The Medicare 2023 draft physician fee schedule (PFS), proposes changes to policies for telehealth and opioid use disorder treatment. There is also a plan for limited fee-for-service funding that can be used to address social needs. The draft rule would also...

ATLANTA -- Transgender youth receiving puberty-delaying hormone therapy or gender-affirming hormonal therapy have lower bone mineral density (BMD). This is regardless of whether they were assigned gender at birth. As patients are exposed to sex steroids hormones...

This summary is a preprint published by ResearchSquare.com. It has not been peer reviewed. The incidence of T1a/b prostatic cancer has been stable over the past decade. However, clinically significant T1a/b diseases has increased in the last decade. Across...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced a voluntary alternative payment model that will replace the Oncology Care Model, (OCM), which ended June 30, 2012. The Enhancing Oncology Model (EOM), the OCM's successor will be available next...

Does size matter when it comes to the surgical margins after radical prostatectomy? Yes, in a word. This is the conclusion of Australian researchers who performed a systematic review, meta-analysis. According to Athul John MD, a leading author and a urology...

Disposable gowns that are designed to absorb bodily fluids have not performed well in laboratory tests. They may also fail safety standards and pose a higher risk of infection for health care workers than they advertise. Peer-reviewed academic research, published...

Is the transperineal route or the transrectal route more effective for prostate biopsy? Current clinical trials are being conducted by urologists to determine if transperineal prostate biopsy is safer and more effective in detecting more serious prostate...

North Carolina patient Kathleen Valentini was referred by an orthopedic surgeon after suffering excruciating pain in her right hip. The pain continued to worsen. The orthopedic surgeon ordered an MRI after an x-ray failed in revealing the problem. Valentini's...

AMSTERDAM -- A large database study has shown that women with overactive bladders (OABs), tend to stop taking their medication more often than previously thought. Nearly 46,000 women submitted nearly 800,000.000 claims for medication to treat OAB. The average...

AMSTERDAM -- There are many urological procedures that can be safely performed under conscious sedation. Both patients and clinicians prefer this method of anesthesia. Canadian researchers found that patients who had undergone various ureteric, urinary, and...

AMSTERDAM -- Only lead apron may not protect urologists against workplace hazards like cancer or cataracts. Spanish investigators believe so. They found that lead-lined surgical gloves had significantly reduced radiation exposure to hands, and that radiation...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health). A new study has suggested that the common practice of placing a catheter in the urinary tract during laparoscopic hernia repair may not be worth it to prevent postoperative urinary retention (PUR). Dr. Aldo Fafaj, along with colleagues...

Patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), who have received the bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine (BCG), had a nearly half-decreased risk of developing the disease. However, this was only true for those with extremely high-risk conditions....