Urology Times staff

"There is a severe lack of treatment when it comes to women's sexual health," says Shaya Taghechian, MD.

"We provide surgical treatments for kidney stones, and we also help patients manage their stones medically; for example, helping them perhaps with spontaneous passage of their stones," says Katherine Chan, MD, MPH.

“We also saw differences in the average pay per weekday of hospital call; 32% of men reporting receiving over $500 per day [of] weekend hospital call, but only 18% of women reporting the same,” says Andrew M. Harris, MD.

"We aim to provide the best quality care we can at the locations closest to our patients," says Edward M. Schaeffer, MD, PhD.

"Especially for prostate cancer, some of the sexual side effects, it's tough to talk about that when you're talking to your uncle or your brother who has it," says Joseph Song, MD.

"When they said that they value privacy over cost and convenience, I think that is the clearest sign that the stigma for men's health still exists," says Justin M. Dubin, MD.

“It's the next evolution of being able to provide precision care for our patients in the area of prostate cancer,” says Nitin K. Yerram, MD.

"We really need better options with the least side [amount of] effects for these patients," says Zhina Sadeghi, MD.

"My hope is that from the KL2 data that I'll generate, hopefully in the next 6 to 12 months, we can apply for an RO1 to push this one step further so that we can benefit other people with brain tumors, other people with strokes, and other peoples with other neurological disorders with bladder symptoms," says Olivia H. Chang, MD, MPH, FACOG.

"Looking at data, if you apply IsoPSA in a consistent manner, based on the studies published, you'll see up to a 55% reduction in unnecessary biopsies," says Jason M. Hafron, MD.

“Maybe the most important [finding] is that urinary tumor DNA does seem to be a good tool for detecting residual disease within this patient population,” says Joshua Linscott, MD, PhD.

“What was also interesting in our study was that when choosing a source of medications, we asked them, what made you decide to go with that option? And 62% of men said that they valued privacy above everything,” says Justin M. Dubin, MD.

“We've been developing different techniques in HoLEP, but there is a steep learning curve,” says Akhil Das, MD.

Woodson W. Smelser, MD, discusses key bladder cancer data that was presented at the 2024 AUA Annual Meeting.

"In 2015, we had 3 employed urologists in our health network. Now, we have 19 employed urologists in our health network," says Edward M. Schaeffer, MD, PhD.

"I think these findings are critical in helping us craft educational resources that would be easily understood and easily disseminated by trusted health care providers," says Stephanie Gleicher, MD, MPH.

"Our data showed that the patient regret scores were very, very low in looking at the patients that went home the same day," says David I. Lee, MD, FACS.

“The negative predictive value we want to be high, and the false positive rate we want to be low. None of those beat the radiologist reads in both of those categories,” says Robert S. Wang, MD.

"I think digital therapeutics and virtual care are going to expand access," says David Sheyn, MD.

"I think having success with that in humans will make [radiofrequency ablation] very, very valuable for the practicing urologist that can be done in the clinic without much training or anything like that," says Gamal M. Ghoniem, MD, FACS, ABU/FPMRS.

"We have a nice organizational framework for us to really provide effective care that really feels the same throughout the different regions," says Edward M. Schaeffer, MD, PhD.

"Glean technology is a very brilliant technology that has been developed for basically portable urodynamics," says Zhina Sadeghi, MD.

“However, what direct to consumer does provide is convenience and privacy. Men's health has a huge stigma on it,” says Justin M. Dubin, MD.

"We...found that about 50% of women felt like infections are caused by lack of cleanliness and tight-fitting clothes," says Stephanie Gleicher, MD.

“We may be tempted to conclude a causal relationship based on the results of this analysis; however, we should avoid making statements implying a causal relationship,” says Jaleh Fallah, MD.

"What we believe is happening is women are seeking the help of female urologists, and therefore, because of the nature of the condition, the female urologists are absorbing the burden of the care of these patients, particularly the non-billable burden," says Debra L. Fromer, MD.

Suzette E. Sutherland, MD, MS, FPMRS, recaps the 2024 AUA session, “Panel Discussion: Which Type of Sling Is Best in the Index SUI Patient?”

"There's obviously a huge interest in focal therapy for prostate cancer, largely because we want to try to prevent the overtreatment of prostate cancer and also develop better approaches to deliver high-quality treatment options for patients," says Timothy D. McClure, MD.

"With regards to barriers to attaining health information, we found that a lot of women reported that medical language is just too complex," says Stephanie Gleicher, MD, MPH.

"[The care plan] incorporates patient-specific data to reinforce dietary management, fluid intake, and medication adherence based on the patient's 24-hour urine collection results," says Jenny Guo, MD.