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Women who suffer from urinary incontinence are more likely to be depressed, says a study.Urinary incontinence is the iMedindia Health News - Know your Urinary System
Professor Joseph C. Liao from David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA has produced a new biosensor diagnostics which helMedindia Health News - Know your Urinary System
Obesity is found to cause urinary inconsistence and loss of bladder control in prediabetic patients. The study was conduMedindia Health News - Know your Urinary System
Recurrent bladder cancer can be detected through measuring a certain protein present in the urine. Where the US is conceMedindia Health News - Know your Urinary System
Surprisingly, women who have had vaginal deliveries prior to their menopause share the same risk of developing urinary iMedindia Health News - Know your Urinary System
Turkish researchers have established the association between adult urinary incontinence with bedwetting as a child.br
Medindia Health News - Know your Urinary System
In a research covering 218 diabetic patients and 799 non-diabetic women volunteers in the age group of 55-75 yrs, scie
Medindia Health News - Know your Urinary System
According to a new study researchers say a three-day regimen of the antibiotic amoxicillin-clavulanate (Augmentin) is no
Medindia Health News - Know your Urinary System
Treatment for urinary incontinence found to increase the incidence of incontinence in postmenopausal women say resear
Medindia Health News - Know your Urinary System
Researchers say women whose mothers suffer from urinary incontinence were about 1.3-times more likely to suffer from it
Medindia Health News - Know your Urinary System
Urinary tract infections (UTI) are often caused by bacteria and are frequently treated with antibiotics, such as fluoroq
Medindia Health News - Know your Urinary System
A new method has been found for detecting upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma by a team of researchers worki
Medindia Health News - Know your Urinary System
The widespread use of disposable incontinence pads has promoted a marked reduction in the use of indwelling catheters. P
Medindia Health News - Know your Urinary System
Urinary Tuberculosis is often difficult to diagnose and many a times the diagnosis is made by exclusion. Urine polymeras
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UroToday.com - Vesicovaginal fistula has been a medical and social problem and remains a surgical challenge, especially when it requires re-operation, presents large size, involves the ureter and is associated with radiotherapy. In this paper, we describe our experience with complex urogenital fistulas...
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UroToday.com - Our chapter on BPH in the recent Urologic Clinics of North America focuses on improved methods for defining the etiology of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS)...
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UroToday.com - The treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) secondary to bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) makes up a significant amount of the workload of most urologists...
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UroToday.com - The availability of novel and promising targeted therapies for the treatment of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC), such as bevacizumab plus interferon and sunitinib, has meant important increases in options for patients and physicians treating this deadly disease. It has also meant that patients can take medications, non-curatively, for long periods of time...
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Kidney infection, also known as pyelonephritis, is a type of urinary tract infection (UTI) typically caused by E. coli bacteria. The bacteria may have spread from the bladder or the urethra to one of the kidneys, infecting it. The urethra is a tube which transports urine from the bladder outside the body...
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As the incidence of diabetes and hypertension continues to grow worldwide - and increasing numbers of patients progressing to kidney disease and kidney failure place a financial strain on public health systems - the need for early patient education about kidney disease and treatment options, including home-based treatments, has become critical...
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Athena Feminine Technologies, Inc., in partnership with the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health, announced the initiation of a nationwide enrollment for Phase IV of the DUETS (Device for Urinary Incontinence, Effectiveness, Tolerability and Satisfaction) research study for its Athena Pelvic Muscle Trainer? (PMT)...
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Affymax, Inc. (Nasdaq: AFFY) today announced that it has received a $5 million development milestone payment from Takeda Pharmaceutical Company as part of the companies' exclusive global agreement to develop and commercialize Hematide?, Affymax's investigational drug for the treatment of anemia in chronic renal failure patients...
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A study of over 80,000 American live kidney donors found they were likely to live just as long as people who have two healthy kidneys and that the procedure carries very little medical risk...
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Patients who undergo gastric bypass surgery experience changes in their urine composition that increase their risk of developing kidney stones, research from UT Southwestern Medical Center investigators suggests...
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) afflicts a large number of younger minority adults receiving medical care in settings that serve the uninsured and underinsured (settings collectively known as the healthcare safety net). Poor, minority adults with moderate to severe CKD are also two to four times more likely to progress to kidney failure than non-Hispanic whites...
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An analysis of outcomes for live kidney donors in the U.S. over a 15 year period finds they have similar long-term survival rates compared to healthy individuals who were not kidney donors, according to a study in the March 10 issue of JAMA...
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In a landmark study of more than 80,000 live kidney donors from across the United States, Johns Hopkins researchers have found the procedure carries very little medical risk and that, in the long term, people who donate one of their kidneys are likely to live just as long as those who have two healthy ones...
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For more than half a century, products containing ion exchange resins have been used in patients with dangerously high levels of potassium. However, there is no convincing evidence that these products are actually effective, according to an article appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN)...
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Argos Therapeutics announced the presentation of positive data from a Phase 2 trial that evaluated the safety, clinical response and immune response of AGS-003 treatment in newly diagnosed patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). The data were discussed March 7 in a poster presentation at the ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium...
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The first pooled kidney transplants involving three donor-recipient couples where each recipient received a kidney from a donor they did not know, has successfully taken place in the UK. The transplants took place at the end of 2009 and involved three hospitals, Hammersmith and Guy's and St Thomas' in London, and the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh...
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Gen-Probe's (Nasdaq: GPRO) PROGENSAŽ PCA3 assay can help determine whether men suspected of having prostate cancer should undergo a repeat biopsy, according to data from the two largest studies to date of the molecular urine test. The studies were presented last week at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's (ASCO) Genitourinary (GU) Cancers Symposium in San Francisco...
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New research published in today's issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine (Vol. 170, No. 5), by an investigator at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) and colleagues at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, shows that the type of specialist that men with localized prostate cancer see can influence the form of therapy they ultimately receive...
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According to a new study, men employed in occupations with potential exposure to high levels of sunlight have a reduced risk of kidney cancer compared with men who were less likely to be exposed to sunlight at work. The study did not find an association between occupational sunlight exposure and kidney cancer risk in women...
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U.S. Representative John B. Larson (D-CT) visited the Glastonbury office of Connecticut Surgical Group, a group surgical practice with 14 locations in the greater Hartford area, on Friday, February 26. Urologist Arthur Tarantino, MD, led Rep. Larson on a tour of the facility and explained to the Congressman how the practice serves as a specialty care resource for the community. Dr...
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Predictive Biosciences announced that the Company will be presenting its novel Multi-Analyte Diagnostic Readout (MADR?) approach to the development of a non-invasive, urinary biomarker based assay for the detection of bladder cancer during the 2010 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (GU Symposium), being held March 5-7 in San Francisco...
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Men who undergo prostate-cancer screening should discuss with a doctor the uncertainties, risks and benefits of the test before it is performed, says Edward Partridge, M.D., president-elect of the American Cancer Society (ACS) National Board of Directors and director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center...
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American Cancer Society issued its new Guideline for the Early Detection of Prostate Cancer. The American Urological Association (AUA), which represents more than 16,000 urologists and urologic health professionals worldwide, issued the following statement in response to the new ACS document. The statement is attributable to AUA President Anton J. Bueschen, MD...
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An estimated one in ten adults suffers from kidney disease, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. A leading cause of kidney disease is hypertension, which effects one out of every four U.S. adults...
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The experimental drug belatacept can prevent graft rejection in kidney transplant recipients while better preserving kidney function when compared with standard immunosuppressive drugs, data from two international phase III clinical trials show. The results are published in the March issue of the American Journal of Transplantation...
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