UROLOGY NEWS

This study describes the clinical presentation and renal and bone abnormalities related to treatment with tenofovir, and recommends screening for tenofovir-related toxicity.
HIV Medicine

Cerebrovascular disease is common in dialysis patients, is identified late, and carries a significant risk of morbidity and mortality.
American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Commentary on a study on the use of polymyxin hemoperfusion to reduce mortality associated with surgical sepsis, published June 2009 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Medscape General Surgery

Six-month prophylaxis lowers the risks for cytomegalovirus disease in kidney and pancreas transplant patients.
Medscape Medical News

This article reviews the molecular mechanisms by which SRCs promote breast and prostate cancer cell proliferation and survival.
Nature Reviews Cancer

Effectiveness and the moral high ground -- the path to health reform.
Medscape Internal Medicine

Data from a long-term Scandinavian study show that the addition of radiation to long-term androgen deprivation therapy does not affect quality of life in patients with locally advanced prostate cancer. The long-term use of the antiandrogen flutamide might, however, have negatively affected quality of life outcomes for all patients in this study.
Nature Reviews Urology

Consumption of Gatorade neither increases nor decreases urinary stone risk factors, according to research supported by the Gatorade Sports Science Institute.
Reuters Health Information

The proposal jettisons the much-debated "public option" -- the government-run health program that would compete with private health insurance plans -- in favor of nonprofit member-run plans or co-ops.
Medscape Medical News

Medscape Medical News