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A team of disease experts and health economists at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore warns that steadily declining rates of U.S. infant male circumcision could add more than $4.4 billion in avoidable health care costs if rates over the next decade drop to levels now seen in Europe.

A common enzyme that is easily detected in blood may predict how well patients with advanced kidney cancer will respond to a specific treatment, according to physicians at Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC.

PODCAST Efficacy and safety study comparing Oxybutynin 3% topical gel vs. placebo in adults with Overactive Bladder Syndrome.

Due to manufacturing issues, a formulation of the bladder cancer treatment bacillus Calmette-Guérin is currently unavailable from one manufacturer.

Men with prostate cancer in Texas may be driving more than three times farther than needed to obtain radiation oncology treatments when treated at a urology-owned radiation oncology practice versus other facilities, according to a recent study.

Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy appears to provide better functional results for incontinence and potency, according to the authors of a study from Turin, Italy.

Fesoterodine fumarate (Toviaz) appears to reduce urge urinary incontinence in patients with overactive bladder who had a suboptimal response to tolterodine tartrate extended release (Detrol LA), according to a phase IV study.

The impact of the proposed Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services payment cuts to radiation oncology could severely impact community-based cancer care across the country, according to a recent survey from the American Society for Radiation Oncology.

The increase in the use of magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography for patients in the U.S. slowed to between 1% and 3% per year between 2006 and 2009, ending a decade of growth that had exceeded 6% annually, according to a study published online in Health Affairs (July 25, 2012).

Pregabalin (Lyrica) capsules do not affect reproductive function in healthy males when compared with placebo, according to results from a study conducted as a post-approval commitment required by the FDA.

Eliminating the PSA test would be taking a big step backwards and would likely result in rising numbers of men with metastatic cancer at the time of diagnosis, according to a recent analysis.

For years, some urologists and physical therapists have been saying that the pelvic floor is contracted and shortened because of hypertonicity in patients with interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome (IC/PBS), contributing to their misery. Now, using magnetic resonance imaging measurements, researchers have some physical confirmation that these patients do indeed have a contracted pelvic floor.