Word: urologist
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While Viagra doesn't work for every impotent man, it does work for up to 80% of them. "There appears to be no group that has been tested that has a zero response," says urologist Dr. Harin Padma-Nathan of the University of Southern California. Even men with the most severe forms of impotence--spinal-injury victims, diabetics, those who have undergone prostate-cancer surgery--have responded...
Irwin Goldstein could hardly wait for the FDA to approve Viagra. The renowned Boston University urologist is so excited about last week's approval of the first-ever impotence pill for men that he is opening a new sexual-dysfunction clinic, and will soon begin prescribing the drug--for women...
...prostate-cancer cases and the fewer than 85,000 recorded as recently as 1985. The acs predicts that deaths from prostate cancer in the U.S. will reach 41,400 this year, a number fast approaching the annual breast-cancer toll of 44,300. Says Dr. Nelson Stone, a urologist at Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Medical Center: "It sounds like an epidemic...
...strikes men who are in their 60s or 70s, more of them are now afflicted. When the baby-boom generation matures, the number will balloon. "As men live longer and do not succumb to heart disease and stroke, more will die from prostate cancer," says Dr. William Catalona, a urologist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. "And it is not a nice death...
That relief was short-lived. Returning to his urologist for a diagnostic computer scan, Milken learned that his lymph nodes were swollen. A subsequent needle biopsy confirmed that the nodes were malignant. His cancer had metastasized, spread beyond the walls of his prostate; surgical removal of the gland would now really serve no purpose...