NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The theoretical advantage of a retrograde rather than antegrade approach to nerve sparing during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) has been confirmed in a…
How has the nature of chemotherapy and prostate cancer evolved? Janna Andrews, MD, explains that historically, there were not many options for patients who became resistant to androgen deprivation therapy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients undergoing a transrectal prostate biopsy, a pelvic plexus block (PPB) is more effective than a periprostatic nerve block for controlling pain,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with sterile urine before undergoing shock wave lithotripsy can forgo antibiotic prophylaxis, according to the results of a meta-analysis reported in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Compared to white light cystoscopy, hexaminolevulinate fluorescence cystoscopic detection of papillary, nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer appears superior, researchers report in a May 12th…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A single dose of a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) rofecoxib (Vioxx, Merck) is effective in preventing pain after ureteric stent removal Oregon-based researchers…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For localized renal tumors, partial nephrectomy confers a survival advantage and a lower risk of severe chronic kidney disease (CKD) after surgery, relative…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Daily oxybutynin significantly improves urinary incontinence and flow rate in children with Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS), a Brazilian team reports in the July issue…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Semirigid ureteroscopy is more effective than shockwave lithotripsy for clearing distal ureteral calculi, according to the results of a meta-analysis of randomized, controlled…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Three years after a group of women with stress urinary incontinence were treated with transobturator tension-free vaginal tape (TO-TVT), roughly three-quarters felt the…
