being found that variations in the microbiome, or...
