Urology News

• New Health Cybersecurity Rule: What Docs Should Know A proposed federal rule would require hospitals and physicians’ groups to beef up health cybersecurity measures to protect patient privacy and prevent ransomware attacks. Some changes could be expensive, experts said.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2025
• Why Aren’t More PCPs Offering Contraceptive Services? Experts say the primary care workforce is well suited to meet patients’ contraceptive needs but the numbers of primary care physicians offering prescriptions and procedures is strikingly low.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Incentives Do Not Boost Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance A cohort study analyzed data from 15,273 men with prostate cancer to determine active surveillance rates at difference points in time.
  Medscape Medical News, January 09, 2025
• Study Identifies Risk Potential for Thousands Of Mutations Of a Cancer Gene Scientists have characterized the role of thousands of mutations in the BRCA2 cancer gene, findings that may help reassure worried patients about their cancer risk or guide...
  Reuters Health Information, January 08, 2025
• MRI-Invisible Prostate Lesions: Are They Dangerous? MRI-invisible lesions are real. Experts debate what these lesions really mean for patient outcomes and care.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• PSMA-PET Challenges Current Prostate Cancer Staging Researchers conducted a post hoc, retrospective, cross-sectional analysis of 182 patients with recurrent prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy, definitive radiotherapy, or salvage radiotherapy.
  Medscape Medical News, January 08, 2025
• Dry January: Should Doctors Make It Year-Round? Have sobering studies on alcohol caused physicians to drink less themselves or changed the way doctors counsel patients on booze? The answer is complicated.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Is BMI Good for Anything These Days? Yes — At Least for Now By itself, it’s not enough, but body mass index has years of evidence behind it and still has a place in clinical assessments, experts say.
  Medscape Medical News, December 31, 2024
• MRI-Guided SBRT Cuts Long-Term Toxicities in Prostate Cancer The MIRAGE trial highlighted how MRI-guided stereotactic body radiotherapy with tight margins can reduce the long-term side effects of radiotherapy in men with localized prostate cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, December 30, 2024
• QOL With Shorter RT Equal to Standard in Endometrial Cancer Researchers compared QOL and other outcomes between patients with endometrial cancer who took short-course adjuvant VCB and those who received standard of care options.
  Medscape Medical News, December 23, 2024
• Despite Strong Data, Hypofractionated Radiation Underused Why are many radiation oncologists failing to adopt to the new standard treatment option for a range of cancers?
  Medscape Medical News, December 19, 2024
• Virtual UTI Care Linked to Rising Antibiotic Use From 2015 to 2022 the rate of antibiotic dispensation for UTIs climbed by 227.3% per 1000 patients, outpacing the 159.8% increase in positive urine cultures.
  Medscape Medical News, December 17, 2024
• Radiology Residencies: Hard to Find, Hard to Land Interest is up for radiology residencies, but available positions don’t match demand. Radiologists say the problem can be fixed.
  Medscape Medical News, December 11, 2024
• How Do Rheumatology PAs Stand Out Among Their Peers? An analysis indicated that physician assistants in rheumatology are growing at a modest pace and can positively affect the rheumatology workforce if utilized properly.
  Medscape Medical News, December 11, 2024
• How Are Patients Managing Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer? Adoption of active surveillance or watchful waiting has been increasing among patients with intermediate-risk prostate cancer between 2010 and 2020, a new analysis found.
  Medscape Medical News, December 10, 2024
• Anthem Reverses Course on Anesthesia Time Limits Following physician outrage, the insurer has rescinded its controversial new policy denying certain anesthesia claims.
  Medscape Medical News, December 06, 2024
• Iron Overload: The Silent Bone Breaker In this cohort study, iron overload at very high levels was found to be associated with an increased risk for osteoporotic fractures, particularly for vertebral and humerus fractures.
  Medscape Medical News, December 04, 2024
• PFAS Exposure Can Impair Thyroid Homeostasis in Adults Exposure to individual or mixed PFASs may affect thyroid homeostasis peripherally rather than centrally, according to a cross-sectional study of the general US population.
  Medscape Medical News, December 03, 2024
• AMR Could Surpass Cancer as Leading Cause of Death by 2050 The importance of vaccination in helping address the concerning rise in antimicrobial resistance was emphasized by experts in the field.
  Medscape Medical News, December 02, 2024
• Diet Matters in Prostate Cancer, but It’s Complicated Observational studies suggest that multiple dietary approaches can help stem progression.
  Medscape Medical News, November 27, 2024