The 105th AUA annual meeting provided important research advances on several fronts. Two themes emerged across a number of presentations: utilization of various diagnostic techniques and treatment modalities (both overuse and underuse); and interrelationships among various non-urologic medical conditions.
If we don't [lower costs and eliminate waste] soon, our patients, our practices, our families, the economy, and our nation will suffer.
A prospective, standardized system that has been used to report complications of several urologic procedures can also be utilized for reporting complications during percutaneous nephrolithotomy.
For most urologists, the potential for serious side effects from hormone therapy comes as no surprise.
The antibiotic of choice for simple urinary tract infections, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, has a resistance rate of 23% to the bacteria commonly associated with UTIs.
Most urologists' professional conduct is impeccable, but there is an occasional physician whose attitude and behavior make life at work difficult for everyone.
Concerns about regulations and time have changed the way urologists work with drug and device reps.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 specifically states that anyone receiving Medicare payments is obligated to identify and refund overpayments within 60 days of recognition.
Urologists and other physicians who serve Medicare patients have been given another temporary reprieve from a scheduled reimbursment cut.
With more and more doctors making use of e-mail, it is important to learn proper etiquette when communicating with patients.
Investing in an ETF provides investors with the ability to invest in index-type portfolios that replicate the returns of many widely known indexes.
Urology Times writer Penny Allen has won a 2010 AUA Excellence in Urology Health Reporting Award.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology has issued a guideline for the use of serum markers in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of germ cell tumors in men, most commonly testicular cancer.
A significant reduction in imaging use is apparent when urologists evaluate radiologist recommendations and then direct follow-up imaging, according to a recent study.
A urine test that is under development appears to show significant specificity when used to detect prostate cancer, according to a multi-institution study from researchers in Colorado, Pennsylvania, New York, and Virginia presented at the AUA annual meeting in San Francisco.
Weiss Memorial Hospital, Chicago, has appointed Norm Smith, MD, to the position of chief of urology.
The FDA has approved GE Healthcare?s Cysview (hexaminolevulinate hydrochloride) for the detection of nonmuscle-invasive papillary cancer of the bladder in patients with known or suspected bladder cancer.
A 17-year-long community study looking at symptoms of BPH in more than 2,000 men aged 40 to 79 years suggests that surgery offers more relief from incontinence and symptoms of obstruction than treatment from drug-based therapy.
Continuous androgen deprivation plus external beam radiation therapy should be the standard treatment approach for men with locally advanced prostate cancer, researchers reported at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Chicago.
Richard D. Williams, MD, Rubin H. Flocks Professor and former chair of the University of Iowa department of urology, died May 28, 2010, at his home in Iowa City. He was 65.
Urologists work with their patients to find out why they're not taking their meds.
Sexual side effects resulted in more withdrawals from dutaseride therapy compared to finasteride.
With the IRA generally representing most physicians' largest financial asset, it only makes sense to ensure that retirement account beneficiary decisions are carefully made.
Most biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer following radical prostatectomy occurs within 10 years, and patients who remain free from progression a decade postoperatively can be counseled that their risk of subsequent cancer-related morbidity and mortality is low.
A simple, one-item questionnaire is easy to administer, correlates with other widely used subjective and objective measures, and can be used as an outcome measure to evaluate surgery for stress urinary incontinence.
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Health care reform is what it is, and we have to learn to live with it for now and the foreseeable future. Currently, it is the law of the land.
Perioperative urine cultures yield a high number of false-negative and false-positive results and do not accurately identify infective organisms in a large percentage of percutaneous nephrolithotomy patients.
Urology Times found urologists who place themselves in each of the camps on health care reform, but perhaps the largest group wishes someone could explain what the legislation actually means for them.
