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Having trouble with a patient who refuses to pay his account balance? Learn about your options.

Management consultant Keith Borglum, CHBC, offers some tips on keeping the appointment calendar full.

Educate your patients about urinary tract infection with a free, customizable handout.

In children with recurrent urinary tract infections, low-dose, continuous oral antibiotic therapy may help prevent future recurrences.

Using an extremely sensitive tool based on nanotechnology, researchers from Northwestern University, Chicago say they have detected previously undetectable levels of PSA in patients who have undergone radical prostatectomy.

The FDA has approved GlaxoSmithKline's pazopanib (Votrient) to treat patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

More than 85,000 physicians and other eligible professionals who successfully reported quality-related data to Medicare under the 2008 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) received incentive payments totaling more than $92 million, significantly above the $36 million paid in 2007, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Two investigational oral phosphodiesterase type-5 inhibitors for the treatment of erectile dysfunction have shown positive results in separate studies.

Despite a national focus on reducing surgical errors, surgery-related adverse events continue to occur both inside and outside the operating room, according to a recent analysis of events at Veterans Health Administration Medical Centers.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would abandon the current Medicare physician payment formula and allow future rates to increase based more closely on physicians? costs, a revision that is expected to cost approximately $210 billion over 10 years.

With guidance from the American Association of Clinical Urologists, Inc., urologists have scored key grassroots victories in state legislatures across the country over the past year.

Infection-retardant coatings on penile prostheses, which have been shown to reduce primary implantation infection rates by more than half, appear to have minimal effect on bacterial growth based on culture data as found at the time of revision surgery.

Laparoscopic gastric band placement confers a lower lithogenic risk than the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.

Managing a medical practice is a business proposition, and part of doing it right is being prepared for a new year.

Bevacizumab added to interferon-alpha as initial systemic therapy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma did not significantly improve overall survival compared to interferon alone, but did significantly increase progression-free survival.

In spite of the chaos of health care reform, urologists' mix of office, outpatient surgery, and hospital practice ensures that we will continue to do well.

A multicenter Japanese team has proposed a method for approaching infection prophylaxis with prostate biopsy patients.

The double whammy of declining reimbursement rates and rising overhead costs continues to plague practicing urologists in the United States.

Single nucleotide polymorphisms of the carbonic anhydrase 9 gene are found frequently in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma, and predict prognosis and response to immunotherapy.

Asset protection strategies and estate planning techniques often operate in conjunction with each other.

Intermittent androgen ablation proved feasible for patients with metastatic prostate cancer, but did not improve survival or quality of life compared with continuous hormonal therapy.

It has become increasingly doubtful that even if Congress passes some form of health care reform this year or in early 2010, reform of the formula on which physician Medicare payments are calculated will most likely not be included, and that is bad news.

Measuring paired-like homeodomain transcription factor 2 methylation status may aid in predicting the risk of biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy.

The latest generation of mobile phones relagates the "talking" function to the background and offers users a wide array of activities once available only on desktop computers.

How will urologists be affected by reform measures aimed at bolstering the role of primary care physicians?

Information on new products from Accuray Inc., Covidien, Harvard Apparatus, EMG Productions, and KeyScan Inc.

Early results with tanezumab (RN624), an investigational monclonal antibody against nerve growth factor, show promise for chronic bladder pain in interstitial cystitis.