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While many characteristics and conditions are associated with nocturia, patient age is the only factor that can significantly be linked with its development, Dutch researchers report.

Analyses of data collected in a large series of women who underwent concurrent anti-incontinence and prolapse surgery show the patients achieved a high rate of satisfaction overall.

In patients with symptoms suggestive of BPH, nocturia fluctuates but does not significantly progress over the course of 1-year follow-up, according to findings from a recent international study.

Urology Times asks five urologists about diagnostic tests and practicing 'defensive' medicine.

Patients with nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer had significantly better recurrence-free survival when treated with the Connaught strain of bacillus Calmette-Gu?rin compared with the Tice strain, according to results of a randomized trial.

Excess body weight correlated with a significantly higher 5-year risk of biochemical recurrence after surgery for clinically localized prostate cancer, according to a study reported at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting in Chicago.

Noted Irish playwright Oscar Wilde once mused, "Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result." Thanks to a foundation strengthened by direct and indirect participation in advocacy campaigns across the country, the urologic community secured positive policy outcomes in the first several months of 2012.

How would you like to have to go back for 10 years and figure out if the feds have overpaid you on a Medicare or Medicaid claim and then be required to pay up within 60 days or face monetary penalties and maybe get kicked out of federal health care programs? That's exactly what will happen unless a regulation proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is significantly revised.

IRIS International, Inc. (Chatsworth, CA) has launched its prostate cancer test, NADiA ProsVue.

Two studies have identified military service as a risk factor for certain urologic disorders in presentations made at the AUA annual meeting in Atlanta.

Treatment of early-stage prostate cancer can also result in improved quality of life for a subgroup of men who suffer from lower urinary tract symptoms, according to results from a multicenter study presented at the AUA annual meeting in Atlanta.

The autologous cellular immunotherapy sipuleucel-T (Provenge) appears to demonstrate an overall survival benefit in patients with advanced prostate cancer, according to two studies presented at the AUA annual meeting in Atlanta.

A collaborative research effort into the genetics of prostate cancer has uncovered a distinct subtype of the disease, one that appears to account for up to 15% of all cases.

When the initial wide incision of a microdissection testicular sperm extraction procedure reveals no sperm-containing tubules, there is a 35% chance of finding sperm with a deeper, more extensive exploration, according to a 10-year study of 900 men with nonobstructive azoospermia.

Findings from a study by UCLA urologists of all patients who underwent surgical mesh removal over a 6-year period will hopefully help surgeons who care for these patients with their management decisions and counseling efforts, researchers say.

In treating nocturia related to urgency, flexible-dose fesoterodine (Toviaz) demonstrates statistical superiority to placebo in several areas, reported researchers from State University of New York Downstate Medical School, Brooklyn.

Men who order so-called generic Viagra acquired from the Internet are more likely to be ingesting paint, gypsum, rat poison, and a host of other substances found more often in garages than pharmacies, researchers have discovered.

Repeat intradetrusor injections of onabotulinumtoxinA ("onabotA"; Botox) are associated with sustained efficacy and no new safety signals, long-term study results show.

While many characteristics and conditions are associated with nocturia, patient age is the only factor that can significantly be linked with its development, Dutch researchers report.

Practice complication rates following surgical treatment for BPH are higher than indicated by clinical trials, according to a study presented here.

The highly contentious issue of prostate cancer screening heated up during this week's AUA annual meeting when the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) announced on Monday that it would not change its grade "D" recommendation on PSA screening for prostate cancer.

Researchers teasing out the relationship between urinary tract infection and its symptoms are zeroing in on the major component of Escherichia coli's cell wall, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), as the culprit.

Folic acid may reduce the risk of recurrence of prostate cancer, according to a study from Duke University, Durham, NC.

Use of robotics added almost 40% to the average cost of a radical prostatectomy compared with radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP), analysis of a statewide database showed.

Minimally invasive retroperitoneal lymph node dissection in cases of testicular cancer produces excellent outcomes and reduces length of stay, according to a nationwide study conducted by urologists at the University of California, San Diego. The study compared the minimally invasive procedure to the standard open procedure.

In patients with symptoms suggestive of BPH, nocturia fluctuates but does not significantly progress over the course of 1-year follow-up, according to findings from an international study.

Phosphodiesterase type-5 inhibitors are safe and effective, alone or in combination with alpha-blockers, against lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) secondary to BPH, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.