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Unless Congress takes action, physicians paid under the Medicare fee schedule face another significant pay cut in 2010.

Roger Sur, MD, has been recruited by the University of California, San Diego Medical Center to launch a comprehensive kidney stone treatment center. The center is dedicated to the medical prevention, advanced surgical treatment, and research of kidney stone disease.

The National Association for Continence (NAFC) is calling for stricter health care standards for patients with pelvic floor dysfunction, including incontinence and prolapse in women.

Depression, anxiety disorders, and sexual trauma appear to be risk factors in lower urinary tract symptoms such as incontinence and overactive bladder, according to a recent study.

Legislation that would have repealed the controversial Medicare physician payment formula has been blocked by Senate Republicans and Democrats, who expressed worries about its cost.

Recent changes in credit card laws will likely affect everyone in ways both positive and negative.

In part one of this series, Drs. Neil H. Baum and Robert A. Dowling discuss the basics of shooting a patient education video.

Drs. Scott B. Shappell and Leonard S. Marks discuss clinical use of urine PCA3 mRNA testing for prostate cancer.

Drs. Shlomo Raz and Ja-Hong Kim discuss recent advances in the treatment of stress incontinence.

In this podcast, Dr. Phil Hanno interviews Dr. Michael Chancellor on the potential role of botulinum toxin in urology.

Cardiometabolic disorders and urologic disease represent a "perfect storm" of ailments, according to Kevin T. McVary, MD, who discusses the urologist's role in management.

Alpha-blockers, tricyclic antidepressants, or both can improve compliance, lower pressures at bladder capacity, and improve reflux, incontinence, and detrusor overactivity in neurogenic bladder patients.

Robotic prostatectomy in morbidly obese men is feasible, reasonably safe, and appears to provide oncologic control comparable to that achieved in a normal weight population.

Benign PSA, measured in serum with a proprietary automated assay, improves prostate cancer detection when it is incorporated into an artificial neural network.

In this interview, Michael B. Chancellor, MD, discusses using botulinum toxin for treating overactive bladder, BPH, interstitial cystitis, and other conditions.

Botulinum toxin A is proving to be valuable for relief of interstitial cystitis.

New urology products and services from Roche, Accuray Inc., American Medical Systems, Boston Scientific, Primal Pictures, Life-Tech, and Mpathy Medical.

Most do-it-yourself videos require a minimum of tweaking and editing before they're ready to be uploaded to the Internet.

A new study has found that between 3.4 and 7.9 million American women age 18 and over have symptoms consistent with IC/PBS.

Nerve growth factor levels in urine could prove a useful biomarker for interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome and neurogenic overactive bladder.

Virtually lost in the debate over health care reform and whether it will contain a public option is an effort by advocates of medical malpractice reform to advance their cause and obtain some form of relief to the steadily increasing cost of premiums and the negative impact of defensive medicine.

Urologists discuss the issue of hiring practice consultants.

The issues are too complex for a simple answer when it comes to 'incident to' billing.

Postoperative pharmacologic therapy enhances the chances of erectile function recovery in virtually all categories of men who undergo bilateral nerve-sparing prostatectomy.

Patients in active surveillance for prostate cancer were almost 20 times more likely to die of causes other than prostate cancer.

Since the original description of the robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy technique in 2002, several technical modifications have been reported.

Compared with the general population, prostate cancer patients treated with radiation therapy were almost twice as likely to develop rectal cancer.