Men's Health

New data suggest the phosphodiesterase type-5 inhibitor tadalafil (Cialis) may be beneficial in helping men who have problems with ejaculation and orgasm, report researchers from New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York.

This month's round-up of new products includes CIVCO patient drapes, MediSafe Projects' medication alert app, a direct purchase program for Zoladex, and GAMMEX non-latex-sensitive surgical gloves.

New research shows that men with a high risk of bone fracture who are undergoing long-term androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer have a higher fracture incidence following treatment completion.

More than 3% of prostate biopsies are subject to medical errors or contamination, a recent study found.

In May 2012, the United States Preventive Services Task Force recommended against PSA testing in all men based upon a flawed analysis that overestimated the harms and underestimated the benefits of testing.

Intradetrusor injections of onabotulinumtoxinA (Botox) do not significantly reduce urinary frequency in patients with refractory overactive bladder secondary to BPH, results from a two-institution, placebo-controlled study indicate.

Minimally invasive retroperitoneal lymph node dissection in testicular cancer reduces length of stay while obtaining a perioperative safety profile comparable to that seen with the open procedure, researchers from the University of California, San Diego Health System reported.

This special installment of "Hands On" is presented in a point-counterpoint format, with two leading experts discussing open versus. robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.