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A Perspective by Michael P. Chetner, M.D., MSc., FRCS(C) Acting Director, Division of Urology Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Since the early 1900s, when Coffee first successfully [...]

Trauma Renal trauma Ten per cent of patients with blunt or penetrating injuries of the abdomen have associated renal trauma. Evaluation begins with a history of the mechanism of the [...]

2001 SEP 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The first long-term study of GYNECARE TVT Tension-free Support for Incontinence, a minimally invasive surgical option for stress urinary incontinence (SUI), shows [...]

2001 JUN 28 - (NewsRx Network) -- University of Pittsburgh researchers have successfully used stem cell tissue engineering to restore deficient urethral sphincter muscles in animal models, according to a [...]

Published with permission from Family Urology, Volume VII, Issue 1. A publication of the American Foundation for Urologic Disease, 410-468-1800. More than 50,000 cases of bladder cancer occur annually in [...]

URINARY PROCEDURES UPDATE For many years we have surgically created urinary diversions in children and adults for a variety of situations ranging from bladder disfunction to pelvic malignancies of the [...]

Stress urinary incontinence affects between 15-60% of women, and has a tremendous impact on a woman's quality of life. Incontinence is either urgency or stress in nature. Urgency incontinence and [...]

SAN ANTONIO -- A large, longitudinal study of men who underwent radical prostatectomy has shown a small but statistically significant increase in sexual potency between 2 and 5 years after [...]

A MEMORABLE PATIENT Insomnia as a complication of pleural aspiration While working in tuberculosis clinics in a remote area of Nepal we saw two patients who had difficulty sleeping after [...]