Roswell Park Cancer Institute has appointed Thomas Schwaab, MD, PhD, as staff physician and assistant professor of oncology in the departments of urology and immunology. Dr. Schwaab offers laparascopic and robot-assisted surgery to patients with kidney cancer and other genitourinary cancers.
A new national clinical trial will test whether testosterone therapy can favorably affect certain conditions that occur in older men.
PSA screening has reduced prostate cancer mortality up to 31%, according to findings from the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC).
AUA, as part of a coalition of 18 other surgical specialties, said it is urging the U.S. Senate to consider making critical changes to its version of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act of 2009 to address significant concerns from physician groups.
Merck & Co. has released iPhone applications for the professional and consumer editions of its Merck Manual.
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 potential benefits of shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) outweigh the foreseeable risks of this treatment, according to a recently released white paper from AUA.
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.