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Physician opinion is divided almost evenly on the question of whether to prescribe phosphodiesterase type-5 inhibitors to patients for non-medical indications, a survey of Israeli doctors showed.

For many urologists, practice finances were worse in 2011 than they were a year earlier, and few have seen improved revenues, results of an exclusive national survey indicate.

Long-term quality of life converges to similarity for prostate cancer patients treated surgically or by radiation therapy, data from a large cohort study show.

A recent study revealed that the use of laparoendoscopic single-site surgery to perform radical nephrectomy is just as effective as conventional laparoscopic radical nephrectomy, attaining excellent surgical and post-surgical outcomes.

Urology Times asked urologists if they would use botulinum toxin to treat urinary incontinence.

In men scheduled for transrectal prostate biopsy, 70% of the fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli isolated from fecal flora represented the epidemic, multidrug-resistant ST131 strain, a recent phylogenic and virulence factor analysis found.

Findings from a study of patients who underwent surgical mesh removal over a 6-year period will hopefully help surgeons with their management decisions and counseling efforts, UCLA researchers reported at the AUA annual meeting in Atlanta.

Using manufacturing principles might seem like an odd fit for your practice, but they can help your practice move more efficiently.

In treating nocturia related to urgency, flexible-dose fesoterodine (Toviaz) demonstrates statistical superiority to placebo in several areas, according to a study presented at the AUA annual meeting here.

Men who took high-dose vitamin D prior to radical prostatectomy had significant reductions in prostate levels of the proliferation marker Ki-67 and increased expression of microRNAs associated with tumor suppression, according to a recent study from Canadian and U.S. researchers.

Internet-marketed medication purporting to be a generic form of the phosphodiesterase type-5 inhibitor Viagra (sildenafil citrate) is likely to be neither generic nor Viagra but instead is an expertly packaged mix of materials such as paint, insecticides, rat poisons, boric acid, and gypsum, according to a study presented at the AUA annual meeting in Atlanta.

Antibiotic prophylaxis appears to be beneficial in patients undergoing percutaneous nephrolithotomy.

In patients with stone disease, lowering the tube voltage set in dual-energy computed tomography by as much as 38% allowed a dose reduction without impairing stone analysis, a recent investigation showed.

Findings from a recent study support the use of a deeper incision in microdissection testicular sperm extraction when no sperm-containing tubules are found on the initial wide incision.

What you need to know about health care costs post-retirement and the taxability of municipal bonds.

While many characteristics and conditions are associated with nocturia, patient age is the only factor that can significantly be linked with its development, Dutch researchers report.

Analyses of data collected in a large series of women who underwent concurrent anti-incontinence and prolapse surgery show the patients achieved a high rate of satisfaction overall.

In patients with symptoms suggestive of BPH, nocturia fluctuates but does not significantly progress over the course of 1-year follow-up, according to findings from a recent international study.

Urology Times asks five urologists about diagnostic tests and practicing 'defensive' medicine.

Patients with nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer had significantly better recurrence-free survival when treated with the Connaught strain of bacillus Calmette-Gu?rin compared with the Tice strain, according to results of a randomized trial.

Excess body weight correlated with a significantly higher 5-year risk of biochemical recurrence after surgery for clinically localized prostate cancer, according to a study reported at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting in Chicago.

Noted Irish playwright Oscar Wilde once mused, "Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result." Thanks to a foundation strengthened by direct and indirect participation in advocacy campaigns across the country, the urologic community secured positive policy outcomes in the first several months of 2012.

How would you like to have to go back for 10 years and figure out if the feds have overpaid you on a Medicare or Medicaid claim and then be required to pay up within 60 days or face monetary penalties and maybe get kicked out of federal health care programs? That's exactly what will happen unless a regulation proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is significantly revised.

The Urologic Diseases in America research initiative, last published in 2007, has been revised and updated for 2012 to include new, detailed information on the utilization of resources and the costs associated with urologic diseases among men, women, and children.

IRIS International, Inc. (Chatsworth, CA) has launched its prostate cancer test, NADiA ProsVue.

Two studies have identified military service as a risk factor for certain urologic disorders in presentations made at the AUA annual meeting in Atlanta.

Treatment of early-stage prostate cancer can also result in improved quality of life for a subgroup of men who suffer from lower urinary tract symptoms, according to results from a multicenter study presented at the AUA annual meeting in Atlanta.

The autologous cellular immunotherapy sipuleucel-T (Provenge) appears to demonstrate an overall survival benefit in patients with advanced prostate cancer, according to two studies presented at the AUA annual meeting in Atlanta.

A collaborative research effort into the genetics of prostate cancer has uncovered a distinct subtype of the disease, one that appears to account for up to 15% of all cases.

When the initial wide incision of a microdissection testicular sperm extraction procedure reveals no sperm-containing tubules, there is a 35% chance of finding sperm with a deeper, more extensive exploration, according to a 10-year study of 900 men with nonobstructive azoospermia.