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The federal government is pressing forward with an initiative launched by the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) to implement a national system of electronic prescriptions intended to increase both efficiency and patient safety.

A new continuous wave thulium laser device appears to offer a safe, bloodless, effective, and expeditious outpatient surgical procedure for men with BPH.

Interest in international real estate is increasing because, as is often the case with investors, it recently has done very well from a performance standpoint.

Most urologists have patients who come from many different backgrounds, speak different languages, and have different attitudes toward Western medicine.

The Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) is a program established at the end of last year to provide incentive funding for physicians to begin submitting data that will be used to make Medicare a smarter purchaser of health care.

This article centers around the rationale and outcomes of the converse issue; namely, removal of metastatic extrarenal foci of RCC.

Research has shown that penile hemodynamic findings are related to vascular risk factors.

Obesity is definitively associated with both metabolic alterations and urinary stone recurrence.

Results of an Italian study comparing transobturator suburethral tape (TOT) and tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) show both surgical techniques to be equally efficient at a follow-up of nearly 3 years in women suffering from stress urinary incontinence.

Many physicians are concerned and confused about all the discussion on pay for performance, and urologists are no exception.

Preliminary results from the REDUCE (REduction by DUtasteride of prostate Cancer Events) trial suggest a relationship between the degree of chronic inflammation and lower urinary tract symptoms, but not clinical prostatitis-like symptoms in the REDUCE population.

After nearly 7 years of follow-up, cryoablation appears to be as effective as external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) in the treatment of localized prostate cancer, according to the results of a prospective, randomized trial.

About 110 urologists met in the nation's capitol in March to learn more about the important public policy and payment issues shaping practices across the country.

Data from two similarly designed European studies comparing photoselective vaporization of the prostate and transurethral resection of the prostate show similar outcomes after a 2-year follow-up in patients with lower urinary tract symptoms due to BPH.

A laparoscopic preperitoneal approach cannot only serve as a teaching platform for laparoscopic skills for surgeons, but it also demonstrates reproducible outcomes in the treatment of BPH.

Urologist Andrew von Eschenbach, MD, was named commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in 2006. In this exclusive interview, from Urology Times sister publication Pharmaceutical Executive, he discusses drug safety, DTC advertising, FDA's culture, and how the agency plans to bring itself into the age of molecular medicine.

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Men who present with infertility issues and their partners are relatively uninformed about the causes and treatments of male infertility, a fact that may be attributable to urologists' failure to properly market their capabilities in this area of clinical practice, says a University of Connecticut, Farmington, urologist.

Listen to the Urology Times Radio podcast from Day Five of the 2007 AUA Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California. This podcast includes interviews with highly regarded experts in urological medicine including: Daniel Kaplon, MD, reports on the risk of osteopenia in infertile men Stanton Honig, MD, discusses patients' understanding of male infertilityPeter Chan, MD, explains why routine semen analysis fails to predict reproductive outcomes

The AUA Foundation has named the 2007 class for its Research Scholars Program.

Men who present with infertility issues and their partners are relatively uninformed about the causes and treatments of male infertility, a fact that may be attributable to urologists' failure to properly market their capabilities in this area of clinical practice, says a University of Connecticut, Farmington, urologist.

Routine semen analysis does not absolutely predict the quality of sperm chromatin, which may help to explain why it often fails to predict reproductive outcomes in infertile couples, results of a Canadian study suggest.

While it does not affect the vast majority of male infertility patients, there is a subgroup of men with disrupted hormonal axes and/or hypogonadism whom urologists should work up for the presence of osteopenia, according to the results of a study from Brown University in Providence, RI, reported here yesterday.

Whether a woman develops stress urinary incontinence, urge urinary incontinence, or mixed urinary incontinence is largely a product of a confluence of age, race, and body mass index, according to a cross-sectional analysis of the Reproductive Risks of Incontinence Study at Kaiser, a population-based study of 2,109 women over age 40 funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

Although a relatively newer treatment for prostate cancer, data from an online database have allowed researchers to evaluate cyroablation as an initial treatment for localized prostate cancer in a meaningful way. Five-year results from the Cryo On Line Database (COLD) Registry suggest that cryoablation has outcomes similar to those seen with radiation therapy and surgery, researchers reported here yesterday.

Data from a European study comparing photoselective vaporization of the prostate (PVP) and transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) show similar outcomes after a 2-year follow-up in patients with lower urinary tract symptoms due to BPH, researchers reported here yesterday.

Two-year results of the Stress Incontinence Surgical Treatment Efficacy Trial (SISTEr) will allow physicians and patients to have more educated conversations about procedures for stress urinary incontinence and what can be expected in terms of efficacy and complications, according to the investigators of that prospective, randomized, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases-supported trial.

Listen to the Urology Times Radio podcast from Day Four of the 2007 AUA Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California. This podcast includes interviews with highly regarded experts in urological medicine including: Jennifer Anger, MD, discusses age as a predictor of poorer sling surgery outcomes Robert Getzenberg, PhD, presents the latest findings on EPCA-2 as a biomarker for prostate cancerMichael Albo, MD, discusses data comparing the sling and Burch procedures for SUI