NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Injection of Macroplastique (Uroplasty), a urethral bulking agent, can improve female stress urinary incontinence for at least two years, new research shows. Exactly…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Kidney stones linked to melamine-tainted infant milk formula can usually be managed conservatively, Chinese authors report. For infants with renal failure, hemodialysis without…
David Heber, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director, UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, discusses prostate cancer prevention, and explains why low fat diets and exercise can reduce inflammation by…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), contact laser prostatectomy, and electrovaporization of the prostate provide similar improvements in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research indicates that operative times are independently and directly linked to the risk of infectious complications and the length of hospital stay.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Prepping a patient’s skin with chlorhexidine-alcohol rather than with povidone-iodine reduces both superficial and deep incisional infections after clean-contaminated surgery, according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Androgen suppression therapy – and its attendant side effects — may not be necessary for patients with intermediate-risk prostate cancer treated with combination…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An American Urological Association guideline — that heme-positive dipstick tests in asymptomatic patients be confirmed microscopically before urology referral – is often ignored,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For men with hot flushes from androgen suppression for prostate cancer, medroxyprogesterone appears to be the best option for relief, according to a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Active surveillance of prostate cancer, with intervention offered for progressive disease, appears to be safe even for intermediate-risk disease in men over the…
