Urology News Joint Advocacy Conference Brings Urology's Voice To Capitol Hill Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT The American Urological Association (AUA) and the American Association of Clinical Urologists (AACU) are pleased to once again co-sponsor the only advocacy meeting specifically devoted to urology. The Fifth Annual Urology Joint Advocacy Conference will be held March 21 through March 23 at the Ritz-Carlton, Washington, DC... Cystodistension: No Standards And No Benefits-Survey Of UK Practice - When Data Is Limited, The Place Of Hydrodistention And Hunner's Lesion Ablation Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PDT UroToday.com - Cystoscopy with hydrodistention is not practiced in any standardized fashion despite proposals by the National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Disorders (NIDDK) 2 decades ago and more recently the European Society for the Study of Interstitial Cystitis (ESSIC) to establish such standards... 'Reform Your Own Health' During National Kidney Month Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PDT No matter what Washington does on health reform, there's a lot you can do to reform your own health -- and two of the best places to start are your kidneys. So says Dr. Ronald Weiss, chairman of Results for Life, an educational campaign of the American Clinical Laboratory Association. "March is more than just basketball and the start of spring. It is also National Kidney Month... Robotic Surgery In Male Infertility And Chronic Orchialgia Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PDT UroToday.com - The perceived benefits of robotic surgery in terms of elimination of tremor, field magnification, motion scaling, ergonomic surgeon controls and ergonomic surgeon posturing are likely to have an even greater impact in the field of microsurgery than laparoscopy... Impact Of Ethnicity On Primary Treatment Choice And Mortality In Men With Prostate Cancer: Data From CaPSURE Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:00:00 PDT UroToday.com - In the Journal of Clinical Oncology, a group of investigators use the CaPSURE database to investigate the association of pretreatment clinical factors with treatment choice, by ethnicity. CaPSURE is a primarily community based dataset of more than 13,000 men with biopsy-proven prostate cancer (CaP)... |