Ironwood Urology’s Blog

Having an active, healthy sex life is an important part of adult life. For men with erectile dysfunction, having an active, healthy sex life is frequently beyond their reach.

Prostate cancer is relatively common among older men, but it is usually an extremely slow-growing cancer. Therefore, if a man is 75 years of age and is diagnosed with the disease, he and his doctor may opt to not treat it.

A urinary tract infection (UTI) – sometimes called a bladder infection – is usually the result of a bacterial infection somewhere along the urinary tract.

A birth control solution for men, a vasectomy is performed by surgically cutting or blocking the tubes (vas deferens) that carry sperm from the testicles to the penis.

Women go through a menopause phase, and men go through an andropause phase. Andropause is a very gradual reduction in the male body’s production of androgenic hormones.