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Lower urinary tract symptoms can put a damper on many women's sexual enjoyment and activity.

Getting good results with the minimally invasive TVT SECUR vaginal sling for stress urinary incontinence may be a matter of technique.

Data show that testosterone replacement therapy in hypogonadal men can be effective in significantly improving insulin sensitivity and sexual function, with durable results.

Correcting congenital penile curvature with excision and plicating closure of the tunica albuginea without grafting leads to excellent outcomes.

While many US urologists claim to be experts in sexual medicine, few know how to treat Peyronie'd disease.

Management of patients with urolithiasis can place them at risk for significant radiation exposure.

Stone patients undergoing shock wave lithotripsy are significantly more likely to undergo a subsequent surgical procedure than are patients undergoing ureteroscopy with or without laser lithotripsy.

Novartis has announced that RAD001 (everolimus), an oral once-daily inhibitor of mTOR, for treatment of advanced kidney cancer, has been granted priority review by the FDA.

The colon is irritated by spicy food, which can cause a flare-up of symptoms in patients with interstitial cystitis.

An 11-year follow-up on the safety and efficacy of tension-free vaginal tape for female stress urinary incontinence found 90% of patients were objectively cured, and 97% considered themselves subjectively cured or improved.

Health risk behaviors are associated with lower awareness of PSA, which could lead to a lower likelihood of undergoing prostate cancer screening.

When men and women from India and Pakistan migrate to the United States, their disease profiles change, mirroring the American risk.

TWINCREST, LLC has formed a joint venture with Pathology Solutions, LLC, to offer expanded in-office pathology services for specialty medical practices.

Mitchell H. Sokoloff, MD, has been appointed chief of the section of urology and professor of surgery at the University of Arizona department of surgery. In this capacity, his objective will be to expand clinical, educational, and research programs in laparoscopy, voiding dysfunction, and urologic cancers, and to build a pediatric urology program in collaboration with university and community physicians.

Dendreon Corp. has initiated its second of two new phase II trials of sipuleucel-T (Provenge), the company’s investigational active cellular immunotherapy for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer.

Although cigarette smoking accounts for up to half of all bladder cancer cases, few people are aware of the connection, including more than three-quarters of patients who have the disease, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor. This knowledge vacuum suggests that urologists need to communicate the risks of smoking to their patients and encourage them to quit, study authors say.

Brachytherapy may be a more beneficial treatment than surgery or external beam radiation therapy for overweight or obese prostate cancer patients, according to a study published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics (2008; 71:1302-8).

One-fifth of men under age 50 reported undergoing a PSA test to detect prostate cancer in the previous year, yet only one in three young African-American men reported ever having had a PSA test in the previous year, according to researchers at the Duke University Prostate Center (Durham, NC). The findings appear in the June 23 online edition of Cancer and will appear in the Sept. 15 print edition.

A daily dose of tadalafil (Cialis) may relieve lower urinary tract symptoms in men with BPH symptoms, according to a study published in the Aug. 21 online edition of The Journal of Urology.

An investigational vitamin D agonist significantly slowed prostate growth and improved prostate symptoms and urinary flow in men with symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia.

In this interview, John Barry, MD, who began his term as AUA president in May, discusses these concerns, how AUA is addressing them, and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

Patients with low-risk prostate cancer, whether ulilateral or bilateral, may be considered for focal ablative therapy.

Thepractice of physicians generating revenue from imaging services to which they refer their patients has come under federal scrutiny.

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Focal cryotherapy, defined as less than complete ablation of the prostate gland with ice, potentially offers targeted local cancer control, preserving sexual potency and urinary continence in patients whose cancer is believed to be unilaterally clinically significant.

If you determine that the life insurance you bought years ago is no longer needed to provide for a surviving family, it can be canceled or given to your favorite charitable not-for-profit entity.

Here are steps and suggestions for getting your book idea to a publisher and seeing your work in print and on the bookshelves.

You can update a past medical, family, and social history (PFS) and ROS without having to rewrite it each time.

Approximately 5% of men who undergo vasectomy eventually will consider vasectomy reversal, and this demographic appears to be increasing.