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Will physicians be more inclined to use electronic prescribing andelectronic health records if their hospital, group practice, oranother entity provide the necessary computers, software, andtechnical support?

Today, interstitial cystitis is being viewed more as a painsyndrome than as a bladder disease, and that new view is drivingmuch of the research that urologists will hear about at this year'sAUA annual meeting and beyond. It should also inform their approachto treatment until the cause and cure are discovered, according toPhilip M. Hanno, MD.

Paris-For most men who have urinary incontinence afterradical prostatectomy, a sling and an artificial urinary sphincter(AUS) offer equally good outcomes, according to findings from aretrospective, double-cohort study reported at the EuropeanAssociation of Urology annual congress here.

Research presented at the upcoming AUA annual meeting will includesome intriguing new findings about the cause, diagnosis, andmanagement of localized prostate cancer, said Richard D. Williams,MD.

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The Infusion Nurses Society (INS) has issued revised standards oncatheter stabilization that now recommend the use of a manufacturedcatheter device, when feasible.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd., has been granted FDA approvalfor a generic formulation of mitoxantrone hydrochloride injection,2 mg/mL.

Urologix, Inc., has received FDA approval to market its CoolWavecontrol unit for use with its catheter-based treatments that usemicrowave technology to treat BPH.

Primary androgen deprivation therapy appears to control localizedprostate cancer in the majority of patients who receive it, atleast for an intermediate period, according to a study published inCancer (2006; 106:1708-14).

Chronic inflammation may be a significant risk factor in thedevelopment of prostate cancer, suggest results of a study fromCase Western Reserve University researchers in Cleveland.

Vancouver, British Columbia-Predicting off-treatment time forintermittent androgen suppression is complex and involves manyfactors, said Laurence Klotz, MD, chief, division of urology,Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Center in Toronto.

San Francisco-Women with prediabetes who lose a modest amountof weight through attention to diet and increased physical activityhave a reduced likelihood of suffering from urinary incontinence,according to recently published results from The DiabetesPrevention Program (DPP). An intensive lifestyle intervention wasshown to reduce the prevalence of stress, but not urge,incontinence.

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Clearwater Beach, FL-Physicians who are faced with anincontinent, wet child should always ask that child if he or she isconstipated, specialists suggest.

Clearwater Beach, FL-In children with incontinence,urodynamic studies are warranted in a small minority of cases,according to pediatric urology experts.

Clearwater Beach, FL-In the complex relationship betweendysfunctional voiding in children and the role of vesicoureteralreflux, researchers suggest that the real problem is preventingurinary tract infections.

You are a middle-aged urologist. You have worked hard for 30-plusyears and you are not enjoying the business side of medicine.However, you do enjoy taking care of patients and enjoy coming tothe office and doing office procedures. What are your options?

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Urologists counseling men with newly diagnosed prostate canceroften assess the risk posed by the disease in order to recommend anappropriate treatment strategy. During the past decade, clinicianshave recognized that men with elevated PSA levels have asignificant chance of harboring extracapsular disease. Anotherindicator of potentially advanced disease is the number of biopsycores that are positive for disease and the percentage of each corethat contains disease.

Vancouver, British Columbia-A study comparing continuousandrogen deprivation therapy (CAD) with intermittent androgendeprivation therapy (IAD) in prostate cancer post-prostatectomypatients with PSA found no statistically significant difference inprogression-free survival between the two treatment arms.

Vancouver, British Columbia-Predicting off-treatment time forintermittent androgen suppression is complex and involves manyfactors, said Laurence Klotz, MD, chief, division of urology,Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Center in Toronto.

Baltimore-Patients with small, lower-grade prostate cancerswho opt to delay surgery are no more likely to progress toincurable disease than are those who choose immediate intervention,say investigators from the Johns Hopkins University School ofMedicine here.

Vancouver, British Columbia-A combination of intermittentandrogen ablation and finasteride (Proscar) appears to slow tumorgrowth and improve survival time compared with continuous androgenablation (CAA) and intermittent androgen ablation (IAA) strategies,according to findings of an animal study conducted at NorthwesternUniversity, Chicago. Researchers found that mice treated with IAAplus finasteride were three to five times more likely to survivefor 70 days from start of treatment than were those in the othertreatment groups.

Bethesda, MD-A 2005 study from the large-scale, NIH-sponsoredWomen's Health Initiative (WHI) found that not only does hormonetherapy not relieve urinary incontinence in postmenopausal women,but estrogen (when taken alone) also doubles the risk ofincontinence in women who did not have it before they startedtherapy.

Washington-Lawmakers in many states across the nation areconsidering legislation that could directly affect the practices ofurologists and other physicians, urologists who attended aWashington legislative conference in March were told.

New York-Endorectal magnetic resonance imaging can be usedprior to salvage prostatectomy to identify tumor sites and showextracapsular extension and seminal vesicle invasion with"reasonable accuracy," say investigators from MemorialSloan-Kettering Cancer Center.