Steffini Stalos, DO, FCAP, is a pathology and lab medicine physician. She is also the chief medical officer of the lab consultancy firm Blood Associates, LLC. Erectile dysfunction (ED) makes you ...

Painful erections are never normal, and there are times when the pain may be a sign of a medical emergency. The pain may be severe and need immediate medical, or resolve once the penis is soft.

Morning erection, also called nocturnal penile tumescence (NPT), occurs when the penis engorges with blood and you wake up with an erection. This is a perfectly normal occurrence. Most morning ...

The morning penile erection, or as it is medically known, “nocturnal penile tumescence”, is not only an interesting physiological phenomenon, it can also tell us a lot about a patient’s sexual ...

Low testosterone may affect sexual desire and erection ability, with significant effects typically occurring at very low testosterone levels. High testosterone usually doesn’t cause erectile ...

Many people think of erection problems as a condition that only affects older men. But you don’t have to look far to find reports of the condition among men in their 20s and 30s. Some research even ...

For the last six months, I have included a question on my sex survey asking men if their early-morning (waking) erections feel the same or different than the erections they get when they are sexually ...