App facilitates assessment of urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome

The study authors maintain there is no current evidence in the literature indicating that CT use is superior to other imaging modalities in reducing morbidity or improving outcomes in patients with urinary stone disease.

“We need to just approach STIs as the medical conditions they are because until we do, and until we take those stigmas away, people will truly have resistance to discussing it, hesitance to discussing it, and resistance to diagnosis and intervention,” says Ashley Winter, MD.

“We observed profound differences in the detection work up and management of chronic kidney disease suggesting suboptimal care among women,” said Juan Jesus Carrero, PharmD, PhD.

“I think people can feel like they're all alone, or they have something that's uncommon, and it may not be,” says J. Quentin Clemens, MD, FACS, MSCI.

Fluoroquinolone could increase the risk of altered mental status and hospitalizations for older patients with advanced chronic kidney disease.

Addressing the gaps in health literacy may lead to improvement in health outcomes and health care disparities among patients with chronic pelvic pain.