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Overall cancer death rates have continued to decline in the U.S. among both men and women, among all major racial and ethnic groups, and for all of the most common cancer sites, including prostate cancer, a recent national report shows.

The presence of microhematuria does not necessarily indicate the presence of cancer, say researchers from Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena.

Several urologists have been appointed to new posts across the country.

The lifetime risks of cancer from medical radiation may be overemphasized relative to more immediate health risks, according to a recent study.

The third and most recent update of the Partin tables takes into account an updated Gleason scoring system and may be more accurate for contemporary patients diagnosed with prostate cancer, researchers from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore report.

Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, have discovered a molecular switch that enables advanced prostate cancers to spread without stimulation by male hormones.

Patients who have inherited a specific common genetic variant develop bladder cancer tumors that strongly express a protein known as prostate stem cell antigen (PSCA), which is also expressed in many prostate and pancreatic tumors, say researchers from the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD.

Abbott Laboratories has announced FDA clearance of a new testosterone test designed to accurately measure a wide range of testosterone levels seen in both men and women.

Online reviews of urologists tend to be positive, but this consensus is generally composed of only two or three patient scores per physician, researchers report.

Two new studies shed light on recent trends in prostate cancer screening.One study found that prostate cancer screening in men older than 74 years of age is overused, while another documented a decline in prostate and other preventive cancer screenings over the last 10 years, possibly due to disagreement over current screening guidelines.

Patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who undergo robot-assisted radical cystectomy may experience less blood loss and shorter hospital stays than those undergoing open cystectomy, results of a new randomized study indicate.

If least costly alternative (LCA) policies for certain prostate cancer drugs had not been rescinded in 2010, Medicare expenditures would have been reduced by more than $33 million over 1 year, a new government report suggests.

In May 2012, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended against PSA testing in all men based upon a flawed analysis that overestimated the harms and underestimated the benefits of testing (Ann Intern Med 2012; 157:137-8).

After dozens of false starts and temporary "fixes," policymakers and pundits predict that in 2013, Congress will finally resolve many of the issues causing instability and uncertainty in the urologic community.

Medical expulsive therapy for the initial management of uncomplicated acute renal colic, with eventual uretereoscopy if needed, is associated with less resource utilization and lower 6-week costs than early surgery, say researchers from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Despite the continuing pressure in Washington to slash federal spending, efforts are under way to prevent cuts, and to even support increases, in graduate medical education funding in order to prevent serious shortages of physicians at a time when increased numbers of patients will be seeking care.

Drugs and devices in the pipeline from Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Nymox Pharmaceutical Corp., Palatin Technologies, Inc., ProUroCare Medical Inc., Bioniche Life Sciences Inc., Tengion Inc., Aeterna Zentaris Inc., and Can-Fite BioPharma.

Urologists discuss the treatments that have most affected their practices.

Sifting through the data that came out of Urology Times' recently released "State of the Specialty" survey, it's clear that the issues most concerning to urologists relate to the business side of practicing medicine.

In this interview, Lora Plaskon, MD, MS, discusses her all-female urology/urogynecology practice's origins, how it differs from mixed-gender practices, and how her unique model fits into today's economy.

Depending on your approach, pursuit of higher yield bonds may invite more risk, some of which may be hard to see or understand.

The latest products and services from Coloplast, Galt Medical (Theragenics Corp.), the Medical Group Management Association, SullivanLuallin, Accuray Inc., the Simon Foundation for Continence, Varian Medical Systems, FAIR Health, Patient Point, UroMed, Cure Medical, and Three Ten LLC.

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.

Exposure to a desert environment increases lithogenic risk, but the effect is the result of unanticipated changes in excretion of lithogenic material, according to a recent study.

One of the elements in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that may affect urologists is the Physician Payment Sunshine Provision, which requires drug and medical device manufacturers to publicly report gifts and payments made to physicians and teaching hospitals beginning in 2013.

Insertion of a ureteral access sheath during retrograde intra-renal surgery may induce severe ureteric injuries, according to a prospective analysis of 136 patients undergoing procedures using ureteral access sheaths.

Medicare recently made it clear that you should be able to charge for procedures performed on two separate lesions, which are not contiguous, in the same organ.