Have you noticed that your urine stream is weaker than it used to be? Or maybe you're having trouble emptying your bladder completely. These can be urethral stricture symptoms. A urethral stricture happens when scar tissue narrows the urethra, the tube that carries...

If you've been diagnosed with prostate cancer, you probably have a lot of questions about treatment. If your doctor has recommended surgery, you may be wondering how it works, how long recovery takes and what life will be like afterward. A robotic prostatectomy is one...

Is your urine stream weaker than it used to be? Maybe you have to strain to pee, or you still feel like your bladder is full afterward. Scar tissue in your urethra could be the reason. Your urethra is the tube that carries urine out of your body. When scar tissue...

Have you noticed a dull ache in your scrotum or swelling around one testicle? Maybe you've felt a strange cluster of veins under the skin. It's natural to wonder what's causing these changes. These can be varicocele symptoms. A varicocele happens when veins in the...

Seeing blood in your urine can be alarming, especially when you don't know why it's happening. It may appear once and then disappear, or you may notice other bladder changes, such as needing to urinate more often. Blood in the urine is one of the most common bladder...

A new curve or change in your penis can be worrying, especially if you also have pain or trouble having sex. Peyronie’s disease happens when scar tissue, called plaque, forms inside the penis. This can cause it to bend, narrow, shorten or develop an indentation during...

Is kidney cancer curable? In many cases, yes, especially when it’s found before it has spread beyond the kidney. Surgery can often remove localized kidney cancer completely. If the cancer has grown outside the kidney or spread to other parts of the body, treatment...

Seeing blood in your urine can be alarming. Seeing a blood clot can be even more concerning, especially when you don’t know why it’s happening. A blood clot in urine can form when there’s enough bleeding in the urinary tract for some of the blood to collect before it...

If you and your partner are having trouble getting pregnant, your doctor may recommend a semen analysis to check for possible male fertility problems. A semen analysis looks at the sperm in your semen, including how many sperm are present, how well they move, and...

You may assume you'd know if you had a fertility problem. But male infertility often doesn't cause obvious symptoms. You can have a normal sex drive, erections, and ejaculation and still have a problem with your sperm. In fact, one of the most common signs of a...