May 16th 2025
The CELLEBRATE trial is aiming to provide additional evidence to support the safety and efficacy of iltamiocel.
Pilot study highlights disparities, lack of diversity in OAB data
February 4th 2022“Previous OAB studies could be inadvertently excluding large populations of patients due to language barriers, access to academic centers, collecting research data, or differences in beliefs in health care in general,” said co-author Beth Edelblute, MD, MPH.
Midurethral sling opens up treatment of stress urinary incontinence to more patients
February 2nd 2022In this installment of the Urology Times' 50th Anniversary Innovation Celebration, Howard Goldman, MD, discusses the development of the midurethral sling as a treatment for stress urinary incontinence.
50th Anniversary Innovation Celebration: The midurethral sling for stress urinary incontinence
February 2nd 2022"Introducing something that with a prefashioned sling, [something] we're able to utilize with the patient in an ideal situation just under some deep sedation and local, really opened this up the ability for many more women to be treated and allowed many more physicians to be trained and to utilize this technology," says Howard B. Goldman, MD, FACS.
Investigators analyze patterns of treatment preferences in patients with OAB
February 1st 2022“Our goal was to educate these patients thoroughly on the risks and benefits of each of these therapies, and try to understand what guides their choice of third line therapy based on their lifestyle and what suits them,” says Anjali Kapur, MD.
SUI treatment reaches "new frontier” with regenerative medicine and stem cell–based therapies
January 19th 2022In this installment of the Urology Times' 50th Anniversary Innovation Celebration, Melissa R. Kaufman, MD, PhD, FACS, discusses the innovative use of stem cell–derived treatments in urologic conditions such as stress urinary incontinence.
Dr. Haag-Molkenteller on implications of vibegron phase 3 EMPOWUR extension study
January 14th 2022"This analysis of this publication confirms the link between efficacy and the patient perception, and that the results are actually meaningful to the patients as well," says Cornelia Haag-Molkenteller, MD, PhD.
Study finds significant association between age and OAB
January 11th 2022This study underscores how common urinary incontinence is in women, with nearly 1 in 5 Japanese women reporting urinary incontinence related to OAB or SUI in the last month,” said Stephanie Faubion, MD, MBA, medical director of the North American Menopause Society.
Urinary incontinence linked to increased risk of falling in older adults
December 17th 2021“Falls are the leading cause of accidental death in seniors, and many people don’t know that having bladder control problems makes you about twice as likely to fall over,” said William Gibson, MBChB, MRCP, PhD.
Dr. Ginsberg urges clinicians to consider onabotulinumtoxinA for OAB and urinary incontinence
November 17th 2021“Men do well and they don't have a really high risk of outcomes that we don't want them to have and that patients don't want to have, which is really the need to catheterize,” says David A. Ginsberg, MD.
Expert discusses studies of Optilume drug-coated balloon for urethral strictures
November 2nd 2021“What our studies were looking at was a novel device that could potentially help bridge the gap between [endoscopic treatment and urethroplasty] to achieve endoscopic treatment and achieve greater success,” says Justin Chee, MD.