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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
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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 - One of the best studied 'naturally occurring' glycosaminoglycans in bladder pain syndrome has been chondroitin sulphate. Studies have indicated a deficit of this proteoglycan in the bladder uroepthelium in BPS. Curtis Nickel from Kingston, Ontario and his Canadian colleagues reported on a multicenter, community based, open-label, uncontrolled study designed to assess the efficacy and safety of intravesical sodium chondroitin sulphate for BPS.
Treatment Of Bladder Pain Syndrome/Interstitial Cystitis 2008: Can We Make Evidence-Based Decisions?
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UroToday.com - BPS may be a heterogeneous spectrum of diseases rather than a single, easily identifiable disorder. It is still poorly defined, and different experts have varying perceptions as to what it is about. Magnus Fall, Frank Oberpenning, and Ralph Peeker from Goteborg, Sweden and Bocholt, Germany have done a very useful literature review trying to answer the question, "Is evidence-based treatment possible?" The answer is not clear, but they outline the issues and point the way.
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UroToday.com - In the online version of The Prostate, Dr. Robert W. Veltri and his colleagues from Johns Hopkins University reported on the correlation of molecular pathways and progression-free survival (PFS) in prostate cancer (CaP).
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UroToday.com - In the online edition of the International Journal of Impotence Research, Dr. R. Shabsigh and his associates presented a systematic review of testosterone therapy for hypogonadism and its relation to prostate cancer (CaP). The data did not suggest that testosterone therapy is associated with increased CaP risk in hypogonadal men nor demonstrate a consistent effect on PSA levels.
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UroToday.com - Dr. Robert Nadler, of Northwestern University, wrote an excellent editorial in a recent issue of Cancer regarding the commencement of prostate cancer (CaP) screening at age 40. The National Comprehensive Cancer Care Network (NCCN) recommends an initial PSA at age 40 for men of all races. The frequency of subsequent PSA tests would depend on the initial level.
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Nymox Pharmaceutical Corporation (NASDAQ: NYMX) is please to announce that the presentation of NX-1207 clinical study data at the AUA South Central Section annual meeting in Santa Ana Pueblo, NM was featured in the Urology Times, the widely distributed and most read publication of U.S. urologists.
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UroToday.com - This article, a basic science study out of Turkey, investigated the histopathologic changes in the ureter wall in an experimental urinary bladder hypoplasia and agenesis model. The group utilized timed pregnant rats, randomly divided into three groups, that received intraperitoneal Adriamycin at 2 mg/kg on gestational days 6 to 9 or saline at 2 mL/kg on GD 6 to 9. The third group did not receive any medication during their pregnancies.
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UroToday.com - A study by Dr. John-Paul Capolicchio from Montreal evaluated laparoscopic extravesical ureteral reimplantation defining a technique for this type of procedure. His study included a total of 20 children between the ages of 4 to 15 years who underwent laparoscopic extravesical transperitoneal ureteral reimplantation. 75% of the patients were girls with 11 of those cases bilateral. All the cases were diagnosed with reflux after a urinary tract infection.
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UroToday.com - A study out of Zurich, Switzerland evaluated the use of VCUG studies after crossed trigonal ureteral reimplantation. The study retrospectively reviewed 126 consecutive patients who underwent Cohen crossed trigonal ureteral reimplantations. Inclusion criteria were primary vesicoureteral reflux and greater than five years of follow-up. The follow-up imaging consisted of serial ultrasounds and one VCUG, as well as an intravenous pyelogram in each patient.
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Cyto Pulse Sciences, a leading producer of electric field based, intradermal DNA Vaccine delivery systems, today announced approval by Swedish regulatory authorities to begin a Phase I/II study of DNA vaccination in patients with recurring prostate cancer. The trial will investigate the safety of a xenogenic DNA vaccine delivered by the Derma Vax? intradermal electroporation system.
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BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - This is a case series describing the use of a dual wavelength (wavelength shifted) Neodymium:Yttrium Aluminum Garnet (Nd:YAG) laser used for renal sparing surgery to treat transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis. This laser was developed at the University of Alberta with the aim of having coagulating and ablating wavelengths. The rationale for this was the ability to coagulate the tissue rendering it non-viable prior to ablation.
