In March 1998 when Viagra was first approved, Maryland anesthesiologist Ken Haslam, M.D. (Cal B.S. 1956) was 64, single, and dating. “I was meeting lots of women. It was exciting. And for me, new relationships…

For erection problems, low-intensity shock-wave therapy looks promising. In some people with kidney stones, low-intensity shockwave therapy (LIST) breaks them up. And in some with heart disease and fractures, LIST coaxes the body to produce…

It’s starting to look like age-related prostate enlargement contributes to ED. Erectile dysfunction (ED) has many well-documented risk factors, notably age and cardiovascular disease, but prostate enlargement is not among them. That may soon change….

Viagra is not the only way men can firm up fading erections Mention erectile dysfunction (ED) treatment and most people say Viagra. And no wonder. Since its 1998 approval, Viagra has become one of the…

Since the 1998 introduction of Viagra, “impotence” has become “erectile dysfunction” (ED), and the condition has emerged from behind closed bedroom doors into the light of public discussion. Unfortunately, many pill-loving Americans think “vitamin V”…

Mounting evidence shows that this Tribulus Terrestris treats sex problems in both men and women. Mention aphrodisiac plants and few people cite Tribulus terrestris, commonly called puncture vine. But that’s changing as evidence accumulates that…

No one knows how many men develop ED. But the proportion keeps growing. Two decades after the Food and Drug Administration approved Viagra, it’s still anybody’s guess how many men have erectile dysfunction (ED). Definitions…

Ginseng (Panax ginseng) is an unassuming—and controversial—Asian groundcover whose medicinal root has been revered for centuries in China, Korea, and Japan. For almost as long, Western medicine has dismissed it as largely worthless. But that…

In many men, sexual myths contribute to normal middle-age erection balkiness and to more serious erectile dysfunction (ED). Here are the most erection-deflating myths—and the truth about these issues: Myth: Erection is something men “achieve.”…

Most men have no idea that at some point after 40, and usually by 50, their erections start to change. The same men who, from their teen years into their forties, could raise firm erections…