April is Testicular Cancer Awareness Month. This campaign aims to raise awareness of testicular cancer, encourage people to do self-exams, and raise money for research. Testicular cancer is a type of ...

Doctors also refer to a swollen testicle as testicular enlargement. It occurs when the scrotum (the sac surrounding the testicles) grows abnormally large. Testicular swelling occurs when fluid starts ...

Two pre-prints, one from Canada the other from Hong Kong and China, provide convincing evidence that SARS-Cov-2 infects and damages male reproductive organs in monkeys and hamsters. The work helps to ...

Undescended testicles (UT), which is used synonymously with the term cryptorchidism, is characterized as the failure of either one or both testes and their associated structures to descend during ...

The scrotum is a bag of skin behind the penis, containing testicles and other structures responsible for storing, producing, and transporting male sex hormones and sperm. A scrotal mass may contain ...

Injuries, infections, kidney stones, hernias, and testicular cancer can all cause testicular pain. Sometimes, pain in your balls may not have an obvious cause and will go away without treatment. Get ...

Many people with testicular cancer don’t have a family history of it. Still, your risk may be much higher if you have a parent or sibling with the disease. But environment and hormones also play a ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* pre-print server, researchers used a suite of methods to detect severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the testis of patients who died ...