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UroToday.com - A variety of testicular pathologies to include testicular cancer, cryptorchidism and defective spermatogenesis have been increasing. While genetic factors play a role, growing evidence suggests that the testicle is damaged by environment and lifestyle-related factors either prenatally or at puberty.
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UroToday.com - Our single center observational cohort study sought to examine the indications for the usage of transcorporal placement of artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) for incontinence after treatment for prostate adenocarcinoma. Our study shows that after 2 years of follow-up the transcorporal approach to AUS placement is an effective primary or salvage incontinence therapy.
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UroToday.com - Circulating antibodies against infectious agents and self-reported history of syphilis and gonorrhea represent an individual's cumulative lifetime exposure or past infections, and thus are particularly suited for risk evaluation of cancer with a long latent disease process.
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Scientists from Germany and the UK have found a new source of stem cells that could be as good as embryonic stem cells for researching and developing treatments for a range of serious diseases, but without the ethical problems of embryonic stem cells; the source is routine biopsies of men's testicles.
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While peritoneal dialysis home therapy (PD) was originally introduced 30 years ago to offer patients with kidney failure a better way to filter toxins and fluids from the body overnight or several times a day in the convenience of their home, the economic advantages of PD have taken on increasing importance and visibility due to recent Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rule changes and legislation affecting reimbursement and patient education.
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Urodynamix Technologies Ltd. (TSX-V:URO) today announced that two peer-reviewed articles related to the application of its near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) technology in urology were published in the October 2008 edition of the prestigious Canadian Journal of Urology with the launch of a special issue devoted to "Invention, Innovation and Evocation." In back-to-back articles, Andrew J.
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A 30 percent increase in chronic kidney disease over the past decade has prompted the U.S. Renal Data System (USRDS) to issue for the first time a separate report documenting the magnitude of the disease, which affects an estimated 27 million Americans and accounts for more than 24 percent of Medicare costs. The USRDS is funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Patients with overactive bladders who took part in a multi-centre study to measure the effectiveness of solifenacin noticed improvements in as little as three days, according to research published in the November issue of BJU International. Just over a hundred urology centres from 14 countries took part in the study of 863 patients led by Professor Linda Cardozo from the Department of Urogynaecology at King's College Hospital in London.
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In a recent report, the collaborative research team from the Center for Prostate Disease Research at the Uniformed Services Universit of the Health Sciences (USU) and Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) and Gen-Probe Inc., San Diego, Calif., showed a new promising prognostic utility of the urine PCA3 test. The study was co-led by Drs. David G. McLeod and Shiv Srivastava from CPDR and Drs. Jack Groskopf and Harry Rittenhouse from Gen-Probe.
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The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) is proud to announce that its founder and chairman, Lance Armstrong, is the 2008 recipient of the American Association of Cancer Institutes' (AACI) Public Service and Advocacy Award. AACI will present the award to Armstrong on Mon., Oct. 6 in Chicago, IL, at its annual meeting. Armstrong is being honored for his efforts in support of cancer survivors and the nation's cancer centers.
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"Many dialysis services and renal clinicians are currently overstretched with insufficient capacity to cope with the number of patients they care for, possibly due to differences in opinion on the effectiveness of services between healthcare professionals and commissioners. Consequently over half of all kidney disease patients die within the first five years of receiving dialysis, in part due to late identification and access to services.
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Bavarian Nordic has now evaluated the mature phase II data from the therapeutic prostate cancer vaccine candidate PROSTVAC? that had been obtained as part of the recently entered partnership with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the US.
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ArQule, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARQL) today announced the expansion of its Phase 2 trial with ARQ 197, a proprietary, orally administered small molecule inhibitor of the c-Met receptor tyrosine kinase, in MiT (Microphthalmia Transcription Factor)-associated tumors based on the achievement of a partial response, as defined by RECIST (Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors), in a patient with clear cell sarcoma.
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Uroplasty, Inc. (Amex: UPI) announced the enrollment of the first patients in a new randomized, controlled multicenter clinical study of its FDA cleared Urgent PC neuromodulation system for the treatment of overactive bladder (OAB) symptoms of urinary urgency, urge incontinence and frequency of urinary voids. The study is designed to directly compare the effectiveness of Urgent PC treatment to non-active treatment.
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