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New chlamydia test offers rapid, pain-free test for men

A new urine test developed with funding from the Wellcome Trust will allow doctors to diagnose Chlamydia infection in men within the hour, improving the ability to successfully treat the infection on the spot ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Professor says syphilis making comeback, gonorrhea more treatment resistant

Dr. David H. Martin, Professor and Chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, updated reporters and the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases on sexually ...

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created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Collagen injections can help some incontinence patients when surgery fails, researcher finds

Collagen injections can benefit women who still suffer from stress urinary incontinence (SUI) even after urethral or periurethral surgery, a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher has found.

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created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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No scalpel: Minimally invasive breakthrough for men’s enlarged prostates improves symptoms

A new interventional radiology treatment that blocks blood supply to men's enlarged prostate glands shows comparable clinical results to transurethral resection of the prostate (or TURP), considered the gold standard (or ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Laboratory-grown urethras implanted in patients, scientists report

Researchers at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues reported today on a new advance in tissue engineering. The team is the first in the world to use patients' ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Behavioral therapy program reduces incontinence following radical prostatectomy

For men with incontinence for at least one year following radical prostatectomy, participation in a behavioral training program that included pelvic floor muscle training, bladder control strategies and fluid management, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists identify gene linked to common birth defect in male genitalia

King's College London, in collaboration with Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in The Netherlands, has discovered a new gene associated with Hypospadias, the congenital malformation of the male genitalia. The research ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The Medical Minute: Treatment options for prostate cancer

Prostate cancer develops in the glandular tissue of the male prostate, a reproductive gland situated below the bladder and in front of the rectum. The urinary sphincter (muscle that controls the flow of urine) is situated ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New microfluidic chip for discriminating bacteria

A new "on-chip" method for sorting and identifying bacteria has been created by biomedical engineers at Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University. The technique, developed by Hsien-Chang Chang, a professor at the Institute ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sluggish cell division may help explain genital defects

Scientists have learned how a gene widely known for precisely positioning and sculpting various organs also controls the speed of cell division, a finding that could be useful for understanding the explosive growth of cancer ...

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created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Surgical options for female incontinence found to be effective but with different complications

Two popular procedures for female stress incontinence were found to be equivalent in efficacy but differed in side effects, according to data published in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the American Colleg ...

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created May 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Shelve routine use of costly silver wound dressings, says DTB

Urologists are failing to pick up and treat Chlamydia infection in young men, say UK researchers in a letter published ahead of print in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections.

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created Apr 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Few differences in outcomes between open and laparoscopic prostate surgery

Of the 200,000 men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer each year in the United States, about one-third will undergo surgical treatment. Although open radical prostatectomy (ORP) is regarded as the standard treatment, laparoscopic ...

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created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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