October 24, 2006 -- Compared with clean intermittent self-catheterization after urogynecologic surgery, suprapubic catheterization results in a similar risk of urinary tract infection (UTI) but is ...

Dear Dr. Roach: For quite some time now, I've been suffering from a persistent urinary tract infection, accompanied by an elevated PSA. This resulted in a biopsy, which was positive for early-stage ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 75 years old and in very good health. I run five days a week and work out three. I was getting up six times a night or more to go to the bathroom. I went to the urologist, who ...

Urinary catheters across the medical spectrum are being changed more frequently and are increasingly antimicrobial-coated in order to cut down on cost and infections, a new market study shows. The ...

Biopsies of pulmonary lesions are essential for increasing the accuracy of diagnosis and treatment for respiratory illnesses such as lung cancer. Currently, manual biopsies are performed via ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID)’s Medicare Assistance Program (MAP) is warning about rising cases of Medicare fraud across the state, including beneficiaries being ...

“Building consistency and reproducibility into [surgical] procedures generally improves [patient] outcomes,” heart surgeon and researcher Michael Reardon of Houston Methodist Hospital who was not ...

A research team has developed a mechanism of a self-propelled catheter capable of generating peristaltic motion just like an earthworm by applying pneumatic pressure inside only one tube. The goal is ...